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Joye Hummel, The First Woman To Write ‘Wonder Woman,’ 97
Hummel was 19 when she began working as an assistant for William Moulton Marston, the psychologist who had created the character and the comic...
Game Of Thrones Is Ten Years Old, And It Feels Utterly Irrelevant
Not just irrelevant, but worse. HBO is celebrating, of course, but "whatever about HBO, how do the rest of us feel about Game of...
Vartan Gregorian, Savior Of The New York Public Library, Has Died At 87
Gregorian, an immigrant from Armenia who became a scholar and leader of Brown University and the Carnegie Corporation, "was best known for resurrecting the...
What Artists Are Missing Most About Live Arts Experiences
One artist: "I miss the openings ! The free wine! And friends who you donât get to see often, making rare appearances. Seeing art...
A French Novelist Wins The LA Times’ Book Prize For Fiction
But the prizes are numerous, and many American writers won prizes in many other categories and genres, including poetry, history, current interest (where Isabel...
When John Adams’ Most Playful Piece Was Booed
Adams came up with the vision for Grand Pianola Music when he was tripping - literally - and audiences weren't sure what to do...
In New Jersey, A Closed Theatre Results In An Arts Incubator And Virtual Shows
There's no audience; there's no one in the building, but Newark Symphony Hall is busy. There's a new "career accelerator and business incubator" in...
Oscars Producers Say It’s A Good Thing The Pandemic Has Upended The Evening
Well: "Changing the Academy Awards, a 93-year-old American institution, has typically proven an exercise in futility. Tweaks have been tried along the way, yet...
Helen McCrory, Star Of Peaky Blinders And Harry Potter, Has Died At 52
McCrory's husband, actor Damian Lewis, announced the news of her death on Twitter. "Iâm heartbroken to announce that after an heroic battle with cancer,...
The Brooklyn Art Library Wants Your Filled Sketchbook
But first, it needs to sell you a blank book. "The Sketchbook Project works like this: people interested in submitting a sketchbook order a...
There’s So Much Black Pain Onscreen, Including, Some Say, Way Too Much Painful Fiction
Right now, though not only right now, there's an issue with Black horror. "Black horror faces a distinct paradox: The genre has long been...
The Teams That Save Spain And Portugal’s Shop Signs, From Neon To Giant Calligraphy...
Across the Iberian peninsula, more than 50 groups are working to save what they can of the cityscapes that are under what they feel...
The Accent That Most Actors Won’t Even Half-Try
Yes, it's Philly. Despite how much those of us outside the area might think we know it, "the characters in Rocky donât talk like theyâre...
What Does Dudamel’s Paris Opera Appointment Mean For Los Angeles?
For star conductors, of course, it's not unusual to have appointments both with an orchestra and an opera company. And Dudamel's contract with the...
A Scammer Is Targeting British Literary Prizes Via Paypal
The emails appear to come from the winning authors, and to connect to Paypal accounts that could conceivably be associated with them. "Over the...
After Reports Of Abuse, Scott Rudin Claims He’ll ‘Step Back’ From Broadway
Rudin emailed the Washington Post on Saturday to issue an apology for years of causing pain to colleagues (and employees). He also wrote that...
Artist Rachel Whiteread Has Changed Her Art, And Her Life
Whiteread won the Turner Prize when she was 30, the first woman, and youngest artist, ever to win - and she id it for...
After More Than A Year Apart, Singers Miss Collaborating
Afro-Brazilian musician Luedji Luna: "Itâs been a sad year for artists and for the three of us: What we love doing most is performing...
Poets Lost A Lot Of Readings, Series, And Opportunities During The Pandemic, So What...
"For readers still thawing from a year in isolation, two questions in poem are especially prescient: 'How to start again? How to wake...
The Boston Symphony’s Lucia Lin Says Classical Music Is Not Eurocentric
And she has the duet series to prove it. Lin, who commissioned duets before adding interviews to her presentation of new work: "In the...
The British TV-Watching Public Complained A Lot About An Excess In Coverage Of Prince...
As a matter of fact, there were so many complaints about the bump in programming for special coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's death...
The MTV Show ‘The Real World’ Jump-Started Reality TV As We Know It, But...
In 1992, television wasn't all about the latest competition or race or humiliation reported to the camera. So when The Real World started, it...
The New Ascendance Of The Nature Memoir
We're all looking for something - solitude, connection to nature, an escape from our houses and apartments - and so, publishing is providing us...
We Know Theo, But What About Vincent Van Gogh’s Sisters?
He (and Theo) had three. From reading a book that includes some newly translated letters, we can learn that "Lies was frustrated that...
Benita Raphan, Maker Of Lyrical Short Films That Hover Between Documentary And Experiment, Has...
Raphan's "genius" films - about people with unusual minds and talents - weren't quite documentary; they were that, but more. "Up From Astonishment (2020), her...