Banderas may be a Spanish speaker first, but the actor "is from Málaga, Spain, and does not identify as a person of color. There are nonwhite Spanish people, but this isn't the case for h…
Laura Dern won best supporting actress for her role in the Noah Baumbach Marriage Story, and Netflix also got an award for the Obamas-supported documentary American Family. "This is disappoi…
Quentin Tarantino's New Beverly Theatre, which has regularly been selling out his Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood since last year, is but one of many arthouse cinemas being bought, refurbi…
The Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert "is the great night bird of modern art. Restless, insomniac, and suffering from stomach ulcers from a very young age, he would rise in the small hours and…
Gudnadóttir won for Joker. She said, "To the girls, to the women, to the mothers, to the daughters who hear the music bubbling within, please speak up " we need to hear your voices." " Th…
The critic, Avelina Lésper, shattered the installation by Mexican artist Gabriel Rico with an empty soda can. " The Guardian (UK) (AP)
Then there's the part about taking a "curly-wurly" book and turning it into direct chronology. But she also says, "There are various threads that are out there that if I was a sociologist or…
The women of English theatre are not happy. Sphinx Theatre artistic director Sue Parrish: "All along we've been given assurances that our concerns were being taken very seriously and being a…
The Korean writer and director of the dark comedy and class parable Parasite wasn't prepared to win best director, which he did, or for his film to win best picture, which it most certainly …
Freni had a "special claim on [the Italian] tradition, which valued bel canto principles of producing rich, unforced sound; of shaping even, lyrical lines across the range of a voice; and of…
With films like Birdman and last year's The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open and Oscar fave 1917 edited to appear as if they're single shots, what's the deal? The "single-shot" movie…
That's the quest of some dancers in American Contemporary Ballet as they try to recreate Astaire's routines. "Although Astaire's style " the nimble and quick footwork and weightless slides "…
The award is called The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, named after the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries, and starting in 2022 will award $155,000 Canadian to a woman or n…
Aside from obvious comparisons to fascist Italy, it's just not great to take direction from a fringe group of neo-classicists, some of whom aren't architects. Then there are the safety requi…
Bean was on his way to meet his wife, who was ushering the show at the Pacific Resident Theatre in LA, when he was hit by two cars while crossing the street. The theatre canceled its perform…
Rees, whose Pariah hit the indie scene hard in 2011 and whose 2017 Mudbound earned four Oscar nominations, "is placing a thick spread of bets, in the hope that she will soon be able to play …
Five of the nine Best Picture nominees are already available on Netflix or Amazon " and the others won't be far behind, meaning that theatres don't necessarily see much more money per screen…
There was little overlap with the Oscar nominees as The Farewell took Best Picture and its older star Zhao Shuzhen won the best supporting actress award. Adam Sandler won for his role in Unc…
Turns out that "climate crafting has come into its own," according to cross-stitchers, knitters, and other crafters around the world, whose visual representations of temperature and other da…
In Burkina Faso, hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighboring countries are trying to find peace and a future in the capital. One of them, an 18-year-old dancer who's been on the run s…
Sandy Powell, nominated this year for The Irishman (which she finds odd since it's mostly men in "normal clothes"), says that a large part of her job is helping actors maintain and improve t…
Frieze Los Angeles goes up in the Paramount Pictures backlot, opening on Valentine's Day. Sounds cozy. But, says a Frieze co-curator, "Going into 2020, we didn't simply want to go back to th…
Conrad's biggest part came as Jim West in a blend of James Bond and Westerns. His character "was dispatched on various secret missions on behalf of the government of President Ulysses S. Gra…
Cool use of big data, no? Real shocker though: "When you look at the birthplaces of all the winners together, you can see the Academy tends to favor American-born talent, with Europe as a cl…
Caroline Baumann's resignation was abrupt on Friday, February 7, and the Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan would give no reason for her departure. "During her tenure as director, she ov…