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The BAFTAs, Including Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s British Acting Roots
Randolph started her career in London’s West End. After she won her BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Holdovers, she...
This Artist Emerged From COVID’s Early Days Of Isolation With An Instagram Following, And...
Danielle Mckinney had "spent her entire professional life pursuing photography without showing in a commercial gallery, but soon she had dealers on both coasts,...
The U.S. Is Mired In The Who Can Be A Country Singer Debate Again
Remember Lil Nas X and “Old Town Road” (2018) or, gosh, Beyoncé and “Daddy Lessons” (2016)? The discussion rages on as country music stations...
New Biographies Of Recently Deceased Celebrities Are Coming From – You Knew It –...
This is a "macabre new publishing subgenre: hasty, shoddy, A.I.-generated biographies of people who have just died." - The New York Times
What’s The Matter With Public Art In New Hampshire?
"If the residents of Littleton vote to limit public art, as one Board of Selectmen member has suggested, the statue will have to be...
We Need To Talk About Goodreads
Goodreads appears to be somewhat innocently letting “the public” tell other members of the public what is worthwhile. "For the well-reviewed author, this is...
How The Met Is Bringing The Harlem Renaissance Back Into The Spotlight
The last Harlem show at the Met, in 1969 (!), contained no Black artists. This one is going to be different. Some works were...
All Of The BAFTAs, As They Happen
A live feed mixing fashion commentary and media reporting, the way the internet was intended to give us our awards news. - The Guardian...
Reddit Has A Deal To Train AI With Its Many Years Of User Info
Yes, longtime users, Reddit ITA, to the tune of $60 million a year. “It’s not known what company Reddit made the deal with, but...
The ‘Glass Church’ In LA, Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright’s Son, Shuts Amid Landslide...
The Wayfarers Chapel "sits on the Palos Verdes peninsula, which is prone to landslides. Cracks had begun to appear in the structure, and several panes...
Turns Out Live TV Isn’t Dead
And it can thank streaming for that: "With streamers raising prices and adding commercials, maybe the urgency of watching something as it’s happening has...
Choreographer Fatima Robinson Says The Dance World Has Changed Dramatically In Her Time
That includes, in recent years, TikTok trends. “I find it so much fun. It’s an inspiring place to go to find out how young...
A White Singer Rejects A State Honor For Her Grammy Because The Legislature Chose...
"Paramore singer Hayley Williams decried a Tennessee House of Representatives dustup this week where a Republican lawmaker blocked a resolution honoring the Grammy win of Black...
Queer Literature Is On The Rise Across The Continent Of Africa
One Nigerian author: “I knew I wanted to write characters who are queer. That’s the only way I am going to show up on...
Sure, The New J-Lo Movie Is A Celebrity Vanity Project
But why aren’t more celebrities using their money for this kind of baffling, joyous, wacky creative venture? “It is genuinely exciting to see an...
School District Near Minneapolis Accedes To Somali Families’ Anti-LGBTQIA Books Request
"St. Louis Park Public Schools will allow opt-outs for families who don’t want their children to read books with LGBTQ+ characters, after six Somali...
Alexei Navalny’s Last Laugh
"I will always remember the words written on a piece of paper that Navalny held at one of his court hearings: 'I am not...
How Novels Can Crack The Tightest Belief System
When George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Toni Morrison let some light in. - The Guardian (UK)
Please, Please Quit It With Overperformed Audiobooks
“Please just read me a story without distraction. I don’t need to hear a variety of voices from a single narrator if a full-cast...
The BAFTAs Have Never Awarded A Black Woman With The Best Actress Award
That seems unlikely to change this year either, despite the nominations of Vivian Oparah for the charming Rye Lane and Fantasia Barrino in the...
For These Major Awards, Some Authors Were Unaccountably Declared Ineligible
Then Hugo Awards rumors started; now leaked emails confirm that “one of the Hugo administrators had advised other members to vet the finalists and...
MoMA Returned A Nazi-Looted Chagall To Its Heirs, And Garnered A Large Fee
"MoMA, which acquired in 1949, received $4 million in compensation for giving it back under an arrangement negotiated by a restitution company that...
The Monologues Of Oscar Season
Joining, say, Sally Field in Norma Rae or Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, "actors in current Oscar-season movies enjoyed ample opportunity to...
PEN America Has A Whole Bunch Of Writers Quite Furious At It
More than 600 writers have signed a letter that "condemns PEN’s relative silence on the unfolding genocide in Gaza ... on the heels of two...
Was It The Strikes, Or Sexual Harassment Allegations, That Is Shutting This Talent Agency...
Or are the harassment allegations part of an ownership argument? In any case, the A3 Artists Agency is shutting down today. - Los Angeles...