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• How Fandom Can Make A Phenomenon Out Of A Word

  03-04-2025 20:14 via artsjournal.com
  Fandom has long facilitated deep dives into media in which fans analyse, discuss and track their favourite storylines and character arcs. This has been particularly true of the science fiction and fantasy genres, due to their complex and expansive narrative universes. – The Conversation
  
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• ‘The beauty of this angle is the distortion’: Sanket Khuntale’s best phone photo

  05-05-2025 07:00
  The Indian photographer was delighted with the image he captured during a stroll in Pritisangam Gardens with friendsSanket Khuntale describes Pritisangam Gardens in Karad, India as “a go-to hangout spot for everyone in town”. Khuntale lives in Mumbai now, but visits the gardens as a ritual every time he goes home to Karad. On the day he took this photo, in 2017, he was there to meet friends for an evening stroll. The gardens lie against the banks where the Krishna and Koyna
  
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• They Shot Their Movie In A Week For $7,000. Now The Hard Part: Getting Into Theatres

  04-05-2025 22:02 via latimes.com
  
  It’s a challenge to make a film like “Burt”— and quite another to bring such a handmade film to audiences. In 2024, Burke went 0 for 28 in film festival acceptances, which made him question if “Burt” might be the final chapter of his career instead of a launching pad. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Judge Blocks Shutdown Of Institute Of Museum And Library Services

  04-05-2025 21:25 via artnews.com
  
  The news hardly comes as a surprise, given the judge’s inclination to rule against the IMLS shutdown. The temporary restraining order was issued just days ahead of a mass layoff of nearly all IMLS employees that was slated to take effect on May 4. – ARTnews
  
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• The “X” Factor Of City Ballet’s Roman Meija

  04-05-2025 21:01 via nytimes.com
  Mejia is an airborne dancer whose exuberance shines in joyful Balanchine ballets like “Stars and Stripes,” “Rubies” and “Western Symphony.” But his repertoire, especially in recent seasons, has expanded to roles that require him to be more subtle, more sophisticated. – The New York Times
  
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• Ahem… Do We Need More Male Novelists?

  04-05-2025 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Are male novelists actually in decline? Some metrics certainly say so: of all the writers to appear on the weekly Sunday Times bestseller lists for fiction hardbacks so far this year, just a third are men. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Universities Deserve Special Standing In Our Culture

  04-05-2025 20:02 via theatlantic.com
  
  It is especially ironic that, just as we began the countdown to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, with commemorations at Lexington and Concord, this contemporary battle over the future of universities took a dangerous new turn. – The Atlantic
  
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• Visionary Director Pierre Audi, 67

  04-05-2025 19:28 via nytimes.com
  Pierre Audi, the stage director and impresario whose transformation of a derelict London lecture hall into the cutting-edge Almeida Theater was the opening act in a long career as one of the world’s most eminent performing arts leaders, died on Friday night in Beijing. – The New York Times
  
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• Art Institute Of Chicago Director On Leave After Airplane Incident

  04-05-2025 19:02 via nytimes.com
  During the incident, which occurred on April 18, police were called to United Airlines flight 953 after it landed in Munich from Chicago, following reports that Rondeau had stripped off his clothes. CBS reported that the incident occurred after he drank alcohol and took prescription medication. – The New York Times
  
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• Meta’s New AI Chatbot Will Accompany You To Movie Theatres. Is This A Good Thing?

  04-05-2025 18:31 via fastcompany.com
  The chatbot, which Meta has reportedly claimed will “get audiences back in theaters,” works by sending moviegoers trivia, quips, and questions about the movie, according to the New York Times. The catch? All of this happens while the film plays in front of them. – Fast Company
  
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• The Flood Of Fakes Has Finally Broken My Mind!

  04-05-2025 18:01 via newyorker.com
  
  Fake images didn’t really bother me until I started looking at them with my kids. They wanted pictures of baby animals; at some point, Google Images started showing us A.I. creatures, ruining the whole idea, which was to marvel at the fact that these baby peacocks and baby lions actually exist. – The New Yorker
  
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• Today’s Film And TV Projects Have Embraced Diversity in Story Telling. But…

  04-05-2025 17:31 via theconversation.com
  
  In recent years, there have been increasing creative efforts to fill these historical gaps. This suggests there is a willingness, at least in some spheres, to acknowledge the long history of multiculturalism in Britain and to see people of colour in 19th-century histories. – The Conversation
  
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• David Graeber’s Rogue Anthropologies

  04-05-2025 17:02 via bookforum.com
  
  He found a way to be both a public intellectual and an academic, a scholar with the fervor of the preacher and a pundit with the depth of a teacher. – BookForum
  
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• The landscape artist who makes her paint from pearls, crystals and volcanic dust

  04-05-2025 17:00
  
  Su Yu-Xin scours mines and federal lands for materials to carefully craft her own pigments in a Los Angeles workspace that’s part studio, part science labWhile in art school in London, Su Yu-Xin calculated that most painters used one of five brands of high-end oil paint, and that each brand produced only about 60 colors.“That’s really scary,” the Slade graduate said. “It’s like all the top chefs in the world shop from the same grocery store.” Continue re
  
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• Study: Handwriting Boosts Early Reading Skills In Students

  04-05-2025 16:31 via psypost.org
  “As children write less and less by hand, we wanted to explore the impact of this on alphabetic and orthographic skills. In other words, we wanted to see whether the ability to learn letters and to assimilate and remember word structure develops differently through manual training or the use of keyboards.” – PsyPost
  
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• On Writing, Feelings And What AI Does

  04-05-2025 16:02 via thelampmagazine.com
  
  Some say that what makes the difference between human and machine writing—and what taints the latter—is that machines do not think, or intend, or mean. Their compositions, allowing that they do compose, are therefore not minded or mindful, and it is this lack that gives them their taint, as properly it should. – The Lamp
  
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• Scholarly Groups Sue Trump Administration Over NEA, NEH Cuts

  04-05-2025 15:31 via nytimes.com
  Three major scholarly groups have sued the National Endowment for the Humanities and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, arguing that the recent mass cancellation of virtually all the agency’s grants violates the law and must be reversed. – The New York Times
  
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• Sinners: A Movie Deal That Shook Hollywood

  04-05-2025 15:02 via nytimes.com
  Since the film came out, these contract stipulations have been much discussed, even controversial. That has little to do with why “Sinners” is so enthralling to watch but everything to do with the film’s central theme, and why it is so resonant: the art of the deal. – The New York Times
  
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• Judge In Meta AI Case: “I Just Don’t Understand How That Can Be Fair Use”

  04-05-2025 14:31 via arstechnica.com
  Authors may need to sharpen their case, which Chhabria warned could be “taken away by fair use” if none of the authors suing, including Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Richard Kadrey, can show “that the market for their actual copyrighted work is going to be dramatically affected.” – Ars Technica
  
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• NEA Cancels Already-Awarded Grants As Trump Administrations Moves To Shut NEA

  04-05-2025 14:02 via nytimes.com
  “It’s strange that the Trump administration is trumpeting their priorities to serve diverse America while canceling grants for our August Wilson play.” – The New York Times
  
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• Children of Men

  03-05-2025 23:24 via artsjournal.com
  At Indiana University each spring there is an arts festival in honor of Kurt Vonnegut, Granfalloon. This year’s theme is his novel Cat’s Cradle, which is the book where he introduces the term Granfalloon (although, to my mind, not really as something one would celebrate; Karass would have been a better choice to name a gathering?). Since that novel is about the end of the world, the IU Cinema is showing films with that theme, including Alfonso Cuarón’
  
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• Marc Scorca talks about the critical importance of AI in the arts

  03-05-2025 17:13 via artsjournal.com
  Marc Scorca, CEO of Opera America, talks about the critical role of AI in the arts and the future of the industry in a changing political landscape.
  
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• Parthenope to Poker Face: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  03-05-2025 07:00
  
  Gary Oldman stars in Paolo Sorrentino’s latest paean to Italy, and Natasha Lyonne is the sleuth with a nose for fibs in Rian Johnson’s mystery comedyParthenope
  Out nowSelected for Cannes last year, the latest from Paolo Sorrentino, director of The Great Beauty and Youth stars Gary Oldman. And per Sorrentino’s Fellini-esque motifs of feminine elegance and the visual splendour of Italy, he casts Celeste Dalla Porta in a decade-spanning coming-of-age story about a young woman born
  
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• Exhibition of original Bob Dylan paintings to open in London

  03-05-2025 07:00
  
  Point Blank, a collection of 97 paintings of ‘emotional resonance’ by the singer-songwriter, will open at the Halcyon Gallery in MayAfter the success of this year’s biopic A Complete Unknown, a whole new generation has learned about the lyricism, nasal vocal style and often-frustrating nature of Bob Dylan.And this month they will get the chance to discover he is also a painter, as the songwriter exhibits a series of original artworks – created with “emotional resona
  
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• Adult Programs Manager, Mark Morris Dance Group

  03-05-2025 05:52 via artsjournal.com
  The Mark Morris Dance Group seeks an Adult Programs Manager to join its 5-person Education team, focusing on Adult Programs at the Mark Morris Dance Center which consists of approximately 65 weekly drop-in classes, intro series, and workshops. The Adult Programs Manager is responsible for the management and implementation of all Adult Programs at the Dance Center and offsite locations. Reporting to the Director of Education, the Adult Programs Manager will lead daily program execution and provid
  
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• LS Lowry painting bought for £10 in 1926 sells at auction for £800,000

  02-05-2025 22:48
  
  Going to the Mill was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian and had remained in the familyA rare painting by LS Lowry bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000.The painting, Going to the Mill, was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian, Arthur Wallace, for £10 in 1926 and has been in the same family ever since. Continue reading...
  
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• Heroes & Zeroes: Why DOGE Shouldn’t Fund Trump’s Redundant Sculpture Garden

  02-05-2025 22:14 via artsjournal.com
  Where’s Elon Musk, the DOGE watchdog, when we really need some “Government Efficiency”?
  There’s nothing efficient about the proposed creation
  
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• Christopher Wheeldon On Pushing Story Ballets Beyond The Old Tropes

  02-05-2025 20:50 via yahoo.com
  “Ballet doesn’t have to be ‘boy meets girl, girl goes crazy, girl dies, becomes a fairy, boy chases her through the woods’. Audiences want to be taken somewhere a bit deeper.” – The Telegraph (UK) (MSN)
  
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• Trump Budget Proposals To Eliminate NEH, NEA, Etc. Etc.

  02-05-2025 20:33 via insidehighered.com
   The skinny budget also eliminates funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, AmeriCorps, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities. Trump has already made deep cuts at those agencies and put most—if not all—of their employees on leave. – InsideHigherEd
  
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• How Tate Modern Changed London 25 Years Ago

  02-05-2025 20:31 via theguardian.com
  This repurposed power station was set to become the UK’s cultural powerhouse. Hulking on a once unloved stretch of the South Bank, its 99-metre tower signalled a message of regeneration and possibility to the rest of the world. And the world responded. They had prepared for 2 million visitors in its first year – 5 million came. – The Guardian
  
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