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The Second Round Of Wolf Hall Almost Got Canceled Because Of British TV Budget...
“They eventually opted to axe costly exterior scenes in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light, meaning almost everything in the Tudor drama, screened...
The Secret World Of The Artists Who Spent Four Years Living In A Mall
“There are deep and profound things to say about where it fits in the history of art and situationism. But is also this stupid...
The Writer Of Buena Vista Social Club, Now On Broadway, Is Passionate About Protecting...
"I’ve felt a little bit like Indiana Jones running through a temple where tons of things are being thrown at you and you’re just...
AI Is Honestly Crap At Telling Stories
Writing about your life? “To farm it out to a machine that trawls the internet and cobbles together a fake version of you is...
France Cancels An Order For 800,000 Copies Of Beauty And The Beast For Schoolkids
And the illustrator is pretty sure he knows why: “The characters in the new books have ‘darker skin instead of blonde fairy-tale princesses.’” -...
YouTube Is Reviving The Career Of This Japanese Environmental Musician And Artist
Hiroshi Yoshimura died in 2003, but a series of streaming releases has brought his music to a huge new global audience. - The New...
Turns Out A Lot More Women Wrote Medieval Texts Than Some Scholars Believed
“Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway say their findings suggest that there are enclaves of women scribes that have not yet been...
The Tectonics Of The Art World Are Shifting, And Showing At Art Basel Hong...
India, in particular, has a growing art scene - and the art fair shows that. - The New York Times
In Vancouver, A Record Shop Owner Finds A Rare Copy Of The Beatles Audition...
“It was labelled ‘Beatles 60s demos’ and had been sitting around Neptoon Records, one of Vancouver's most well-known record shops, unplayed. ‘I thought it...
How Snow White Became The Year’s Most Cursed Movie
“How did this bankable story become Disney’s poisoned apple? Snow White has seemed cursed from the start, in part by Disney business logic.” -...
In UK Prisons, A Theatre Program Helps Save Lives
That’s what one formerly incarcerated woman says. “This company came into jail and turned, not just my life around, but hundreds of other people’s....
Can Art Survive The Climate Crisis?
L.A. artists have talked about their losses, but “we still have no clear picture of how many artworks by which artists, owned by which...
A New Report On The State Of Theatre Isn’t Exactly Reassuring
“None of the indicators show full recovery from pre-pandemic levels. And though the pre-Covid years may look booming in hindsight, many of the issues...
The Artists Who Lost Everything In Altadena Wonder What Comes Next
On one street, banding together, “The neighbors plan to present a design package to a contractor, so they can pool resources and access to...
Did This Irish Band Bring A Statue’s Decapitated Head On Stage Last Weekend?
"The solid bronze severed head of Melbourne’s decapitated King George V statue was reported to have briefly reappeared in public, gracing the stage during a performance...
Artists Who Left Everything Behind In Artsakh Strive To Create in Exile
"'Creating is my way of life; perhaps it’s a form of self-defense. Sculpting is healing, a form of struggle, and therapy all at once,’...
So, How’s The Frick Turning Out?
According to the NYT, all is well: “The expansion is about as sensitive and deft as one could hope for. At moments, as in...
Miami Beach’s O Cinema Responds To Mayor’s Threats
“Throughout the years, we've certainly had vocal audience members or community members who've questioned some programming choices. … But what we have never encountered...
Meet The Guy Who Chooses The Books In White Lotus
“It’s one of the more fun things for me on most jobs, because it gets right into either who people are or who they...
What Actor Gemma Chan Has Been Doing With Her Fame Since Crazy Rich Asians
Movies, music, cats, and … football. “I’ve supported Arsenal for nearly all of my life, since I was 4. I try to go several...
The Creative Fields Being Decimated, Fast, By Generative AI
Translators, photographers, illustrators: all are suffering, thoroughly. But some still say they use ChatGPT to help with work - and to help with personal...
Tango Dancers Take To The Streets Of Rome Outside The Pope’s Hospital
“The performance was both a gesture of support and a spiritual offering. One dancer described the event as a way to send energy and...
Did Harvey Weinstein Ruin The Oscars For Blockbusters?
Joe Russo, director of Avengers: Endgame and some other things you might have heard of or seen in the company of many other people,...
What Singing In A Choir Can Do For Grief
"I was conscious ... that I was part of a collectively realised beauty. And that it was as that beauty fell in plaintive harmony...
The Van Gogh Museum Would Like Off This Attribution Ride, Please
“The cost of fighting lawsuits and responding to an influx of inquiries during the coronavirus pandemic — when hundreds of people believed they had...
