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Never, Ever Bet Against A Film About The Holocaust At The Oscars
Yes, Oppenheimer is a WWII movie, usually a safe bet - except when a WWII movie is up against a WWII Holocaust movie. Anonymous...
The Return Of Physical Media
When streaming fatigue strikes, guess what? DVDs and Blu-Rays are right there. - The Verge
The 150 Child Actors Of Abbott Elementary
“Letting children act like themselves ... makes the show feel textured, grounded. Their impromptu reactions — yawning, stretching, making faces — nudge scenes toward...
Workers Are Protesting A ‘Toxic’ Work Environment At The Minneapolis Institute Of Art, And...
What’s up at Mia? “Turmoil ... over exhibitions, equity and the institution’s future is boiling over into public view following the recent firing of...
As Frank Gehry Turns 95, Los Angeles Should Give Him The Disney Hall He...
Improving DTLA desperately needs advocates - and a focus, which the area could provide. “The sorry fact is that the hall has never been...
The Oldest Rock Art In Patagonia Dates Back At Least 8,000 Years
The hundreds of paintings are dated to far earlier than other art in the area, making "these cave drawings the earliest known evidence of...
She Stole Many A Scene In The Wire, And Now She Wants To Show...
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson got her acting start on The Wire after she introduced herself to actor Michael K. Williams at a nightclub, a chance...
Israeli Forces Have Destroyed Another Library In Gaza
Al-Kalima joins a long list of destroyed libraries. In addition, “the Central Archives of Gaza (which contained 150 years of records pertaining to Gaza’s history) and...
As The Hotly Anticipated Live-Action ‘Avatar’ Sputters On Netflix, Is This Genre Over?
If an animated movie or series is good enough, or in the case of Avatar: The Last Airbender far beyond simply “good,” why mess...
Being The First Is A Lot To Carry
Lily Gladstone, who may win Best Actress at the Oscars, isn’t new to Hollywood, but this is a different level. “After more than two...
Art Shows The Reality Of War In A Way The News Can’t Quite Reach
Thinking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, for instance, “to come close to the feeling and texture of war as it is lived behind the...
Star Trek Actor Kenneth Mitchell Has Died At 49
Mitchell, who was diagnosed with ALS five and a half years ago, “played three roles in three seasons on Star Trek: Discovery. The last...
How Robert Garland Is Navigating His First Season In Charge At Dance Theater Of...
“Garland is big on history. His passion for linking ballet to the events of the real world, past and present, is an important part...
At The Indie Spirit Awards, The Winners Are Past Lives, The Holdovers, And American...
They will likely not be big reflections of what will win at the Oscars - but the bittersweet Past Lives was rewarded with Best...
Pro-Palestinian Supporters Drown Out Presenters, Winners At Indie Spirit Awards
"A few attendees stepped outside to acknowledge the incident and see what was going on, but the awards show continued. Host Aidy Bryant said...
From Wagner To Verdi, It’s An Unexpected Step For This Soprano
Before she took on roles in Italian operas at the Met, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen "soft-launched the Italian side of her voice” in recitals...
This Law May Deem Many Journalists, And Regular People Online, To Be Hackers
“Some laws operate like hidden trap doors — everyone walks across the trap at one point or another, but only a handful of us actually...
Kumar Shahani, Leader Of India’s Arthouse Parallel Cinema Movement, Has Died At 83
Shahani "was known for his formalist style of filmmaking and his landmark films include Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990).” He also...
Nearly Every Best Picture Nominee Could End Up With Some Sort Of Trophy
Why not be more, shall we say, even-handed with the winnings? There’s a path forward for nearly every Best Pic nominee to win something....
When Artists Can’t Go Home Again, All That’s Left Is The Art Itself
"To live as an artist in exile is among the most glorious triumphs of human will: a spiritual victory.” But the cost is tremendously...
College Students Discover That Even On Vending Machines, Facial Recognition Cameras Track Our Every...
“The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, ‘Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe,’ displayed after the...
Investigators Say The Art Institute Of Chicago Is Clinging To A Nazi-Looted Schiele Drawing
“The institute’s decision to continue to fight the efforts by Manhattan prosecutors to retrieve its Schiele work makes it a lone holdout among the...
As The BT Tower Becomes A Hotel, What Will Change About London’s Futuristic Landmark?
“With its slender vertical fuselage and long-stalled revolving restaurant, it speaks of the hopeful futurism of the 1960s, of the white heat of technology,...
As ‘The Outsiders’ Makes Its Way To Broadway, The Young Cast Visits Its Oklahoma...
The cast and crew took a “granular, history-flecked tour of the place where, about 60 years earlier, S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age story was written and...
Why Aren’t We Talking About Robert De Niro’s Best Performance?
This actor we all know so well has done something that, for him, is entirely new - at 80 years old. “Rather than the...