Culture
Art is labor, so why aren’t musicians and other artists viewed as workers?
December 21, 2023In the 1930s, artists came to think of themselves as cultural workers and their labor activism exploded.
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‘Saltburn’ review: Dull rich people behaving badly
December 21, 2023It’s a film that attempts to say something profound but fails. Other movies are more worthy of your time and money.
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Feature films featured at TIFF 2023: Focus on the political
December 20, 2023I suggest you look up these impressive feature films with a political theme, that received their debuts at TIFF.
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The (television) season of our discontent: Streaming and striking in 2023
December 20, 2023The year in the TV business can be broken into three parts.
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Online: Tobias Picker’s opera about ‘the Danish girl’ trans patient Lili Elbe
December 19, 2023Moviegoers back in 2015 who saw the film The Danish Girl may have first heard the story there of Lili Elbe, the first known recipient of gender-affirming surgery in the early 1930s, then uncharted, experimental medical...
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