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The Latest Book Cover Trend Is A Bit Distressing
Or at least, distressed: Young women, well-dressed, sad ... and entirely faceless. - The Guardian (UK)
The Treasury Department Says The Art Market Is Vulnerable To Money Laundering, But Doesn’t...
Doesn't need regulation ... for now, anyway. "It’s often the case that there are larger underlying issues at play, like the abuse of shell...
The Damage, And The Lie, Of The Myth Of Solitary Genius
The erasure of collaborators - and the sometimes terrible behavior to others - is just the tip of the iceberg. See: A new novel...
Why Is Britain Having Such A Hard Time Repatriating The Parthenon Marbles?
"The situation circles, perhaps conveniently. It’s not up to the government, it’s up to the trustees. And yet it’s not up to the trustees,...
NFTs Just Got Worse
Didn't seem possible, but hey, celebrities are magic. - The Atlantic
The Winter Show Is Back On, For Now, In The Spring
The art fair was online only in 2021, and then it was going to be in-person in the, er, winter, and now it's planned...
Critics Of The Tennessee School District’s ‘Maus’ Vote Are Missing Something
"The elimination of Maus from a Tennessee county language arts curriculum does not live up to its more hysterical billing. It is not a ban, and...
Dune Leads Nominations At The BAFTAs
What? Yes, the science fiction epic earned 11 nominations - including for Best Picture. - BBC
North Korea Arrests Dance Instructor And Students For ‘Capitalist’ Dance Moves
Teenager dance students and their teacher will likely be sentenced to hard labor, and their parents may be expelled from the ruling party after...
Native Tribes Push To Gain Some Hollywood Influence With Tax Credits And Production Companies
The Cherokee Nation, for instance, is offering cash rebates. "The ability to take control of that storytelling directly is important, so we want opportunities...
Todd Gitlin Defined The Way Many People Saw The Sixties
Later, Gitlin critiqued identity politics, annoying some former colleagues in Students for a Democratic Society and other causes. In 2021, he pulled together "a...
Lou Stovall Took Screenprinting From Grocery Stores To Gallery Walls
"In those days, silkscreen was mostly used for commercial posters. Bold, flat, attention-getting signs — STOP, or SALE. Curator Danielle O'Steen says 'he felt...
The Perfect Wordle Guessing Strategy Teaches Us Quite A Lot About English
"In Wordle, your own language skills, memory, and the Wordle dictionary mean that no human (with the possible exception of an eccentric memory champ) could...
Lion Dancers In Houston Have 90 Performances During The Days Around Lunar New Year
Here's how they practice, and how they deal with being away from their families during one of the biggest holidays of the year. -...
The Horrors Of This Year’s Sundance Were All Virtual
"Horror cinema has long been in the business of mining terror from the everyday, of linking surface scares to primal subtexts ... there’s...
The Man Who Changed The Way We See Spanish Art
Under Franco, the study of Spanish art languished - but Jonathan Brown, art historian, curator, professor, and mentor, brought luminous painters like Velázquez to...
Don’t Panic, But Print Sales Are Going To Fall In 2022
To be fair, 2020 and 2021 were unexpectedly, thanks to the pandemic, very strong years for print. - Publishers Weekly
A Novelist Ruminates On Whether Writing Can, And Will, Change The World
Will we be all right? People ask science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson versions of this question all of the time. Robinson thinks we...
Will The Hastily Announced Spotify Policy Solve Anything?
Baby steps perhaps aren't enough to entice Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and subscribers back: "Spotify announced on Sunday that content advisories will be added to...
Is Gaming The Next Arena For The Big Streamers?
Go big or go home? "The rise of streaming video game services ... could sweep Hollywood players into the sector in a bigger way...
Ben Whishaw On Anxiety, Coming Out, Being Paddington, And More
The actor says, "I think it’s really interesting what happens to you if you grow up thinking there’s something wrong with you because you’re...
New Technology Is Ramping Up, And Changing, Animation
Director Jonas Rasmussed "had been searching for years for a way to tell the story of an Afghan man’s journey as a refugee that...
In The Zombie World Of Venezuelan Museums
Questions abound: "Have these institutions acquired any works by Venezuelan artists produced after 2000? How many Venezuelan artists have fled the country? How many...
Omicron Dealt Another Massive Blow To Live Music
One singer's thoughts: "We share a goal of bringing hundreds or thousands of people together for a few hours in one room. Even if...
Gaza Bookshop Destroyed By Airstrikes Is Rebuilding With Books From Around The World
Less than a year after the Israeli airstrikes that destroyed his beloved two-story bookshop, owner Samir Mansour "is now preparing to reopen as both...
