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The Women Who Created The Blues
For popular music fans, "rock created the music publications we read today. R&B created rock. Blues created R&B. And Mamie Smith made the blues...
Elton John Says Brexit Negotiators Screwed Up, And Screwed Over Musicians
Elton John says his tours can absorb the costs and the paperwork, so theoretically Brexit's horribly negotiated touring musician deals (note: what deals?) don't...
A Group Of D&D Teenagers, With The Help Of The Kennedy Center, Give An...
In Springfield, Oregon, if you see people wandering around with choose your own adventure-style art books in their hands, don't be surprised: "Three writers,...
Often, The Art Was Taken By Force, So This Activist Says He Can Take...
Mwazulu Diyabanza is a Congolese activist who would prefer France's museums were open so he could get some attention for taking African objects from...
The Best Time To Correct False, Er, Fake News Is Not In Advance
Warning people off doesn't work: "We hear a lot about inoculating people against fake news or 'prebunking' it, but new research shows that the best...
Cindy Nemser, Who Founded The Feminist Art Journal, 83
Nemser started calling out sexism in the art and art history worlds half a century ago. "Her serious criticism and scholarship belied a whimsical...
The Action Star Revival Had Largely Left Black Actresses Behind
Nothing against the (many) kick-ass, and asskicking, Black actresses of the science fiction universes, but for something closer to reality? Enter Queen Latifah. -...
How The Novel Became Women’s Work
At least in the 18th century. "Wherever they were writing, these women had dared to move out of the conventional female role of service...
Young Poets Think Amanda Gorman Is Giving Them Cultural Cachet – And Access
One youth poet laureate: "She was given the platform to really pull people in and witness the magic of it, and I think that...
Pro Tip: Not All Of Those Suddenly On The Market ‘Seldom Seen’ Artist’s Works...
Five Florine Stettheimer works showed up in 2020. But there was a bit of an issue: "Only two turned out to have been actually...
You Want Robots To Move Well?
Hire some choreographers. "Choreo-roboticists (that is, roboticists who work choreographically) believe that incorporating dancerly gestures into machinic behaviors will make robots seem less like...
OK, Sure, Disease Is Not A Metaphor, But COVID-19’s Impact Sure Feels Fire-Like
Philip Kennicott: "Inflammation isn’t just an actual symptom of the disease. It seems to be part of its etiology, its moral and social origins...
As Protests Continue Across Russia, Pussy Riot Releases A New Song In Support
Lead singer Nadya Tolokonnikova, who has been imprisoned before for her music and activism: "Art is the most important weapon I have against a...
Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, And Nomadland Emerge As Frontrunners
Nomadland took top honors at the London Film Critics Circle on Sunday night. Zhao won for screenwriting, though; Steve McQueen took home Best Director...
Broadway’s Wigmaster Decides To Hang It All Up
Paul Huntley has been doing wigs for so long that he can remember helping construct Elizabeth Taylor's braids for Cleopatra. He's been on Broadway...
Theatres Are Closed, Staff Are Furloughed, Colleagues Have Died, So How To Move Forward...
With joy. No, truly: "We must now work urgently, with purpose, centered in joy. ... This is not joyful expression solely for the purpose...
Who, Or What Collective, Should Create 45’s Official Portrait?
One suggestion: 43, aka painter George W. Bush. - Hyperallergic
There’s A ‘Museum Of Comfort’ In Spain
Well, on Instagram, actually. Yes, another InstaMuseum. Did Spanish people invent something to make life easier, better, more comfortable? Into the "museum" it goes....
Upending A ‘Typical Immigrant Story’ With Steven Yeun
Yeun, who got the job as Glenn on The Walking Dead five months after he moved to Los Angeles, is starring in Minari right...
Waterstones Doesn’t Want To Pay Its Furloughed Workers Minimum Wage
Some furloughed workers says they can't make rent, can't buy food, can't make it in general, at 80 percent of their pay - and...
The Future (And Some Of The Present) Of Comics Is Black
Yes, Black Panther is returning to comics, but also, so very much more than Black Panther. Here's a guide for newbies. - The New...
The Coronavirus Is Devastating Film And TV Careers
Yes, it's devastating all kinds of careers in the arts. One TV director: "The big question is ‘will I ever work again?’ And if...
Let Us All Now Praise Christopher Plummer
Look ... "He wasn’t just a pro. If there were a fabulous comic-book A-team of character actors — an Expendables, a Wild Bunch, an...
Edinburgh’s Royal High School, With Its Greek Revival Architecture, Was Saved From Development
Or from bad development, anyway. Now it's up for bids not for sale but for "sustainable longterm uses." The fight against a luxury hotel...
The Last Agency Holdout Agrees To A Deal With Writers Guild In Hollywood
Nearly two years after screenwriters fired their agents in a fight against agency actions that were costing TV writers quite a bit of money,...