As ‘The Outsiders’ Makes Its Way To Broadway, The Young Cast Visits Its Oklahoma...
The cast and crew took a “granular, history-flecked tour of the place where, about 60 years earlier, S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age story was written and...
Why Aren’t We Talking About Robert De Niro’s Best Performance?
This actor we all know so well has done something that, for him, is entirely new - at 80 years old. “Rather than the...
The Heartbreak At The Center Of Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron
“Many scenes and images in The Boy and the Heron echo those from his earlier films, only this time they’re rendered in service of a story...
In The UK, Galleries And Museums Fight For Younger Audiences
"We have to make our galleries welcoming and accessible, and to make it clear they are not just about the past and full of...
Why Is Second City Moving To First City?
In Brooklyn, “on the site of an old record shop and club, the company has built a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage,...
Steve Paxton Of The Judson Dance Theatre Has Died At 85
Paxton "helped radically upend ideas about dance as a member of the 1960s collective Judson Dance Theater in New York City, and ... developed...
Chicago, And Its Artists, Are Obsessed With The So-Called Rat Hole
Honestly, the memes are everywhere on social media - and now there’s rat hole art for sale. Why enshrine a rat (or more likely...
Hollywood’s Musicians Reach A Tentative Deal With The Studios
The musicians’ union calls it “a major win” and “a watershed moment.” Next up: The “below the line” workers - that is to say,...
The Berlin Film Festival Stays Different
The Golden Bear goes to … a one-hour documentary about the return of some artwork? Yes. And “by awarding the top prize to Dahomey,...
Do Historically Black Colleges And Universities Provide An Edge For Their Theatre Alumni?
Says one HBCU alum, Broadway director and theatre founder Kenny Leon, “I was trained to believe in myself and know that anything is possible....
Can We Still Write Good Climate Fiction If We’re In Despair?
American fiction has some problems, including an inability to focus on something so big, it encompasses everything. - LitHub
Let’s Talk About Chilean Artist Cecilia Vicuna
"Her magically vibrant and simultaneously mournful and vulnerable painting expresses the dualism at the heart of her vision — and perhaps at the heart...
We Can Now Be Pretty Sure What, And Who, Is Going To Win Each...
Sorry, Paul Giamatti! Cillian Murphy and Oppenheimer are her. Lily Gladstone seems to have the edge over Emma Stone in the Best Actress category...
The Trigger-Warning Debate
A trigger warning is not a call to censorship as the quoted tweeter above suggests – if there is an instinct for that, it...
Every Dictator Needs A Good Storyteller
It is a writer’s work to wrestle coherent storylines out of the mess that is real life (that’s what dictators employ writers for). - New...
Michelangelo’s Diary Wherein He Describes How Miserable It Was to Paint The Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo was trapped with his thoughts. He began to have doubts, ones he described as “crazy.” He worried painting in such an unnatural position...
Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing AI Video
“Being told that it can do all of these things is one thing, but actually seeing the capabilities, it was mind-blowing,” he said in...
The Culture Wars Come For AI
What we’re seeing here is the collapse of a long and interesting discussion about AI bias into a tense, obfuscating exchange between anti-woke culture warriors and...
“Harassment” And “Governance Concerns” Lead Ontario Region’s Arts Fund To Suspend All Activity
"The activities of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund have been paused effective immediately, with the region saying the move was necessary due to...
When Fan Fiction Becomes A Commercial Hit… A Legal Grey Area?
The great success of Fifty Shades has turned publishers’ attention to the wealth of stories found in online fan fiction archives. These stories sometimes...
What Will The Arts Canon Look Like In 2050?
In terms of defining the canon in 2050, preservation of the “now” is a big question, but so is whether a preserved work can...
City of Winnipeg Cuts — No, It Reassigns — Coming Year’s Funding For Public...
While some artists and observers are criticizing the zeroing-out of Winnipeg Arts Council money for public art, that annual $500,000 will go instead to...
Those Who Are In Love With Chaos
The researchers came up with a term to describe the motivation behind these all-purpose conspiracy mongers. They called it the “need for chaos,” which...
News Website DCist Shut Down By NPR Outlet WAMU; 15 Staffers Laid Off
As with (still-operational) local news sites Gothamist, LAist, and others, DCist was acquired by its nearby public radio station when the -ist sites' parent...
Warhol Museum Staff Complain About Wall Text
A second staff member, who also requested anonymity, wrote to Hyperallergic in an email that the text was “a broadly unpopular move, and people in all...
