How The Booker Prize Became Such A Big Deal
Charlotte Higgins: "It was by such steps" as well-timed leaks and carefully fanned disagreements "that the Booker became not just a book prize, but...
Veteran New York Antiquities Dealer Pleads Guilty To Trafficking In Looted Objects
"Nancy Wiener, 66, whose mother had also been a well-known expert in the field, acknowledged Thursday that she had taken possession of items that...
Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Withdraws “Slave Play” From L.A. Run
The 12-time-Tony-nominated play was to open in February at the Center Theater Group's Mark Taper Forum. But the CTG has only one play by...
France’s Leading Literary Award Finally Makes Nepotism Against The Rules
Following this year's conflict-of-interest scandal (not the first), administrators of the Prix Goncourt have declared that any book by a family member or unmarried...
Two Of Shanghai’s Major Museums Close Without Explanation
Last week the Long Museum West Bund shut for "facility maintenance," though it reopened two days later. Then the Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum announced,...
Gramophone Awards 2021: “Peter Grimes” Is Recording Of The Year, Minnesota Is Orchestra Of...
The Chandos release of Britten's opera stars Stuart Skelton with Edward Gardner conducting the Bergen Philharmonic; the Minnesota Orchestra took honors in its final...
The Critical Question (Post-COVID)
Playwright Oscar Wilde once warned an age without criticism is “an age that possesses no art at all.” He never could have imagined an...
Come For The Star Wars, Stay For The Kara Walker…
At the Lucas Museum: “What would be fantastic is if people came looking for Star Wars and learn about Ralph McQuarrie and then they learn about...
25-Year-Old New Play Incubator Closes
According to a press release, the decision to shutter the 27-year-old play development mainstay was a “unanimous yet painful conclusion” of the organization’s board...
Philadelphia Orchestra Ditches The Formal Dress
“We’re well into the 21st century. It’s time to acknowledge that in many ways, and one of them is the way the orchestra looks...
The Future Of Tourism? Venice Uses High Tech Surveillance To Limit The Mobs
The city’s leaders are acquiring the cellphone data of unwitting tourists and using hundreds of surveillance cameras to monitor visitors and prevent crowding. Next...
Inside The World Of Screen Subtitlers
It’s possible for subtitles and dubs to be so seamless that they feel invisible without pushing audiovisual translators ourselves out of sight. - Zocalo Public...
Africa’s Film Industries Could Create 20 Million Jobs: UNESCO Study
"Most creative industries in (sub-Saharan) Africa were grossly underserved," — the major exceptions being Nigeria and Senegal — "in part due to the failure...
Hunter Biden, Artist, Opens His Show. Are His Paintings Really Worth $500K?
As has been previously reported, his gallerist, George Bergès, is looking to fetch between $75,000 and $500,000 a piece for Biden’s paintings. And this has...
“Abstraction, I Think, Is Now Over,” Writes David Hockney
"It's run its course. … Its job was to take away the shadows that had dominated European art for centuries. It was only European...
Why Don’t Museums Use Their Leverage?
In the museum world, there’s enormous potential stored in the museum’s permanent art collection – not as a financial asset, but as a lever...
Why Some College Dance Classes That Went Online During The Pandemic May Stay Online...
Some dance departments have found that lecture courses such as dance history and anatomy work perfectly well virtually (and give students some scheduling flexibility...
Fatty Arbuckle And Hollywood’s First Celebrity Scandal
The Arbuckle affair was the most notorious in a string of Hollywood scandals that threatened to kill off the movie industry in its adolescence. -...
What Does A 550-Year-Old Tapestry Look Like After Four Years Of Cleaning? This.
The artwork, the oldest tapestry in the possession of the UK's National Trust, underwent 1,300 hours of conservation. While the colors are brighter and...
The Decline (And Fall?) Of Facebook
What I’m talking about is a kind of slow, steady decline that anyone who has ever seen a dying company up close can recognize....
Here Are The Finalists For The 2021 National Book Awards
"A food memoir that examines a mother's schizophrenia. A novel about an author's book tour, and about growing up as a Black boy in...
Tyshawn Sorey On How His Jazz Drumming And His Classical Compositions Inform Each Other
"Whenever I'm playing drums, I'm always thinking compositionally about how things develop. … Why do certain harmonies accompany the musicians in a particular way?...
Pondering Masks As Theaters Reopen And Theater Workers Meet Their Colleagues Again
Playwright Sarah Ruhl: "To ask 'How are you?' no longer felt like small talk. We relied on our eyes above our masks to make...
The Disappearance Of America’s Midsized Indie Book Publishers
Following Hachette's purchase this past summer of Workman Publishing, "there is a dearth of what can be called midsize publishers that fall between the...
IATSE Members Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Hollywood Strike
The vote by the affected members — cinematographers, electricians, video editors, costumers, and the like — was 98.7% in favor of greenlighting what would...
