Vine was introduced in 2012, bought by Twitter, and killed in 2016. But in its time, it "turned everyday people into stars on other platforms and beyond. Its musical whims warped the music i…
Take one cane, add whiskey, then gather a "mood" pitch for movie financiers, decades of photography, years of moving pitching, and presto! A new Emma. Miranda July on the director: "If there…
Of course, the officials say, books and article about how to strangle someone or how to escape handcuffs must be censored. But what about Angie Thomas' young adult book The Hate U Give? What…
Yes, in recent months, Amazon has removed sellers who are peddling Nazi imagery on ornaments and a beer opener. But these are books, and "Amazon takes a different approach with books than it…
The problem is that thinking about the prize bypasses the hard work " the mountains, in some cases, of hard work " that it takes to reach those goals. So: "The key to bypassing this mental g…
Mantel says there are so many stories in the Cromwell trilogy that the books are like a pamphlet. But of course: "At a combined total of more than 2,000 pages " with [forthcoming book three]…
This is a rather unbelievable story. "When [the two researchers] met, Pentcheva started telling Abel about the Hagia Sophia " how we couldn't really understand the experience of worshipers t…
"As a critic Ms. Tobias did not pull punches. In the early 1980s, for instance, when other critics were tiptoeing around the decline in the dance skills of Rudolf Nureyev, who was then in hi…
Asian Americans remember how excited " and worried " they were when the show was announced five years ago, after a two-decade drought for Asian American representation on network TV. Did the…
How did we get here, with most U.S. audiences only seeing subtitles on non-English-language films and many other countries using excellent voice actors and technology for dubbing, and where …
Zachary Woolfe: "For someone who's never grown quite used to my late-night subway journey home after an opera, it was hard to turn down a performance that would take place a few steps from b…
Photographer Sayuri Ichida and NY Theatre Ballet dancer Maya Oguri formed a fruitful artistic friendship " one that set the ballerina dancing in photos from across the city. That didn't stop…
Well, debate over, at least for films with subtitles: "The twisted South Korean thriller collected $5.5 million over the weekend, an exceptional 234% increase in ticket sales and the biggest…
David Luque, a 47-year-old actor from Madrid, has been working steadily in theatre for decades, starting when he was a student using the EU's programs to study in Germany. But really, right …
"I walk into the wrong entrance at the large industrial building hosting the Spring/Break Art Show. 'Sorry!' a young cheery Englishwoman at a desk tells me. 'This is a dumpling-associates…
One MP called the idea an "act of cultural vandalism," and another wrote, ""his is not a fight the BBC is picking nor a contest my party promised if we got elected. … If the BBC ends up in…
The semi-basement that the Kim family lives in is a reality for about 2 percent of South Koreans living in Seoul " one of the most expensive cities in Asia. One of them, who shares a name wi…
How's this for a near monopoly? Cineplex owns 75 percent of movie screens across Canada " and indie theatres say the behemoth is shutting them out of Oscar winners and nominees like Parasite…
Waligwa was diagnosed with a brain tumor the same year she starred in the movie with David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong'o. Oyelowo wrote on Instagram, "We mourn the loss of our beautiful Nikita …
A ton of Philadelphia jazz history " including John Coltrane's house " is in dancer of disappearing. Property neglect, loss of institutional memory, gentrification by Temple University and u…
Was it a dispute between art workers and ultra rich owners, a lack of attendance " or so much more? The shut-down "raises questions about the public benefit of private museums run by wealthy…
Or is it Barack Obama? How about Hilary Mantel? That's right, all of them are squaring off in a new book prize in Britain. (But seriously: Who put the author of Fifty Shades of Grey on the s…
Can a new website help indie bookstores compete with the retail behemoth? The American Booksellers Association thinks so. "'We believe that there are consumers who shop online and would choo…
For instance, David Hockney's "splash" paintings created an idea of Los Angeles that was cool and secluded. Artist Ramiro Gomez imagines what was going on behind the scenes in No Splash " an…
In a reversal of fortune story that seems nigh-on impossible given certain trends in federal government, Caroline Baumann "was forced to resign as director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smiths…