MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Arts & Culture Stories from NPR

• Lorli von Trapp Campbell from the 'Sound of Music' family has died at age 90
  Campbell was born in Austria, the second daughter of Georg and Maria von Trapp and a younger stepsibling to the older von Trapp children who went on to be depicted in the musical and beloved movie.
• Julie Green, who painted plates with the last meals of death row inmates, has died
  The ongoing project, entitled The Last Supper, featured prisoner's final meal requests, from a stuffed-crust meat lover's pizza to an apple pie to a Coke.
• For Oscar Isaac, life — and acting — is all about impermanence
  Isaac says the bonds he makes on set are both meaningful and transient: "You have these really intense months ... and then it goes away." He stars in Dune, The Card Counter and Scenes from a Marriage.
• With 'Dune,' Denis Villeneuve has made Hollywood's definitive post-9/11 epic
  With the new 2021 movie, director Denis Villeneuve turns the novel's meditations on race, culture and colonialism into riveting and undeniable cinema.
• 'Orwell's Roses' centers on the tensions between beauty and labor, joy and suffering
  Rebecca Solnit's latest is a deeply political collection of interlinked essays, of which George Orwell is a part but not the whole; one of its joys is its unexpected turns from one topic to the next.
• 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.
• '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.
• Harry Styles isn't the leader of a fashion revolution, but neither is Billy Porter
  Marginalized members of the LGBT community were pushing the binaries of gender fashion long before celebrities moved in.
• From Scar to James Bond enemy Safin, movie villains have long shared a harmful trope
  The new James Bond film No Time To Die is providing an opportunity for advocates to push back on ways villains are portrayed with scars and other facial differences.
• 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.