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Dali Was A Surrealist With Absolute Discipline And Scientific, Renaissance Style Perspective
Dalí, art historians say, was "very deliberate" in his art - and sketches of unfinished works also show how he combined complex mathematical calculations...
Arturo Di Modica, Sculptor Of New York’s Charging Bull Sculpture, Has Died At 80
Di Modica was a "Sicilian-born sculptor best known for Charging Bull, 3.5 tons of bronze belligerence that he illegally deposited in Lower Manhattan one...
Monopoly Place Names Are Just As Redlined As Real Life Cities
To wit: Cyril and Ruth Harvey, "who played a key role in popularizing the game, lived on Pennsylvania Avenue (a pricey $320 green property...
Who Wrote A Mysterious Inscription On Munch’s The Scream?
Looks like the mystery's been solved - and the writer was (drumroll) ... the artist himself. "The text, 'Could only have been painted by...
If You’re A Special Effects Artist, You Might As Well Make Pandemic Isolation More...
Peter Quinn, VFX artist, has been making homemade special effects movies, and posting them online. "The whole quarantine and lockdown aspect, I find that...
Longing For The Challenges Of The American Booksellers Association
Sometimes, virtual isn't going to cut it - and certainly won't replace "the interstitial socializing, the sidewalk conversations on the way to the next...
Did The Post-Earthquake Rebuild Of Central Christchurch Fail?
Pretty much, yes. "Downtown Christchurch isn’t empty because of COVID. It’s empty because of twin catastrophes: Ten years ago an earthquake leveled much of...
The Artist Painting Baltimore’s Winter Salt Boxes
Juliet Ames couldn't resist decorating her first salt box, back in December. Then she got permission from the city. "In the past two months,...
Facebook’s Ban On Australian News Has Harmed Small Aussie Arts Orgs
Small arts organizations got caught up in the massive trawler net of Facebook's rush to react to a new Australian law meant to generate...
Women Are Getting Stronger, Deeper Roles In A New Generation Of Bollywood Movies
Some of the change is due to a worldwide audience. Netflix and other streaming services "have a certain sensibility that they want to see...
The British Family Providing Lockdown Relief With Musical Parodies
The Marsh family of Faversham are dealing with Britain's lockdowns by performing parodies. "This six-voice choir, with its sweet harmonies and the occasional wobbly...
A Reckoning With Racism In Canada’s Country Music Industry
There's no Indigenous Artist of the Year award in Saskatchewan this year, and when a committee was discussing why not, well: "Somebody made a...
Getting In The Archive Sub-Basements To Discover How Librarians In Paris Resisted The Nazis
A researcher comes up against French bureaucracy: "To learn more about the day-to-day life of Parisians during the war, I turned to the Bibliothèque Nationale...
The Remarkable, And Continuing, Artistic Career Of Lorraine O’Grady
Before she burst onto the art scene with performance art with an edge, O'Grady "had worked for the Labor and State Departments, including as...
Bust Of Black Member Of Lewis And Clark Expedition Appears In A Park In...
York was enslaved by William Clark and remained enslaved after the expedition returned. The memorial bust, which is on a pedestal where a statue...
Black Ballerinas In Utah Are Helping Change Ballet Culture
In the wake of George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country, Ballet West's Black dancers were asked by...
Director Lee Daniels Says His Movies Are Independent Because Hollywood Studios Don’t Fund Black...
You'd think the director of Precious, The Butler, and more could get funding. But ... "'Studios will give you about $10 to make a...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge Of ‘Fleabag’ Fame Is Now The President Of Edinburgh Fringe Society
It's an honorary, spokesperson role during a year when Fringe Fest may be online or may be in-person, or both, depending. Fleabag got its...
Art House Pulls 19th Century Romanian Jewish Community’s Burial Register From Auction
The register of Jewish burials in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca between 1836 and 1899, is one of very few documents left after more...
The Golden Globes’ Parent Organization Is A Mess, Including Accusations Of Corruption And Tax...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has some issues, with members describing monthly meetings as battle zones. The HFPA includes zero Black members. It's "an...
Shifts In How Kids Play Mean Playground Design Needs To Follow
A new emphasis has also changed how design firms feel about commissions. "For the new guard of playground design, the boundary between play equipment...
The Latest Front In A Music Copyright Battle: Superhero Cartoons
Members of De La Soul were, suddenly, characters on Teen Titans Go!, where in one episode, "the plot revolves around a fraught real-life issue:...
Peter G. Davis, Classical Music Critic For The New York Times And New York...
Davis "presided over the field during boon years in New York in the 1960s and ’70s, when performances were plentiful and tickets relatively cheap,...
Where Did All Of Hollywood’s Women Go?
In 1917, Warner Bros. had eight films directed by women. In 2017, it had ... one. What the heck? Well, for one thing: "Female-focused...
That Podcast Exposing One Media Empire’s Bigotry And Workplace Bullying Came Under Fire For...
This is a twisty, turny saga that does not in any way make the original media empire - Bon Appetit, of course - look...