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Lots Of Legal Drama Around Mysterious African Art Collection In Houston
The collection of 1,400 objects belongs to broker Sam Njunuri, who's been ordered to sell part of it to pay $990,000 in damages to...
Even Now, Hollywood Still Gives Twice As Many Roles To Men As To Women:...
"Just 32% of speaking characters in the top 100 movies at the box office in 2023 were women or girls, according to (USC's) Annenberg...
Another Spanish Church Restoration Goes Wrong
This isn't as bad as "Beast Jesus," but the repainting at the Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Mirón in the city of Soria has...
Writers At The Atlantic Push Back Hard Against Management’s Deal With OpenAI
"Nearly 60 journalists — including marquee names such as Adam Serwer, Caitlin Flanagan, Jerusalem Demsas, and George Packer — signed a letter calling on...
Uh-Oh, Last-Second Cancellations Of Shows Due To COVID Are Back (At Least In Chicago)
This past weekend, the Goodman Theatre called off two performances of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil just before curtain time. On...
David Lynch Has Emphysema And Can’t Leave His House, But He Is Not Retiring
He dares not venture out for fear of catching even a cold, and he can only walk a short distance before running out of...
The Five Composers Who Defined The Sound Of Horror Movie Music
"The history of horror scores is a long, winding path (that leads to an old abandoned shed stocked with rusty hatchets), with legends of...
Irony-Impaired Florida Man Pleads Guilty To Bombing Satirical Sculpture of Lenin And Mao
The artwork by the Gao Brothers, titled Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin’s Head, was brought to San Antonio...
AI Software Encodes Language The Same Way Human Brains Do During Conversation
"A neural code refers to particular patterns of brain activity associated with distinct words in their contexts. We found that the speakers’ brains are...
Remember Ruth Mackenzie, Who Was Abruptly Fired As Director Of The Châtelet In Paris?...
After her still-inadequately-explained sacking in 2020, she went in 2022 to be the Adelaide Festival's artistic director through 2026. She completed this year's event...
Elif Shafak On Being Prosecuted In Her Homeland For Her Fiction
"I was accused of insulting Turkishness, even though nobody knew what that meant. And it was quite surreal, because the words of fictional characters...
Rachid Ouramdane Is Director Of France’s National Theatre Of Dance. How Does He Find...
"His job is huge. His friends and fellow artists ask him how he finds time to create when he is in charge of so...
The Complete Freud, Revised For the 21st Century
"The new 24-volume, 8,100-plus-page Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud has been three decades in the making, with psychoanalyst...
The Florida Orchestra May Finally Get A Headquarters Of Its Own
The ensemble operates out of cramped offices in St. Petersburg and has no fixed rehearsal space; now the CEO has proposed a new building...
Racial Inequities In Arts Funding In Pittsburgh Persist, Finds Study
"For the new report, (the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council) analyzed more than 11,000 grants made to about 500 local organizations from 2018 to 2023....
Turns Out The Church Of The Holy Sepulchre’s Missing Altar Panel Was There All...
The carved stone-and-marble panel was installed by the Crusaders when they reconsecrated the church in 1149 and went missing after a fire ravaged part...
Plant Philosophy (Yes, It’s A Thing)
"By the end of the 20th century, our understanding of plant behaviour had expanded …, and it continues to expand. Plant behaviour is, as...
Elsa Davis Never Expected Her Play “Bulrusher” To Become An Opera
The original version, about a Black baby girl found drifting in a basket along a river, premiered off-Broadway in 2006 and was a Pulitzer...
Where Does Donald Trump’s Hannibal Lecter Fixation Come From?
"After a harrowing deep dive through old Trump-rally speeches and xenophobic Tucker Carlson clips, I believe I have come as close as one can...
In The Advertising Market, Can Snapchat Ever Catch Up With Facebook, YouTube, And TikTok?
Ad revenue at Snap is weaker than expected, and its stock price has fallen by a quarter. With the giants' dominance of the social...
The 1984 Olympic Arts Festival Transformed L.A.’s Cultural Scene. Could The LA28 Cultural Olympiad...
Mark Swed recaps the earlier festival and explains something difficult to remember now: just how large the project was and how profound an effect...
Play At London’s Almeida Briefly Halted Because It Made Grown Men Faint
The play, titled The Years and based on the memoir by 2022 Nobel literature prizewinner Annie Ernaux, was stopped for 10 minutes on Monday...
The Collapse Of Newspapers Is A Loss To Literature, Too
"The hothouse atmosphere of newsrooms, especially at urban dailies, teaches the aspiring writer more about the world, about life, and about writing than any...
“Zombie Alt-Weeklies” Village Voice And LA Weekly Are Running AI-Generated Listicles About OnlyFans
"Clicking on (the 'OnlyFans' tab) pulls up a catalog of listicles ranking pornographic performers by demographic, from 'Turkish' to 'incest' to 'granny.' These blog...
Paris’s Musée Rodin Will Open Its First International Outpost In Shanghai
The new museum, called the Centre d’Art Rodin, will open in September in the building constructed as the French pavilion for Expo 2010. The...