It’s Been Quite The Year Of Drama On BookTok
"With more than 77 billion views globally to date, TikTok's collection of literary-minded creators and clips, ... (has) (a lot of) drama, much of...
The Days Of TikTok Dance Videos Becoming Viral Megahits Are Ending
Unless, that is, you're already famous; Lizzo's dance videos easily draw a million viewers. Earlier in TikTok's history, before there were mountains of content,...
Russia’s Destruction of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Matters Quite A Lot (Which Is Why Russia’s...
"Language, religion, historical memory: These, as much as territory, are the war's battlefields. Against its appalling human cost, its cultural toll may feel insignificant...
The Defense Of Ukraine Has Developed Its Own Slang
"The conflict is spawning a new lexicon. Some of the words and phrases that have entered wider usage in Ukrainian society date back to...
More 2,000-Year-Old Glyphs Have Been Found In Peru
"Archaeologists (have) discovered 168 geoglyphs near the arid Nazca plain in southern Peru. The new findings, which encompass images of humans, birds, snakes, cats,...
Stiffing On Pay, Sexual Harassment, Jurisdictional Disputes: A Big Labor Battle At Little Central...
"The (Colorado) company is in a bitter dispute with the labor union representing its performers, The American Guild of Musical Artists, ... with accusations...
The 100 Greatest Films Of All Time (According To The Showbiz Mag Variety)
"Do we want you to argue with this list? Of course we do. That's the nature of the beast. ... No doubt you'll say:...
How The Publishing World Fared In 2022
The return of shoppers to physical retailers was good news for bookstores. ABA reported a record number of members, while Barnes & Noble began...
How Matisse Transformed His Art After His Body
The new limitations of his body became an opportunity for renewal. There is a lesson here about what it means to care for the...
Physicists Create Nano-Sized Music Recording
Physicists at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) used a 3D nanolithography tool called the Nanofrazor to cut the smallest record ever. The tune they "recorded,"...
Leveraging (And Investing In) The Art Markets
When it comes to artist-driven community work, private versus grant funding isn’t an either-or proposition. Using the art market “is not just about making...
Some Of The Artists We Lost This Year
The creative people who died this year include many whose lives helped shape our own — through the art they made, and through the...
Art Platform Is Hiding Images Protesting Posting Of AI-Generated Art
ArtStation (which was acquired by Epic Games in 2021) is considered to be the leading online portfolio and community for artists working in video...
This Choreographer Wanted To Move Back Home To San Diego To Live And Work. ...
"Exorbitant venue rental costs, cultural ignorance, a dismissive response to concerns of racial inequalities and funding models that make artistic careers a bleak option...
US Copyright Office Rules AI-Generated Art Can’t Be Copyrighted
The United States Copyright Office (USCO) has initiated a proceeding to reverse an earlier decision to grant a copyright to a comic book that...
How A Simple Graphic Memoir Became America’s Most-Banned Book, Thus Juicing Its Sales
"The crusade against Gender Queer has largely driven its popularity and increased the size of (Maia) Kobabe's royalty checks. The memoir has sold more...
The Year The Streaming Business Crashed
Streaming may be the future, but in the present, it’s not paying the bills. The subtext of the Streaming Wars always has been that...
“The Whale” Was Originally A Play — A Powerful One, Say Those Who Have...
Says Shuler Hensley, who's played the 600-pound Charlie in New York and London: "It's a brilliant ending, because audience members have constantly told me...
How Kindle Novel Writers Are Using ChatGPT
I figured, Hey, if I don’t know what to write, I’ll just pop something in there and it will get me going, and I’ll be...
The Coolest Archaeological Finds Of 2022
"There were long-lost tombs uncovered during renovations of Notre-Dame in Paris, the mosaic floors upon which Santa Claus — well okay, St. Nicholas —...
#MeToo Comes To Belgium’s Flagship Art Museum
"Staff at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts are speaking out against the museum's director, Michel Draguet, after 31 of 176 employees signed an...
TikTok Conquered The Social Media World. Now It’s Being Conquered By Geopolitics
Here's the story of how Zhang Yiming built the tech giant ByteDance and its star video app became a global juggernaut — only to...
Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Eldest Daughter And Heir Of Pablo, Is Dead At 87
"When her father died in 1973, Maya took up the mantle of preserving and propelling his legacy. ... It involved assembling and organizing a...
Facing Falling Attendance, The Metropolitan Opera Will Trim Its Season And Focus On New...
"Hit hard by a cash shortfall and lackluster ticket sales ..., the (company) said Monday that it would withdraw up to $30 million from...
The Philly Pops Settles On A New Contract And, Just Maybe, A Future
"The Pops announced in November that it would cease operations at the end of this season. But the new tentative agreement, back-dated to this...
