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"Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery," an undated interview with the animator-director who created the prototypes for Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Porky Pig: (This is …
"Comedy is the salt of civilization, its critical voice." Guy Davenport, "That Faire Field of Enna" (courtesy of Anecdotal Evidence)
Why is Knives Out selling out movie theaters more than a month after it was released? Basically, the cause is that it's "a pretty good movie that's exceeding people's expectations because th…
Will Netflix rule the night? How terrible will Ricky Gervais be? Who will win Best Actor? And why, why, why are all of the Best Director nominees men, AGAIN? " NBC
Says the chief registrar at the Denver Art Museum, "It's a lot. … There are many, many spreadsheets." " NPR
"Founded by Joseph in 1994, the Foundry, which produced artistic offerings, community programs and activist conferences on issues ranging from genocide to economic inequality, created a mode…
Lawrence Ware: "I'd argue that the 2010s were the most important decade for black film in America. We see dramas (12 Years a Slave), comedies (Girls Trip), horror (Get Out, Us) and documenta…
"On a walk through the Met's galleries with Artnet News, he pointed out various works that inspired his own. But while the works in the Met's collection tend to present an image of Native pe…
"Inequality in the arts is holistic. It exists at individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels. Grantmakers who are committed to seeing the arts thrive as an inclusive multiracial- an…
"Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-American composer, pianist, and educator born in post-revolutionary wartime in Iran. Aminikia first explored immersive, visceral music in a successful performan…
Two 24-year-old monks have founded a breakdancing troupe that, they think, may bring Buddhism to other young people. "Break dancing has spread around the world due to its nature of getting e…
In advance of tonight's Golden Globes, the National Society of Film Critics has given Bong Joon Ho's Parasite a Best Picture nod, but they also gave Best Director to Little Women's Greta Ger…
Stephanie Carlisle: "While architects are not fully responsible for steel manufacturing or concrete production per se, there is a direct line from the material specifications that architects…
George Elliott Clarke's talk at the University of Regina was supposed to be about the murdered and missing Indigenous women of Canada, and poets who wrote about them. But his original refusa…
While some in recovery opt for yoga or prayer groups, the group that chooses to connect with Kentucky's musical heritage is doing well. "The art of crafting an instrument by hand requires ke…
The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Maiden wasn't easy to make " in some ways, it was almost as hard to make as the incredible, history-making voyage it depicts. For one thing, all of the film…
Right now, Meyerbeer is out, and Korngold is definitely in " and the historical reasons are complex, revealing much about 20th century history. " The New York Times
Seriously, WTF, 2020 awards season? Last year, 2019, was "a year in which a slate of female-driven and directed movies topped the box office " Hustlers, directed by Lorene Scafaria, raked in…
We know it's a little late to tell you this, but it might be time for take-backs " and a plan to make those resolutions during a better month (especially for those in the Northern Hemisphere…
Marvel's Miles Morales " the star of Into the Spider-Verse and a lot of comics, books, animated series, and a game " needed help as the decade went on. See, "despite Marvel's financial inter…
Actually, no one truly knows how to do it. "It's also a real evaluative mystery. How do you know good writing that, as a moviegoer, you can't see and, as Academy voters, you're not obligated…
The RWA is still embroiled in an ongoing and, it seems, widening scandal about its leadership. Karen Grigsby Bates says of the organization for the most lucrative sector of publishing: "If t…
Says one artistic director, "Addressing this issue can't happen by simply replacing white bodies with those of color. 'The storylines have to change,' Vilaro says, noting that some narrative…
Anthony Tommasini says new recordings are vital, no matter how many we've got from the past: "New takes on standard repertory works " if not as essential as recordings of works by living com…
Time's Up is trying to prepare actors and would-be actors for situations that have been rather iffy in the past (by "iffy," we mean "containing lots of possibilities for assault and rape"): …
