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How The Waterlily Changed Architecture
"When seeds of this amazing plant first made their way to Victorian England from South America, they sparked off a race among the British...
James Caan: An Appreciation
For instance: "He was unforgettably perfect — carnal, wild, exciting. Caan may not be the actor you first think of in relation to The...
You Are Not The Great American (Or British, Or French, And So Forth) Novelist
And the sooner you embrace your essential ordinariness, the better for your writing. - LitHub
The Point Of Pointless Goals
Let us now praise things that bring us joy, like the person who determined to walk across the United States in a cartoon bear...
A New Delhi-Based Queer Arts Group Abandoned Documenta After Racist And Transphobic Harassment
Documenta apparently told the group to rely on a private security firm and German police, both of which organizations proved, the artists say, to...
It’s Never Too Late To Learn Ballet
Or so this ballerina tells the adults taking her classes. - CBC
The Deaf Artist Who Loves Working With Sound
Christine Sun Kim "has become the very rare artist with a public platform that transcends the often insular art world." - The New York...
Capitalizing On Meme Culture, But Very Carefully
How to handle, or how not to handle, memes about your movie: "The difference between the Morbius flop memes and the GentleMinions trend is that Sony...
Harvey Dinnerstein, Who Sketched The Civil Rights Movement, Has Died At 94
When Dinnerstein was 27, "he traveled to Alabama with fellow artist Burton Silverman, a high school classmate, to chronicle the bus boycott in Montgomery."...
A New Study Says Literary Snobs Are Right
In short, reading literary fiction seems to give readers a more complex worldview. - LitHub
Those Who No Longer Want To Teach, Do
Thomas Woodruff traded his career as an art professor for a full-time career as an artist. Like others who experienced the Great Resignation, he's...
Vinyl Is Having Supply Chain Issues
But it's not directly because of COVID - it's more that "dozens of record-pressing factories have been built to try to meet demand in...
When A Legacy Newspaper Opens An Official Finsta
The 404 is the Los Angeles Times' new Finsta - slang for "fake instagram," usually an account for a closer group of friends or...
In Los Angeles, Street Symphonies Blossom
Young violinist Vijay Gupta "was shocked by the poverty and neglect he saw on Skid Row. The injustice and inequity upset him. He was...
Who Won Big At The BET Awards
And who flipped off the Supreme Court on live TV, too. - The Hollywood Reporter
Cuba Sentences An Artist To Five Years In Prison
"Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara will serve five years in prison for 'contempt, defamation, and public disorder,' charges human rights organizations have condemned." Otero Alcántara's...
How Los Angeles’ Fountain Theatre Is Responding To The End Of Roe
"Performer Christina Hall reminded the crowd that all three of the justices appointed by former President Trump had promised at their confirmation hearings that...
Queer Desire And Pakistani Life
Novelist Taymour Soomro: "It was important to me to write about queerness in Pakistan for so many reasons, including making visible experiences like my...
Google’s AI Issue Shows Us A Human Logical Fallacy
We hear fluent speech, we think "fluent thought." But wait: "The human brain is hardwired to infer intentions behind words" - even where there...
A Long Island Library Board Has Reversed Its Ban On Pride Displays
Way to not entirely buckle under to homophobes, Smithtown Library Board. - LitHub
The Disney Board Gathers To Discuss Bob Chapek’s Future
Why does this matter? Stocks are down though subscriptions to Disney Plus are up, and interest in Disney-owned properties is strong. But, one analyst...
What Makes For A Good Group Biography?
"The questions that make these biographies sing—what makes this group of people actually interesting, not just noteworthy? Why, of all the relationships in a...
Stylish Trans Elder Gloria Allen Was An Icon Who Taught History And Style To...
Allen, who has died at 76, inspired filmmakers and playwrights. She ran a charm school for young trans people in Chicago, usually from the...
White Women In Media Keep Hypersexualizing Asian Women
Of course, white men do it too. But the point: "Inherent in the 'hypersexual woman' trope is the belief that Asian women aren’t simply...
Documenta Was Going Great Until The Organizers Forgot To Account For Fascism
Or, at the very least, someone should have clocked the antisemitic imagery in one artist's piece. Then there's the question of Palestinian artists and...
