A Deep Dive Into Visual Artists On The Small Screen
Visual art "doesn’t always translate that naturally to cinema as a subject. Just as you don’t get the full impact of a painting from...
What’s Going To Happen To Southern California’s Biggest Bookstore When Its Owner Retires?
Vroman’s has been a family concern for 130 years in Pasadena and beyond. What happens next to the “community treasure”? - The New York...
Truly, Not Just Like Every Other Decade Someone Said This, College Students Do Not...
Was it No Child Left Behind? Common Core? COVID-19 school shutdowns? Or - as is the case for most people, from child to adult...
The Composer Who Coaxes Acoustic Instruments Into Playing Electronic Music
Matthew Sheeran: "The first thing you have to do is get the score translated into what I call scordatura notation, where what you hear...
Let’s Talk About The Best Actress Nominees
In other words, how did Annette Bening get a nomination while Margot Robbie did not? - Vulture
The 40 Years It Took This Actor To Become An Overnight Success
When William Stanford Davis auditioned for Friends, he says, "I thought I knocked it out of the park. But when I called my agent...
The Gay Rights Movement Smashed By The Publicity Surrounding Oscar Wilde
“The burgeoning gay rights movement in Britain was connected to wider late-Victorian movements for reform, part of a larger impulse to find new and...
Those Who Professionally Perform Piano Duets Together, Stay Together
Or at least that’s the hope of duo Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, who met at the Moscow State Conservatory and who revived their...
Romance Is Far From Dead
Romantic fiction, that is. With romances propping up the entire publishing industry, how hard could it be to write one? (Turns out writing a...
All Of The Directors Guild Winners From Last Night
In 2023, some DGA wins for Everything Everywhere All at Once seemed to set that film, and its directors, on a path to many...
Britain’s National Gallery Needs To Change Its Cutoff Date From 1900 To, Say, 2000
We’re almost a quarter of the way into the new century, after all, and painting didn’t die off as a great art form before...
Great Movies Don’t Get Their Casts By Magic
Instead, it’s the casting directors’ hard work that makes a great movie - and that will soon be recognized by the Academic of Motion...
What Cities Can Learn From Australia’s 20th Century Art Deco Building Boom
For one thing, stop with the dire warnings about density. "Today’s housing debate may be couched in different terms, but Australia’s first apartment boom...
Warner Bros Apparently Rejected Offers From Paramount, Netflix, And Amazon For An Animated Movie
“It really just seems as if the studio’s leadership simply does not want [ streaming, or in theaters, or really even to be a topic of...
The War-Haunted Choreographer Of City Ballet
Alexei Ratmansky, “vocal in his condemnation of Russian aggression, has seen his name removed from the works he created for Russian companies. He and his Ukrainian wife,...
This Cartoonist Has Cracked The Kid Book Market
Arrowing directly to the heart of the anxious kid, Raina Telgemeier’s books have turned her cartoons into a children’s book empire. - The Atlantic
This Is Why TikTok And Universal Music Are At Loggerheads
"There are repercussions in the real world where people might not even realize—they just know, Oh, an old song is popular again. But if they...
When The Audience Turns On Influencers It Once Loved
People are increasingly turning to gossip forums like Tattle Life, Guru Gossip, GOMI (“Get Off My Internets”) and the Blogsnark subreddit to critique the...
Debates About Machines Writing Have Been Raging For Years
Current debates about writing machines are not as fresh as they seem. As is quietly acknowledged in the footnotes of scientific papers, much of...
What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Doing Nothing
It's "what’s known as the default mode network, a collection of seemingly unrelated areas of the brain that activate when you’re not doing much...
How Orchestras Are Struggling With Diversity
In the classical music world, this tension between prioritizing diversity and emphasizing the traditional system of meritocracy is one of the greatest sources of...
Turns Out Bach Was A Mathematical Genius
The composer himself had an intensely mathematical brain. He would sign his name in music, and would even hide little references to the numbers...
How Metaphors Shape The Way We Think
They ‘must not be far-fetched, or they will be difficult to grasp, nor obvious, or they will have no effect’, as Aristotle already noted...
A Brief History Of This Weekend’s Actual Big Event: The Super Bowl Halftime Show
"In the 1990s, the halftime show started to draw more viewers than the game itself by featuring performances from the biggest pop artists in...
How A Dancer Who Made History Ended Up Dealing Blackjack In Vegas
“So many years I haven’t done ballet. And then suddenly Jennifer comes and tries to bring everything up. To me, it was like a...
