For Nonprofit Arts Organizations, It’s August and the Fan Is Clogged with S**t
Big protests about the war and immigration, but the arts? Just a little Monday night shindig. Before that, a subtle ...
Chicago Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya Announces That She’s Leaving The U.S.
Said the former music director of Chicago Opera Theater, “I want to be sure that my children grow up feeling like they can always express...
Britain’s Royal Ballet And Opera Cancels Production Rental To Israeli Company
Following an open letter signed by nearly 200 staffers — a letter which explicitly referenced the house’s recent rental of its staging of Turandot...
What is Free Speech? A Review
“Freedom of speech” is never an absolute. Even in a country where people have a great amount of freedom of speech, such as the...
What The Marshmallow Test Misunderstood About Children’s Development
“It wasn’t so much that we’d failed to replicate (the study’s) famous longitudinal results. It was more that our study confirmed a nagging message that...
One Of America’s Busiest Audiobook Narrators Fights For Better Pay For Her Colleagues
Julia Whelan: “The only reason I was doing 70 books a year was because that’s how many books you have to do when you’re...
Remembering Peter Sellers At 100: The World’s Greatest Comic Actor?
Christopher Guest: “I can do a voice, but Sellers was embedded in those characters, and that commitment made it very different.” Michael McKean: “I...
We’re Seeing More Male-Male Love Depicted In Ballet. Why Not More Female-Female Couples?
Lily Hyde: “They have appeared in contemporary ballets, such as Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games and Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, but are by no means at the heart of...
Ancient Gold Artifacts Stolen From Dutch Museum May Still Be Recoverable
“While the whereabouts of these gold treasures — three Dracian bracelets dating from 50 B.C.E. and the 2,500-year-old Cotofenesti helmet — remain unknown, Dutch...
A Wave Of Closures And Cutbacks At China’s Private Art Museums
“The current crisis in China is a result of corporate backers tightening their budgets, consumers curtailing their discretionary spending, and rising costs, people working at...
The Art That Homeland Security Is Posting To Instagram? It’s Intended To Piss People...
Ben Davis: “It’s smug provocation. And there’s no particular love for classic art here; the aesthetic sensibility is totally internet-brained. These specific paintings are...
What The New Chief of New York City Opera Has Planned For Reviving The...
Constantine Orbelian, now both Music Director and Executive Director: “The main thing for me at this point is getting a home. ... I believe...
How One Arts Group Managed To Get Its Cancelled NEA Grant Restored
“Through a complicated process, Three Bone Theatre received the remaining $13,000 from its three-year, $20,000 grant to help put on a trilogy of plays that retell...
Time For The Annual Cleaning Of The Metropolitan Opera’s Spiky Crystal Chandeliers
“The chandeliers are wood-and-metal spheres that have been called ‘sputniks’ ever since the Met opened in 1966. Legend has it that a prototype was...
Awful As It Is, Ad-Supported Streaming Is The Future
But hey, one currently hard-up business might benefit: "If anything sends viewers back to the cineplex, it will be ads for depression meds in...
Loni Anderson, Star Of WKRP In Cincinnati, Has Died At 79
“Anderson’s seemingly ditsy, bombshell character was anything but, and her performance as Jennifer showed that looks and smarts could go together.” - The New...
On The Muppets, And Grief
“After a great loss, some people find themselves communing with nature, at the seaside or deep in a forest. Others turn to spirituality, toward...
This Theatre In Upstate Wisconsin Survives, And Thrives, On Local Lore, And Cheese
At Northern Sky, “There’s kind of an ownership because you saw shows about people that you know, Midwesterners.” Some of them, like Lumberjacks in...
The Salt Path Scandal Could Put An End To The Nature Memoir
Or not: “Reading about someone else’s deep dive into forest, field or water furnishes us with the sense that we’re participating in an environment that,...
The Quest To Preserve Marfa
Four years after a fire gutted it, Donald Judd’s “Architecture Office will reopen with new ventilation systems, recycled-denim insulation and an upstairs apartment for...
How Emmys Voters Award, And Ignore, Writers And Directors
“Writing and directing winners often get caught up in a sweep … so when they do diverge from the series winner, it can...
Ann Harris, Who Shaped The Exorcist, The Thorn Birds, And Many Other Bestsellers, Has...
“'She was a classic, old-style editor,’ Frances McCullough, who worked with Ms. Harris as an editor at Harper & Row, said in an interview....
Can ‘Bricking’ A Phone Fix Phone Addiction Issues?
No. “The main problem is that Brick requires you to be intentional about being present. I was addicted to being omnipresent.” - The Verge
South Koreans Are As Obsessed As People In The US With Netflix’s K-Pop: Demon...
“The film’s popularity in South Korea is rooted in its keenly observed details and references to Korean folklore, pop culture and even national habits...
This Gen Z Journalist Got The Washington Post On TikTok
And he thinks short-form videos are, yes, once again, the future of journalism. - NPR
