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Please Label All Portraits, Royal Portrait-Makers
Otherwise you end up with a miniature mislabeled for nearly half a millennium. - The Observer (UK)
Two Climate Activists Are Charged After A Protest At Stonehenge
The climate activists sprayed orange powder paint on some of Stonehenge’s monuments in June. The English Heritage chief claimed that despite there being no...
Why More Women Than Men Enjoy True Crime
True crime, also known as “murder shows” and “murder podcasts,” really appeal to more women than men. Why? “Most of the true crime I...
What It’s Like To Be A Queer Artist Under Turkey’s Increasingly Repressive Regime
It’s not that easy. “A government ban on a trans rights exhibition at Depo in Beyoğlu this summer, coming in the wake of anti-LGBTQ+ protests at a separate...
Let’s Take A Deeper Look At Those So-Called Brain Training Games
Turns out playing a game makes you smarter - but only at playing that game. - The Conversation (Fast Company)
Russian Dancer Vladimir Shklyarov Has Died At 39
Shklyarov, a principal with the Mariinsky Theatre, fell from the fifth floor of a St. Petersburg building, “while on painkillers.” Federal authorities in Russia...
World Of Warcraft Has Changed The Ways Humans Relate To Each Other
Yes, even if we don’t play, or know anything about it. The massive game has been a campaign tool, an academic study subject, one...
The Importance Of A Great Editor
How Jeanette Winterson sold Oranges Are not the Only Fruit: Randomly, because she met at editor at a job interview. "Philippa said: ‘If you...
The Musical Tammy Faye Feels Like A True Redemption
Tammy Faye "is getting perhaps the gayest tribute a person can have: a Broadway musical,” one composed by Elton John. - The New York...
Trying To Rebuild The Oregon Shakespeare Festival After Some Extremely Rough Years
What worked in the past, that is, pre-pandemic, is coming around again - more marketing, more membership drives, more discounts, more repertory theatre. Can...
One Of Frank Sinatra’s Mansions Comes With A Whole Lot Of History
"Sinatra celebrated his return to bachelorhood by turning Farralone into the official headquarters of the Rat Pack’s poker games. During these alcohol-fueled gatherings, huge...
Yes, We Can Save Opera In The United States
And everywhere - by making it feel new again. Peter Gelb: “The solution to sustaining opera is through artistic reinvention, both with new operas...
How To Select Ten Books To Represent A Quarter Of A Century
“Once we got back about ten years, I had a much better sense of what had lasted, what was really lastingly good and not...
A Perennial Sidekick Gets Her Own Movie, Sort Of
Judy Greer “was just another victim of Hollywood’s tendency to stick accomplished actresses in so-called personal roles, playing the wives and mothers of the...
How You Leave The Christian Music Industry Without Losing Your Career
“Gungor still sees a desire for ritual and for communal gathering. He recognizes the power of the collective — and aims to write non-dogmatic...
If You Look At Them Right, Every Oscar Film Is An Anti-Trump Experience
“If I can’t get my mind off current events even in a movie where acclaimed character actor Simon McBurney bites the head off a...
Streamers And Men’s Basketball Work Something Out After Legal Wrangling
A new settlement gives Warner Bros Discovery “a chance to keep professional basketball in its overall lineup, even as it cedes U.S. rights to traditional TV...
In Colorado, There’s No History Without Art
That is to say, “rather than treating art as mere decoration, History Colorado incorporates it as an essential storytelling tool, particularly when addressing challenging...
The San Francisco Symphony Chorus Renews Its Protests Of Wage Cuts
“The 32 paid choristers, represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists, have not received a pay raise in years and their wages have...
Why Hollywood Suddenly Decided To Flip The May-December Romance Script
“Not so long ago, the entertainment industry tucked away women of a certain age on Sexless Mom Island while their male peers wooed girls...
Richard Flanagan Says He May Never Write Again
But that his most recent book is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes pleases him. “I thought much about my parents who, in...
Why Are Directors So Into Revamping Classics For A ‘New’ Broadway?
“Art leaves gaps that invite collaborative dreaming. That is one way Shakespeare manages to keep holding the mirror up to nature.” - Los Angeles...
Marvel Provides A Sort Of ‘Insurance’ For Actors Who Want To Make Indie Movies
At least that’s what Elizabeth Olsen, the woman who plays Wanda Maximoff, says. - Vulture
Chalk Another One Up For Bluesky
The social media site that’s been gaining new members by the million this week says that unlike Twitter (“X”), which has promised the opposite,...
Stop Hating Technology
The thing is, "We invent technology. Technology doesn’t invent us.” (Take that, “AI art.”) - Wired