A Marvel Superhero Holds True To Her Mayan Heritage
María Mercedes Coroy may be a star of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but "the day after filming her final scene in Los Angeles, ...
Critics Raise New Allegations Of Plagiarism Against Roy Lichtenstein
"'It’s called stealing,' said comic strip artist Hy Eisman, who has just turned 96 and only recently discovered that Lichtenstein had reproduced one of...
The Family Box Office Isn’t Dead
It just needed a couple of Brooklyn plumbers, a princess, and the Mushroom Kingdom to bring it back to life. (Super Marios Bros. generated...
One Of Elon Musk’s Handpicked Writers Quits Twitter In A Fight Over Substack
Why is Matt Taibbi leaving? "Twitter seems to be in a drag-out fight with Substack, blocking users from liking, replying to, or retweeting many tweets...
Revising A ‘Champion’ For The New York Stage
In Terence Blanchard's opera Champion, opening at the Met, "there are not only new arias (and new lines for supporting characters); what will be...
How Portland’s Art Scene Influenced The New Michelle Williams Film
"Before filming, Williams participated in sculpture training sessions, both on Zoom and in-person at Lahti’s art studio in Portland. Lahti began by sculpting...
Jerry Craft Wrote A Sweet, Positive Story About A Black Kid
It was all love for New Kid for a couple of years. And then the bans began. - Washington Post
How Hip Hop Influenced Visual Art
Modern art was profoundly affected by jazz. You can see its influence not only on American artists such as Romare Bearden, Robert Colescott and Bob...
NPR Says It Will No Longer Tweet After Twitter Designated It “State-affiliated Media.”
While it remains unclear why the “Chief Twit” suddenly decided to place NPR in the same category as Chinese and Russian government propaganda, Musk reacted with an...
AI-Created Pop Culture Is Already Among Us
This idea of “illusory realism” struck me as apt. The A.I. content has the appearance of realism, without actual reality—reality solely as a style....
How Canada’s New Streaming Rules Will Promote Canadian Content
In conventional broadcasting, Canadian content quotas serve as a discoverability measure, ensuring that minimum amounts of Canadian programs are broadcast to the public. -...
My Students Are Struggling To Understand What They Read – Here’s Why
Too many of the undergrads taking the course I currently teach cannot read. They’re literate, of course, but unable to sit long enough to...
Can Bart Sher And Aaron Sorkin Make “Camelot” Relevant Again?
The initial production’s optimistic look at how ethical leaders harness power to forge better worlds seems hopelessly naive in this divided political environment. Or...
How Terence Blanchard’s “Champion” Got Upsized For The Metropolitan Opera
When the piece premiered at Opera Theatre of St. Louis ten years ago, it had a small pit orchestra, a four-piece jazz combo, and...
Small Florida Orchestra Cancels Concert Claiming Physical Threats From Its Music Director
“False and potentially alarming information was shared with our musicians by our musical director, Raffaele Ponti. This false information continued to spread, which led...
Laura Benanti Reveals How She Literally Sang Through An Onstage Miscarriage
"On Monday April 3rd, I performed on stage for 2000 people while having a miscarriage. I knew it was happening. … If it had...
The Conflicting Complications Of De-Colonizing Classical Music
As Black and brown musicians, the question is not whether we can “solve” classical music’s issue with racism. Rather we wonder: Why do we...
The Enslaved Painter Who Modeled For Velázquez And Became A Star Artist In His...
"(Juan de Pareja) remains an elusive figure within art history, with details of his life prone to myth, his paintings often misattributed and no...
More Research On Building Better Brains Through Participating In The Arts
"Children that are playing music, their brain structure actually changes and their cerebral cortex actually gets larger." - NPR
A Critic Makes The Rounds Of Immersive Art Shows
Adam Platt: "As you move from one pleasantly distracting set piece to another, pondering when to ingest the lemon-flavored edible in your pocket, it...
Fandom, Fake Friendships And The Real World
In 2021, psychologists found that forming parasocial bonds was strongly related to avoidant attachment. That is, people who tended to push others away in their day-to-day...
Brussels Museum Schedules, Then Cancels, Sparring Match Between Police Officers And Local Boxers
"The MIMA contemporary art museum in Molenbeek had planned to host a sparring session between around 20 amateur boxers from the Ixelles branch of...
Museum Of Peru’s Shining Path-Armed Forces Civil War Is Abruptly Closed
"Since its controversial inception in 2015, the Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion has received about 60,000 visitors a year. But Lima's ultra-conservative...
It Took A Dozen Years For “Shucked” To Plow Its Path To Broadway
"The history of iterations of Shucked is an interesting one, since it bears almost no resemblance to the show that McAnally and Clark started...
Will A Proposed New York City Law Banning Size Discrimination Make A Difference On...
"The bill … would 'prohibit discrimination on the basis of a person's height or weight in opportunities of employment, housing, and public accommodation.' …...
