Claes Oldenburg, 93
Mr. Oldenburg entered the New York art scene in earnest in the late 1950s, embracing the audience-participation “Happenings” then in vogue and expanding the...
We Miscalculated. The World Is Not A Game
As the scope of algorithm-based applications in social reality has expanded over the past decades, we have by the same measure been conditioned to...
The Meaning Of Art: To Point Out Evil
I am using the word “evil” to encompass the whole range of negative human experience, from being wronged, to doing wrong, to sheer bad...
How NFTs Are Upending The Art World
This so-called revolution strikes at something many hold sacred: the relationship between artist and art, the meaning in an act of creation. What’s happening...
The Complicated Remaking Of Oscar Hammerstein
Of all the great makers of the American song, none has undergone so drastic a change in educated—O.K., call it “élite”—opinion in the past...
Nicholas Payne: The State Of European Opera After COVID
"I think opera went through a sticky time, with all that Darmstadt stuff where people were deliberately writing music that people couldn’t understand, as...
Maryland Institute Of Art Lays Off Employees After They Unionize
The news comes roughly two months after employees working across various departments voted 86–17 on to join SEIU Local 500 on May 24. -...
Are NFTs The Killer App for Tickets? The NFL Experiments
This coming season, each ticket will be an NFT, which means that ticket holders will be able to buy, sell, and trade their tickets...
Adding Back The Color To Those Ancient Greek Statues
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York scatters recreations of what these statues ACTUALLY looked like throughout its galleries:...
The Metropolitan Opera’s Inexorable Decline?
The Metropolitan Opera has been on a downward trajectory for fifty years. For the first thirty or so of those, the descent was gradual,...
For Romans, A Chance To See Art On Its Way Back Home
The Museum of Rescued Art is rescued from thieves, from looters, and occasionally from natural disasters, or time itself. "I think of this as...
What The Newly Discovered Van Gogh Self-Portrait Teaches Us Is This
It's "not hitherto unknown biographical or psychological detail, but an understanding of general artistic process that serves to humanise Van Gogh, to make his...
Gangnam Style Turns Ten, And It Still Holds Records On YouTube
"In December 2012, “Gangnam Style” became the first music video to earn more than a billion views on the platform. That momentum continued to...
Movie And TV Studios Have Extended COVID Protocols Through The End Of September
They're not messing around with omicron variants. - Variety
A Time To Laugh, A Time To Cry
Sometimes, it's easier to attack serious subjects with biting satire - and for Black authors, though that's not exactly new, it is having a...
How Relentless Right-Wing Attacks Shut Down An Entire Library
Vinton, Iowa's library shuttered as the staff resigned after a barrage of attacks. The complaints: "That we were not being fair to President Trump...
Excavation Work Unveils Constantine-Era Rock Layers In Jerusalem
"New excavation findings provide an exciting glimpse into how early churches built within the period known as Late Antiquity were carried out while revealing...
The Rise Of The Messy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine
How Persuasion got itself Fleabagged, and lost Anne Elliot in the bargain. - LitHub
The Art Of Artificial Intelligence
The truly interesting questions concern curating AI art - and that starts with the words a curator feeds into the program. - Wired
How A Small Town Near Liverpool Got A Shakespeare Theatre For The North
It's been a quarter-century of ideas, fundraising, failed plans, failed lotteries, failed trusts - and a lot, lot, lot of donations. - The Observer...
At Cambridge, Changing 350 Years Of Tradition
Outwardly and proudly sexist tradition, that is, as the Boys' Choir of St. John's College becomes simply "The Choir of St. John's College" —...
Theatres Go Through A Sea Change With Fight And Intimacy Choreographers
"I think back to when I was her age, and I wonder how many terrific fight choreographers we missed out on because we had...
Inside The Inventive, Intense Animation For Marcel The Shell’s Big-Screen Debut
"The danger, when you’re dealing with a bigger budget, is that in polishing it up, you might sand down all the things that made...
The Unintended Side Effect Of A Grammy Nomination
For those who don't win, it kills creativity and experimentation. - BBC
A Jukebox Opera Makes Its Debut
"Francesca Zambello, the artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Festival, came up with a novel idea. 'I just said, ‘Let’s do a Rossini comedy...
