We Need To Rethink Political Art
Artists are a contentious lot and often downplay or deny that politics has any bearing on art and art making. Other artists fully accept...
Universal Music Posts Record Streaming Revenue, But CEO Calls For New Streaming Model
Even as Universal Music’s chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge lauded the sustained growth of streaming and technology’s ability to connect artists with their fans, he used the company’s...
Impending US Supreme Court Ruling Could Upend The Arts World
Blame the appeals court judgment from 2021 declaring that Andy Warhol had no right to appropriate someone else’s photo of Prince into one of the...
How Museum Architecture Is Changing
The tension between architectural expressionism and restraint is nothing new. Still, there is a kind of reckoning in the field of museum design with...
Just How Does Angela Bassett Do The Thing?
During red carpets for her second Oscar nomination, 29 years after her first, the actor has to remain guarded. "It’s an attempt to remain...
The Great British Bake Off Is Being Turned Into A Musical
"Paul came to see the show and loved it. ... He gave me two handshakes after and is going to bring his mum...
Rafael Vinoly, Architect Of Dramatic Glass Roofs For Cultural Centers, 78
The Uruguayn-born "Viñoly was at once a 24-7 architecture geek and a bon vivant with a penchant for French wines. ... He was also...
A Film Tour Of The UK
Whether you're in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, or even England, the whole place has basically served as the film set of many a movie....
Some Of Publishing Turns To Sensitivity Readers, But Others Object Loudly
One author "said while he believes using sensitivity readers to rewrite classical literature like Dahl is problematic, employing them to work on in-progress manuscripts can...
A Better Seat At The Movie Theatre Will Now Cost You More
For instance, movie theatres "have been pushing customers toward premium-priced specialty tickets" - IMAX? Dolby sound? Reclining seats? Or your regular, standard, much cheaper...
What Earned More Money For Charity, Everything Everywhere’s Googly Eyed Rock Or Its Sex...
The toys - but "the most desired lot of all was Raccacoonie, a raccoon puppet that features in one universe in the film where the...
The Academy Changed The Way We See Movies
But that had nothing to do with the Oscars. "Academy reps conducted extensive studies and established standards for theater screen illumination, detailed the growing...
Lou Stovall, Artist And Printmaker Who Worked With Alexander Calder And Jacob Lawrence, 86
"Working with sponges, brushes, towels, squeegees, hand-cut stencils and a rich array of oil-based inks, Mr. Stovall helped demonstrate that printmaking was an art...
Russian Artists Are Walking A Perilously Thin Line In Europe
"The continuing war in Ukraine has turned , which features many Russian artists and nationalistic themes, into a vexed issue." Many of the Russians...
Ballet Is Actually Great For Human Bodies
"The whole process of becoming a dancer was deeply embodied: We learned not by sitting and reading but by imitating, trying, falling, adjusting, trying...
With AI Skills, MARZ Became The Hollywood Go To For Anti-Aging Effects
The company - Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies, which, well, of course - now wants to "fix dubbing." - Fast Company
A 10-Year-Old Didn’t Want To Do Homework, So She Wrote A Score Instead
Then her mom posted it to TikTok, asking musicians to perform it. So far? "In the following days, musicians played the score on a...
Conservative Legislators In Tennessee, And Many Other States, Are Attempting To Crush Drag Performances
In their deeply hostile "think about the children" anti-drag legislation, they may be also trying to crush theatre. - The New York Times
As Other Art Houses Across The Country Take Hits, Las Vegas Gets A Blinged-Out...
It's an art house fever dream, including "the theatrical lighting rig, the pencil mics that descend from the ceiling for post-screening Q&A sessions and...
What It’s Like To Be Hard Of Hearing In The Theatre
It's hard. "Across the board, the HOH artists I interviewed expressed their frustration over accommodations having slipped through the cracks—from cast mates refusing to...
Amazon Pauses Construction On DC-Area Headquarters
"The project impacted encompasses three 22-story office towers and 'The Helix,' a dystopian 'corporate conference center' and excellent place to die. So far, developers...
The Costs, And Contradictions, Of Ballet
"We smile while bearing the full weight of our body en pointe for hours. 'Blood builds character, one of my teachers said. ... Yet...
Creating A Score For The Third Try At A German WWI Movie
Volker Bertelmann: "When I saw the film the first time, I was thinking I need an instrument from that time. And then my studio...
Aging In Hollywood Isn’t Easy
And in some ways, says actor Mimi Rogers, it's even harder on writers than on actors. "Biases and double standards are still firmly in...
Institutions Like Museums Have A Hard Time Changing Their Historically Racist Ways
And that's not an accident, says former Montreal Museum of Fine Arts curator eunice bélidor: "I realized they didn’t care about what I was...
