A Very, Very Cleaned Up Constable Takes Center Stage
It only took 270 to get the yellowed varnish off. Looks like the 19th century wasn't as dark and dreary as one might previously...
An Artist Takes Advantage Of The Bridgerton Moment To Remind Everyone Of The Black...
Glory Samjolly, paints oil portraits of Black business owners, artists, writers, and intellectuals in the styles of the European old masters, but she also...
Benin’s Rights-Teaching Girls Band
Like the US band The Linda Lindas, Star Feminine Band make music both for themselves and for a wider audience - an audience that...
Fantasy Writers Should Be Friends With Historical Fiction Writers
And vice versa. Yet it's not so common. "The best science fiction and fantasy and the best historical fiction, it’s not just a period...
What Rome’s Cinecitta Means To Film History
The legendary studio are hosting, live, the Davids - Italy's Oscars. "There are symbolic elements of various types: the Italian film community is back...
The Goal: Something Broadway’s Never Seen Before
After the play Strange Loop, "I told I’d purchased a refrigerator magnet from the merch table, so that every time I walk by...
Britain Proposes To Regulate Streaming Services
There are two major government claims: The regulations will protect (innocent?) watchers; and also, regulating streaming will "create a 'new golden age' of British...
TV Writers Enter The Metaverse
"A true metaverse — one accessible by a single gateway, in which life persists even in a user's absence — doesn't yet exist. But its depiction...
Is Bob Fosse’s ‘Dancin’ The Most Dangerous Job In Theatre?
Changes have been made; one act is gone. The director, who was in the original Broadway show, says, "We evenly distributed the show so...
Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover Of Twitter Is A Reminder That Platforms Are Temporary
But community, real community, including community found on those platforms, can last a lot longer. - Vice
What Happened To All Those Great Film Soundtracks?
Nothing against the Hamilton cast album - obviously a different animal - but the 1990s were the last great decade of film soundtracks. Why?...
Singer And Country Music Star Naomi Judd Has Died At 76
She died on April 30, one day before she and her daughters Wynonna and Ashley were due to perform at the Country Music Hall...
Russian Troops Looted Art Museums In Mariupol
The Mariupol City Council says that "Russian forces have seized more than 2,000 pieces of artwork from the besieged port city of Mariupol," and...
Against Performative Activism In The Arts
Signalling in writing or in speech that you’re anti-racist is entirely different to being anti-racist – that is, to doing the work to create workplace cultures...
How Gorecki’s Third Symphony Became A 90s Pop Icon
Unsurprisingly, the recording did not start life intending to keep the company of Madonna and Prince – but in late 1992 the symphony was...
The Links Between Music And Personality Type
The researchers found global correlations between extraversion and contemporary music; between conscientiousness and unpretentious music; between agreeableness and mellow and unpretentious music; and between...
UK Art Dealer: Brexit Has Killed Our International Sales
Since the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020, Shovlar’s income has dropped by 60%. He says trade with the EU, where 99%...
Portrait Of A Small Bookstore (In Film)
Tannenbaum’s GoFundMe didn’t just meet its target – staggeringly, it actually doubled its $60,000 goal in just two days of operations, instantly changing The...
The Fraught Relationship Between Publishers And Social Network Platforms
Despite 20 years of often difficult relations, a clear recognition of the “frenemy” dynamic at play, and the reality of intensifying competition for attention,...
The Great Big Dialect Hunt
That's what the University of Leeds is calling its project to digitize its huge collection of field recordings of vernacular speech in regional England...
Why Pessimism Is Useful
We are so quick to equate pessimism with passivity or fatalism or despair, and to reject it on that basis – for, of course,...
Films From Africa Are Better And More Plentiful Than Ever. When Will North American...
Better and less expensive equipment, the growing festival circuit, and, most of all, the rise of streaming video have made it easier for Africans...
Why Kids Are Great At Philosophy
Children are sophisticated thinkers, more than capable of abstract thought. They’re creative too. Indeed, in some ways, kids make better philosophers than adults. They...
For The First Time, There’s A Comprehensive Reference Source On Indian Art — And...
"An upstart museum in (Bangalore) has launched an open-source digital encyclopedia of ... the subcontinent's rich artistic history, dating from 10,000 years ago to...
What Exactly Is TikTok (And How Does It Work?)
What’s surprising is that content fueling viewership only comes from a small subset of TikTok’s user base—a statistic similar to YouTube. Only 33.9 percent of...
