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The Heartbreak At The Center Of Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron
“Many scenes and images in The Boy and the Heron echo those from his earlier films, only this time they’re rendered in service of a story...
In The UK, Galleries And Museums Fight For Younger Audiences
"We have to make our galleries welcoming and accessible, and to make it clear they are not just about the past and full of...
Why Is Second City Moving To First City?
In Brooklyn, “on the site of an old record shop and club, the company has built a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage,...
Steve Paxton Of The Judson Dance Theatre Has Died At 85
Paxton "helped radically upend ideas about dance as a member of the 1960s collective Judson Dance Theater in New York City, and ... developed...
Chicago, And Its Artists, Are Obsessed With The So-Called Rat Hole
Honestly, the memes are everywhere on social media - and now there’s rat hole art for sale. Why enshrine a rat (or more likely...
Hollywood’s Musicians Reach A Tentative Deal With The Studios
The musicians’ union calls it “a major win” and “a watershed moment.” Next up: The “below the line” workers - that is to say,...
The Berlin Film Festival Stays Different
The Golden Bear goes to … a one-hour documentary about the return of some artwork? Yes. And “by awarding the top prize to Dahomey,...
Do Historically Black Colleges And Universities Provide An Edge For Their Theatre Alumni?
Says one HBCU alum, Broadway director and theatre founder Kenny Leon, “I was trained to believe in myself and know that anything is possible....
Can We Still Write Good Climate Fiction If We’re In Despair?
American fiction has some problems, including an inability to focus on something so big, it encompasses everything. - LitHub
Let’s Talk About Chilean Artist Cecilia Vicuna
"Her magically vibrant and simultaneously mournful and vulnerable painting expresses the dualism at the heart of her vision — and perhaps at the heart...
We Can Now Be Pretty Sure What, And Who, Is Going To Win Each...
Sorry, Paul Giamatti! Cillian Murphy and Oppenheimer are her. Lily Gladstone seems to have the edge over Emma Stone in the Best Actress category...
The Sound Duo Behind The Ely Cathedral Scene In Maestro Had Quite A Job
"Normally they would pre-record the music and run playback while musicians and conductor Leonard Bernstein (as played by Bradley Cooper), mime along. But that’s...
Lunchtime Theatre, With A Pint? How Very British
Actually - how very Scottish. A Play, A Pie, and A Pint premiered in Glasgow in 2004 and hasn’t stopped (aside from the early...
Two Gaming Champions Say The Gaming Company Is A Monopoly
Before 2019, other companies held Call of Duty tournaments. Then things changed. "The lawsuit claims that at one point, Activision Blizzard required teams to...
The Paintings British Artists Love At Their National Gallery
The beloved paintings come from many places, but not any of the countries that make up the United Kingdom. - The Observer (UK)
The English National Opera Laid Off Singers And Musicians While They Were In Mid-Performance
“Many of the performers only saw details of their redundancy during the interval, when they opened the notification backstage. Despite this, they went back...
It Took Years, Nearly 50 Million Dollars, And Sweat Equity To Turn A 40-Year...
When a couple bought the Bridgeport, Illinois space for $1, they weren’t, perhaps, thinking it would take quite this much. "When asked if the...
Miyazaki Won In London, But At The Annies, It’s All Spidey
The Annies hand out prizes in animation for series and film - and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse cleaned up, beating The Boy and the...
In The West Bank, Palestinian Artists Mount A Show With A Backdrop Of Despair
The exhibition, "showing at the Palestinian Museum in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a collection of protest that is as much about the art...
Israeli Forces Raid, Destroy Publishing Houses In The West Bank
"IDF raids on Palestinian publishing houses are nothing new. Seven Palestinian publishing houses were raided or destroyed over a six-month period in 2016-2017, and eleven more were...
Duke’s Herbarium Is One Of The Best In The World, And A Donor Offered...
So of course the university in North Carolina is closing it, to the outrage of the scientific community. - Inside Higher Ed
What Can Movies Teach About Marriage?
Perhaps it’s not ideal to take Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as marriage advice, but movies, including that one, have a lot to teach,...
Chileans Start Social Media Campaign To Get Easter Island Statue Back From The British...
"The online campaign began after an influencer encouraged his followers to ‘spam' the museum's Instagram posts with 'return the moai' comments. The British Museum...
The Life Of A Pro Whistler, Including Her New Album And Her ‘Barbie’ Fame
Molly Lewis: "People often don’t have a reference for whistle music apart from a jingle or a riff in a bad pop song. …...
This Year’s New Hollywood A-Lister Is A Real Dog
That star is Messi - not the soccer player, but the border collie who won the Palme Dog at Cannes. - The Guardian (UK)