Disney’s Oldest Animator
Burny Mattinson became a messenger at Disney, beginning a career that would eventually make him the longest-tenured employee of the company (just shy of...
A New Genre Of Pandemic Poetry Is Helping Process What Happened
Many established poets published lockdown poems offering their own perspective on the power of poetry to make sense of the catastrophe. Slowly but surely whole collections...
Will The Ginormous George Lucas Museum Ever Be Done? Here’s Where It’s At
Even in the haze of construction, a seemingly endless swirl of workers, cranes and girders, the enormous scope of the project is coming into...
Museums Worldwide Are Reclassifying Ukrainian Art
In reference to the recent relabeling process, the Met told CNN in a statement that the institution, "continually researches and examines objects in its...
Is Lithuania The New Capital Of Performance Art?
“We have a history of performance art going back to the 1970s. These were often illegal actions in public spaces only seen by maybe...
The Trailblazer: 17 Female TV Journalists On Barbara Walters
Jane Pauley: "From the beginning, and every decade thereafter, we were following her. No one ever caught up. She had contenders, but she never...
Your Backstory Might Be Wrong. That’s A Problem
The evolutionary history of our species negates and overturns all previous cosmologies. Ever since Darwin, it seems most fiction writers have pretended not to...
Andy Warhol Gets A Lot Of Blame For Today’s Celebrity Culture. Does He Deserve...
"Warhol, the original narcissist; Warhol, the genius; Warhol, the void. He is responsible for the TikTok dancers, the Instagram models hogging the infinity pools,...
Wheelchair Dance Company Hits The Road
“A lot of the time when I’m working, I come up against a lot of imposed judgements of ‘you’re a wheelchair-user so you can...
Those People In Times Square Passing Out Flyers For Shows? They’re A Key Part...
"For the general public, street teams are often the first touchpoint to a theater production. ... They serve as extensions of a show's brand,...
After The Success Of This HBO Series, Transmedia Will Never Be The Same
There are currently upwards of 60 game-based productions in development, from a new Super Mario Bros. movie to a God of War adaptation for Amazon, and analyst firms like...
Phyllida Barlow, Who Subverted Sculpture’s Monumentality And Durability, Is Dead At 78
"For more than 50 years, Barlow created 'nonmonumental' sculptures that prioritized absurdity over grandeur. Functional materials like cardboard, nuts and bolts, fabric, and plywood...
AI Voices Are Starting To Take Over Reading Audiobooks
Tech companies including Apple and Google have been working on AI audiobook narration for a while now. In 2022, Google rolled out its services to publishers...
There’s No One Left At The BBC With Enough Power To Fight For Classical...
Paul Hughes, former director of the BBCSO and the BBC Singers: "The BBC's timing is as calculated as its strategy is callous: ensembles struggling...
It’s About Time To Remember Bronislava Nijinska As More Than Vaslav Nijinsky’s Little Sister
'His mythic status as a dancer and revolutionary choreographer has overshadowed her much longer, more productive career. Nijinsky, whose artistic life was cut short...
Why The Mysterious Book Manuscript Thief Did It
In court papers, former Simon & Schuster staffer Filippo Bernardini is quoted as saying, "I never leaked these manuscripts. I wanted to keep them...
Nobel-Winning Author Kenzaburo Oe Is Dead At 88
"Despite the outpouring of national pride over Oe's win, his principal literary themes evoke deep unease (in Japan). A boy of 10 when World...
How The FBI’s Art Crime Team Works
"Recently, two of the team's investigators … agreed to answer questions from The New York Times. They declined to comment on the Basquiat case,...
Britain’s National Theatre To “Reduce Activity” For The Next Four Years
"The National Theatre is cutting productions due to money troubles. … Accounts show the theatre's income for the year to March 2022 was £80.8...
Lewis Spratlan, Pulitzer-Winning Composer, Is Dead At 82
His opera Life Is a Dream had a difficult birth: the company that commissioned it closed before it was produced, and Spratlan was reduced...
How “Free Markets” Got Confused With Freedom
The so-called “Tripod of Freedom” — which positions free enterprise, along with civil liberties and democracy, as “one of the three great elements” in...
Closer And Closer: An Endless Loop Of Misinformation
Each day is bringing us a little bit closer to a kind of information-sphere disaster, in which bad actors weaponize large language models, distributing...
How Is Streaming Affecting How We Interact With Music?
Worries about music today ignore every development in the transmission of music in the past. “I mean, when recorded music first came out, people...
Oscars: A culture Of Scandals Is Built In
Every year it's something. But then, that's built into the culture, and it helps the Academy thrive... - CBC
UK Prime Minister Says Parthenon Marbles Won’t Be Returned
“We share their treasures with the world, and the world comes to the UK to see them. The collection of the British Museum is protected by...
