Monthly Archives: May 2024
Met Opera Had Only Four Female Conductors In Its First 133 Years. Last Month...
From the company's opening in 1883 to eight years ago, there were only Sarah Caldwell (1976), Simone Young (1996), Jane Glover (2013), and Susanna...
Canada’s Screenwriters Agree To New Contract With Independent Producers
"The Writers Guild of Canada and the Canadian Media Producers Association, representing local indie film and television producers, have agreed terms for a new...
Kevin Spacey Will Face A Civil Trial In London For Sexual Assault — And...
Earlier this year, the judge in the case delivered a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff because Spacey's attorneys failed to submit their...
Minnesota Passes “Taylor Swift Law” Protecting Online Ticket Buyers
"The law, prompted by the frustration a legislator felt at not being able to buy tickets to Swift’s 2023 concert in Minneapolis, will require...
The Art Vandals Who Threw Soup At Mona Lisa Strike The Hall of Mirrors...
These aren't climate-protesting art vandals, exactly; they're anti-inequality and agriculture protesters from the group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Counterattack). They threw orange-colored clay powder around...
Peter Schjeldahl: Why Frank Stella Mattered
Arriving at the all-time peak of American hegemony in world art, Stella was the poster prodigy of a new breed of artists: post-bohemian, university-trained,...
ByteDance Sues US Government Over TikTok Ban
ByteDance has said it can’t and won’t sell its U.S. operations by the deadline, leaving litigation as its best hope to maintain its U.S. market. The lawsuit accuses...
Reaching For Historical Parallels: Why Thucydides Still Resonates
Thucydides knew that we did not have full control of the analogies that shape our deliberations, especially in public life. Our analogical vocabulary is...
The British Museum’s Blockbuster Wars
In the past year or so, the British Museum has been wrestling—often in public, and often to its considerable embarrassment—with what might be characterized...
Does The World Really Need Literary Criticism?
If we look at the longer history of the study of literature... it’s only at the very end of the 20th century that we...
Is The Art World Obsessed With Making Us Feel Bad?
Plenty of art today shows us how terrible the world is, and we eat it up. Maurizio Cattelan knows this, and will gladly take...
Nikolaj Hübbe To Step Down As Artistic Director Of Royal Danish Ballet
Hübbe, who became a major star during his 18 years as a principal at New York City Ballet, returned to his homeland in 2008...
The Many Crises Facing Opera
"The orchestral sector and the opera and ballet sectors are facing a funding crisis at the moment, which might mean that the focus is...
Tests Of Beethoven’s Hair Indicate Astounding Levels Of Lead And Arsenic
It's not clear that the toxins (which likely came from wine, food, and ointments) were enough to kill the composer, but they were certainly...
Art Vandals Tag Courbet’s “Origin Of The World” With “MeToo” Graffiti
The stunt at the Pompidou Center Metz was organized by performance artist Deborah de Robertis (the one who was arrested in 2018 for getting...
Le Monde Started Translating Its Stories Into English. Here’s What It Learned
"We feel that our reporting is good enough to exist globally and we feel that it's important to add a different perspective than the...
The Prado Confirms That The Painting Rescued From Auction In 2021 Is A Caravaggio
"(The Madrid museum) said in a statement the work, titled Ecce Homo (Latin for 'Behold the Man') by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio will go...
After Recent Events, What Will Academic Freedom Look Like?
Professors and students have a right to express themselves on campuses but universities have restricted when and how they can do so, with limitations...
State Of The Arts In The US: Post-Pandemic, Do Organizations Have Enough Working Capital?
"To explore how organizations’ bottom line and working capital have fared over the last few years, we analyzed data from FY 2019 to 2023...
Fans Of Utah Symphony Fear That Its Concert Hall Could Be Torn Down
"The suggestion that the 45-year-old Abravanel Hall could be demolished or altered has been floated as Smith Entertainment Group — the company ... that...
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Artistic Director Resigns; Musicians Vote No Confidence In Managing Director
Kyu-Young Kim cited "recent organizational decisions and shifts in priorities" for his decision, though he will continue as concertmaster. Subsequently, the 28 members of...
Pulitzer Prize For Criticism Goes To Justin Chang For His Los Angeles Times Film...
Cited for his "richly evocative and genre-spanning film criticism that reflects on the contemporary moviegoing experience," Chang worked at the L.A. Times for nearly...
Tyshawn Sorey Wins Pulitzer Prize For Music For “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)”
Sorey takes honors this year after having been a finalist last year for his Monochromatic Light (Afterlife). Adagio, which "moves at a glacial pace,...
“Primary Trust” By Eboni Booth Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama
The story of a middle-aged man suddenly laid off from his job at a bookstore, Primary Trust premiered last summer at New York's Roundabout...
Jayne Anne Phillips’s “Night Watch”, Jonathan Eig’s “King: A Life” Among Winners Of 2024...
Night Watch took honors for fiction, Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama for general nonfiction, Cristina Rivera Garza's Liliana’s Invincible...
