The Historical Inaccuracies Of Netflix’s New Hot Viking Show
For one thing, "Valhalla definitely takes place in a universe where Game of Thrones exists." - Slate
Sackler Family Makes New Concessions In Settlement Talks
For museums in the U.S., a big new agreement is that institutions can remove the Sackler name with no penalty. - Artnet
How A Long Despair Led To Karen Joy Fowler’s New Book
After the 2016 election, Fowler couldn't see the point in writing her book about John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln. "I knew pockets of the...
Westerns Have Been Dealing With ‘Male Intimacy’ For A Very Long Time
Dear Sam Elliott: As a fan of Westerns, maybe you should check out Zachariah, which "shot back at the genre's fatalistic masculinity by celebrating...
Cultural Institutions Wrestle With Whether To Ban Russian Artists
As the war in Ukraine enters its second week, cultural institutions worldwide are grappling with the question of whether to boycott Russian artists, in...
The Politicization and Artistic Downfall Of Valery Gergiev
The idea was that Gergiev could somehow retract his blatant politicization of music and adopt a purist guise when he walked onstage. In fact, if he...
Innovation Is Fine. But Wisdom Creates Longterm Success
Fairly or unfairly, many tech companies with disproportionately young employees and leaders have gone from a shining example of how entrepreneurial capitalism can improve...
Tennessee Is Fighting A Culture War Over What Books Students Can Read
“It looks like the entire curriculum is developed to normalize sexuality, normalize nudity and normalize vulgar language,” said Mike Cochran, a school board member....
European Theatre Pioneers A Kind Of Tour That’s Climate-Friendly
It is an unusual production model in European theater, where directors tend to have the final word on every iteration of their work. The...
New Clue In The Gardner Museum Heist?
Anthony Amore, chief of security for the Gardner museum, tells Boston 25 News that a recent tipster prompted officials to take another look at the murder...
Amsterdam Hermitage Art Museum Cuts Ties With The St. Petersburg Mother Ship
"Due to our carefully built relationship," said a statement from the Dutch satellite, "we had access to one of the world's most famous art...
Valery Gergiev, Political Cautionary Tale?
What is happening here represents just the latest, though perhaps the most glaring, iteration of an age-old conundrum. What expectations do we have — should we...
Does Every Broadway Show These Days Have To Grapple With The World’s Pressing Issues? ...
"Critic Hayley Levitt ... now finds herself in a state of bafflement when a comedy is just for laughs. Critic Zachary Stewart loves a...
Star Russian Conductor Suspended For Starting Performance With A Wish For Peace
Before the performance, conductor Ivan Velikanov — a star on the Russian music scene hailed as "the new Teodor Currentzis" — came on stage, gave...
One Of The World’s Largest Pipe Organs, Once A TV Star, Has Been Taken...
"Hazel" (formally, the Hazel Wright Organ) was the instrument of the Crystal Cathedral, from which Rev. Robert H. Schuller once hosted the Sunday morning...
Famous Hollywood Celebrity Biographer Dishes On Herself
Regardless of one’s opinions about Kitty Kelley, or her methodology, there can be no denying that her brand of take-no-prisoners celebrity journalism — the...
If You Find Dickens’s Novels Too Melodramatic, Try Reading Them The Way He Read...
"His health was failing, but he gave every reading his histrionic last ounce. ... As Ruskin explained it, Dickens 'chooses to speak in a...
Behind The Scenes Of Furious Debates About Changing The Oscars Broadcast
In the end, rather than dropping 12 categories altogether from the telecast, the Academy was able to satisfy ABC with the current plan, which...
2,000-Year-Old Sculptures Smashed By ISIS Restored And Returned To Ancient City Of Hatra
The ruins of the Parthian city, located 70 miles southwest of Mosul, were occupied by ISIS from 2015 to 2017; as usual, they destroyed...
For The First Time, A Ballet Company Brings In An Intimacy Coordinator
Consultants who "choreograph" sex scenes and ensure actors feel safe performing them are becoming common in film, TV, and theatre, but this production at...
This May Be The World’s Largest Puppet
"Percy the Porcupine, the two-story creation, is covered in 2,000 foam quills and has an articulated nose the size of a 2-ton Volkswagen. And...
The Times Of Trouble Are Not Over At New York Public Radio
After several years of well-documented turmoil, WNYC had a new president and needed a new top editor. The newsroom badly wanted someone, preferably of...
Saving Atlanta’s Independent Arts Journalism Website When The Board Wanted To Shut It Down
Executive Editor Scott Freeman: "In the summer of 2020, we were in another bad spot and it became obvious that our board planned to...
Putin’s Government Shuts Down Russia’s Last Independent TV And Radio Stations
"Russia has blocked TV Rain (also known as 'Dozhd,' Russian for 'rain'), its last independent news network, along with Echo of Moscow, one of...
Clement Crisp, Doyen Of Dance Critics, Dead At 95
"For more than 60 years, his prose distinguished the arts pages of the Financial Times, always with eloquence, panache, expertise and astounding wit." His...
