The movie was supposed to be Apple's big first narrative film release, a movie that would enter the awards discussion. Instead, the film " which stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie " …
Here's the deal: "Each section has a reputation based loosely on the personality types drawn to certain instruments and the parts they play on the field. Trumpets generally own the melody, s…
Listen, a ballet school with an extra $800,000? We don't think so. Not surprisingly, the woman " hired to handle the accounts of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon-founded Kirov Ballet Academy in D…
Walls can be psychic wounds to those who suffer on either side, but artists try to make them "sites of exploration and evolution." " Hyperallergic
Not when it's in the hands of artists of color, especially Black women. The chief curator at Whitechapel Gallery says that, for many artists, "painting minority ethnic subjects was a way to …
Even when it's the Royal Air Force Museum, a lot of parents are saying that's a no. " The Observer (UK)
Both Constance Wu and Mindi Kaling say their most recent films " Hustlers for Wu and Late Night for Kaling " benefited from having women as directors. Kaling about Wu's Hustlers: "Nothing fe…
Though the Met is still perilously close to the percentage that so angered the Guerrilla Girls in 1985, things may be slowly changing " and they may be accelerated just before the U.S.'s pre…
Streaming services " Netflix, Amazon, etc. etc. etc. " have been challenging Hollywood for years, but before now, the three biggest old companies weren't involved. Now they're "all in," as e…
Did Banksy or Banksy's associates re-steal the 'kidnapped" statue? Why aren't the police interested? And how did those who are selling it at Sotheby's get into the artist's garden? " The Obs…
Right after two writers on Carol's Second Act spoke with HR about inappropriate behavior from executive producer David Hunt (who is married to the star of the show), "they were told that goi…
Whew. All of this: "The response has been that there's been a couple of very successful books about Trump, but if you're not writing about Trump, you know, where does that take you? What do …
O'Neill photographed everyone from the Beatles to Brigitte Bardot, but, he said, the Queen was the only person who ever made him nervous. "I researched some horse-racing jokes to break the i…
Disney is planning to raise the price of Hulu Live by $10 per month, which might not seem like a lot, but it " and AT&T " are bellwethers as "the cost of watching live TV via streaming i…
And the problem is that men somehow still think that no matter what women write about, it's "domestic." One playwrighting contest judge: "There is still an element of surprise when a woman w…
A researcher in the 1940s suggested that the tablets had recipes on them, but " shocker! " her fellow researchers didn't believe her. And yet, she was right. "So far, the cooking team " whic…
It's a holiday miracle: People willing to part with their money for a classical music-prog rock mashup, especially at the holidays. But how did we get to this elaborate two-band tour setup t…
Marion Stokes, a former Communist activist who turned into a recluse, recorded MSNBC, CNN, FOX News and many other news programs, more than 70,000 of them, on Betamax and VHS tapes. "Stokes …
The writer/director of the hit indie, which played to surprisingly robust crowds this summer, says that it was a difficult process to get her film made " no one could figure out where to cat…
That's right, the Colorado Ballet has turned to crowdfunding to get new Nutcracker costumes; the old ones were created for the San Francisco Ballet in 1986, and Colorado Ballet bought them i…
Spearheaded, and named, by Dorothy L. Sayers, the name of Mutual Admiration Society "both captures the spirit of the group and misrepresents it. They supported each other boldly and emphatic…
Art historian Chaédria LaBouvier, who was the first solo Black woman curator in the museum's 80-year history, said that she was cut out of her own show, "Basquiat's 'Defacement': The Untold…
A small art nonprofit, LAXart's mission includes social consciousness. The protesting workers were laid off after they unionized and the Marciano Art Foundation abruptly closed. They asked L…
The Clockenflap festival was supposed to run Nov. 22-24, but after yet another death in the protests (and no signs of that stopping), the organizers canceled one of the most high-profile mus…
The new laws also criminalize all kinds of antiquities theft. "Earlier this year, an Egyptian man climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, removing parts of a 19th-century wooden …