Money From Cancelled NEH Grants Will Go To Trump’s “Garden Of American Heroes”
“After abruptly terminating critical grants to libraries, museums, and archives across the country last week, the National Endowment for the Humanities intends to redirect some of...
Chicago Arts Leaders Openly Complain Of “Dysfunction” At City’s Cultural Affairs Dept.
“More than 140 Chicago artists and cultural leaders are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to address ‘dysfunction’ within the city’s Cultural Affairs department (under...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Finds Its New Director Right There At Home
“After an international search, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has selected its next director and CEO from within its own ranks. Pierre Terjanian, who...
“Monty Python And The Holy Grail” At 50: Michael Palin And Terry Gilliam Look...
Palin: "I say to people, 'Led Zeppelin gave us £50,000 – and look where they are now.'" Gilliam: "Thank God for rock'n'roll is all...
The List Keepers: Recording And Memorializing How AIDS Ravaged New York Theater
“More than 40 years after the start of the epidemic, the full numerical scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater...
The Smithsonian’s Notion Of History Is At Odds With Trump. So Now What?
The idea that American history is polyphonic and unflinching, a warts-and-all story relevant to all Americans, is so deeply embedded in the Smithsonian that it is...
The “Goodbye Line” Pay Phones To Say Goodbye In LA
"You use a pay phone in a different way than you use a cellphone. It's not in your pocket. You go and do this...
How We Figure Out Whether The Work Was Worth It
These changing patterns show that one’s relationship with effort isn’t simple. For many people, there’s a sweet spot – a little effort might make...
Simon Russell Beale Has Issues With “Titus Andronicus”
And yest he’s currently rehearsing the title role at the RSC. “There are certain plays in the canon that teeter on the edge of...
The West, In Its Abundance, Has Gotten Intellectually Lazy
In place of pain, we have ennui, the quintessential modern condition. It follows directly from overabundance: an endless stream of video “content” or chocolate...
Thomas Pynchon’s First New Book In A Decade
Shadow Ticket, due out in October, will be the American novelist’s 10th book. Like his previous two, Inherent Vice (2009) and Bleeding Edge (2013),...
So Much Literature Is Built On The Premise Of Sexual Jealousy. But Today’s Students…
"Sexual jealousy is an emotion that was once thought to be so universal, such a commonplace experience of a person in love, that no...
Jesse Kornbluth, Extraordinarily Prolific And Versatile Magazine Writer, Is Dead At 79
“(His) sly chronicles of cultural excess, celebrity and author profiles, personal essays and investigative work enlivened the pages of a newsstand’s worth of magazines...
Gatsby At 100 Still Resonates
Today the wealth gap is just as significant as it was in Gatsby’s time, but now everyone has a phone. No matter our background,...
Foreign Artists Are Reconsidering Touring In The US
It’s never been easy or cheap for global acts to tour here, but visa fees are up and wait times have risen substantially over...
Global Art Sales Down In 2024
Global sales of art and antiques have fallen for a second consecutive year, declining by 12% in 2024 to an estimated $57.5 billion, according...
A Writer Remembers His Astonishingly Well-Paid Gig With Graydon Carter’s Vanity Fair
Bryan Burroughs: “For sheer cushiness, there’s a case to be made that there has never been a more palatial home for writers than Vanity Fair during...
Britain To Get Its Own Version Of “Saturday Night Live”
“The U.K. version, produced with Sky Studios, will have a British cast of comedians — to be announced later — and follow the same format with...
Why Some Dance Companies Are Giving Up On Social Media
“At first, these outlets seemed good for dance. … They could expose dance to larger mainstream audiences. They could help democratize an industry infamous...
Trump, The Smithsonian, And Dueling Conceptions Of American History
Philip Kennicott on the administration’s attitude toward the Smithsonian's African-American and Indian Museums: “Simply put, Trump would like the actual practice of history —...
National Gallery Of Art To Loan Works To Museums Across The U.S.
“As part of its programming to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States next year, the NGA has launched ‘Across the Nation,’ which...
San Francisco’s Fillmore Jazz Festival Rescued From Cancellation By Donor
“The Fillmore Jazz Festival has been saved days after organizers decided to cancel the annual event thanks to a nonprofit organization helmed by San Francisco crypto...
Russian-American Dancer Imprisoned By Putin’s Regime For Treason Is Released
Ksenia Karelina, also identified in the media as Ksenia Khavana … was arrested in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg in February 2024 and...
The Latest Discoveries At The Funeral Temple Of Ramses II
Archaeologists have finally found physical evidence for something they had long suspected: the temple complex included an educational institution, likely for training scribes and...
The Key To Courage In Uncertain Times
Paul Tillich defines “the courage to be” as “the ethical act in which man affirms his own being in spite of those elements of...
