Could Will Smith Lose His Oscar?
Hollywood-watchers say the academy is walking a tightrope: how can it take a stand now after failing to act against other members' misconduct for decades?...
Ed Sheeran Wins Song Plagiarism Fight
In a video on social media, he said there was now a culture "where a claim is made with the idea that a settlement...
UN Climate Report Slams Contemporary Architecture
Policies that favor wasteful new construction, and do little to encourage environmentally minded retrofits, have hindered the building industry’s ability to curb its footprint. -...
LA’s Comedy Store Turns 50
The late co-founder and longtime owner Mitzi Shore always envisioned the historic institution on L.A.’s Sunset Boulevard as an “artists colony,” a protected enclave...
Entertainment Glut: Streaming Platforms Offer 100s Of Thousands Of Shows
As of February 2022, there were more than 817,000 unique program titles across traditional TV and streaming services in the U.S., with many of...
English National Opera’s New Director Meets A Challenging Job With A Challenging Opera
On top of COVID troubles, whoever runs ENO faces the perennial problems of precarious state funding and being the underdog company in London. Annilese...
Is There A Relationship Between Sadness And Making Art?
The data (as well as Aristotle’s intuition, per his question about the prominence of melancholics in the arts) suggest that the answer is yes. -...
The Armenian Christian Who Paints Exquisite Mosque Domes
"When people ask Harout Bastajian how a Christian is creating the decorative program of a mosque, he likes to answer, 'God works in mysterious...
War, Images, And Ukraine
The fact that Ukraine feels more culturally familiar to many people watching these events closely has had a profound impact not just on the...
Swahili — How A Little Coastal Dialect Became Africa’s Most Widely Spoken Language
Native to the East African coast, Swahili developed as a lingua franca for various nationalities doing business in busy ports like Zanzibar. Now Swahili...
Marin Alsop On Reimagining Beethoven’s Ninth
"The thing that always struck me about the symphony is that you have the sense that the listeners are enduring the first three movements...
An Andy Warhol Bioplay Becomes A Pilgrim’s Progress Through Manhattan’s East Village
"Blurring the lines between a walking tour and the theater, Chasing Andy Warhol sets off from New York's Astor Place Cube, with actors lying...
The Collapse Of Russian Theatre
Artur Solomonov describes the mood in the Russian theaters in the wake of the invasion as “complete shock . . . the realization that...
After A False Start, David Hallberg Finally Presents Australia’s First Nationwide Dance Festival
The former ABT star, now artistic director of the Australian Ballet, wanted to bring together leading dance companies from all over the country for...
For The Second Time, The Roman Villa With Caravaggio’s Only Ceiling Mural Fails To...
In January, the Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, also known as Villa Aurora, was put up for auction with a floor price of €471...
North Carolina’s Biggest Public Radio Station Is Thriving. Can It Fill In Local News...
WUNC is no. 1 in the ratings for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill radio market, has $20 million in cash reserves, devoted listeners ready to donate,...
Florida Judge Rules That It Was Just Fine For Miami Beach To Censor A...
"A district court judge in Florida ruled that the City of Miami Beach had the right to censor a public artwork depicting Raymond Herisse,...
The Media Mogul At The Center Of The French Presidential Election
"Vincent Bolloré wields a fearsome agenda-setting power; his outlets, known for adopting the tics and style of Fox News, play an outsize role in...
Le Monde Launches An English-Language Version
"The leading French daily, with 425,000 digital subscribers to date, plans to reach 1 million paying readers in the next two to three years,...
Caracas’s Museum of Modern Art Starts To Emerge From Venezuela’s Years Of Chaos
After two years' closure, and with both storage/maintenance of the collection and staff salaries desperately underfunded, five of the museum's 13 display rooms have...
When Crosswords Became A Craze (100 Years Ago)
The modern “word-cross” appeared for the first time in print in the December 21, 1913 edition of New York World’s FUN Supplement. Section editor Arthur...
The Mythologies Of The Writer’s Blank Page
If all works of literature are haunted by the ideal forms of which they are but imperfect instantiations, then the blank book symbolises the...
Can African Museums Transcend Colonial History?
Is an African museum, designed by an African architect, capable of undoing this level of institutional violence? Can it go beyond a restaging of...
How Classical Music Influences Heavy Metal Pop
One can be forgiven for failing to see any common threads between these two seemingly divergent entities. However, a closer look reveals evidence to...
The Bridgerton Factor: Viewers Flocking To English Country Estates
The regal properties are reporting a “Bridgerton factor” as people enchanted by the baroque interiors and bucolic gardens of the hit show decide to...
