Arts & Life

Art critic J.K.L. Berensen (Tilda Swinton) lectures in The French Dispatch.

Arts

'The French Dispatch' is a love letter to 'The New Yorker' — and to love itself

6:00pm October 20, 2021

by Glen Weldon

Wes Anderson's meticulously-constructed tenth feature adopts the format of a New Yorker-like Sunday magazine supplement to tell three very different, but equally idiosyncratic, love stories.

Left: OnlyFans is hosting some of Vienna's nude artwork. Right: A painting is seen on the stairway of the famous Albertina art museum.

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Vienna museums' social media posts got rejected for nudity, so they're on OnlyFans

3:45pm October 20, 2021

The Vienna Tourist Board is taking posts of nude and partially nude artwork found in the city's museums to a subscription service after content was removed from other social media sites.

Netflix's Los Angeles headquarters, where a rally in support of the employees walking out is set to happen Wednesday.

Arts

Netflix employees are staging a walkout as a fired organizer speaks out

3:13pm October 20, 2021

by Andrew Limbong

The Netflix employee resource group supporting trans and nonbinary people is demanding better representation, both on-screen and in management.

Books
Arts

Remembering Gary Paulsen, author of 'Dogsled' and 'Hatchet'

2:09pm October 20, 2021

by Terry Gross

The Newbery award-winning author, who died Oct. 13, wrote over 200 books, many of which were tales of adventure aimed at young adults. In 1994, Paulsen talked about Alaska's Iditarod dog sled race.

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Velvet Underground documentary gets to the heart of the band's radical magic

1:23pm October 20, 2021

by John Powers

Todd Haynes' inventive, immersive movie is full of interesting ideas. The Velvet Underground neatly sidesteps the usual rock-doc banalities as it plunges us into the Velvets and their world.

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Gentrifier: A Memoir, by Anne Elizabeth Moore

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'Gentrifier' crafts a narrative about Detroit in darkly comic vignettes

1:22pm October 20, 2021

by Kristen Martin

Culture critic Anne Elizabeth Moore's project is also an investigation of the costs — monetary, psychological, ethical — of the free house she was given for writing, and an ode to her neighbors.

Arts

A mental health nonprofit turned down donations from Jamie Lynn Spears' book sales

1:08pm October 20, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

The group This Is My Brave faced criticism from fans who see the actress as complicit in her sister Britney's conservatorship ordeal.

Billy Porter attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. "Fabulous and serious can go hand in hand. I am proof positive of that," he says.

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Arts

Billy Porter makes peace with himself: 'I set myself free, honey. No more secrets'

4:21pm October 19, 2021

by Terry Gross

Fourteen years after his initial diagnosis, the Pose actor revealed publicly that he is HIV-positive. Porter says being open about his health status felt like a rebirth. His new memoir is Unprotected.

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Arts

How Troy Kotsur of 'CODA' broke barriers as a deaf actor, on stage and on screen

2:29pm October 19, 2021

by Mandalit del Barco

The new film CODA tells the story of a hearing daughter living with her deaf family. It represents a breakthrough for deaf representation on screen and it stars acclaimed actor Troy Kotsur.

Gil Rose and Boston Modern Orchestra Project recording in Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Mass.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project is honored for championing overlooked American music

1:59pm October 19, 2021

by Andrea Shea

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards recognized the group known as BMOP for its extraordinary service to overlooked American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.