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The Art World’s Biggest Controversies Of 2021
"The public continued to interrogate museums over their treatment of workers, their attachments to patrons with problematic sources of wealth, and their dragon-like hold...
AI Robots Are Digitally Reconstructing Lost Works Of Great Art
It's happening with works by the likes of Klimt, Picasso, Rembrandt. Most controversially, if the only surviving photos of a lost work are in...
Censored Versions Of Books And Films Released In Spain Under Franco Are Still In...
The dictatorship's censors were all too thorough: scenes were even cut from It's a Wonderful Life — and the doctored version of that film...
“A Movie In Conversation With Its Own History”: How Spielberg And Kushner Retrofitted “West...
"Vulture's theater desk, Helen Shaw and Jackson McHenry, discuss the 2021 version, how it alters a hugely familiar piece of art, and how and...
Dostoevsky And The True Crime Craze In 1860s Russia
How the pulp nonfiction devoured by the public during Tsar Alexander II's reign led to Crime and Punishment — and how Dostoevsky used the...
Good Things Happen When A Variety Of Black Viewpoints Can Be Seen On Broadway
"In the last few weeks, I've seen … Trouble in Mind, Caroline, or Change and Clyde's. Individually, their plots and period settings offer great...
Latin American Telenovelas Are Old Hat. The New Hotness Is Turkish Dizis
In many countries these days, including Spanish-speaking ones, the Turkish serial dramas are replacing telenovelas on TV schedules. The popularity of dizis has now...
Creating Choreography For Animated Characters
Sherrie Silver, who usually works with film stars and models, talks with a reporter about how she created, and then communicated to animators, the...
How Merce Cunningham Upended Concert Dance’s Conventions: Technology, Philosophy And Randomness
"This video from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis explores six aspects to Cunningham's 70-year career, from dance maker, collaborator and chance taker, to...
Once Threatened, This One-Million-Pound Artwork Is Being Rehomed
Elyn Zimmerman's rock-and-water installation Marabar was erected in 1984 in the courtyard of the National Geographic Society — which now has other plans for...
When Someone Hears Music That Isn’t There
Here's an explainer about Musical Ear Syndrome — which isn't a form of tinnitus or of audio hallucinations caused by a psychiatric condition. In...
99 Finds: The Most Exciting Art And Artifact Discoveries Of 2021
Sorted into categories such as "Missing masterpieces", "Ancient art", "Prehistoric peoples", African-American and indigenous North American history, and "Royal treasures", here are nearly a...
Saudi Government Wants To Make Its Country The Arab World’s New Filmmaking Capital
With Egypt's once-dominant industry stagnating under the Sisi dictatorship, the government led by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is dropping lots of money...
Belgium’s High Court Overrules Government’s Shutdown Of Cultural Venues
The Council of State, the country's top administrative court, found insufficient justification for prime minister Alexander De Croo's COVID-related order closing theaters, concert halls,...
The Original Novel “Bambi” Was No Cloying Tale For The Kiddies
"Far from being a children's story, Bambi was actually a parable about the inhumane treatment and dangerous precariousness of Jews and other minorities in...
Too Many Words! (The New York Times Dance Critic Has A Problem With Spielberg’s...
Gia Kourlas: "With so much emphasis on dialogue and character development, the tension — the very glue of West Side Story — seeps away....
“Junk Turned Into Art”: L.A.’S Watts Towers At 100
"Are those towers the most powerful act of recycling that California has ever seen? Maybe." Christopher Reynolds recounts the history of their building, including...
A Choreographer Designs Movement For Robots So That Humans Will Trust Them (And Maybe...
Folks may love R2-D2 and WALL-E up on the screen, but they tend to be suspicious of robots in real life, especially when they...
“A Ring Of Authenticity”: Period Instruments Make An Astonishing Difference In Kent Nagano’s “Das...
"Put it this way," writes David Patrick Stearns, "in a year when Berlin, London, and much of the operatic world were abuzz over higher-profile...
How Many Stars Can Hollywood Cram Into One Movie?
More than ever before, both in blockbusters (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Eternals) and prestige pictures (Nightmare Alley, The French Dispatch), casts are being packed...
Boston’s New Mayor Has Big Plans For The Arts
"It's impossible to separate out 'arts issues' and 'arts equity' issues, from the stabilization of our communities," says Michelle Wu. Among her priorities are...
Los Angeles’s Leading Arts Institutions Will Require Audience Members To Have Booster Shots
Beginning in mid-January, audience members at all performances at the Ahmanson Theater and Mark Taper Forum, as well as those by the Philharmonic and...
Amid The Omicron Wave, Understudies Have Become The Heroes Of Broadway
As cast members test positive for the new coronavirus variant and have to isolate, these under-recognized performers — many of whom must master two...
Filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée Dies Suddenly At 58
The director of the Oscar-nominated films Dallas Buyers Club and Wild and the series Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, Vallée was found in...
Belgium Agrees To Return Art Looted During Colonial Period To DR Congo
"The Belgian government plans to set up an expert commission with the Democratic Republic of Congo that will determine the fate of thousands of...
