This week in comics news: "Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his graphic novel Maus, withdrew his introduction to a new Marvel comics collection after its publisher …
The music, to be released in September, was the Coltrane Quartet's soundtrack to the French Canadian film Le chat dans le sac (The Cat in the Bag), which is available online now. "Coltrane h…
The cartoonist's essay about the rise of superheroes is online, and he makes his opinion clear: "International fascism again looms large (how quickly we humans forget " study these golden ag…
Broadcasting live theatre changes the audience " and the theatre. But for the better? Directors try to "collaborate with the show's creative team and company. 'We've got to do it in such a w…
The actor Liu Yifei, who plays Mulan in Disney's live-action movie, "this week reposted an image on Weibo, a Chinese social network similar to Twitter, that took the police's side. The…
This is not a pleasant story. "In theory, NYCharities was a small dance company's dream. Free to use, the nonprofit acted as a clearinghouse for companies to accept credit and debit ca…
The 17-year-old who appears to have thrown the child " who was airlifted from the London museum in critical condition after landing on the fifth-floor roof " was arrested on suspicion of att…
It's a mess. "In political violence, as in so many other parts of modern life, inspiration comes from an ever more bizarre range of origins. Portions of the [alleged El Paso shooter's] manif…
Trying to sell Renoir as a progressive, or even a feminist … just no. " Hyperallergic
It seemed like a good time to republish this, LitHub decided. "In their buildings, paintings, and stories, humanity is preparing to survive culture, if it comes to that. And the main thing i…
Well, not Cate, actually, but her character in Where'd You Go, Bernadette? That character hasn't been able to create anything for years. The movie's director, Richard Linklater: "Creativity …
He doesn't exactly have the best reputation when it comes to the women in his movies. And then there's his exchange with a reporter at Cannes this year. "His curtness in dismissing the conce…
Everyone loved the first season of Fleabag just fine, but then the second season went and added a hot priest to the mixture. The TCA Awards responded. (The entire list of other winners " yes…
A man who gained work in the movie business as an undocumented immigrant says that "it's the element of migration and the severed intergenerational connections it creates that modify the fam…
Dick pic? Groping? Racist rant? It'll be fine. There are now "plans to sell 'disgrace insurance' to entertainment companies and commercial brands, making the risk of celebrity downfall as qu…
Fleming and conductor Patrick Summers of the Houston Grand Opera will be co-artistic directors of the Aspen Music Festival and School's opera program, redesigning it. "Fleming, who will cont…
On stage, musicians " the most famous of the era, the ones who would become even more famous from Woodstock " were flown in; extensive set changes occurred around frantic, angry, urgent hous…
Though no one gets married in The Prom, the musical celebrates same-sex prom-going even as it lampoons celebrity culture, with a glitzy finale set (obviously) at the prom. "But all that glit…
A new play about the play, and the man, and his affair with the woman playing Desdemona (who happened to be Ute Hagen), and also her husband (who happened to be José Ferrer) … well, there…
The musical Six is about " what else " the wives of Henry VIII, a musical inspired by Beyoncé and Ariana Grande. That makes it an obvious candidate for Broadway, right? Yep: "The show start…
Pennebaker's documentary filmmaking stretched across more than six decades, and in that time, he "chronicled a who's who of other pop music and entertainment world figures and icons over the…
One animator said, "I will only get myself in trouble if I comment on the 'other' version," so there's that point of view. Another: "I think some of my colleagues forget that when you work o…
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen: "Fantasy cannot be dismissed as mere entertainment, especially when we keep repeating the fantasy. Fantasy " and our enjoyment of it " spea…
And not just the lobby " some hotels commission artists or exhibits for every bit of space, including rooms, conference rooms, cafeterias and much more. " The New York Times
During a conference on "Bürgerböhne" " or participatory theatre for citizens " "it became clear to me that not all countries"or even communities"have the same ideas about how participatory…