Reese Witherspoon Represents, Onscreen And Off, The Bumpy Road Of Being An Ambitious Woman
That is, an ambitious woman in a sexist society. "Likable ambitious women are women who don’t appear to be ambitious at all." - LitHub
The Influence Of Islamic Art Is All Over Contemporary Culture
Especially for those in diaspora communities, "artists destabilize the idea of a monolithic culture and instead construct works that are influenced by locations of...
The Music That Has Provided A Lifeline For Seniors In Care Facilities During The...
In Canada, Concerts in Care tried everything from outdoor concerts to concerts from balconies near nursing homes to Zoom concerts to broadcasts of pre-recorded...
As Cases Rise Again In New York, Much Of Broadway Ends Vaccine Checks
Masks are still required, mostly, but "while some patrons welcomed the change, others said they felt uneasy about going into crowded theaters without the...
How A Racist Statue From Iceland Ended Up On A Rocket Ship
Iceland made some questionable decisions about national identity in the early 2000s, including copying a statue from the 1930s called The First White Mother...
Plato Karayanis, 91 – Led Dallas Opera For 23 Years
An outgoing man whose sonorous baritone betrayed his beginnings as a singer, Karayanis presided over the founding of the opera company’s orchestra and creation...
What The Emmys Could Learn From Comic-Con
Take a page from Comic-Con, D23, Apple and everyone else who has turned to fan events for big reveals and announcements. Make the Emmys the...
Russia Is Selling Art To Fund Its War (Some Of The Art Appears To...
A new Russian website known as Art For Victory, which belongs to an organisation known as Terricon Project, is supporting the Russian war in Ukraine by...
What Ukrainian Theatres Are Doing During The War
Two theatres have converted their stages for people to sleep and for storage of food and medicine. It echoes a narrative happening across Ukraine...
When Did The Middle Ages End (It’s Important To Know)
The Middle Ages are a chimera, a fantasy, all but impossible to define or date, at least at a global level. The conventional chronological...
Directors Guild Report: Diversity Increases
Even as the number of shows fell 36% to 2,691 in the 2020-2021 season from the year before, the number of TV episodes led...
Abdulamir Al-Hamdani, Who Fought To Save Iraq’s Antiquities, Dead At 55
As a working archaeologist, a regional official, and the national Minister for Culture, Hamdani — born and raised very near the ancient Sumerian city...
Are Human Lives Inherently More Valuable?
Can we really justify the idea that some lives carry more ethical weight than others in general, and that human lives carry more ethical...
The Race To Save “The Pinnacle Of Ukrainian Art”
Joshua Hammer traveled to Lviv to look into the history of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis, a 36'-by-42' wall of delicately painted icons in a lavishly...
A Marble Bust, Bought For $35 At Goodwill In Texas, Is 2000 Years Old...
How did a 2,000-year-old sculpture of a Roman general’s head wind up in a Goodwill in Austin, Texas? - KUT
Adapting A Hit TV Series For A Different Country Can Be A Tricky Matter
Take, for instance, the hit French series Call My Agent: "(The French) argue stylishly, they fall in love stylishly. It's all said, they tell...
Why Are Arts Instagram Accounts Being Targeted By Hackers?
Why are people in the art world being hacked? Criminals are not just looking for accounts with thousands of followers and the signature blue...
NY Mayor Appoints Nightclub Owner To Met Museum Board
The unconventional appointment — previous mayoral designees were political and philanthropic heavyweights — gives the club owner an entrée into one of New York’s...
Nijinsky’s Sister Was Even More Revolutionary Than He Was
And she was revolutionary in more than one way. Not only did Bronislava Nijinska embrace choreographic aesthetics that were radical for her day, she...
Actors’ Equity Launches Fight To Unionize All National Tours Of Broadway Shows
The union has ended or expanded (depending on how you look at it) its proceeding against a nonunion tour of Waitress to petition the...
Thousands Of Unseen Andrew Wyeth Works Have Become Available For Public Viewing
"The Wyeth Foundation for American Art is turning over its collection of nearly 7,000 Wyeth pieces to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in...
“I Have Been Canceled”: Frank Langella Writes An Angry Rebuttal To Allegations Of Sexual...
In a guest column, the 84-year-old actor gives his account of the on-camera move that led to his firing from the lead role in...
American Orchestras, Still Largely White, Are Trying To Diversify. It’s Slow Going, But Here’s...
There are blind auditions, special fellowships for Black musicians in particular, prep and financial aid for auditions as well as other programs from the...
The Publishing Industry Starts Campaigns Against The Book-Banning Trend
Penguin Random House has partnered with a raft of advocacy organizations on a public campaign called "Open Books Open Doors", while the Authors Guild...
After 900 Years, St. Paul’s Cathedral In London Is Letting Girls Into The Choir
Well, strictly speaking, they're being admitted to the choir school; there will be separate boys' and girls' choirs. Music director Andrew Carwood: "I accept...
