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Whether Or Not The Grammys Are Postponed, The Focus Will Likely Be Raising Money...
"All of this is sadly familiar, as both the 2021 and 2022 Grammy Awards — executive producer Ben Winston’s first shows at the helm — had a similar charitable...
The True Story Behind Brazil’s Oscar Contender I’m Still Here
“As the film’s popularity grows in Brazil, more and more people are reckoning with the country’s brutal history, and seeing parallels with the far-right there today.”...
Stagehands Go On Strike At The Atlantic Theater Company
The strike may have deep impacts for the entirety of the Off-Broadway ecosystem, as stagehands start to unionize across the nonprofit and smaller theatres....
Let’s Be Honest – ‘Marry Well’ Is Still The Best Advice For Writers
“This is not a new story. Ernest Hemingway would not have had the time to write were it not for the rich women he...
Simon Rattle On The Bleak Outlook For The Arts In Great Britain
As the conductor turns 70, he says, “In Britain, I see how hard it is. The country has been used to making do with...
While The Brutalist Gets Architecture Painfully Wrong, It Does Stand Up For Modernism And...
Tussling with history and mythology, the film "goes all in on the idea that we still desperately need the old dyad of genius and...
Roger Pratt, The Cinematographer Behind Brazil And Fisher King, Has Died At 77
Terry Gilliam: “While we were still faffing around, he had run all the way down the mountain, forded the river, run up the other...
This Author Has Written Some Very Scary Stories, But None Have Made Her As...
Nnedi Okorafor, with her Death of the Author coming out this week, was "worried about exposing so much of herself in the novel: her...
Hollywood Was Already In Trouble, And Now It’s Having To Press Pause On Nearly...
“The wildfires added anxiety to filmmakers, performers, crew members and others in the industry who have already been worried about Hollywood productions leaving Los...
Publishing Still Can’t Figure Out How To Support Speculative Fiction Writers
Especially when they’re Black. Why? Diversity syndrome, "a cultural condition where the ‘otherness’ of an author is elevated over the impact of their work,...
Oscars Nominations Are Delayed Amid Fires, But Here’s The Observer’s List
We won’t see the Academy’s official nominations until January 19 to give voters more time amid the fires in Los Angeles, but if it...
Photos Seized From Texas Art Museum
Unwelcome back, bad old days: “Several works by photographer Sally Mann displayed at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth were reportedly removed following...
A Mass Erasure Of Architectural And Cultural Heritage In Los Angeles As The Fires...
“‘It’s staggering and heartbreaking — I don’t know any other way to put it,’ said Ken Bernstein, principal city planner at Los Angeles City...
Houston Symphony Hires Gary Ginstling As CEO
That’s mere months after his surprise departure from the NY Phil. The Houston Symphony board president: "No one wants to work in an environment...
Australian Aboriginal Author Alexis Wright On Finding Her Voice, And Re-Finding Some Fame For...
“The buzz around her latest novel has drawn new attention to her back catalogue around the world,” and that’s obviously great for her, and...
Why Isn’t Mike Leigh’s Rapturously Reviewed Movie Getting Into Awards Conversations?
“The glitziest awards bodies have all overlooked Jean-Baptiste thus far—although, in a rare moment of unanimity, the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles...
Doris Salcedo’s Crack In The Tate Modern Floor
“Having lived through more than 50 years of civil war in her native country, and having witnessed the fallout of that conflict in the...
As His Severance Debuts Its Season Two, Ben Stiller Has A Lot To Say...
Stiller, who’s spent his entire life around Hollywood, says, "It’s kind of true that everybody will say yes and it doesn’t mean yes. It...
In The UK, National Heritage Needs To Be As Concerned For Nature As For...
“What we have at present is a rather stark hierarchy of heritage. Buildings and artefacts are granted high levels of safeguarding. Yet culturally important...
Author Nicola Dinan, Who Was A Scientist And A Lawyer, Just Won A Debut...
“Working as a lawyer taught me how much can turn on a single word. I was always too clumsy to actually be a scientist...
The Best Actress Race Is Rough To Predict
“It’s hard to think of a year more stocked with major female contenders than this one. At one point, it seemed like there were...
In Los Angeles, Artists’ Life Work Has Gone Up Into Smoke And Ashes
As one of the many, many artists who lost studios and archives said, "It’s terror and despair.” - The New York Times
Why The Supreme Court Is Likely Going To Let The TikTok Ban Proceed
“The argument really felt like a national security case and a First Amendment case walk into a bar. There’s two totally different cases, and...
Sam Moore, Who Died Last Week, Was One Of The Twentieth Century’s Best Performers
“The effect is electrifying, both intense – Moore used to talk about himself ‘liquefying’ during performances.” - The Guardian (UK)
Richard Foreman, Theatre Impresario And Mysterious Playwright, Has Died At 87
“Foreman’s plays tended to be ‘peerless mini-extravaganzas’ offering ‘dizzying theatrical joys,’ Ben Brantley wrote in one 2004 Times review.” Then there was the genius grant,...
