Of Funding, Arts, And Innovation
Pre-COVID, Boston’s arts organizations had a pragmatic approach—they prioritized ticket sales over experimentation. As a result, Boston’s arts sector produces fewer new works than...
Melding Indigenous Music With Avant Garde Experimenting
The record is an unusual proposition: A rare fusion of pow wow—an Indigenous culture of music and dance—and experimental electronic production. Holding it all...
Even Sleeping Sickness Can Be The Subject of An Opera
Composer Tobias Picker and librettist Dr. Aryeh Lev Stollman have written Awakenings, based on the late neurologist Oliver Sacks's memoir/case study about treating encephalitis...
Casualty Of War: Russian Artists, Scientists, Creatives, Are Leaving
How low has Putin driven Russian culture? Here are two indications. Thousands of scientists and other intellectuals along with hundreds of ballet dancers and other...
Inigo Philbrick — The Rise And Ruin Of A Talented And Charismatic Art Dealer
He had knowledge, taste, charm; two high-profile galleries; a beautiful partner and baby daughter. Now he's in prison for fraud, internationally reviled, and owes...
Brilliant Scientific Breakthroughs Are The Product Of Their Context And Culture
The scientific revolutions of the last four centuries took place not just at the same time as political and religious conflict, invasion and enslavement,...
Here’s The Guy Who Oversees All Of Netflix’s Standup Comedy Shows
Robbie Praw, who spent 12 years as programmer at Just for Laughs in Montreal before joining Netflix in 2016, talks about how he chooses...
Basquiat Was A Subversive Artist. Now He’s Just A Brand
Sanitized and caricatured by corporate marketing schemes, Basquiat’s work has been defanged. Today, Basquiat the artist has become Basquiat the brand. - Jacobin
A New Festival To Showcase A Midcareer Playwright New York Ought To See More...
Volt, an annual project whose first featured writer is Karen Hartman, is meant to spotlight, as founder Val Day put it, "somebody who (is)...
It Appears That Chimpanzees Have Their Own Language, Complete With Words And Simple Sentences
Researchers have found that a troop of 46 chimps in the Ivory Coast has 390 unique vocal sequences that they use among themselves. They...
The Art, And The Power, Of Volodymyr Zelensky’s War Videos
"They serve as field reporting, pleas for weapons, arias that glorify Ukraine. But the videos have done more than win Ukraine moral and military...
After 27 Years, The Opera About Harvey Milk Has Been Completely Reworked
Composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie have removed 70 minutes, and many cameo roles, from Milk, and made arrangements for orchestras of 66...
“We Need A National Memorial To Gun Violence, Now.”
"It must be close to the Capitol, close enough to implicate and shame those inside it on a daily basis. ... After every mass...
Ex-Director And Curators At The Louvre Detained For Questioning In Antiquities Trafficking Case
Jean-Luc Martinez, who stepped down as director last year when his contract wasn't renewed, as well as the head of the museum's Egyptian art...
Bèlè, Martinique’s Very Own Dance Of Emancipation
An Afro-Caribbean repertoire of quadrille square dances (accompanied by drumming and singing) that combines a complicated vocabulary of symbolic movements with improvisation, bèlè is...
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...
