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"A story really isn't any good unless it successfully resists paraphrase." Flannery O'Connor, "On Her Own Work"
Novelist Amitav Ghosh has some ideas, but most of all, he wants writers to deal with it in their books instead of ignoring it. "Something this big and this important, there have to be an inf…
About the fest's awards. The Daily Beast headline is "Child Rapist Roman Polanski Wins Venice Film Festival Award," so there's one point of view. A more reportorial version comes from Variet…
"Ben Barson and Giselxanath Rodriguez, part of the Afro Yaqui Music colective, talk about artivism " what it means, what it can look like " in relation to building a jazz opera with various …
"A prolific conductor of film, television, and video game scores, Anthony Parnther may be one of Southern California's best kept musical secrets. An American conductor of West Indian and Sam…
"I dont want to call it a conspiracy, because I dont think its done on purpose, but there is this falling away of women artists and artists of color that needs to stop and be corrected, says…
"[Opera North] has won awards before, but the one it received last December represented a first for any opera company. City of Sanctuary, an independent national movement working on solidari…
"The Lakota Music Project [is] a collaborative program developed with the [South Dakota Symphony Orchestra] and musicians of the tribe. The goal is to create cultural cooperation and break d…
"'Why aren't there more Latinx murals in Kansas City?' The Flatland team reached out to historians, cultural directors, curators, sociologists and artists, many of whom identify as Hispanic …
"Over the last few years, [Kevin Jones and Lesli Mones, co-founders of The August Wilson Red Door Project, and retired Portland Police Bureau deputy chief Robert Day] have formed an unusual …
"This year's cohort … may suggest a shift [away from painting and toward multimedia work] for a program that has been exceedingly influential as a career-defining platform for generations …
"Tara Brooke Watkins discusses how Oklahoma! has shaped the state's cultural identity, the Tulsa race Massacre, and Spinning Plates's production of the musical with an all-black cast." " How…
"We live in a time when Google spreadsheets are documenting how arts administrators are underpaid and undervalued; when activists and cultural workers increasingly demand accountability from…
"Nicole Brewer examines a prominent racist policy in theatre " when plays written by people of color are staged by white directors " through the lens of actors, theatregoers, and playwrights…
"Michaela Goldhaber, current artistic director of Wry Crips, talks to the founding and early members of the disabled women's theatre group about their history." " HowlRound
Phil Chan, co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface: "What is emerging is a series of best practices that any performing arts organization can employ when staging works from the Western canon …
It's clear that aspiring writers should get up early, write every day, write only when they feel like it, write in the afternoon, write longhand, definitely use a laptop, never get distracte…
Nora Lum " that is, Awkwafina " is everywhere in Hollywood now, including some new Disney properties. But she got her start through fangirling actress Lucy Liu " the only visible Asian Ameri…
Er, what were you doing, British Pathé? "At the height of the Blitz, the British government made the bold decision to communicate Nazi air raid safety tips to the population the only way th…
The latest in a long line of cinema that makes critics and others walk out in the middle of a film? The Painted Bird, a new adaptation of the Jerzy Kozinski novel. "Cinema seats don't tend t…
A few weeks ago, the group said in an open letter that Jews were not sufficiently represented onstage " or offstage, in production teams " in the theatre in Britain, criticism sparked by a p…
After a massive online protest of the Tate Modern in the recent weeks ("It's an older work," the museum first protested when met with the facts that one of its 2002 " so old, who knew people…
"The gallery wall that broke Michael Pajón's body crashed into the art handler with the force of a grand piano. He remembers the precise moment when the movable partition collapsed upon h…
Millennial Latinx musicians say that Fitzgerald's influence lives far beyond her own time. Colombian neo-soul artist Mabiland: "I had no idea a woman could sing like that. … To hear that v…
What does the state fair's Crop Art exhibit have for the New York-based actor/singer/writer/famous person? Well, a blue-ribbon winning seed art portrait, of course. " The Pioneer Press (St. …
