For The Director And Star Of This Brazilian Film, There Was A Cost For...
Wagner Moura, Oscar-nominated star of Oscar-nominated movie The Secret Agent says of the movie: It “is a result of something that we both...
Behind The Two Oscar-Nominated Songs From Documentaries This Year
“One of them is an aria performed an opera star … from an obscure documentary titled Viva Verdi!.” - Variety
Where Has Hollywood’s Production Money Gone?
Quite a bit went to Great Britain last year, actually. - The Guardian (UK)
How Did Milan’s Olympics Opening Ceremony Measure Up, Artistically Speaking?
“Do you know what’s more tubular than snowboarding? Giant tubes of paint descending from the ceiling! More sweeping than curling? A beautiful recital of a poem...
Yorkshire Takes A Weary Breath, Prepares For Another Onslaught Of Wuthering Heights Fans
One hotel owner: “It could all be a flash in the pan, and that’s fine. If it sticks, that’s also great. What I do...
Those ‘Self-Driving’ Cars Are Often Piloted By Humans 8,000 Miles From San Francisco
Yes, Soylent Green is people, and … so is Waymo? “The autonomous vehicle company uses remote workers in the Philippines to assist its self-driving...
Anthropic Wasn’t Just Taking Electronic Books To Feed The AI Maw, But Scanning And...
Well, at least they bought those books? “This program raised red flags for some inside Anthropic, who knew that tearing books apart to feed...
Woodie King, Who Died In January At 88, Was A Major Figure Steering Black...
“Woodie, as artistic director and producer, understood and respected the sanctity of the director. … Woodie, even faced with the challenges of inequitable funding...
The Louvre Will Restore The Crown Of Empress Eugenie And Put It Back On...
It was, of course, badly damaged when thieves dropped it in October. - ARTnews
Suddenly, The Michelle Obama Documentary Is Incredibly Popular On Streaming
Surely it’s a coincidence that as a movie named about the current First Lady opens in the UK, people start watching a movie about...
What Hudson Williams Does When He’s Not Busy Promoting Heated Rivalry
The man loves reading and writing, basically. “I love Joan Didion, and she once said she journals so that when she gets really old,...
It’s Not Easy Designing The World’s Biggest Stage
At the halftime show for the Super Bowl, “the stage must be assembled in about eight minutes, using rolling carts equipped with pneumatic tires....
Toronto’s Royal Conservatory Of Music Accused Of Enabling A Predatory Piano Educator
“I was left with a feeling of tremendous shame. Even after gathering the courage to speak up, I was ashamed that I was a...
Japanese City Cancels Major Cherry-Blossom Festival Because Tourists Behave So Badly
City officials in Fujiyoshida, not far from Mount Fuji, said residents had been littering, entering private homes to use the bathroom, and even defecating...
How Typists Have Shaped Literary Masterpieces
The typewriter, from its birth, has been tied to a set of assumptions about gender and skill. These assumptions persist to the present and...
“& Juliet” — How A Jukebox Shakespeare Musical That Flopped In Britain Became An...
“Today, (after almost four years in New York,) the musical is still packing in crowds, a feat for a show that isn’t a revival...
San Francisco’s Top Arts Official Retires As Mayor Rethinks Arts Policy
The exit, announced Monday, Feb. 2, comes just days after Mayor Daniel Lurie posted a job description for an executive director of arts and culture to...
What Trump’s Kennedy Center Fiasco Shows Us Abut MAGA’s Culture Wars
What’s even fascinating is what this whole debacle tells us about the MAGA movement as a whole, and how Trump is the perfect symbol for their...
Whitewashing History In Philadelphia
To many Philadelphians who having been coming daily ever since to leave protest messages, it felt like an attack on a hard-won monument, and...
Pianist And Conductor Tamás Vásáry Has Died At 92
“The Hungarian pianist … was one of the finest interpreters of Liszt and Chopin in the second half of the 20th century. He also...
We Think Cooperation Is The Ideal. In Fact A little Deceit Might Be Good
We evolved not to cooperate or compete, but with the capacity for both – and with the intelligence to hide competition when it suits...
Reimagining Shakespeare In Shanghai
Instead of Venice and Cyprus, Shakespeare’s setting for “Othello,” the Shanghai version takes place on an island at the mouth of the Yangtze River,...
The Muppets Were On Top. Then Decades Of Bad Business Decisions Toppled Their Popularity....
The characters have survived a cruel decade defined largely by false starts, aborted projects and creative in-fighting. - The Wrap (MSN)
Enormous Challenges For Disney’s New CEO
The entertainment industry is in flux, and Disney will need someone with a deft hand if it is to survive and thrive. The business...
Something Is Not Working In Sacramento’s Arts
This struggle, we have found, applies across the board and includes live music venues, theater groups, performance arts, galleries, and does not discriminate between...
