Yearly Archives: 2023
Revisiting The Birth Of Drag As America Knows It Today
Queer historian Hugh Ryan describes the scene in Manhattan's then-cheap East Village, which started in the early 1980s as scrappy do-it-yourself performance art, was...
John Baldessari Estate Embroiled In Lawsuits
In one, the estate accused its former gallery and an insurance company of having damaged artworks, some beyond repair. In the other, the estate...
The Scrappy Independent Publisher That Established English As A Language Of Indian Literature
In 1958, P. Lal, Anita Desai, and other Kolkata writers who gathered in a Sunday-morning adda (a long, often serious discussion, very typically Bengali)...
Badge Of Honor: Eight Writers Talk About What It Feels Like To Have Their...
"I find talking about the ridiculousness of the bans sometimes brings laughter, in the ways our people have learned to laugh to keep from...
Inigo Philbrick’s Former Partner-In-Crime Reveals The Tricks They Used To Defraud Art Collectors
"Art dealer Robert Newland, who pleaded guilty last year to his role in a massive fraud scheme with imprisoned dealer Inigo Philbrick, has just...
How Pacific Northwest Ballet Became One Of The Most Diverse Ballet Companies In America
While Boal emphasizes that changes at PNB go beyond numbers, the numbers do reflect the company’s cultural shift. PNB’s current roster of 45 dancers...
Belarus Free Theater Sets Up Shop In Warsaw To Help Out New Exiles
The company's co-founders fled the Lukashenko regime in 2011, settling in London and leading clandestine rehearsals in Minsk via Skype. Now that the rest...
The Cable TV Bundle Is Falling Apart. Long Live The New Bundle!
Already, many cord-cutters are piecing together their own bundle, subscribing to a mix of services including Netflix, Max and Hulu. The deal between Disney...
Argentine Police Make “Historic Seizure” Of Nazi Propaganda And Shutter Local Publisher
"Argentina's Federal Police shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person … during...
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Next Artistic Director Is, For A Change, From New Zealand
After 11 years under three successive leaders from overseas — Ethan Stiefel, Francesco Ventriglia, and Patricia Barker — and a certain amount of discord...
Northern England’s Top Concert Hall Gets A New Name: The Glasshouse
"For 19 years it has been called Sage (Gateshead) after a deal with its donor the Newcastle-based software company Sage. But the tech firm...
Fox Corp. Sued By New York City And Oregon For Lies About 2020 Election
"New York City's pension funds and the state of Oregon took legal action on Tuesday against Fox Corporation, alleging in a lawsuit that the...
2023 Praemium Imperiale Goes To Marsalis, Eliasson, Celmins, Wilson, Kéré
The five recipients of the Japan Art Association's 15 million yen ($102,000) prize, conceived as a Nobel for the arts, are composer/trumpeter Wynton Marsalis,...
The Gilmore Artist Award, A Sort Of MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship For Pianists, Goes To...
The $300,000 quadrennial grant, like the MacArthur, can't be applied for, and candidates don't know they're being considered. Kantorow, now 26, is in illustrious...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago CEO Anthony Freud Announces Early Retirement
The company's fourth general director, and the first to come from elsewhere (he had previously run Houston Grand Opera and Welsh National Opera), Freud...
Arts Leadership Shakeups In Portland, Oregon
The opera, symphony and several other organizations have new leadership. It's a changing of the guard familiar now in many American communities. - Oregon...
Spotify Denies “30-Second-Loop” Can Game Royalties Payout
Concerns have been raised that artificial streaming - where devices run chosen tracks on loop - is hindering the music industry, with JP Morgan...
Your 2034th Admonition: You Really Should Care About The Data Companies Are Collecting On...
Retail companies do collect massive volumes of terrifically sensitive data. They do this not only to predict your future behavior, but to influence it....
The Complicated Rise Of Curators Of Color
This tension—between changing the institution from the inside and protesting it from the outside—is not only a psychological conflict for young curators, often of...
The Living Heritage Of Marrakech Lost In The Earthquake
The UNESCO designation was a historical acknowledgment of the traditions of poor and rural communities that can often get left out of larger conversations...
An Initiative: 18 Communities And Theatre Around An Idea
Given the atomization of American culture, the communities will not present a single show — in fact, many of them are not staging shows...
Does Studying A New Language Interfere With The Foreign Languages You’ve Already Learned?
"This is a frequent observation among multilinguals, that 'Languages can co-exist, but they tussle, as do siblings, over mental resources and attention,' as (language...
So You Want To Make A Play. It’s Tough…
We quit on our work much more readily than our work quits on us. We walk away, we claim defeat, we belittle our inadequate...
1948, The Worst Year Of John Steinbeck’s Life
"His best friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, had died in a train crash, before his second wife, Gwyn, left him and took their...
Own Culture? You Better Have A Physical Copy Of It
Every time news breaks of one of these deletions, a refrain echoes online: Buy physical media! The internet is too impermanent, the argument goes: The real...
