The Winter Show Is Back On, For Now, In The Spring

The art fair was online only in 2021, and then it was going to be in-person in the, er, winter, and now it's planned...

Critics Of The Tennessee School District’s ‘Maus’ Vote Are Missing Something

"The elimination of Maus from a Tennessee county language arts curriculum does not live up to its more hysterical billing. It is not a ban, and...

Dune Leads Nominations At The BAFTAs

What? Yes, the science fiction epic earned 11 nominations - including for Best Picture. - BBC

North Korea Arrests Dance Instructor And Students For ‘Capitalist’ Dance Moves

Teenager dance students and their teacher will likely be sentenced to hard labor, and their parents may be expelled from the ruling party after...

Native Tribes Push To Gain Some Hollywood Influence With Tax Credits And Production Companies

The Cherokee Nation, for instance, is offering cash rebates. "The ability to take control of that storytelling directly is important, so we want opportunities...

Todd Gitlin Defined The Way Many People Saw The Sixties

Later, Gitlin critiqued identity politics, annoying some former colleagues in Students for a Democratic Society and other causes. In 2021, he pulled together "a...

Lou Stovall Took Screenprinting From Grocery Stores To Gallery Walls

"In those days, silkscreen was mostly used for commercial posters. Bold, flat, attention-getting signs — STOP, or SALE. Curator Danielle O'Steen says 'he felt...

The Perfect Wordle Guessing Strategy Teaches Us Quite A Lot About English

"In Wordle, your own language skills, memory, and the Wordle dictionary mean that no human (with the possible exception of an eccentric memory champ) could...

Study: Documenting How Humans Have Altered Evolution

They confirmed, for instance, that on average, all over the world, animal species seem to be getting smaller. This runs contrary to a theory...

Smithsonian Chooses Founding Director For New National Latino Museum

The museum, along with the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, was authorized by Congress in December 2020. The museums will be the first new...

Remembering Post Modernist Choreographer David Gordon

He combined movement and words in ways that could be stimulating or jolting, focusing on family or fantasy, or delving into Ionesco, Shakespeare, or...

The Book Tour Has Gone Online (It Might Stay There)

Even as international travel restrictions are being lifted, some writers say they will continue to carry on with virtual events because they are more...

Spotify’s Pickle: It Needs Rogan And Music Lovers

Spotify’s business needs all the podcasters it can get. Especially ones like Mr. Rogan, who draws listeners by the millions. But the threat of...

Is This Little Bejeweled Sphinx Really “The Talisman Of Napoleon” (And Worth $250 Million)?

Ben Davis: "Allow me to introduce you to the evidence in favor of the Talisman's authenticity and importance, which has impressed noted Napoleonic jewelry...

What Happens To Your Brain In A Bad Breakup

Love changes us so deeply—at a physiological level—that when it’s lost, we hurt more than if we had never loved at all. - The...

Can Literature Actually Change History (Not Just Literary History)?

Four scholars offer their answers in a roundtable — including the observation that, in the rare instances when that does happen, the book itself...

Does Duke Ellington Need A Revival?

Ellington’s legacy — as large and as meaningful as that of any artist in American history — remains enigmatic. We honor him, put him...

James Joyce’s “Ulysses” Is 100 Years Old. What, Exactly, Are We Celebrating?

"That Ulysses was an event nearly everyone will agree. However, can we say even now, a century later, what kind of event it really...

Canada Debates New Canadian Content Law For Streamers

The Online Streaming Act, introduced Wednesday, would force web firms to offer a set amount of Canadian content and invest heavily in Canada’s cultural...

In The Face Of Black Lives Matter And Ongoing Violence, Is Creating Dance A...

Choreographer David Roussève has always situated his work at "the intersection of choreography and social activism," finding that he can help create empathy with...

John Williams At 90: Still Underrated?

A 28-film, nearly 50-year collaboration with Spielberg. Fifty-two Oscar nominations – the most for a living person and second only to Walt Disney –...

It’s Taken Six Years For Miami City Ballet To Get Its Full-Length “Swan Lake”...

The company, always oriented more toward the abstract works of Balanchine and his artistic successors than toward story ballets, has performed only an abridged...

Hollywood Will Be Sending Fewer Movies Into Theaters Next Year (And Perhaps Well After...

The studios have 71 features scheduled for theatrical release in 2022 — considerably more than in pandemic-plagued 2021 and 2020, but down from the...

Following A Difficult Summer And A Staff Revolt, Williamstown Theater Festival Is Making Big...

Those changes include better pay equity and HR, safety training, hour caps, and, crucially, ending the ambitious seven-production summer season. The Festival's statement says...

San Francisco Art Institute Is Saved: It Will Merge With A University

The 150-year-old art school, which has had longstanding financial problems and nearly shut down in 2020, will integrate with, and ultimately be acquired by,...