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Berlin Film Fest Awards Its First Gender-Neutral Acting Award
Women, men, and nonbinary people all compete for the same award starting this year at the Berlin Film Festival - and this year's award...
Naomi Rosenblum, Historian Of Photography Who Forced Others To See It As Art, 96
When she started her major scholarship, "histories of photography traditionally focused on England, France and the United States. But Dr. Rosenblum’s ... A World...
Sydney’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Is The Most Visited In The World
And Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, its director of 22 years, is leaving. "When Macgregor took over in 1999, the MCA was just eight years old...
Egon Schiele Gave A Watercolor To His Dentist As Payment, And Then It Was...
Now the painting, which was in Cologne's Museum Ludwig, is returning to the dentist's heirs. - Hyperallergic
What It’s Like Singing ‘Strange Fruit’ In 2021
Andra Day, who plays Billie Holiday in the new movie The United States Vs. Billie Holiday, explains how she felt when she heard it...
The Toll This Year Took On The People Responsible For Explaining The Toll This...
It's not great. "COVID has led to a sort of existential crisis for me working in journalism. When some of your readers claim that...
Wait, Disney Wants Us To Pay *How Much* For The New Princess Movie?
The economics of it are a bit weird. Mulan was $29.99 for a while, even with a Disney Plus subscription. Then Soul was free,...
A Lot Of Black People Already Knew About Dr. Seuss
"I assumed most people knew that Seuss, despite the support he expressed for civil rights, was capable of depicting human beings of other races in demeaning...
So, Let’s Talk About The Six Hundred Thousand Dollar Meme Art
How to explain this "NFT" thing we're all hearing about in the news? OK, so ... if you buy a unique ID number associated...
Chloe Zhao Makes History With Her Golden Globe, And China Reacts With Anger At...
Zhao, the second woman ever to win a Golden Globe for directing and first Asian woman to win the prize, was at first feted...
The ‘Versailles Of Wales’ Is Falling Into Ruin
Can anyone force the Kimmel House's offshore corporation owners to save it? - The Observer (UK)
Ireland, Britain Reach Agreement In Century-Long Dispute Over Art Collection
The background to the 10-year (at least) truce: "In 1915 the Irish art collector Sir Hugh Lane was among nearly 1,200 people who died...
Amazon Films Are Getting More Respect
The game-changers were the pandemic, and also awards-nominated movies One Night in Miami and Sound of Metal, not to mention Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Those...
The ‘Guernica’ Replica Tapestry Hanging In The UN Has Been Repossessed By Its Rockefeller...
A spokesman for the UN Secretary General said, "I feel sad and a sense of loss looking at that empty wall. ... The tapestry...
What The Writers Guild Learned From Its Fight With The Agencies
For one thing, it's OK to fight. Writers are also seeing back pay come in - and letting the union win it for them...
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...