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The Benin Bronzes Are Returning To Nigeria
The pieces were stolen from Nigeria's Kingdom of Benin by British soldiers in 1897. The British went on to sell their spoils, and the...
Actor Peter Capaldi Is Returning To One Of His First Loves
That is to say, music. Says the Doctor Who star's label manager, “People seem to recognise the voice, but they can't place the singer....
Artists Continue To Try To Figure Out How To Thread The Kennedy Center Needle
One rock band frontman: “I feel bad for the people who have worked there for many years and the people who booked us. I...
At The Indie Spirit Awards, Anora Wins Big
Best Director winner Sean Baker "spoke passionately about the difficulty of making independent films in an industry that is no longer able to fund...
How Far Will Britain’s National Goverment Go To Help A Film Studio?
Turns out, pretty far. This is for the economy, the government claims - though "the proposed film studio is not crucial infrastructure or...
AI Generated ‘History’ Videos Are Going Viral On TikTok
But - unsurprisingly! - the accuracy leaves a lot to be desired. For instance, a Pompeii “reconstruction” ignores the actual eyewitness account of Pliny...
What It’s Like To Be A Rising Ballet Dancer In Houston
New principal Angelo Greco, who came from San Francisco: "People are approachable here. We stay in the theater all day long, so once I’m done,...
Spotify Is Expanding Its Audiobook Offerings In New Countries
“We should see Spotify rapidly expand its market presence not just in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, but...
The Berlin Film Festival Awards Its Top Prize To A Norwegian Teenage Sex Drama
The director, Dag Johan Haugerud, “said the film was about the act of ‘writing and reading.’ He added that people should ‘write more and...
A German High Court Has Ruled That Birkenstocks Are Not Art
German hikers - and much of Eugene, Oregon, for that matter - are a little upset. - CBC
The Trump Administration’s Attempts To Control The Arts Come From A Horrifyingly Familiar Playbook
In Brazil, for instance, “museum director Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt hid artworks and advised artists on how to leave the country after officials from...
These Objects Look Like Books, But Don’t Expect To Read Them
“A benign quirk of humanity is that we are delighted by things designed to look like other things.” - The New York Times
Behind The Scenes With Oscars Strategists
“When I called one to ask how the season had gone, she responded with seven uninterrupted seconds of laughter. Thankfully, this week was the...
The Moral Crisis In Arts Funding
“This is a grim cautionary tale about complying with authoritarianism in advance, and it's not going to be pretty, but at the end I'll...
Artists Who Have Represented Australia At The Venice Biennale Call For Ousted Artist, Curator...
In the open letter to Creative Australia, the artists write, “To strip the chosen artistic team of this opportunity is unacceptable. Indeed it signals...
To Write An Opera Based On Moby Dick, First You Must Know The Hearts...
“I just read and reread the book, which I hadn’t done since high school—and back then I probably skipped some chapters. I was also...
Apple News Is Coming Directly At The New York Times Cooking App
OK, that’s not the explicit reason that Apple News Plus is adding a recipes section, but let’s not fool ourselves. - The Verge
Not To Overpraise The CIA, But This Book Smuggling Operation Behind The Iron Curtain...
“The uncensored literature flooding the country wasn’t reaching Poles by chance. It was sent as part of a decades-long US intelligence operation ... designed,...
What In The Name Of All That Is Far From Holy Are Trump’s National...
Sudden cancellations of author events about civil rights, voting, homelessness, and climate change make the authors suspicious. One source said “the Carter Library would...
How To Lose An Oscar In A Brutal Ten Online Days
Karla Sofia Gascón’s fall from assumed winner to persona non grata was intense. “Rarely has a nominee’s curated image—that of a righteous up-and-comer, applauded...
The Dream Accessory Of Every Booklover
“There is—and has long been—a physical appeal to being blanketed by books. … The ladder is a symbol of the scale of the collection,...
It’s Ten Years Out From The Oscars So White Debacle
Has anything changed for young Black actors (or, for that matter, older Black actors) in Hollywood? - NPR
Is The Brutalist’s Small Use Of AI Going To Ruin Adrien Brody’s Chances?
Legally, "producers do not need to acquire consent from their performers when using AI to alter ‘pitch, tone, clarity ... or the voice of...
Operatic Soprano Olga James, Star Of Carmen Jones And Mr. Wonderful, Has Died At...
“James had performed with an opera company in France and in a popular musical revue in Atlantic City, N.J., when her manager, Abe Saperstein — the...
Only Some Celebrity Book Clubs Truly Change The Authors’ Lives
No surprise: Oprah is still on top. Then there are the other three. Sorry, Natalie Portman: Your fans think you’re hot, but they don’t...
