‘Storytelling has become the art of world building’: Avatar and the rise of the paracosm | Movies

James Cameron on the set of Avatar in 2009.

“I’m kind of just living on Pandora right now,” said James Cameron recently, as he tinkered with a remaster of his 2009 blockbuster Avatar, for rerelease in preparation for its sequel, Avatar: The Way of […]

Jesse Malin Announces Expanded 20th Anniversary Reissue of ‘The Fine Art of Self Destruction, Shares New Video for “Brooklyn (Walt Whitman in the Trash)”

Jesse Malin Announces Expanded 20th Anniversary Reissue of 'The Fine Art of Self Destruction, Shares New Video for "Brooklyn (Walt Whitman in the Trash)"

Photo Credit: Vivian Wang Jesse Malin has announced plans to reissue his celebrated 2003 debut, The Fine Art of Self Destruction. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the acclaimed drop, the artist has shared details […]

Artists, Industry Leaders Join Together to ‘Protect Black Art’

Protect Black Art open letter

Photo Credit: Warner Music Group Several artists, industry leaders, and legal experts have released an open letter in a call to Protect Black Art. The open letter was published in The New York Times and […]

Get stuffed: TV, art, books and more devoted to food, glorious food | Culture

Ramen obsessive Ivan Orkin.

Music Between Bonita Applebum, Butter and the Jam, hip-hop titans A Tribe Called Quest are not shy about paying gastronomic homage. On Ham’n’Eggs, floating like croutons over a languid beat-soup, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg tie […]

Getty Images CEO says firms racing to sell AI art could be stepping into illegal territory

Image: Bria

Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has criticized companies “racing” to commercialize AI art generators, saying firms aren’t thinking through the potential legal and ethical hazards of the technology. In an interview with The Verge, Peters […]

Kelly Rowland, Quinta Brunson, & Issa Rae Bring Their Fashion A-Game to Wearable Art Gala 2022

Wearable Art Gala

The stars are stepping out for the 2022 Wearable Art Gala! Kelly Rowland, Quinta Brunson, and Issa Rae joined tons of other stars at the event hosted by Tina Knowles-Lawson and Richard Lawson on Saturday […]

Column: I’m playing an Art Laboe album to counteract the noxious vibe from L.A. City Hall

Memories of El Monte

In 1993, my parents saved up enough money to buy a massive Kenwood home entertainment system complete with gigantic speakers and a five-CD player. I remember the exact year because the first CD I ever […]

Art Laboe death: L.A.’s radio community pays tribute to icon

Art Laboe death: L.A.'s radio community pays tribute to icon

Los Angeles’ music and radio communities are mourning the loss of prolific “Oldies but Goodies” disc jockey Art Laboe, who died on Friday. The Instagram page for his syndicated show, “The Art Laboe Connection,” announced […]

Ancient Egypt unleashed: how the gods, pharaohs, monsters and murderers shattered their silence | Art and design

Also available as a snow globe … the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum.

We are speeding north out of Cairo, careering along fast, wide roads through a desert landscape and out into antiquity. After three hours, we reach Rashid, once known as Rosetta, a port city on the […]

Bush’s Gavin Rossdale on New Album The Art of Survival: Podcast

Bush's Gavin Rossdale on New Album The Art of Survival: Podcast

Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Gavin Rossdale catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about The Art of Survival and why it ended up being one of Bush’s heaviest albums. The songwriter talks […]