Dissent: Against Joan Didion
Nothing ever seemed to excite her or faze her or disappoint her, largely because she set her sights so low to begin with. - The...
Online Dating Apps: Your Taste In Music Is A Disqualifier
On dating apps, music taste has become one of the primary ways of signalling one’s suitability as a mate – and how, by reducing...
Does Anyone Understand Method Acting?
Strasberg began to think about what made some performances succeed and some fail, and concluded that it must have to do with whether or...
Are NFTs Really The Future Of Art?
The news that you could now, at least in theory, monetise digital art has spawned a speculative boom. - Irish Times
Thinking On Cultural Appropriation
Why is it a problem for a so-called dominant culture to utilize the forms and features of another? The short answer is that it...
What Role Does Shakespeare Have In American Theatre Now?
How much Shakespeare do audiences really want these days? What adjustments are required in the performance of his canon to accommodate those who do...
First: London’s Royal Opera House Hires Intimacy Coordinator
“In opera, there’s so much attention given to the craftsmanship of the music, the set design, the direction of the singing and choreography, in...
Lion Dancers In Houston Have 90 Performances During The Days Around Lunar New Year
Here's how they practice, and how they deal with being away from their families during one of the biggest holidays of the year. -...
The Horrors Of This Year’s Sundance Were All Virtual
"Horror cinema has long been in the business of mining terror from the everyday, of linking surface scares to primal subtexts ... there’s...
The Man Who Changed The Way We See Spanish Art
Under Franco, the study of Spanish art languished - but Jonathan Brown, art historian, curator, professor, and mentor, brought luminous painters like Velázquez to...
Don’t Panic, But Print Sales Are Going To Fall In 2022
To be fair, 2020 and 2021 were unexpectedly, thanks to the pandemic, very strong years for print. - Publishers Weekly
A Novelist Ruminates On Whether Writing Can, And Will, Change The World
Will we be all right? People ask science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson versions of this question all of the time. Robinson thinks we...
Will The Hastily Announced Spotify Policy Solve Anything?
Baby steps perhaps aren't enough to entice Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and subscribers back: "Spotify announced on Sunday that content advisories will be added to...
Is Gaming The Next Arena For The Big Streamers?
Go big or go home? "The rise of streaming video game services ... could sweep Hollywood players into the sector in a bigger way...
Ben Whishaw On Anxiety, Coming Out, Being Paddington, And More
The actor says, "I think it’s really interesting what happens to you if you grow up thinking there’s something wrong with you because you’re...
New Technology Is Ramping Up, And Changing, Animation
Director Jonas Rasmussed "had been searching for years for a way to tell the story of an Afghan man’s journey as a refugee that...
In The Zombie World Of Venezuelan Museums
Questions abound: "Have these institutions acquired any works by Venezuelan artists produced after 2000? How many Venezuelan artists have fled the country? How many...
Omicron Dealt Another Massive Blow To Live Music
One singer's thoughts: "We share a goal of bringing hundreds or thousands of people together for a few hours in one room. Even if...
Gaza Bookshop Destroyed By Airstrikes Is Rebuilding With Books From Around The World
Less than a year after the Israeli airstrikes that destroyed his beloved two-story bookshop, owner Samir Mansour "is now preparing to reopen as both...
Photographer René Robert Fell On A Paris Street, Was Ignored For Hours And Froze...
The 84-year-old Swiss photographer of the flamenco world fell sometime on the evening of January 19. A homeless person in the area called authorities...
Behind The Overwhelming Number Of Book Banning Stories Is A Vast Online Machinery
The effort is concerted. "Many parents have seen Google docs or spreadsheets of contentious titles posted on Facebook by local chapters of organizations such...
Composing Frees A Musician’s Mind
Or so says cellist and composer Nancy Ives. "Something has to happen where the elements are transmuted into something new in relationship to each...
Joni Mitchell, Nils Lofgren, Other Musicians Join Neil Young In Removing Music From Spotify
"The latest developments are escalating pressure on Spotify to clarify how it will weigh promoting the free speech of its content creators against the...
All You Need To Make A Living As A Piano Player Is YouTube And...
Well, and a boat, and Buckingham Palace, and literally millions of subscribers. - BBC
Author Gish Jen On Going Back And Forth Between Fiction And Nonfiction, And How...
"One of the problems that minority writers face is: How many writers are there? If it’s just you, you’ve got to be pretty careful....
