Finally, We Understand What The Marvel Cinematic Universe Is All About
And that is ... an indictment of toxic masculinity? Sure, yes, absolutely. "Messing up, it must be said, is very much part of the...
The Delicate Task Of Restoring A Castle’s Medieval Knight Mural
Sometimes, fame is not great, and no, you shouldn't hot-wax a mural from the 1400s: "Since their discovery in 1844, the murals have been...
A Judge Rules Britney Spears Can Be Free Of Conservatorship
Fans celebrate - and some wonder about the many non-famous, non-white, disabled folks who are also in conservatorships: "Spears’ case is expected to be...
Foley Artists Have To Recreate The Sounds Of Everything
Foley is what makes things sound real onscreen - "incidental sounds such as the squeak of a chair, the chink of bottles in a...
New York’s New Motto Is Be Nice To Tourists
Especially in the performing and visual arts, NY isn't going to survive long without those Euros (and many other forms of currency) pouring in....
The Director Of ‘Passing’ Says There Are No Easy Answers Here
The movie, based on Nella Larsen's 1929 novel also called Passing, isn't just about Black women supposedly passing as white. Director Rebecca Hall: "The...
Petra Mayer, NPR’s Beloved, Passionate Books Editor Has Died Suddenly
"Mayer was a proud nerd ... shared those passions with readers and listeners through her reviews of sci-fi, fantasy, romance, thrillers and comics,...
How Shakespeare Drove Publishing And Publishing Drove Shakespeare In The 1700s
In the mid-1730s, Robert Walker waged a price war with the London publishing establishment, driving the cost of individual play editions down to just...
Hong Kong’s M+ makes A Play For Global Attention
A decade ago, the international art world derided Hong Kong as a “cultural desert.” The opening of the multibillion-dollar M+ museum epitomizes the city’s...
Now Venice Is Drowning In Billboards
The giant billboards now or until recently plastered across the churches for products ranging from OPPO smartphones to Recarlo jewellery – signal that these...
Weapon Of Mass Distraction: Why Facebook’s “Metaverse” Is An Illusion
In actuality, Facebook is basically spending $10 billion on a prayer that, in the short run, it might change the conversation. It gives them...
Christopher Walken Paints Over A Banksy On Camera
The spokesperson said in a statement: "We can confirm that the artwork at the end of 'The Outlaws' was an original Banksy, and that...
Cryptopunks: How A Market For NFT’s Was Born
If spending this kind of money on something as flimsy as a JPEG seems absurd, recall that collectors have bought empty space, a closed...
Sylvère Lotringer, Who Founded Semiotext(e) And Brought French Theory To America’s Art World, Dead...
We leave it to you to speculate on which direction St. Peter will send him for that, but his work did spark enormous changes...
Is Science Fiction An “Inadequate Response” To Existential Threat?
As projections of nuclear fear themselves recede into memory, new fears (of global warming, environmental collapse) have come to replace them, locating such films...
In A Time Of Crisis And Pestilence, Vaudeville As Social Critique
Not, in this case, the early-20th-century American genre of variety show. This is 19th-century Parisian vaudeville: popular boulevard comedies depicting simply drawn characters from...
Co-opting Woke
Charles Blow: "Perhaps no other word of the moment is so under attack as “woke,” a word born as a simple yet powerful way...
Writers Ought To Be Trained The Way Actors Are
"Actors in training get to try out different techniques and approaches, learning to develop a character through movement, script analysis, or emotional connection; they...
A New University To “Fix” Education? It Needs A Rethink About What’s Broken
UATX’s founders for years have used their various platforms to bemoan the state of higher education and propose how to fix it. They’re about to...
Are Some People’s Brains Simply Wired Better For Dance?
Well, there's no point in trying to deny that some people have more natural aptitude. However, writes neuroscientist Gayle Doherty, everyone has the ability...
Why Are Some Classical Music Institutions Resisting Broadening Their View of Music?
Joshua Kosman: How long can an artistic culture survive and thrive on the work of the same circumscribed set of a dozen or so...
Why Arts And Humanities Are Crucial To STEM Education And The Tech Industry
In the latest university rankings from Times Higher Education, the top two schools for arts and humanities in the world are, perhaps surprisingly, Stanford...
Design Fiction? What Exactly Is That?
According to this manifesto, it's "a tool for reimagining the past, present, and future. It makes scenarios real enough to feel possible, inspiring dialogue,...
Hollywood Has Joined The NFT Gold Rush
Is this a potential long-term income source or an big old asset bubble? Opinions differ, but the studios aren't letting even a short-term chance...
Zadie Smith’s First Play Hits The Stage, Retelling A Canterbury Tale
The Wife of Willesden is an update to Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," transferring the setting from a carriage carrying pilgrims to Canterbury...
