A Disney Animator Uses Modeling Skills To Decide Where Lincoln Stood At Gettysburg
"Christopher Oakley, a former Disney animator turned Civil War sleuth, has combined intense analysis of 19th-century photographs with 21st-century 3-D modeling software to argue...
How The FBI Got Involved In Shutting Down TikTok’s Favorite Free Book Site
Well, it's like this: The so-called Z-Library had an unsavory underpinning."Two Russian nationals, Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova, have been charged with criminal copyright...
Playbill’s New Editor Is Excited And A Bit Stressed
Diep Tran says her concern in covering theatre is, "How do we do this fairly? How do we give credence to both sides on...
A Computer Program Concludes This Disputed Painting Is A Real Renoir
And the computer says that's with an "80.58 percent" certainty. - The Guardian (UK)
The Numbers Around Viola Davis’ Potential Oscars Run
If she is nominated for The Woman King, she'll be one of very few actors nominated for more than a few Oscars after turning...
The Secrets Of The Dick Francis Family Fiction Workshop
The books were always "a true team effort" of Dick, a former jockey, and his writer wife Mary - and, for many years now,...
Oh Great, BookTok Is Becoming Book Selling Tok
To be honest, why didn't this happen earlier? It's a perfect marriage of social media and sales. - LitHub
The One Good Thing About The Taylor Swift Concert Ticketmaster Epic Fail
"The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into the owner of Ticketmaster. ... The investigation is focused on whether Live Nation Entertainment has...
The Russian Jewish Artists Who Have Immigrated To Israel During The War With Ukraine
Of thousands who have fled, "Russians are relocating mostly to Turkey, Kazakhstan and Georgia. But Israel offers one big advantage: Those with at least one Jewish...
The Power And Joy Of Artists’ Fierce Resistance To Hitler’s Fascism
The stories of the Rote Kapelle group "show the power of joy, creativity, and love in the fight against the compliance, fear, and silence...
The Projection Artist Behind The Viral Twitter Building Images
Messages flashed on Twitter's flagship building in San Francisco read "Musk's Hellscape," "launching to bankruptcy," and "worthless billionaire." You can thank artist Alan Marling....
If Disney’s Pirates Scared You, Thank Alice Davis, Who Has Died At 93
The costume designer also created more than 150 outfits for the It's a Small World ride. "One wrinkle occurred, Ms. Davis said, when she...
Twitter Gave Many Writers A Path Into Publishing’s Walled Garden
Twitter has given writers access. "People of color, people who live anywhere other than New York City, people who work day jobs unrelated to...
The Art World Has Exploded In Lawsuits
What's actually going on? Contracts, lawyers, and insurance, basically. - The Guardian (UK)
Why We Should Read Old Books
The great books are great because they speak to us, generation after generation. They are things of beauty, joys forever — most of the...
Elon-Twitter Is Melting Down. Time To Fly The Coop To… Tumblr?
For those disgusted or confused by Musk’s antics, there is an alternative: Just go back to Tumblr, where the antics are better. - The...
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Calls On Other Theatres To Protect Artists And Artistic Mission
The Victory Gardens crisis was unsettling enough to spark conversations among board members at other nonprofit theaters, worried about the message sent to artists...
Beneficiaries Of The UK’s Arts Funding Readjustments?
Disabled people often face barriers in the arts world, and this funding will help the organisation in supporting creatives at all levels, including those...
The Luxury Of Believing That Nothing Is True (Tired Yet?)
Thinking that some things are true would no longer be an unquestioned assumption: we would understand why we ought to think that some things are true....
Dancer Has Leg Amputated, Then Carries On Dancing
"After my amputation, it's kind of the same way. I don't look the same as other 21-year-olds my age, but I can still make...
New AI Tools Are Changing How We Think About Images
Our machines have crossed a threshold. All our lives, we have been reassured that computers were incapable of being truly creative. Yet, suddenly, millions...
Brazil’s National Museum, Destroyed By Fire Four Years Ago, Is Overhauling Its Approach To...
The historic Rio de Janeiro building had, alongside its natural history materials, large holdings of Indigenous artifacts — collected in another era, usually plundered...
One More Reason To Hate TicketMaster: Site Shuts Down After Being Swamped By Taylor...
Millions of fans were locked out. In a later deleted blog post published by Ticketmaster on Thursday, the company said that 3.5 million people registered for...
Condé Nast’s CEO Talks About How He Wants To Make The Venerable Magazine Publisher...
"Roger Lynch ... inherited a company of fiefdoms (which) competed with one another for advertisers and cover stars. ... Three-and-a-half years into the job,...
Gentle Ukrainian Film Critic, Become Soldier, Become Vivid Chronicler Of A War
War has always provoked remarkable writing. Anton Filatov’s blog posts on Facebook are a 21st-century version of this, and they have gained him a...
