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In the early 20th century, Spiritualism was at its peak, and so were fake psychics who fleeced people who just wanted to communicate with a dead loved one. Into the breech between weird and …
Films and filmmakers from Africa and the Middle East have had a good year at A-list film festivals, including Mati Diop and her Atlantics, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes. "The 'new wave'…
Who buys 80 percent " that's a super, super, super majority " of novels? You knew it: Women. But our love for novels, as the narrator in Anna Burns' The Milkman experiences, seems to be a ch…
Ironically, the New York Film Critics Online meet in person to vote on the awards. (Also awarded: Lupita Nyong'o, Joaquin Phoenix, Laura Dern, and Joe Pesci.) " The Hollywood Reporter
Grant said in one candidate's video, "I, for the first time in my life, am getting active politically, because I think that the country is on the edge of a true abyss." He's campaigning stra…
A judge for next year's Women's Prize for Fiction probably won't be awarding multiple prizes, looks like: "If you can't get past this inherent flaw in the business of prizegiving " that ther…
Truly, if you've seen the movie trailer, there's no missing the multitude of jokes just sort of … oh, let's say it … hanging there to be batted around. However, Angels in America won the…
Leibman won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Roy Cohn in the 1993 Broadway production of Angels in America. At that point, he had Drama Desk Awards and an Emmy, but it was as Cohn that his …
Olga Tokarczuk, in a lecture in Sweden, said it's time for a sort of fourth-person narration: "We can regard this figure of a mysterious, tender narrator as miraculous and significant. This …
The New York-based performance artist David Datuna recorded for Instagram (of course) the removal and eating of the banana, a much-discussed artwork by Maurizio Cattelan. But, plot twist: "G…
Rachel Brosnahan, who plays Midge Maisel, says that season three changed things for her " and made the actor a better comedian too. "While the first and second season, most of the major stan…
The styling is in the ties. And there are … let's say a lot of different ties in this movie. Says one of the costume designers, "The language of how the tie greets the shirt greets the bel…
Peter Englund, the former permanent secretary for the Swedish Academy and a current member, said, ""To celebrate Peter Handke's Nobel prize would be gross hypocrisy on my part" He is the onl…
That desire for usefulness has always been a knotty issue for performance art, since it is often both accessible (live and affordable) and inaccessible (challenging and unfamiliar). Intimacy…
"In the future, we can expect computers to produce literature different from anything we could possibly conceive of. Our instinct is to try to make sense of it if we can. But when a new form…
"In the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein became obsessed with the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar, who is notorious for waging bloody wars to seize large swaths of current-day…
The hidden moments of reclaimed freedom that make any job bearable are being discovered and wiped out by bosses everywhere: That trick you used to use to slow down the machine won't work any…
As many countries have continued to cut funding for the arts, Canada's government has gone the other way and embraced culture and the idea of getting it seen around the world. Had the Libera…
We can't escape the question of what matters and why: the way we're living is itself our implicit answer to that question. A large part of a philosophical training is to make those implicit …
"From [his chemistry] studies came an idea that he could translate science into art by using polarized light to bring rainbow colors out of transparent plastic shapes. In the late 1960s he u…
For English-speaking creative teams, there are obvious benefits to opening in Paris. The market is far less crowded than in New York or London, and star casting isn't much of a factor, since…
"For the revival of his first professionally produced play, A Bright Room Called Day, open now at New York's Public Theater, Kushner has in classic Kushnerian style wildly rewritten the scri…
Big donors have grown and small/medium-size donors have gone away. Empirically, this does not seem to have hurt total giving much in the recent past. However, what happens in the long run? W…
"On December 3, one day after Mira Dzhangaracheva resigned her post as director of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Bishkek, a commission of officials from the Culture Ministry confiscate…
