The Six Lines And Five Colors That Changed The Course Of Western Art
Deborah Nicholls-Lee offers a consideration of Piet Monrdian's Composition with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black and Grey (1922). - BBC
Just Say What It Was, Texas
Obviously, "involuntary location" is a nonstarter, but also, "describing someone as a slave does nothing to diminish their humanity. Enslaving someone diminishes their humanity,...
Some Mexican Artists Are Using A New Medium: Piñatas
"A growing number of Latino artists are working to broaden and elevate how Americans view piñatas and (their) history. Some are carving out a...
In The Maw Of The Reality Show Beast: America’s Next Great Author
Will there be a montage of typing fingers? A poetry read-off in Iowa City? A "who navigated the workshop the best" scene in LA?...
At What Point Should We Consider Animals, Or Even AI, “Persons” In A Moral...
If an AI-powered robot exhibited intelligence and capacity to suffer, we might consider granting it moral personhood even though it's not alive. Tapeworms and...
Music Students Who Fled Afghanistan Remake Their School In Portugal
The school's leader, before the Taliban and now in exile: "We can show the world a different Afghanistan. ... We will show how we...
The Waggle-Dancing Of Bees Has Inspired A New Means Of Robot Communication
"This pattern of movements can be used by one forager bee to tell other bees where a food source is located. ... An international...
Social Media Noticed Some Issues With Plagiarism At The Guggenheim Bilbao
Can a painter plagiarize a film? Maybe not in the legal sense - but instead of litigation, the museum and the artists involved in...
So Many Writers Wish They Could Just Redo Their First Novel. Akhil Sharma Did.
"He (has) revised and radically rewritten ... An Obedient Father, (which) he published 22 years earlier. Considerably shorter, with a very different ending but...
English In India: The Colonial Oppressor’s Language? Not Anymore.
"English has always been a language that has looked ahead to the future. Forged multiply in the crucible of caste, class, gender, and ethnic...
As The Russian Invasion Rages, At Odesa Opera The Show Must Go On
Mary Harris interviews Katarina Tsymbalyuk, a mezzo and a member of the Odesa Opera's resident ensemble, about the love, and the fear, she and...
Turning The Notre-Dame De Paris Conflagration Into A Disaster Movie
When the president of Pathé approached filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud (Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose) about making a documentary about the catastrophic...
Actors’ Equity And IATSE Sue Producers Of “Paradise Square” For Non-Payment
"Actors' Equity and the union representing theatrical designers are separately taking Broadway musical Paradise Square to court for close to $350,000 total in owed...
Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Now Has No Programming, No Top Execs, And No Resident...
The apparent strife between the theater's board and its staff and artists has culminated (unless things get still worse) in playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza withdrawing...
Meow Wolf Co-Founder Matt King Has Died At 37
"King was an instrumental figure behind a company that The New York Times Magazine once described as 'the Disney of the experience economy.' …...
Margaret Keane, Whose Paintings Were Claimed To By Her Husband To Be His, Has...
"Her husband Walter Keane fraudulently took artistic credit, while she painted for 16 hours a day to satisfy demand for the work, originally presented publicly...
Artist Maurizio Cattelan Narrowly Wins A Lawsuit, But Questions Of Attribution Remain
Basically, the plaintiff sued the wrong entity - Cattelan's gallery and a museum, not the artist himself. So "the ruling still leaves the key...
Take A Little Vivaldi, Add A Little Irish Dance
And the result is a viral video set in a beautiful environment: "The performance takes place in Swords Castle, an early medieval castle in...
New Use For Spotify Playlists: Recipe Instructions
Why not? People often listen to Spotify playlists while cooking — though a recipe for kimchi fried rice shouldn't usually take as long as...
“Frenzy” Is Alfred Hitchcock’s Most Violent, Most Controversial Film. But Is It Really All...
"Hitchcock's fear and loathing of women is accompanied by a lucid understanding of – and even sympathy for – women's problems in patriarchy. ......
The Full List Of Emmys Nominations, As It Happened
Ted Lasso? Only Murders in the Building? Squid Game? Better Call Saul? Find out here. - Los Angeles Times
On Turning Benjamin Britten’s And Peter Pears’s Love Letters Into A Song Cycle
Composer Conor Mitchell: "How come these two men, so buttoned up and alien to empowered, liberated me, felt they could write passionate love letters...
Italy Tells Museums To Cut It Out With The NFTs
After an eye-popping NFT sale for the Uffizi turned out to net the museum only €70,000, far less than half of the sale, the...
Percy Shelley: Poetry As Political Crusade
"Shelley's greatest gift was in the deftness with which he interwove the poetical and the political. Poetry had, for Shelley, of necessity to appropriate...
Before The Museum Of London Decamps For A New Neighborhood, It Will Host An...
The Museum of London - whose collection and attitude are absolute gems - has been squeezed into "an eccentric building" for years. Now "in...
