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News Articles: Arts & Life

Children's book illustrator Jerry Pinkney poses in front of two of his illustrations in 2016, at the City Hall in Philadelphia.

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  • Obituaries

Jerry Pinkney, the beloved, award-winning children's book illustrator, has died at 81

The Caldecott Medal winner died of a heart attack on Wednesday. He was known for illustrating over 100 books for readers of all ages, including The Lion and the Mouse and Their Eyes Were Watching God.

October 20, 2021
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  • Neda Ulaby

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  • Movie Reviews

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

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.

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
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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  • Arts & Life

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

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.

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez and
  • Tien Le
Netflix's Los Angeles headquarters, where a rally in support of the employees walking out is set to happen Wednesday.

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  • Arts & Life

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

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

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Gil Rose and Boston Modern Orchestra Project recording in Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Mass.

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  • Music

Boston Modern Orchestra Project is honored for championing overlooked American music

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.

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • Andrea Shea
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

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

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.

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • Terry Gross
<em>Gentrifier: A Memoir,</em> by Anne Elizabeth Moore

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  • Book Reviews

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

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.

October 20, 2021
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  • Kristen Martin
GPB News NPR

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  • Arts & Life

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

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

October 20, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman

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  • Television

Feel like you're missing something in 'Squid Game'? Here's a rundown

Everyone's talking about the Netflix series Squid Game, about debt-ridden South Koreans playing deadly kids' games for cash — and if you feel like you're missing some cultural context, we can help.

October 19, 2021
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By:
  • Janet W. Lee
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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  • Author Interviews

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

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.

October 19, 2021
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Ye, then known as Kanye West, attends the Versace fall 2019 fashion show on Dec. 2, 2018 in New York City.

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  • Music

Kanye West is now officially 'Ye'

The change has been in the works since at least since 2018, when he released a studio album by that name. He has cited its biblical significance as "you," noting "So I'm you, I'm us, it's us."

October 19, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman

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  • Book Reviews

Lucy Barton returns — and reconnects with an old love — in 'Oh William!'

Lucy Barton — the redoubtable memoirist we've met in two previous novels — returns in Elizabeth Strout's Oh William!, reconnecting with her estranged first husband after her second husband dies.

October 19, 2021
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By:
  • Heller McAlpin

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  • Author Interviews

This book of poetry says, 'I have fists,' and the world needs to know

Chinese American poet Jane Wong's new collection, How Not to Be Afraid of Everything, grapples with fear and anger at her family's silence about what they suffered in China's Great Leap Forward.

October 19, 2021
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By:
  • Jeevika Verma

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  • Book Reviews

Jane Goodall encourages all to act to save Earth in 'The Book of Hope'

The primatologist says it's crucial that young people know how positive action can still shift the frightening trajectories of climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the ongoing global pandemic.

October 19, 2021
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By:
  • Barbara J. King
The character Ali Abdul (portrayed by actor Anupam Tripathi) is a Pakistani migrant worker in South Korea whose boss hasn't paid him in months. Ali joins a secret competition called Squid Game to earn money for his family.

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  • Television

What 'Squid Game' gets right and wrong about Pakistani migrant workers

One of the characters in the global Netflix hit is Ali Abdul, a Pakistani migrant working (and exploited) in South Korea. Pakistanis are weighing in on the character — and the casting.

October 18, 2021
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By:
  • Benazir Samad
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