Frida Kahlo Has Become An Icon – At The Expense Of Her Art?
Her claims to eminence were those of someone who as a woman of her time, and disabled too, needed to find ways to make...
Lessons For Classical Music After The Lockdown
"Yes, musical organizations will talk about learning pragmatic lessons from this pandemic. But as the industry begins the long march back toward some semblance...
25 Dancers, Choreographers And Companies To Watch In 2021
Want to know where dance is going in 2021 as the world (hopefully) comes out of COVID lockdown? Here are 25 bright lights to...
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Musicians Protest Met Tactics
“Every other major orchestra has been compensated since the very beginning of the pandemic. Met management is using the pandemic opportunistically. They are not...
Congress Passes New Controls On Antiquities In The Defense Authorization Bill
Regulators have long worried that the opacity of the antiquities trade, where buyers and sellers are seldom identified, even to the parties in a...
Study: Was Stonehenge Built As A Giant Amplifier?
The study found that people who spoke or played music inside the monument would have heard clear reverberations against the massive standing stones. Testing...
Star Museum Directors Talk The Future Of Museums
As the Ford Foundation’s president, Darren Walker, recently told me, “museums are in a crisis because America is in a crisis.” Museums shape narratives...
Quibi Didn’t Last, But Its Shows May Move To Roku
The short-form site crashed and burned mere months after rolling out millions of dollars worth of shows, but Roku is already offering ad-supported free...
The Return Of The (High School) Radio Play
The teen actors couldn't perform outside because it was too cold, and they couldn't film because their school went virtual partway through the term....
John Outterbridge, Sculptor Of Cast-Offs And Inspirational Arts Mentor, 87
Outterbridge, also an influential (and "magical") arts administrator and educator, was a master of the assemblage, using the sculptures to tell stories about history...
How A 65-Year-Old Actor Became An Instagram Maven
Leslie Jordan wasn't planning any of this, not the 5.5 million followers or the media attention. But, hey, lockdown. "Out of boredom, he began...
For Independent Bookstores, The Long 2020 Nightmare Is Not Nearly Over
The legendary Powell's still sits empty of customers, no matter how many people may be buying online or via curbside pickup. The hope for...
Uncovering – Literally – The Forgotten And Hidden Work Of Italy’s Women Artists
In Italy, for centuries, women weren't allowed to work as artists, but many did anyway. The group Advancing Women Artists has been working its...
In Many Countries, Losing Restaurants Means Losing Community
Diego Salazar, former chair of the World's 50 Best Restaurants, has had a longer quarantine than many people. Sure, he and his wife order...
Painting In Apocalyptic Times
The Canadian artist painting 2020 for a spot across from Salvador Dalí's Santiago El Grande, which includes a nuclear bomb going off: "I wanted...
The Acts Of Art And Creativity Censored In 2020
The year was terrible for global pandemic reasons, but also for brutality against artists, journalists, writers, playwrights, cinematographers, and more. How bad was it?...
The Writer Who Wants Readers To Feel Like Voyeurs
After all, why should we have access to the characters' sex lives? Raven Leilani, author of Luster, says "I try to portray it in...
A 33-Meter Hillside Vagina Sculpture Is Highlighting Brazil’s Cultural And Political Rifts
The artist, Juliana Notori, "said the scarlet hillside vulva was intended to 'question the relationship between nature and culture in our phallocentric and anthropocentric...
The Antiquities Trade Is About To Get Reined In
Or at least, that's the hope of the U.S. Congress. "Regulators have long worried that the opacity of the antiquities trade, where buyers and...
Marshall McKay, Who Steered Autry Museum Toward The West’s True Diversity, Has Died Of...
McKay was one of a kind, a leader "who helped secure economic independence for the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation near Sacramento, and whose deep...
David Fincher Hates Hollywood
Or at least the "unhappiest auteur" hates happy endings. Manohla Dargis dives deep on the director and his "beautiful bummers," including, of course, the...
Theatremakers Want – And Need – A New New Deal
Hurray for the Save Our Stages money, but theatres need a lot more: "a new Federal Theatre Project (FTP), like the Depression-era government agency...
The Louis Kahn Dorms Threatened For Destruction In India
To continue the Threatened Buildings theme: "A world-class architectural-preservation controversy is brewing in India, where the administration at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad had...
The Fate Of The Media-Puffed, Free-Credit-Flowing, Neoliberal Restaurant After Covid
Is food over? Is dining? How can restaurant owners, especially empty, corporate ownership groups, justify their whining while treating low-paid workers like absolute crap?...
It Might Take A Pandemic To Learn To Watch Like A Critic
A parent, working with what she's got - a kid eager to watch, an endless supply of streaming, critical faculties - explains by invoking...
