ArtsJournal2
Philly Gets A Golden Statue Of Trump Making A Grab ‘Em By The Genitalia...
Is this effigy, with a plaque that reads, “In honor of a lifetime of sexual assault,” by the same artist who commemorated the dump...
What Should You Do If You Make Money From A Film Whose Topic You...
Looks like Anna Kendrick, director and star of the Netflix film Woman of the Hour, which is about a serial abuser and killer, thinks...
Good Night, Sweet Bay Area Theatres
“After the loss of so many theatres here, the closure of Cutting Ball and Cal Shakes, both leaders in their respective genres, feels like...
British Police Send Russell Brand’s File To Prosecutors
More than a year after allegations of abuse emerged, the Metropolitan Police are sending their evidence out. "The allegations against Brand come from a seven-year...
Here’s How To Get Cheaper Broadway Tickets, Even At The Holidays
That’s right, tourists (and New Yorkers), there are some ways to find those deals - though not, perhaps, if you want to see Robert...
Empty New York Office Buildings Have Been Essential For This Dance Company
In the midst of the pandemic, one real estate management firm “said they needed tenants who would show up to work.” So the Paul Taylor...
The Biggest Problem With Le Corbusier
"Le Corbusier’s dream was of vast blocks of buildings as 'machines for living.' His bare modernism took hold of architecture schools and town-planning departments”...
Susanna Clarke Changed The Literary World, And Then She Disappeared
Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell blurred the lines - long-listed for the Booker, won a Hugo - but the author herself, not too...
Facebook, But For The Dead
And possibly even creepier, on a privacy scale, than FB: “It is jarring when you just had a loved one pass away and you...
Decoding Post-Screening Hype Tweets
For instance: "'I’m buzzing': The movie is better than Madame Web.” - Vulture
Navigating The Internet In 2024
Can a theory of “dark forests” (and how we can’t reside in them forever) help all of us? - Hyperallergic
California’s Governor Says He Wants To Save Hollywood
Gavin Newsom "declared his intent to expand the annual tax credit to $750 million, up from its current total of $330 million, which would...
Can Music Play A Role In Physical Healing?
Perhaps not healing so much as facing pain, illness, and death. “‘Ten minutes of Schubert is the equivalent of five milligrams of oxy,' the...
Let’s Face It, Charlotte’s Web Is Emotionally Abusive
“Of course the death of Charlotte was horribly sad, but far worse in my opinion was the moment when, during Wilbur the Pig’s hour...
Jeri Taylor, The Woman Behind Star Trek’s Captain Janeway And Some Of Picard As...
Brannon Braga, the writer who took over Voyager showrunning duties from her, said, “Her memory will live on in many ways, but perhaps most...
What Play Could Possibly Lure Robert Downey Jr To Broadway?
A play about the future of writing - and large language models, aka AI. - The New York Times
Instagram Makes Popular Videos Look Way Better
And it throttles the heck out of videos with lower viewer counts. That seems fine. - The Verge
Goodbye To Society, And Hello To Democracy
That’s the idea at the (former) New York Historical Society, now just New York Historical. The museum’s chief content officer knows the name isn’t...
Why We Don’t Read Books The Way We Used To
“Reading books is a battle in a way that, once upon a time, it wasn’t. That is to say: it’s never a battle while I’m inside...
One Young British Author Is Fed Up With The Industry’s Flagrant Sexism
Eliza Clark, one of the Granta best fiction writers under 40, has a new book out. - The Guardian (UK)
Classic Horror Makes A Creepy Return
In gaming, classic survival horror seemed to be over, a blast from the past—but its graveyard is only full of freshly created zombies. And...
The Actress And Singer Who Blackmailed All Of Spain
The blackmail plot cost millions. “The state’s objective was to prevent the leak of photos, videos and audios that revealed King Juan Carlos I’s...
Idris Elba Says He Wants To Boost The Film Industry In Africa By Moving...
The actor said he’ll found a film studio in Tanzania, and also, "I’m going to live in Accra, I’m going to live in ...
Joan Didion Told Us Over And Over Who She Was
But somehow, she remains a mystery - and there’s a biography race on to define her. - The New York Times
Want To Hear A New Chopin Piece?
Newly unearthed, that is, though “the finding may prompt debate in the classical music field, where reports of unearthed masterpieces are sometimes greeted skeptically,...