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After The Big One In An Art City In Japan, Trying To Preserve An...

The massive earthquake on New Year’s Day 2024 washed away the homes and studios of “hundreds of Wajima artisans in this Holy Land of Lacquerware...

Time Didn’t Used To Be Linear

Seriously: We decided it was in the 18th century. “In 1765, the scientist-philosopher Joseph Priestley, best known for co-discovering oxygen, invented what was arguably...

Jodie Foster On Her Acting Life As ‘Taxi’ Turns Fifty

“ gave me an outlet that I would not have had if I'd gone on a path to be what I was meant to...

Artists Killed By Iran In Crackdown On Protests As The Repression, And Internet Blackout,...

Though the number is undoubtedly higher, "among the thousands of civilians confirmed dead are sculptor Mehdi Salahshour, filmmaker Javad Ganji, fashion designer and student Rubina Aminian,...

Former Nickelodeon Child Star Kianna Underwood Killed In Hit And Run In Brooklyn

Underwood was “a cast member of the former Nickelodeon children’s sketch comedy series All That,” and she had other credits to her name as...

Hamnet Is No Shakespeare In Love

It’s far worse: It does wrong by Shakespeare. "Hamnet changes many details and events in Shakespeare’s life to tell its story, but it is in...

Why It’s Good For The Washington National Opera To Part Ways With The Kennedy...

Financially, it’s likely to be good for the Opera. “The news of the split could inspire a groundswell of support from longtime patrons who...

New York’s New Mayor Says Theatre Should Be For Everyone, Handing Out Free Tickets

“'The shared laughter in a crowded theater, the eager debrief after a musical, the heavy silence that hangs over all of us in a...

South African’s Right-Wing Culture Minister Axes The Country’s Venice Biennale Proposal

The proposal by artist Gabrielle Goliath was a performance to mourn Gaza’s dead after Israel’s actions against the area. A spokesperson said that it...

In A Last-Minute Decision, CBS Cut Best Original Score From The Golden Globes Broadcast

Welp, podcasts are in, music is out; sorry to "Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein, Ludwig Goransson for Sinners, Jonny Greenwood for One Battle After Another,...

The Writers Who Saw All Of This Coming

In case you need a list of dystopian novels to read instead of, hm, the news. - The Guardian (UK)

Those Teeny Tiny Microphones Are Ruining The Red Carpet

“Even if tiny mics are a trend that’s crossed over from influencer culture, they’ve become yet another obnoxious staple of the film industry that...

Young Dylan Thomas, It Turns Out, Was A Serial Plagiarist

“The young Thomas was an enthusiastic contributor to Swansea Grammar School's magazine after joining as an 11-year-old in 1925, but Gallenzi found at least...

Jerome Lowenstein, Doctor Who Helped His Tiny Literary Press Pick A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Book,...

“His detour into literature began in 2000, when he was asked by Martin Blaser, the chairman of N.Y.U.’s department of medicine, to join him...

How Did Mystery Author Louise Penny Build Such An Intense, Huge Fan Club?

Her publisher sure didn’t help, at least not at first. But then the community “was nurtured and deepened by the connections that Louise made...

How Do You Move On From An Iconic, Long-Term Role?

Kit Harington’s timing was perhaps challenging. Game of Thrones finished; he went into rehab; then the pandemic hit. "When things started up again after...

What Do You Do For A Sequel When Your Spy Drama Was Groundbreaking, But...

“This second Night Manager season arrives at a moment when spy dramas have moved on, and in a grubbier, more down-to-earth direction than the one the...

Love Island Got A Little Too Hot For TV

That is to say, climate change makes fools of us all, including reality TV shows: "Filming for Love Island: All Stars has been postponed...

Hamnet Wins Best Picture For Drama At The Golden Globes, Raising Its Oscar Odds

“Chloé Zhao recovered from looking shellshocked to quote Paul Mescal, saying that making Hamnet made him realize that being an artist is about being...

Golden Globes Live Updates

In case you want to know, the Los Angeles Times has you covered. (So does Variety.) - Los Angeles Times

Why Is Ticketing Fraud So Widespread – And So Hard To Fix?

Digital tickets fixed physical ticket counterfeiting, sure. But "digital tickets didn’t eliminate fraud. They just changed the face of it—and in the process, blew...

How A Writer Got Sucked Into The Ranks Of Broadway Superfans

“There was what I would not call lying to my family but obfuscating about where I was and what I was doing, as if I were having an...

Turns Out Movie Director Ben Wheatley Is Also Prolific Musician Dave Wheldon

The director of indies and Meg 2: The Trench says, “Before it might have been playing games or doomscrolling. is a more productive...

National Portrait Gallery Swaps Trump Portraits And Removes Reference To His Two Impeachments

The caption for the previous photo read in part, “Impeached twice, on charges of abuse of power and incitement of insurrection after supporters attacked...

Bela Tarr, Hungarian Director Beloved By Cinephiles, Has Died At 70

“Susan Sontag once claimed she would be ‘glad to see’ Béla Tarr’s 1994 masterpiece Sátántangó ‘every year for the rest of my life.’ No small compliment given...