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The Prado, Always A Muse For Some Writers, Has Been Trying To Make That...
“The Prado has been bringing novelists to live in an apartment overlooking the museum. They stay for periods ranging from three to six weeks,...
The Playlist That Will Take You A Full Week To Hear
Really, it’s a musical installation, with speakers set up as far from each other as possible in a living room. “The idea is to...
Black Artists And Performers Claim Egypt For Africa At The Met
Artists got a PowerPoint’s worth of info, and then developed their music/dance/theatre/projection combos on their own. The Met “anticipates that many exhibition-goers will encounter...
Will That Guy Be Able To Sue The Media Into Complicity And Silence?
He’s already had his lawyers go after both The New York Times and Penguin Random House. - LitHub
Is This Art Exhibit A Sign Of Recent Union Organizing Strength?
Scabby the Labor Rat now has his own show in New York. - Hyperallergic
Spare A Thought For Historical Consultants, Often Completely Ignored By Movie And TV Directors
“'I’m afraid leather forearm bracers have nothing to do with ancient Rome,’ says Alexander Mariotti, a historian and specialist in gladiatorial combat who worked...
Charlie Fishman, Music Promoter Who Died This Week, Made DC A Better Jazz Town
Fishman “was sitting in a restaurant in Adams Morgan one night in 2003 with his wife, attorney Stephanie Richards, when they grabbed a napkin...
When Garfunkel And Simon Met Up A Few Weeks Ago, For Lunch
“Paul mentioned an old interview where I said some stuff. I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him. Looking back,...
Ann Patchett On Revisiting Her Award-Winning Novel Bel Canto, Twenty Years On
The idea came as she was copying annotations she’d made for Tom Lake. “In the copying, I could see what I had done and...
Why Is A Biden Appointee Removing Negative Events From The National Archives Exhibits?
"Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan and her top aides directed employees to remove certain objects and details over the past year in order to...
The Torture-Filled World Of A Social Media Moderator
“‘If you take your phone and then go to TikTok, you will see a lot of activities, dancing, you know, happy things,’ says Mojez,...
A Tribute To Author Dorothy Allison, Dead At 75
Allison, author most famously of Bastard Out of Carolina, “taught the world about Southern and queer identity, abuse and feminism. She was a trailblazer,...
As Esa-Pekka Salonen Begins His Final Year With San Francisco, The Orchestra Earns Grammy...
“The nominations highlight two major releases from the Symphony’s in-house label, SFS Media, marking a high point in a collaboration that is about to...
Why We Turn To Crosswords When We’re In Crisis
Perhaps you don’t want to reward The New York Times for not settling with its digital workers (they have a handy Games site here),...
The Booker Shortlist Is, Like, Really Good
Sure, the money’s on Percival Everett to win for his clever, excoriating James, but of the five others, four would also be worthy winners,...
Netflix Fans May Not Be At All Ready For Emilia Perez To Hit Streaming
“I’ll be sitting here like the Michael Jackson popcorn GIF as Jacques Audiard’s musical, a film that until now existed only in the cloistered world of...
Talk About A Good Session Pianist
Nicky Hopkins has played on more than 250 albums. He’s “a keyboard colossus so dexterous he gained eager employment from nearly every star of...
Will The Designer Behind Tetris Ever Have Another Hit?
Alexey Pajitnov would love that. "Reaching the heights of a global hit like Tetris is improbable for anyone, even the creator of Tetris. But...
Books That Can Provide Light In The Darkness
“Probably there will always remain a snobbery about the optimistic; certainly there endures the belief that optimism is inherently naive.” But if you need that,...
Please, Companies, Hire Copy Editors
Mattel’s dolls for the Wicked movie list a porn site on their box instead of the actual movie site. Oops. - Variety
Autotune Now, Autotune Forever
“What started as a simple audio processing tool in the 1990s has become the dominant force in music.” And listeners, honestly, love it....
Why Hugh Grant Makes Such A Great Villain
It’s partly because he was such a great lead in rom-coms. "Once America’s sweetheart, Grant has become its heel. … And it’s a delight.”...
Tony Todd, Actor In Many Movies But Was Best Known For Being The Candyman,...
His manager said that the actor - who worked consistently across TV, video games, and movies, but whose first love was theatre - ...
Countries Unite To Preserve Film Across Borders
"India‘s Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) is teaming with French diplomatic missions in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives on a two-year project dubbed FISCH (France-India-Sri Lanka Cine Heritage).”...
The Dark Origins Of Impressionism
Ninety thousand Parisians died from war and starvation just a couple of years before the first Impressionist show. But “if most fans of Impressionism...