By the time of her early death, she had been the subject of many dark rumors, most of which she had initiated. But Landon was one of the first modern poets, who "explored the art of performa…
This story is complicated, but basically, Fox executives, including two who are in line to be top executives at Disney, just got hit with a $179 million ruling that they committed fraud agai…
Perk those ears up, sniff the wind, and trot on over to, yes, a new museum for humans' best friend. When you enter New York's Museum of the Dog, "right away, you'll stand before a large scre…
But a lot more needs to happen " and not just for filmmakers like Nadine Labaki, whose Capernaum (Lebanon) was up for Best Foreign Film, or Talal Derki, whose Of Fathers and Sons, filmed in …
What took so long, and is Captain Marvel going to help fix the problem? Maybe. It certainly helps a bit: Captain Marvel stars a woman, of course, but it's "also the first Marvel movie to hav…
So how's the project, which Alex Poots was first approached about in 2014, going? It's going OK: "Poots and his board have … doubled the scale of the Shed so that, when it opens this sprin…
Li, who wrote more than 40 books and 1000 articles, had to walk the line, including attacking his mentor both personally and professionally during the Cultural Revolution. But inside China, …
The author Akwaeke Emezi's debut novel, Freshwater, is on the 16-book longlist for the Women's prize for fiction. Emezi identifies as a non-binary trans person and uses they and them as pron…
Unbelievably, the run of Sonja Frisell's grand, gaudy, beloved (and reviled for its length) Aida is coming to an end this week as the Met updates Aida to be sleeker and, yes, shorter. Zachar…
Ejiofor, known in the U.S. best for his starring role in 12 Years a Slave, has now directed (and is starring in) a new film for Netflix, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. He wanted to be caref…
So the Louvre decided not to buy the canvas, found in an attic in Toulouse in 2014, despite the fact that art experts have made a pretty convincing case. " The Guardian (UK)
Some contributions to the celebratory exhibit are slightly more elaborate than others: "The security guard at the NT Archive, Slav Kirichok, who also happens to be a talented photographer an…
Roche was a "Dublin-born American architect whose modernist buildings, at once bold and refined, gave striking new identities to corporations, museums and institutions around the world," inc…
For 30 years, the country of Azerbaijan has "been engaging in a systematic erasure of the country's historic Armenian heritage," including a necropolis dating back to the 6th century. A new …
Nikki Darling, author of Fade Into You, about her book and LA: "When communities of color are shown, it's usually associated with violence and turmoil. In my lived experience, all sections o…
Jackson died in deep debt, but his estate is worried about the new HBO film that gives voice to two men who have long accused him (and who had also, at other times, given statements defendin…
So the painting isn't a Stuart, and it's definitely not a portrait of a chef (and certainly not Hercules), say experts. What the heck? Errors of interpretation. "'No American cook in the col…
Counterproposals " a boutique hotel with some space for small bell-making and artist and sculptor studios; or keeping the foundry as it is, with invitations to sculptors who work on a massiv…
In other words, no, they're not going to remove an app that lets Saudi men track and monitor and control their wives and domestic workers. It doesn't violate Google's terms of service, they …
Ajarb Bernard Ategwa, like many artists (and non-artists, to be fair), got in trouble as a child for doodling in his schoolbooks. Now his huge, color-filled paintings of Douala (Cameroon's l…
Has any artistic movement since been as all-encompassing as the counterculture of the 1960s? " Jan Herman
Helmond was the star of Terry Gilliam's Brazil and Time Bandits before becoming the affable matriarch of Soap, Who's the Boss? and Coach " not to mention the voice of Lizzie in Disney's Cars…
When you have infinite possibilities but not infinite storage, you have to figure out which books to take on, and which to weed. This is the story of the New York Public Library and its acqu…
The series L.A.'s Finest (a Bad Boys spinoff) was shooting its first season finale. An executive producer/showrunner and his co-showrunner were watching the outdoor scene on monitors when a …
Ouch. "This one had the vague promise of turning into a tenure-track job. It's a promise that hiring committees often make for naive reasons, knowing that they can't keep it. I was aware of …