Putin Suggests Merging Bolshoi And Mariinsky Theaters Under Valery Gergiev’s Direction
After Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin signed a petition for ending Russia's war in Ukraine and one of the Bolshoi's star ballerinas abruptly emigrated, the...
Supreme Court To Rule On Fair Use In Warhol Work
The case will test fair use defense to copyright infringement and how to assess if a new work based on an older one meaningfully...
Second-Lowest Oscar Ratings Ever
The early results showed a 56 percent improvement on the 9.6 million people who watched last year’s event, according to ABC, though Sunday night’s show...
Why Do We Still Need Religion?
Part of the reason people are attracted to religion is that its rituals – the standing, sitting and kneeling in unison, the singing, the...
Revival Of Surrealism In A Surreal Age
Certainly, if you consider what’s currently happening in visual arts, it appears that we are in a major Surrealist revival. The most prominent bellwether...
The Quantifiable, Scientific Measure Of Art
Art historians may say that they do not need numbers. There is the art: you just need to look, think, and write. But that...
Studies: Children Learn As Much From Guided Play As From Adult Instruction
Researchers looked at 39 studies of play and included 17 in a meta-analysis that found when children ages three to eight engage in guided...
The Oscars’ Audience Problem
The Oscars face a litany of problems, some of which are out of the organization’s control and others that are self-inflicted. Those include the...
What Happens When Students Learn History Through Video Games
Academic historians must now grapple with a new breed of students “for whom Paradox is the historical mother tongue and actual history is only...
San Francisco’s Iconic TransAmerica Tower To Get Major Restoration
The project is expected to cost $400 million, with $250 million to renovate the pyramid Redwood Park and the Mark Twain Street located on...
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: No Excuse For Russian Artists Not To Oppose Russian War On...
Baryshnikov, the actor and ballet star, launched a fundraising drive to support Ukraine. But he also said Russian stars who do not speak out should...
What’s The Deal With The Mid-Century Modern Obsession?
"In a noisy, high-tech society, it’s no wonder they’re all the craze, but it appears mid-century modernism’s cultish popularity has all but blinded us...
The Oral History Of Blue Man Group
"That this undeniably unusual show found an audience when it launched ... made a certain kind of sense for the era. But its lasting...
Let The Streamer Floodgates Open
And yet: "After years of Netflix and Amazon trying to produce and acquire their way to the top—despite the Hollywood old-schoolers who looked down...
How CODA Came From Way Behind To Win The Oscars
Timing (and a relentless campaign): "After the bombast of awards season, it seemed fresh and fulfilling: a movie that told its story with a...
What It Took To Produce The Oscars This Year, By The Numbers
Fourteen miles of fiber optic cable, 1500 lighting instruments, 14,000 PCR tests ... and a longer broadcast despite having fewer awards presented in full....
That Familiar Video Game Jump Sound Dates To The 1970s
Truly, the first video games were silent. Can you imagine? But: "The hup, as it’s sometimes known, is the onomatopoetic vocalization of effort given by...
Sadly, Halle Barry’s Win Changed Nothing For Black Women At The Oscars
"If Monster’s Ball is still the only movie in which a performance from a Black actress is recognized as superlative, does that mean that Leticia Musgrove...
You Know Which Russian Composer Isn’t Suffering In The West?
Tchaikovsky. Just look at the Met's revival of Eugene Onegin. - The New York Times
William Morris’s Farmhouse Is Restored And Reopening, After Millions Of Pounds And Many Years
Kelmscott Manor "was a place of huge inspiration for an artist who dramatically influenced fashions and ideologies with fabrics and furniture, stained glass and...
The British Museum Removes The Sackler Name From Its Walls
Mostly. "The Sackler name would remain on a list of donors to the museum’s Great Court, because the museum 'has always recognized the important...
How Propaganda Became Entertaining
Blame (or praise) WWII. - The Atlantic
Journalists Supposedly Run Toward Wars, And So Did This Illustrator
Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, artist George Butler took flights, busses, and other paths "to Odesa in southern Ukraine, where he stayed for...
The Artist Studios Of The World Trade Center
They're part of a nonprofit that helps provide NY artists "with places where they can work, a signature need for artists in a real...
Samuel L. Jackson’s Honorary Oscar Award Speech Was Pretty Great
The 73-year-old actor was nominated, but didn't win, for his role in Pulp Fiction. "In an emotional acceptance speech, Jackson looked back on his...
