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Instead Of Ridding Buildings Of Graffiti, Landlords Are Now Cashing In
Because of course they are. For instance: "Spray painters still add political messages to the mosaic of artwork in east London. But they are...
Lewis Carroll Apparently Had Terrible Insomnia
Of course, the author of Alice in Wonderland embraced the joys of sleeplessness. “For Carroll, waking and dreaming were not quite the opposites they...
We’re In A Golden Age Of Campy TV Shows
“We are positively drowning in shows about the glitzy world of the well-to-do that I can only—facetiously, of course—describe as being catnip for a...
The Woman Who Wants To Push Her Christian Fiction On Us All
As the popular author’s books get turned into a TV series and a movie, she says, "It does feel like an answer to a...
Alex Garland Is, Actually, Worried About Civil War In The UK Or US
The director of the new movie Civil War says that "his varied, inchoate anxieties took the shape of one underlying concern: 'It’s polarisation. You...
As Oppenheimer Opens In Japan, Here’s What Moviegoers Think
A former Hiroshima mayor: "From Hiroshima's standpoint, the horror of nuclear weapons was not sufficiently depicted. … The film was made in a way...
Georgia Decides Not To Cap Its Film Tax Credit
After a strong start, the Georgia Legislature “rejected a bill that would have limited how much the state can spend on tax incentives for...
A Theatre In Manchester Has Canceled A Palestinian Arts Event
"The venue said the cancellation followed "recent publicity" after a letter from the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester (JRCGM)." - BBC
Alice Rohrwacher Is A Director Who Didn’t Seek The Spotlight
Rohrwacher, who made the Oscar-nominated short Le Pupille, says, "Maybe my films are not perfect — maybe a machine could do that, but that’s...
People Are Always, Always Better Than Algorithms At Book Recommendations
"What is unquantifiable is horrifying to the corporate overlords, of course, but it’s the magic that connects readers with particular books." - LitHub
How The Andy Warhol Museum Lost Its Way
Or maybe never found it. "The problem with Warhol ... is that his art doesn’t lend itself to extended aesthetic contemplation. Once you’ve seen Brillo...
Movie Producer, Hollywood Activist, And Studio Executive Paula Weinstein Has Died At 78
She oversaw the production of 9 to 5, helped produce Grace and Frankie, and got the HBO movie Recount made in 2008 - and...
Streamers’ Cancellation Policies And Apparent Greed Are Leading People To Threaten Revolt
Old-school revolt, though: “When you consider the original stories we’ll never see because studio execs don’t believe they’re profitable, that’s frustrating as a viewer...
Martin Scorsese, Perhaps Unsurprisingly, Has Lived A Semi-Secret Life As A VHS Archivist
Truly, this is monumental. “Spanning the 1980s through the 2000s, the Martin Scorsese VHS Tape Collection contains more than 4,400 distinct titles, including features, documentaries, shorts,...
Spotify, Perhaps Inevitably, Has Added Video Classes
The video part seems inevitable, anyway. The classes part? It’s for UK users only, and are “video-based lessons from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and...
Remember All Of Those Books Tossed In The Trash At A Staten Island Elementary...
You know, the ones about or by Black people, LGBTQIA people, and so on? Where a note on a book about Native Americans read,...
Isabelle Huppert Is Ready For Her Marvel Villain Stage
But now, the French actor is playing Mary, Queen of Scots. "Alone on stage for 90 minutes, she performs something between a rite and...
Bach Is Everywhere At Easter
Yes, his various Passions are common right now - but he’s everywhere, all of the time. And “indirectly, we are also indebted to Bach...
The Woman Behind The Movie
Sure, there’s a new Regina King-starring biopic on Netflix, but the real Shirley Chisholm who ran for president "knew the nomination was a longshot,...
When Can Hollywood Get Back To Work?
The post-strike, post-peak-TV slowdown threatens Calfornia, "where TV, film and commercial shoots are a sizable driver of employment supporting not just bigwig directors, producers...
After The Massive Concert Hall Attack In Russia, Some Suspects Plead Guilty
Meanwhile, “events at cultural institutions were canceled, flags were lowered to half-staff and television entertainment and advertising were suspended,” and relatives waited for word...
Large Language Models Actually Haven’t Improved That Much
It’s all in the measurement, and the tricks therein. - Wired
Activists Unfurl A Massive Quilt For Gaza On The Steps Of The Met
"As the quilt was spread out across the museum’s main entrance, activists encircled the display, carrying signs that read ‘We See Genocide,’ ‘Let Gaza...
What’s Going On In Sundance’s Sudden Top-Level Shake-Up?
The reason for the change is unclear. "During her tenure, Vicente brought Robert Redford’s 45-year-old festival in Park City, Utah, back in person...
Let’s Talk About The So-Called ‘Social Cost’ Of Those Green Text Bubbles
Sure, Apple is kind of cult-like. But isn’t that a weird problem on which to hang a major antitrust lawsuit? - Wired