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And What’s The New York Times’s Initial Verdict On The New David Geffen Hall’s...
Zachary Woolfe: "Any judgment on a hall's acoustics is highly provisional after just a few visits. ... But a mighty improvement is already obvious....
Now Climate Activists Are Throwing Soup At Van Gogh Paintings
Not that they've stopped gluing themselves to art, mind you. A pair from the group Just Stop Oil went to London's National Gallery and...
The Very Antithesis Of A Modern Major Ballet Company: SFDanceworks
Interim artistic director Dana Genshaft: "What attracted me was that SFDW felt like going camping: leaving structures of a big machine behind, self-producing, finding...
Gleeful Trashiness Is What Makes American Culture Fun. But The Culture Wars Have Chased...
Wesley Morris: "The gutter is where our popular culture began, and the gaminess lurking there is our truest guise. ... Trash is a persistent,...
Subtly As Well As Brazenly, Russian Action Movies Are Propagandizing For Putin’s Ukrainian War
"For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from...
Spotify Has Insisted On Exclusive Rights To The Podcasts It Carries. Maybe That Wasn’t...
The podcast industry built itself on an open ecosystem: any podcast player could make any particular podcast available. Then Spotify, after it bought Gimlet...
What’s A Poor Stage Director To Do When The Script Calls For Eyeballs Coming...
Michael Longhurst, Ned Bennett, Milli Bhatia, and Nadia Latif talk about meeting the challenge of staging the (presumably) unstageable. - The Guardian
Black Writers And Characters Are Appearing In American Fiction More Than Ever Before. Here’s...
"Our current problem isn't an insufficient amount of Black representation in literature but a surfeit of it. And in many cases that means simply...
Intimidation And Self-Censorship Are Rampant In Poland’s Cultural Sphere, Says Report
"The 100-page report ... claims that instead of establishing an explicit, centralized censorship regime, the leading the Law and Justice party has taken a...
This Fernand Léger Painting Was Missing For 100 Years. Turned Out It Was On...
"A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas. The work, an unnamed piece from...
Which San Antonio Orchestra Will Get County Funding? There’s Been A Bit Of A...
The problem: during the period between the board closing the San Antonio Symphony and the musicians forming the new San Antonio Philharmonic, a stopgap...
He’s Actually Going Through With It: Damien Hirst Is Burning His Own Paintings After...
"A lot of people think I'm burning millions of dollars of art but I'm not. I'm completing the transformation of these physical artworks into...
Here Are The 2022 Winners Of The MacArthur Fellowships (Okay, The “Genius Awards”)
The arts figures included in this year's class of winners are visual artists Paul Chan and Tavares Strachan; musician/scholar Martha Gonzalez; film/video artist Sly...
Special High-Tech Glasses For Color-Blind Visitors At The Dallas Museum Of Art
Glasses from the specialist manufacturer EnChroma "use cutting-edge lens technology to enhance the color perception of visitors with red-green deficiency ... to give color...
“A Strange Loop” Will Have The Shortest Run Of Any Recent Best Musical Winner
"(The Tony and Pulitzer winner) will close on Broadway on Jan. 15, after a short run that reflects the industry's ongoing pandemic-related struggles and...
Why Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Is So Pleased To Be Taking Over Geneva’s Ballet
"Although I was born in Flanders, I sometimes feel like a foreigner because of my background and the way my life has gone. In...
How Hindu Nationalists Have Intimated And Bullied Bollywood Into Submission
Actors and directors are threatened by crowds and harassed by authorities; occasionally, a film set is vandalized; some stories become off-limits. "Out of fear,...
Toshi Ichiyanagi, Composer And Major Figure In Japan’s Avant-Garde (And The First Mr. Yoko...
"(He was) a pioneer, using free-spirited compositional techniques that left much to chance, incorporating ... traditional Japanese elements and instruments but also electronic music....
Cate Blanchett Works Very, Very Hard, And She Really, Really Doesn’t Like To Talk...
"It's the eternal problem where you make a deep, instinctual connection with something ... but then you move through it, you put it out...
How Much Is The Life Of Cate Blanchett’s Character In “Tár” Like That Of...
In terms of the music-making, Justin Davidson observes, Blanchett and filmmaker Todd Field do very well. But Lydia Tár's awful behavior? She could've gotten...
A New Online History Museum Takes On A Very Touchy Event: The Spanish Civil...
"The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, ... which bills itself as the 'first museum dedicated to this central event of 20th-century history',...
Classical Music Groups Developed Some Impressive Online Programming During The Shutdown. What Happens To...
"Organizations are now accepting the fact that they will need an online presence, but ... they (also) want to be able to focus on...
CNN Drops Its NFT Project, “Vault by CNN”
"You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace for its own NFTs...
Russian Missile Strikes Targeted, And Hit, Museums And Cultural Sites In Kyiv
Among the institutions damaged by missile fire, reported Ukraine's culture minister, are the Kyiv Art Gallery, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, the National Philharmonic,...
How The Acousticians Went About Fixing David Geffen Hall
Rivka Galchen looks into the development of acoustical engineering as a craft (which goes all the way back to Chichén Itzá and Hagia Sophia)...
