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When The Art Of Tirzah Garwood Finally Came Back Into The Light
Most of her work belongs to private collectors, and she was, before now, known more as a wife to an artist than as an...
The Thirty-Year-Old Encrypted Code That Helped End Apartheid
Once apartheid fell apart, the man who created the code encrypted the disk it was on - and eventually forgot the password. - Wired
How To Write The Biography Of A Woman
“Dilemmas on how to depict a woman so that she is taken seriously and how to navigate the archival violence previously done against her,...
What It’s Like To Be A Poet Whose Home Is Gaza
Poet Mosab Abu Toha, who fled with his family last year: “My frightening childhood shaped me. And I'm still traumatized from childhood. And I'm...
How Navalny’s Prison Diaries Made It Into Print
“Navalny wrote about how it was becoming more difficult to get his messages and memoir pages out. 'Everything that I write and keep, or...
Fired Dallas Black Dance Theatre Members Aren’t Giving Up The Fight
“The dispute threatens to cloud the company’s new season, with the fired dancers demanding to be reinstated and vowing to form picket lines at coming performances....
Author Joy Williams Says The ‘Comfy Story’ Writers Enjoy Telling Must Change
“I’m always trying to convince myself that fiction will rise up and throw away the crutches that have been supporting it for far too long.” -...
Architects Love A Tricky Site
“Some projects seek to soar above the mucky stuff. Others embrace the difficulties, making them into an occasion to create something that would never...
The Ur-Designer Who Knows Apple Has Lost Its Way
Don Norman: "Apple fell prey to the disastrous part of design, which is that design is about making something beautiful and elegant. And I...
The Culture In Agriculture
In Wisconsin, “'The Hay Rake Ballet' in an alfalfa field — set to opera music in front of a rapt crowd who oohed and...
Netflix Seems To Be Bouncing Back
Subscribers, money, growth, live sports, Christmas Day NFL games … what is happening to the streamer that for a while seemed doomed to fall...
Can One Make Money On OnlyFans Without Making Content About Sex?
"For every university student raising cash by sharing nudes, there’s a wholesome housewife uploading DIY tips or an up-and-coming musician posting his latest tracks.”...
Composer Max Richter On The Most Streamed Classical Album Of All Time, And Working...
Richter’s 8.5-hour Sleep, based on the neuroscience of sleeping, is 10 years old, and still popular. But the composer’s newest music is for a...
British Film And Drama Schools Aren’t Exactly Filled With Working-Class Students
Actor Naomi Scott, who didn’t go to drama school, would like to change the chances for young working-class Brits interested in acting with material...
There Is No Way To Make Teenage Fame Safe
“Fame, like football, takes a toll. The effects can be particularly destabilizing when the star in question is still just a kid. And all...
Instagram And Facebook Are Tagging Searches For Megalopolis With A Really Creepy Warning
“Instead of seeing posts about Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film, they’re shown a warning, titled, ‘Child sexual abuse is illegal.’” - The Verge
A Novelist Shared Her Notes About The Dust Bowl With John Steinbeck
He got The Grapes of Wrath; Sonora Babb’s novel contract was cancelled; and Steinbeck dedicated his book to her male supervisor. What would Tom...
A Documentary Exposing The Far-Right In The UK Was Yanked From A London Film...
The director: “Fear is its own form of censorship, it’s not deliberate, but it works out that way and the only people benefiting from...
The Emergency Tailors Of New York Comic Con
"Armed with glue guns, zip ties, Popsicle sticks and safety pins, the Paladins of Cosplay come ready to fix.” - The New York Times
Looks, Ten; Sound, Exciting
The remodeled symphony hall in San Diego has stepped up, as has its entire neighborhood. But how does it sound? - Los Angeles...
When Writing Criticism Feels Like Dumping Your Time Into Quicksand
"Sometimes we study a text so closely that we see past the violence right in front of us. … There is no objective analysis.”...
The Greatest American Art Form Started In Britain
But the U.S. comprehensively remade horror - particularly historical horror, starting, but far from ending, with the Salem witch trials: “The bad conscience of...
The Death Of The Auteur
Directors used to have power - maybe too much power, of course, but their visions were important. Then came superhero everything. - The Guardian...
This Revival Of Yellow Face On Broadway Is Not, In Fact, Bad
That’s because it’s the play Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang, that "centers around a fictionalized playwright named DHH.” - Gothamist
Bozo The Clown Is Back In Action In Chicago
Chicagoans of a certain age have a lot of affection for him. “The show represents a time when the city itself felt simpler and...