Not that left-wing art-lovers can't sympathize (and a socialist mayor in another town is planning to defy the national orders as well), but … well, honestly? This is another seemingly biza…
Elton John says his tours can absorb the costs and the paperwork, so theoretically Brexit's horribly negotiated touring musician deals (note: what deals?) don't affect him. But, he adds, "I …
For popular music fans, "rock created the music publications we read today. R&B created rock. Blues created R&B. And Mamie Smith made the blues a national sensation." " NPR
Five Florine Stettheimer works showed up in 2020. But there was a bit of an issue: "Only two turned out to have been actually created by Stettheimer. Of the other works, two were removed fro…
Nothing against the (many) kick-ass, and asskicking, Black actresses of the science fiction universes, but for something closer to reality? Enter Queen Latifah. " Los Angeles Times
Nemser started calling out sexism in the art and art history worlds half a century ago. "Her serious criticism and scholarship belied a whimsical streak she would occasionally indulge, as sh…
Warning people off doesn't work: "We hear a lot about inoculating people against fake news or 'prebunking' it, but new research shows that the best time to fact-check a false headline " a…
Mwazulu Diyabanza is a Congolese activist who would prefer France's museums were open so he could get some attention for taking African objects from their displays "to highlight what he sees…
In Springfield, Oregon, if you see people wandering around with choose your own adventure-style art books in their hands, don't be surprised: "Three writers, an executive editor and an illus…
Paul Huntley has been doing wigs for so long that he can remember helping construct Elizabeth Taylor's braids for Cleopatra. He's been on Broadway since 1973. But now, after a fractured pelv…
Nomadland took top honors at the London Film Critics Circle on Sunday night. Zhao won for screenwriting, though; Steve McQueen took home Best Director honors for Small Axe, his anthology ser…
Lead singer Nadya Tolokonnikova, who has been imprisoned before for her music and activism: "Art is the most important weapon I have against a repressive regime." " BBC
Philip Kennicott: "Inflammation isn't just an actual symptom of the disease. It seems to be part of its etiology, its moral and social origins and effects. Covid makes bad things worse; itÂ…
Hire some choreographers. "Choreo-roboticists (that is, roboticists who work choreographically) believe that incorporating dancerly gestures into machinic behaviors will make robots seem les…
At least in the 18th century. "Wherever they were writing, these women had dared to move out of the conventional female role of service and self-sacrifice to pursue their own needs and drive…
One youth poet laureate: "She was given the platform to really pull people in and witness the magic of it, and I think that once you get that, you're going to be hooked." " BBC
Well, on Instagram, actually. Yes, another InstaMuseum. Did Spanish people invent something to make life easier, better, more comfortable? Into the "museum" it goes. Part of its goal: "We ha…
One suggestion: 43, aka painter George W. Bush. " Hyperallergic
With joy. No, truly: "We must now work urgently, with purpose, centered in joy. … This is not joyful expression solely for the purpose of joy; they are the tools that work in community …
Some furloughed workers says they can't make rent, can't buy food, can't make it in general, at 80 percent of their pay " and of course, that means the workers weren't being paid much before…
Yeun, who got the job as Glenn on The Walking Dead five months after he moved to Los Angeles, is starring in Minari right now " the movie famous at the moment because the Hollywood Foreign P…
At least, that's what one emoji-loving CEO proposes. "Millennials and post-millennials now make up at least 65% of the workforce in the U.S. Emojis are an essential part of how most of this …
The mural, which also depicts women including Nina Simone, was the result of a popular vote four years ago. But "the far-right party Vox had called for the mural in the Madrid neighbor…
Hollywood, in search of the next Shtisel, a hit show for Netflix. Apple TV+ and HBO Max are also trying to cash in, both by buying shows already in existence and funding new Israel-focused s…
A book critic considers. "Relative to the amount of space it takes up in the collective and capitalist imagination, the internet has had less of an impact on contemporary fiction than one mi…