Art and Culture

I stand with Jessie Buckley. This week, the Hamnet actress—highly favored to win the Oscar for Best Actress next Sunday—is going viral due to a resurfaced interview from November, in which she told a story about how she…
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‘He was after me. Always had been. Why else would he target me months ago? Infiltrate my flat, my supposed safe space? Question was, what did he want from me. Who, for that matter, did I mean by me?” Isabel Waidner’s fifth novel, As If,…
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“This is the frustration of working in the fine arts. The people who care about ballet, for example, care deeply. And most of those who don’t care think of ballet through stereotypes or quick hits of dancers on TikTok.” – The New…
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Gross: “Using Grammarly’s ‘Expert Review’ allows an approximation of Stephen King and Neil deGrasse Tyson to nitpick your work. While Tyson has the opportunity to say whether he’d like to be turned into a chatbot, other authors, like…
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It was a rainy afternoon in Copenhagen, and four exhausted ballet dancers were hard at work in a large rehearsal room on the fourth floor of the Royal Danish Theatre. The choreographer Alexei Ratmansky was pacing the studio,…
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The mass exodus at the Toronto Film Critics Association is gathering pace after Indigenous actress and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her award trophy following the alleged censorship of her video acceptance speech, which…
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“Anyone who laid eyes on a DC Comics cover from 1973 to 1983 was likely seeing an example of Ms. Wood’s work. She colored nearly every cover for the company, whether the image was for a horror title, a war comic or a superhero…
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“The core problem has been ticket revenues, which were weakening even before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered its theater with a devastating financial impact. Box-office receipts last year were down $20 million from a decade earlier.”…
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“If upheld by higher courts, Judge Lamberth’s ruling would allow more than 1,000 journalists and support staff members at the news group to return to their jobs” – and to keep broadcasting to places like China, Russia, and Iran.…
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So what’s an NYT theatre critic to do? “There are so many things beyond our control … but somewhere amid all the hubbub, someone is making something, and you need to pay attention.” – The New York Times Source link
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