At The Indie Spirit Awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once Continues Its Historic Run
The sci-fi domestic challenges immigrant multiverse comedy-drama (yes, all of that) "led all films this year with eight nominations and a won a total...
Chatbots Are The Final Vindication Of Ask Jeeves
"In a sense, Bing and Bard are finishing what Ask Jeeves started. What people want when they ask a question is for an all-knowing,...
Barnes And Noble Has Revved Into Expansion Mode
It's even taking over abandoned Amazon bookshops. - NPR
Film And Digital Video Desperately Need Preservation Focus, Skills, Funding
"To indefinitely continue access to the ever-expanding glut of content – not just an invaluable artistic heritage, but a crucial account of how the...
Brain Science May Explain Why We Like Certain Works Of Art
Some neuroscientists believe "that the mind creates an opinion of an artwork after dissecting it into discrete elements. Basic features, such as color and texture,...
India Used To Have More Than 25,000 Single-Screen Cinemas
"India's single-screen cinemas were grand structures, built to accommodate large audiences and boasted diverse architectural styles." Now, only a few thousand remain, and they're...
Is Canada’s New Streaming Bill Going To Change The Game?
Right now, "online broadcasters like Netflix, Disney+ and Spotify ... are earning money in Canada without being required to reinvest in Canadian content."...
How Jonathan Majors And Michael B. Jordan Fought On The Movie Set, Without Fighting...
Majors, whose star is rising fast right now, was worried that Jordan - already a superstar - might not be great to work with,...
Who Benefits From Saudi Arabia’s New Art Scene?
"Critics say these shifts are purely transactional, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman trading the appearance of an open culture to paper over a...
This Was, And Is, Pompeii
New excavations make the ancient site fresher than ever. But people have been digging at the site ever since the lava cooled."It has always...
Climate Of Fear: Are We Censoring Ourselves In Today’s Climate?
British writer Hanif Kureishi told Prospect Magazine that “nobody would have the balls today to write The Satanic Verses.” He might have added that no one would...
Artists Organize To Fight Social Media Censorship
“Social media corporations have become cultural gatekeepers with unprecedented power to determine which artworks can freely circulate and which ones are banned or pushed...
Toronto’s Art Gallery Of Ontario Unveils Major Expansion
The expansion is the seventh such effort in the 123-year history of the AGO at its longtime downtown Toronto home. - Architectural Record
How Theatre Deals With Its Roald Dahl Edits
Few seem to have made the leap to how theatre addresses the issue of bringing past works back to the stage, perhaps because such...
How The Pandemic Changed Public Media Finances
The downturn in sponsorship sales that began in 2020 continued for public radio in 2021, while public television bucked that trend. TV stations began...
How Our Personalities Change
For a long time, psychologists saw personality as fixed throughout our lives. This has since been disproven – although personality is relatively stable, it’s far from set in...
New England Symphony Orchestra Has A New Name And A New Home
The ensemble had been playing since 1974 in the north-central Massachusetts towns of Lancaster and Fitchburg under the name Thayer Symphony Orchestra; it re-christened...
McWhorter: The Evolution (And Pleasure) Of Discovering How Other Languages Work
Partly because I am this strange thing called a linguist and partly because I am the kind of linguist who wants to know a...
The Critic-Hating, Dog-Poop-Smearing Choreographer Loses His Other Gig, Too
"The Nederlands Dans Theater has decided to suspend its collaboration with disgraced choreographer Marco Goecke. Earlier this month, (he) smeared dog feces in the...
David Brooks: Taking Refuge In The Arts
The normal thing to say about such experiences is that you’ve lost yourself in a book or song — lost track of space and...
This Circus, Having Stopped Using Elephants, Is Using Holographs Of Them Instead
"Circus-Theater Roncalli, which was founded (in Germany) in 1976, introduced the holograms in 2019 when they partnered with a German firm specializing in augmented...
The Confusing Case Of The Roald Dahl Edits
Despite the indignation of the critics and the high-mindedness of the revisers, the truth is that most of the edits to the Dahl books...
Chile’s Most Famous Circus Has Been Battling Anti-Gay Discrimination For 54 Years
"All Chileans know Circo Timoteo," said manager Stéfano Rubio. More a cabaret in a tent than a conventional circus, Timoteo began in 1968 when...
By The Numbers: Oscars Have Made Progress In Diversity
Looking at the eight years before and after #OscarsSoWhite, the USC study found that 8% of nominees between 2008 and 2015 were from underrepresented...
Why Aren’t People Flocking To Movie Theaters? Maybe Because The Projection Is Getting So...
Neglected equipment, screens sagging or dusty with popcorn flecks, images that are too dark and sometimes bleed off the screen. "If a movie theater...
