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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
De Ford Bailey plays "Fox Chase" on a 1967 telecast of National Life Grand Ole Opry: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monda…
"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February." Joseph Wood Krutch, The Twelve Seasons Continue reading Almanac: Joseph Wood Krutch on F…
Tropes actually help us all make sense of the world (so writers, calm down; even trying to go against tropes is a trope of its own). Take a famous narrative of the late 1990s and early 2000s…
Especially during fringe festivals, playwrights are often performers, and because of the pressure of budget and time, they're exploring their own experiences and pain. "Rawness can make for …
Cullinan was hired as a typist at The New Yorker when she was 22, but soon the magazine started publishing her stories as well. "Ms. Cullinan helped redefine Irish-American literature, veeri…
Who profits when a 14-year-old Black teenager creates a dance and shares it " and it goes viral? Not she."TikTok, one of the biggest video apps in the world, has become synonymous with dance…
Dear United States, this isn't new " but it is alarming. "For centuries, autocrats, authoritarians, and dictators have held a fascination with using architecture as a political tool to glori…
Jordan Casteel paints portraits " huge portraits. And that means something to her subjects. "'I knew I wanted to use this opportunity to place my mom and I in the art historical canon,' said…
Woodard invites Academy Award nominees from past and present " and, she says, "those who, in a perfect world, should have been." She also says the Oscars don't have an impact on good acting.…
Yikes: "A picture shared on social media showed 'BCC wankers' scrawled across the artwork, which shows a young girl firing a slingshot filled with flowers." " The Guardian (UK)
Cohen was a veteran stage and screen actor who found extra fame late in life as Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon)'s housekeeper and nanny on Sex and the City (and both movies). "On Broadway, sh…
Will Parasite's best picture win goose more international fare from the big studios " as opposed simply to Netflix " or will it only help both Bong Joon-ho and then other films that seem, in…
And the Writers Guild is ready to crack down on their wayward members. The WGA president wrote, "'For any writers breaking the rules there must and will be accountability.' He added: 'We kno…
Massey claims the separation of ways was a mutual decision and adds that "the job was not what he expected when he came to Louisville a year ago from Florida, where he had been the presid…
Nope. Take a look at this Gulliver's Travels (yes, Gulliver's Travels) fanfic. "In the 18th century, as now, fan fiction was usually more explicitly sexual than its source material." Oh. " T…