Here's the deal: It's a movie that laughs at the Nazis and laughs at Hitler. "The controversy " or, at least, the orchestrated illusion of it " is built into the film's faux outrageous aesth…
The person doing it takes nonfiction books about Trump or guns " specifically the ones that aren't favorable to the 45th president or gun enthusiasts " and hiding them. "'I am going to conti…
The 2019 BP Portrait Award will still take place in December, but that will be the last time NGS will host that show (at least, as sponsored by BP). The holdouts, that is, those arts organiz…
Griggs, who played Ivanka in ONCE: The Musical for 17 months after making her Broadway debut at age six in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, died from a massive asthma attack. " Variety
Barnett founded Black Arts/West in Seattle in 1969, and "was a vocal advocate for contemporary theater, pursuing funding for new work and training and opportunities for African American perf…
You'd think authors would have things like, oh, the titles of their books, links to buy said books, maybe a list of book tour dates, press contacts, etc. Sure, sure, but there's so much more…
Why? It might actually be good for some people " the youth, as they say, or those chasing social media influence. "The hope is that the change can reduce anxiety among Instagram users,…
Seventy-five years ago, in a San Francisco busy with Naval activity in the middle of WWII, the San Francisco Ballet staged the first full-length Nutcracker in the U.S. The snow is still fall…
Here's why you should do that: "Your interest in a title will indicate to booksellers that it's worth checking out! Maybe they'll read it. Maybe they'll love it and give it table space up fr…
Well, if the flutist is Eugenia Zukerman, she writes a memoir chronicling what happens to her brain. Now three years into her Alzheimer's diagnosis, she says, "music for me is a second langu…
Happy 21st, McSweeney's Internet Tendency. How the heck do you stay so funny over some exceedingly unfunny years? One editor interviews another to find out. " Inside Higher Ed
In the French newspaper Le Parisien, the photographer and former actress and model says that in 1975, the director raped her at his ski chalet in Switzerland. "She said she remembered fearin…
In a lot of Asian countries, "hip-hop rose to popularity as a form of self-expression and resistance, sometimes in the face of colonialism and oppressive regimes." But current Asian American…
Perego was an Italian puppeteer who came up with the 10-inch tall mouse puppet/marionette in the 1950s " and then the Ed Sullivan Show came calling, and calling, and calling. Of the puppet's…
The staffers walked a picket line in front of the former Scottish Rite Temple on Friday. "We're here to work! We want to work!" they chanted, and "Let us in! Let us in! Let us in!" " Los Ang…
Because the language isn't "foreign" enough " it's English. The Academy is changing what the category is called " Best International Film instead of Best Foreign-Language Film " but it hasn'…
So, Manet's "off-the-cuff spontaneity" took a little more work than he, and art historians following his words, ever claimed. "Most of these things seem to have been traced from more searchi…
Simone Lia is a comic-strip artist, but one day she noticed that she couldn't stop drawing worms. Her "worms look like demob-happy frankfurters. They have floaty bodies, dazed smiles. … Wi…
Jagger used the natural world as inspiration, and her work related to Land Art, ecofeminism, and Post-Minimalism without aligning to any one specific movement. The artist "hit upon one of he…
Garden and art history books tell a specific story that leaves some important bits out. "In a few short decades, what became known as the 'English style' had spread across Britain and on to …
Must be nice to be able to say that people wanting bestsellers can just "ge them elsewhere." Another Story Bookshop in Toronto was founded with a mission of social justice, with the purpose …
Remember how Carrie Fisher (RIP, General) used to punch up scripts? It's Phoebe Waller-Bridge's time now. She's the second woman " only the second " to get a writing credit on a Bond movie o…
Isabella Madrigal, a tribally enrolled member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians in California, and a 17-year-old, figured out, as she had a hard time finding good roles, that she could shape h…
Michelle Tea, author of several memoirs and novels, says (in her new book called, er, Against Memoir) that it certainly is. "Examining the need to record her experiences in the title essay, …
Autumn is "Oscar season for books" in France, and that's not a super feeling for the authors. "For all the finger food that will be gobbled up and all the champagne flutes that will be downe…