Jessica Bejarano was raised by a single mom living in poverty, and she says music saved her life. But it’s not an easy road. “Every time I was told, NO, you can’t be a dire…
Universal had 40 percent of U.S. music business last year, including the top four most streamed artists of 2018. But who will buy Universal – Spotify? Liberty Media? This sounds wild, …
Guillou, the organist for the church of St. Eustache from 1963 to 2015, had an international career and was excellent at improvisation. He was quoted as saying he wanted his instrument ̶…
Actually, you’ll need to understand Keats, and his theory of negative capability, first – Twombly certainly did. – Los Angeles Review of Books
And so does Glenn Close. What does this mean for the Oscars? Hm. (Full list of nominees and winners at the link.) – Los Angeles Times
Trolls often see themselves as victims, and so they “have a distorted sense of what punching up vs. punching down looks like. So even though most of us would likely say that trolling b…
The tribute to victims of the 2015 Bataclan massacre, painted on an emergency door in the concert hall, was cut out and removed. “The theft, which occurred overnight on Friday, involve…
There’s been a dramatic shift in the demographics of who’s buying poetry, and giving poets including Rupi Kaur, Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore and other women six-figure incomes …
Can we stop calling it the “Man Booker” after the Man Group pulls out? Yes, but, well, we may be part of the problem: “Relations between Man Group and Booker organisers had…
Even before star Brennin Hunt broke his ankle 10 minutes before the end of dress rehearsal, Fox was rethinking its live Broadway musical plans. Why? Money, of course: “The television n…
And not just skulls, but also entire skeletons: “For centuries, African bones have lay in boxes all across Europe, placed under microscopes or displayed in some attempt to better under…
Though The Wall Street Journal‘s critic doesn’t seem to enjoy having Native American historians comment on Native American art, the labels speak for themselves. – …
But not if the books don’t get published – and, says the author of the wildly popular novel The Hate U Give (which also became a popular 2018 movie), that’s …
Director Alfonso Cuarón and Netflix sent letters to assure authorities that actor Jorge Antonio Guerrero MartÃnez, who played FermÃn in the movie Roma, wasn’t going to the U.S…
Some are trying. One, who has written a book called Happiness, thinks that “happiness should become the goal of policy and the progress of national happiness should be measured and ana…
Werr, an expert on Mesopotamian stone seals, helped assess the damage to the Iraqi National Museum and its art, and also helped “catalog the objects that remained, found storage facili…
Choreographer Donald Byrd, artistic director of Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Company, creates dances that spark discussions about the magnificence, and the problems, of African Americans i…
It was a bad – even terrible – week for journalism, with layoffs left and right and center. Then Johns Hopkins bought the D.C. building that houses the Newseum. – NPR
Despite the fact that the shredding didn’t work as planned, the buyer agreed to purchase it – and now it’s going to the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie. But “Banksy being Ban…
The 2008 law has been a problem for Facebook, Google – and Six Flags, which very much wanted to overturn the law when parents sued it for taking their 14-year-old’s fingerprints …
Kienholz, founder of the California/International Arts Foundation, fiercely advocated for the artists of Los Angeles, and she hosted dinner parties to connect them with “writers, polit…
Knoll Bassett was “a pioneering designer and entrepreneur who created the modern look and feel of America's postwar corporate office with sleek furniture, artistic textiles and an uncl…
Seriously. The Danish start-up is meant for artists to be able to take some control over their careers, no matter what their agents do. “Truelinked will feature digital profiles of art…
The imprint, founded by Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau, had one of its most successful years in 2018, but even if it hadn’t, the imprint had a prestigious run of best-selling nonfi…
One theory: “These awards are more about what the academy hopes to communicate by endorsing a movie and less about the movie itself. The academy wants to say it hates tyrannical dictat…