Germany Raises Its Arts Spending Even More
As American arts workers watch and weep with envy, "Germany's new culture minister, Claudia Roth, has announced a 2022 budget of €2.3 billion ($2.4...
What Guston’s Cartoon Klan Tells Us
Guston didn’t know what to say about the Klan or about racial violence, except that he knew to fear it as a Jew, and...
The Conflicts Of Ego It Takes To Be A Writer
The act of writing poses a predicament for anyone who recognizes the temptations of pride and self-aggrandizement. We simultaneously desire to attract recognition and...
LA MoCA Imports New Chief Curator From Tate Modern
An L.A. native, Clara Kim has been senior curator of international art at Tate Modern since 2016, where she organized an acclaimed survey of...
Edmonton Symphony Music Director Departs For Germany
What everyone agrees on is that this very talented and still very young conductor will have the kind of opportunities in Germany that simply...
Study: Male Film Critics Dominate
The report, titled “Thumbs Down: Film Critics and Gender, and Why It Matters,” shows that in early 2022, males continue to outnumber their female...
Would We All Be Better Off without Philanthropy?
Philanthropists rarely make the large, unrestricted gifts that the receiving institutions really want, and so the two parties bargain: over the purpose and the...
“Imagineering” Existed For Decades Before Disney Trademarked The Word
The people who coined the word, it seems, were the Word War II-era marketers at, of all companies, Alcoa. And through the 1980s and...
The New Energy Behind Street Dance
“Dancing is a form of escapism for some of us,” Diamond Hardiman, a 28-year-old dancer from Chicago, tells me. “So it’s about being real...
More Inflammatory Opinions From David Mamet (About Theater, Not Just Politics)
"What play did you ever see that's changed your life? That's not the purpose of theatre." "Acting has nothing in the world to do...
How Ukraine’s Most Prominent Novelist Is Recording The War
“I think everybody should do what he can do best for the country. The snipers should kill the enemy. The singers should sing for...
If We Described Someone As “A Vocal Figure Skater”, Whom Would You Picture? Probably...
You'd probably picture some winsome soprano singing the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta, not a big, bearded tenor who sings Peter Grimes. But...
Director Guillermo del Toro: The Current State Of Movie-Making Is Unsustainable
“We are in the present losing more movies from the past faster than ever before. It seems like we aren’t, but the mere disappearance...
“Linguistic Convergence” — Why Folks Tend To Start Mimicking The Speech Patterns Of The...
"People tend to converge toward the language they observe around them, whether it's copying word choices, mirroring sentence structures or mimicking pronunciations. ... In...
Juilliard’s Dean Of Dance Has Been Shepherding Through Some Big Changes
"Four years ago, Alicia Graf Mack — a former star of Dance Theatre of Harlem and Alvin Ailey — took the reins of the...
Looks Like Even France’s Film Industry Has Had Enough Of Roman Polanski
His career flourished there after he fled statutory rape charges in the US in 1973. But there was a huge backlash when he won...
Is That Long-Lost Painting The Italian Police Just Recovered Really A Titian?
The Carabinieri say so, but at least two prominent art professionals disagree: Titian scholar Andrea Donati ("sensationally wrong ... I cannot even see the...
“This Is No Longer A Magazine Company”, Says Condé Nast’s CEO
Roger Lynch: "We have 70 million people who read our magazines, but 300-something million that interact with our websites every month and 450 million...
“Saturday Night Live” Was A Sexual Harassment Hotbed
"Multiple former female staffers from the early aughts of the long-running sketch show described an environment that was routinely uncomfortable and at times unsafe....
Even As It Impresses The World, South Korea’s Film/TV Industry Is Struggling Domestically
"Insiders say the Korean film industry is facing a host of deeply rooted challenges that were only exacerbated during the pandemic, from the rise...
France Has A(nother) New Culture Minister
Rima Abdul Malak, who as a child fled with her family to France from the Lebanese Civil War, succeeds Roselyne Bachelot, who was in...
Report: Only 22 Percent Of UK Music Festival Headliners Are Women
Two major projects were launched in 2017 aimed at getting more female acts on stages - ReBalance and KeyChange - after a BBC study had found around 80% of...
Italian Police Find Missing Titian After Two Decades
Discovered by a Turin branch of the cultural heritage unit, a subsidiary of the Italian state police known as the Carabinieri, the 16th-century work,...
Not What You Thinks: How The Internet Is Destroying Us
We can at least say of the oil economy that its environmental damage, and consequent destruction of the human world, is only an epiphenomenon,...
Untethered: Our Lives Without Cables
"If the trend towards mobile phones continues, and there’s little reason to believe it won’t, landline phones could soon become an endangered species, much...
