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Off With All Our Heads – The Online World Loves To Misquote Lewis Carroll

But why? Alison Flood investigates why Britain's Royal Mint and an actual Carroll commemorative collection have been getting quotes wrong ... and then printing...

Australian Theatre Is Lighting The Way For The West End And Broadway

Actors get temperature-taking robots; there's Hamiltizer for your hands if you're rehearsing Hamilton; and then there are the actors who can't hug - so...

Ripping Up The Netflix Streaming Playbook, And Winning

The Mouse - Disney Plus, in this case - has a huge back catalog, and it's also doing this little thing called dropping a...

Books: A Coronavirus Lifesaver

At least that's what a bookseller turned newly-minted Instagram book reviewer (that is, a Bookstagrammer) says. He hasn't seen his family for nearly two...

Julie Delpy, Sci-Fi Movie Director

You probably know the French actor Julie Delpy from the Richard Linklater movie trilogy that begins with Before Sunrise, but she's been writing and...

A 127-Year-Old Spanish Sports Venue Would Like To Become A Heritage Site

Of course, the venue itself likely has no feelings on the matter. But Madrid's Frontón Beti-Jai, built when the Basque game pelota was all...

Carmen Esposito’s Memoir Called ‘Save Yourself’ Came Out Just As Pandemic Lockdowns Hit

The standup comedian, who produced a special called Rape Jokes in response to her own experience of assault and Donald Trump's Access Hollywood tape...

How To Smell A Dutch Still Life, Virtually

Perhaps this was an idea that could have gotten, shall we say, misplaced during various shutdowns? But no. What does Dutch art of the...

Back In The Dance Bubble

At the beginning of the pandemic and its ballet shutdown, choreographer Alexei Ratmansky had big plans. Then reality hit, and he's spent hours organizing...

A Judy Chicago Installation Is Scrapped Because Of Sheep

And other animals. And smoke. But the project manager has some questions. "The Living Desert specialists had assured us that the project would not...

The Lie At The Heart Of The Western – And How Contemporary Novelists Are...

The first novel to be considered a "Western" came out in 1902, and the tropes it established have lasted for more than a century...

Writers Are Exposing Sexual Abuse – And Deeply Horrible Attitudes – In France

Why now? "While it is illegal in France for an adult to have sex with a minor under the age of 15, there is...

All Of The Updates And Winners From The Golden Globes

If you want to watch the text updates, here you go (as we post this, Best Supporting Actor has already been awarded - and...

Raymond Cauchetier, Whose Photos Captured The People Of French New Wave Cinema, 101

Cauchetier, whose death was caused by COVID-19, was a self-taught photographer who "documented the revolutionary early films of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other New Wave...

Steve McQueen Will Let Critics Decide If ‘Small Axe’ Is TV Or Cinema

McQueen, whose series of (what some of us would call) films hasn't been entered for BAFTAs or Oscars, says, "I just make stuff. You...

How The Internet Has (So Far) Transformed Celebrity

We live in a fragmented celebrity world, due mostly - but not entirely - to social media. It's a global culture "where somebody can...

The Committed Artistic Life Of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

The artist wrote, "The magnitude of research and study of Afro-Amerikans is what I have dedicated my life. My works are the missing pages...

What It Was Like Being A Freelance Dancer During The First Year Of COVID-19

Maria Kochitkova left the San Francisco Ballet in 2018 to go freelance. Her career was going well; she had bookings out for many months....

Ruth Carter Gets Her Star, The First Costume Designer To Do So Since Edith...

The designer of Black Panther, Selma, Dolemite Is my Name, Malcolm X is the first Black costume designer (and second costume designer ever) to...

Dealing With The Existential Void At The Heart Of Our Constant Information Overload

It's not easy for any of us. "More information isn’t always a good thing, particularly when it’s an overload of unwanted (even predatory) (mis)information."...

TikTok Fame Remakes A Young Artist’s Narrative

A young Australian potter thought she'd always be known to other people as "the cancer girl." But her popularity on TikTok has changed that...

If You Want To Watch The Golden Globes Tonight, Here’s How

And here's who is nominated, and who, and what, might win. - Los Angeles Times

Oscars So Puritanical? One Director Thinks So

As her movie Never Rarely Sometimes Always - a quiet but hair-raising quest movie about two 17-year-olds from Pennsylvania going to New York to...

The Internet Archive Digitizes A Lot Of Books

How does that work? With a lot of human effort, and at a mind-blowing pace of 3500 books per day. "Clean, dry human hands...

The Real Story Of Billie Holiday And The FBI

Behind the new movie The United States vs. Billie Holiday stands a lot of history - and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Parks: "Jimmy Fletcher is...
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