Art and Culture

Like the presidential primaries, this year’s Best Original Song category at the Oscars was a two-candidate race from the beginning. With all due respect to American hero Diane Warren, it’s Barbie’s award to lose. But which of…
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On Jan. 12, screenwriter Simon Stephenson sent an email to the Writers Guild of America’s senior director of credits Lesley Mackey asking to set up a call to discuss an important matter. The CAA-repped writer, whose credits include…
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Around 600 workers in Activision Publishing’s quality assurance department have formed a union. Assisted by the Communications Workers of America, the employees completed their vote with the results certified on Friday, March 8th. With…
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Thelma Schoonmaker accepts the Oscar for achievement in film editing in 2007 for her work on The…
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It began with a quote by Alexander McQueen: “I am the pink sheep in the family.”In 2013, L.A.-based contemporary street artist Ricky Sencion read a biography of the late designer and immediately connected with that feeling.More than a…
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Spark53:59The extraordinary power of terrestrial radioIt took a while for Ashley Elzinga to craft her artificial intelligence-powered counterpart."It sounded a bit monotone at first. It was a bit emotionless, which you know, all things…
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. When I get into a writing rut, I like to step back and take inspiration from other art forms, each of which has its own conventions as well as—encoded within…
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Mexican artist Frida Kahlo c. 1950 (photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) The Frida Kahlo Corporation (FKC), which licenses the Mexican painter’s name and image, is suing an undisclosed number of online vendors over sales involving…
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Over the years, Ms. Mathers had donated much of her original artwork, including all the work for the Lottie books, to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass. It was a natural fit, said Nichols B. Clark, the museum’s…
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A festival on H Street in Washington, D.C. If you have cause to visit Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C., I recommend taking the long walk down H Street from Union Station. The first hundred yards are less than…
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