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Why Amazon Really Bought MGM
As Jeff Bezos bluntly put it in 2016, "When we win a Golden Globe, it helps us sell more shoes." But isn't Amazon's own...
Hunter Biden’s Gallerist Will Keep Buyers’ Identities Secret, Even From The Artist
Both the dealer himself and the White House say this will prevent even the appearance of influence-buying by purchasers of paintings by the President's...
Real-Life Protagonist Of ‘Cat Person’ Comes Forward
When Kristen Roupenian's New Yorker story went viral in 2017, Alexis Nowicki got a flood of text messages from people she knew asking if...
Owner Sues French State For Right To Sell Leonardo Sketch Abroad
Once the drawing was identified as a da Vinci, the Culture Ministry put an export ban on it and offered to buy it for...
Closure Of Five South London Arts Meccas Cost UK Economy £330 Million: Study
The report says that dark houses at the National Theatre, Old Vic, Young Vic, Southbank Centre, and dance company Rambert led to an economy-wide...
National Ballet Of Canada Names New Artistic Director
Hope Muir, Toronto-born and currently AD at the Charlotte Ballet in North Carolina's largest city, will succeed Karen Kain at the start of 2022....
‘He’s A Friend Of Dorothy’: A Brief History Of Yesteryear’s Favorite Gay Euphemism
For you young'uns, back before Stonewall, this was an expression gay men used to identify each other. (If a guy replied "Dorothy who?", one...
#IALivingWage: Hollywood’s Writers’ Assistants Fight For More Money And Less Misery
Despite the famously long hours and low pay, aspiring TV writers compete madly for these jobs, hoping to get a foot in the door...
Netflix And (Ugh) ‘365 Days’ Have Made Poland Into A Hotbed Of Video Production
The industry that produced Andrzej Wajda and Agnieszka Holland never anticipated that a trashy softcore flick would become its most-watched product, the world's lockdown...
At The Robot Version Of The Eurovision Song Contest
The A.I. Song Contest features three dozen or so teams that use artificial intelligence networks to create parts of, and sometimes all of, a...
How A Drama School Class Handled Graduating Right Into The Pandemic
The theater students of the UNC School of the Arts Class of 2020 hadn't expected to be starting their careers right at the moment...
Dancing To Heal From Turmoil And Tragedy
Ari Honarvar, who as a teen danced secretly to get herself through life in post-revolution Iran, writes about how she now leads communal dancing...
Rebel Filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. Dead At 85
He built a cult following in the 1960s underground with inventively odd satires, then hit the mainstream in 1969 with Putney Swope, in which...
Scientists Are Figuring Out The Chemical Baths Stradivari And Guarneri Gave Their Spruce Wood
Researchers using an array of high-tech methods have found traces of alum, potash, lime, borax, and plain old salt in the wooden fronts of...
Publishing Industry About To Get Slammed By Supply Chain Troubles
"Truck driver shortages, widespread port congestion, and skyrocketing container costs are among the biggest challenges facing the book industry supply chain for the rest...
Notre-Dame’s Neighbors Sue City Of Paris Over Lead Levels After Fire
"The plaintiffs" — local residents and a powerful labor union — "accuse the authorities of 'grave negligence', which they say exposed city dwellers, particularly...
Tokyo Olympics Will Be Held Under State Of Emergency
"The Japanese government formally declared a state of emergency in Tokyo on Thursday, due to rising numbers of COVID-19 infections. Restrictions will be in...
A Tale Of Two Booksellers, Just Off The Kabul Bazaar
"One is a former communist, the other a former mujahid. Both have witnessed and participated in Afghanistan's turbulent history over the past half century....
Hearings On London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Made Into Theatre
Stage director Nicolas Kent and former Guardian security editor Richard Norton-Taylor have edited hundreds of hours of testimony, from early warnings to "bragging about...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Become A Master Of Visual Communications Tools
Alexandra Lange takes a look at the New York City congresswoman's "ability to get her message across visually, through graphic design, through fashion, and...
The Man Who Made Munich An Opera Mecca Says Farewell
As superintendent, and with Kirill Petrenko as music director, Nikolaus Bachler made the Bavarian State Opera a beacon of "artistic excellence, destination programming and,...
Jivan Gasparyan, Who Entranced The World With An Armenian Shepherd’s Pipe, Dead At 92
"What he accomplished was remarkable — not just in terms of his personal achievement, but also what he accomplished for his instrument's profile. …...
Beeple Starts Up A Cross Between Christie’s And Sports Illustrated, But For NFTs
It's not enough that he sold his own NFT for $69 million. The graphic artist and some even richer tech and entertainment types have...
Bury Old Movies & Shows That Now Seem Offensive? This TV Network Has A...
" 'Can We Talk About This?' video initiative … is designed to acknowledge what may have been acceptable at one point in history is...
City Of Dallas Wants To Offload Its Classical Radio Station
The City of Dallas owns a classical radio station? Yep. WRR Classical 101 FM, which celebrates its 100th birthday next month, is operated by...
