Of Poetry, Plagiarism, And Artistic Influence
Where were the limits exactly, in what was deemed to be a case of poetry plagiarism? How many lines that emerged while writing, any...
Explaining The Unexplainable Career Of Laurie Anderson
Sam Anderson: "The anti-careerism of her career is part of what has made her illegible to mainstream audiences. Although a legend in some circles,...
The Transformative Conductor: David Alan Miller @ 30 Years Leading The Albany Symphony
“The orchestras I've worked with have been a bit like ocean liners. Very big, little hard to turn around. And I would say the...
How A Little Book-Of-The-Month Mail-Order Club Laid Ground For The Gay Rights Movement
"In early-1950s America, Donald Webster Cory had probably the largest L.G.B.T. mailing list in the country, and maybe in the world." (Mr. Cory was...
The New Musicology: Beethoven Was Just an “Average White Composer”?
"These various controversies are far from simple disputes between ‘conservatives’ and ‘progressives’ but emblematic of a discipline in which some protagonists lack a sense...
So How Did the Elgin Marbles End Up At The British Museum In The...
The short answer is that Lord Elgin simply took them from the Parthenon and shipped them home to London. True as such, but, as...
Edward Snowden: Balancing Risk, Reality And Facts
The true challenge is not to enumerate the risk, but to live with it; to stake out the resilient middle ground between denying danger altogether and...
Verbatim Drama, Straight From Real Life, Comes To Broadway
Tina Satter, whose Is This A Room is a transcript of the FBI interrogation of intelligence leaker Reality Winner, and Lucas Hnath, whose Dana...
What Runaway Hit “Squid Game” Shows About South Korea’s Problems (It Isn’t Pretty)
"(The Netflix series's success) might be somewhat ironic given that Squid Game is all about socioeconomic divides, the exploitation of the poor by the...
“A Gonzo Ethnography of Academic Authority”: Tenured Princeton Professor Gets Fired And Goes Nuts...
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, having been pushed out as dean of Princeton's architecture school in 2014, was dismissed from the faculty by unanimous vote of the...
“Friends, We Are In For The Adventure Of A Lifetime”: Salonen’s Inaugural Concert At...
Joshua Kosman: "To say that a new era ... has begun at Davies Symphony Hall is true as far as it goes. But that...
Dance Alumni Sue UNC School Of The Arts, Alleging Pattern Of Sexual Abuse
Seven plaintiffs who attended UNCSA as undergraduates during the 1980s give detailed descriptions of predatory behavior, including long-term affairs, by instructors in the school's...
Kennedy Center’s Backstage Workers Vote To Authorize Strike
The unanimous vote by members of the IATSE local comes more than a year after the expiration of their previous contract. Still at issue,...
The 50 Largest Contemporary Dance Companies In The U.S.: A Look At The Numbers
Among the key finds in this new study are that, in the aggregate, contemporary dance in the U.S. operates with less than a quarter...
Afghanistan’s Cultural Sector Goes Underground
“In Afghanistan, work in the field of arts and culture is probably one of the hardest jobs.. but we did it because we loved...
Composer Bright Sheng Removed At University Of Michigan After Showing Olivier Othello Film
“To show the film now, especially without substantial framing, content advisory and a focus on its inherent racism is in itself a racist act,...
Why The Oxford English Dictionary Has Added 6 Korean Words
"They show how Asians in different parts of the continent invent and exchange words within their own local contexts, then introduce these words to...
The Odd Contortions Of Hollywood’s New Movie Museum
The Academy has created spaces that, as it declared last year, would “prioritize the experience of traditionally underrepresented or marginalized people.” Unfortunately, this embrace...
Andras Szanto: The Permeability Of Ideas Versus Our Institutions
"To what extent does the artistic institutional system become distanced from primary creativity? The system of scientific institutions is no less problematic. Sooner or...
Capturing The Movement Of Starlings As Art
Kathryn Cooper first films the starlings in 4K resolution. Then, working with clips that range in length from less than a second to more...
The Novels That Really Want To Change The World? Satires
"'Satire ... does not come with some kind of manifesto for a better world. It tells you what's wrong; it doesn't tell you what...
How San Francisco’s Last Video Store Survives
“Part of why I work so hard doing this is that I believe people should have access to more than what’s just currently in...
Holocaust Museum LA Plans To Transform Itself With Major Expansion
When it moved into its current location in 2010, the museum expected 15,000 visitors a year; by 2020, it was getting 65,000. Now, with...
Hip-Hop Does Not Owe Anyone Political Consciousness Or Moral Virtue
"To generations of listeners, Public Enemy were the ideal of a hip-hop group: fiery and politically engaged, marching through the streets to demand change....
Performative Diversity?
The current emphasis on diversity and inclusivity, however warranted, endangers or distorts a cultural canon that we cannot (in fact, must not) wholly jettison....
