Culture Shift? America’s Workers Grab Control
In unionized industries, this takes the form of collective bargaining and, where necessary, voting for strikes. In non-unionized industries, which make up the vast...
How Environmental Art Brings Climate Change Awareness
In the past few decades, new practices of art, design and architecture in the public realm have helped raise awareness about ubiquitous waste, pollution...
Yes, Eun Sun Kim Has Made Opera History, But She’d Rather Just Be A...
She's music director at San Francisco Opera and principal guest conductor at Houston Grand Opera, and she's the first woman and first Asian in...
Glimmerglass Leader To Step Down
Francesca Zambello, 65, who is also the artistic director of Washington National Opera and an independent stage director, will have led Glimmerglass for 12...
Camille A. Brown Brings Black Social Dance To The Met Opera Stage
"When was the last time a dance stopped an opera in its tracks?" That's what happened after the fraternity scene (step choreography by Brown)...
How Truth Became Contested Ground In Our Schools
The pandemic accelerated a trend that already existed: teachers increasingly find themselves facing a potential career-ending explosion if they teach the wrong “truth.” -...
How Ancient Greek Tragedy Works (And It Does) As Group Therapy
Bryan Doerries, director of Theater of War, "Dozens of Marines of every rank had stood up and quoted lines from the ancient plays from...
An Alternative History About The Dawn Of Humans
Graeber and Wengrow offer a history of the past 30,000 years that is not only wildly different from anything we’re used to, but also...
Meeting (Potential) Audiences Where They Are… With A Mobile Barbershop
That's what Keenan Scott II did to attract new people to his recently opened Broadway play, Thoughts of a Colored Man, one of eight...
Surprise — You’re In Charge! How A Family Publishing Empire Changed Hands
Being handed control of the company, which is valued at $1.2 billion, has made Iole Lucchese, 55, one of the most powerful women in...
Why George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Has Remained Relevant For 150 Years
One reason, it must be said, is that a certain type of person wants to be seen as loving the book. (Yep, virtue-signaling.) Yet...
Why It’s Good That UCLA Is Selling Its Picasso But Bad That The Met...
What it all comes down to, writes Christopher Knight, is what the money from the sale will be used for. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles...
On Producing PBS Pledge Drive Specials
"In the case of fundraising programming, there are no awards for style points. Does it pledge? Is it constructed for that purpose? It may...
Paul McCartney Writes About The Genesis Of “Eleanor Rigby”
"Initially, the priest was 'Father McCartney,' because it had the right number of syllables. I took the song to John at around that point,...
Rolling Stone Wants To Be A Hard-Hitting Newsmagazine Again
Hoping to shake off the last lingering shame from the disastrous UVA rape-case article, new editor Noah Shachtman and CEO Gus Wenner (Jann's son)...
Vienna’s Museums Now Have An Onlyfans Site To Promote The Nudes In Their Collections
Why? Because Facebook, Instagram and TikTok keep taking down their nude artworks — Peter Paul Rubens, Egon Schiele, even the Venus of Willendorf —...
Coloratura Soprano Legend Edita Gruberová Dead At 74
She set new standards, both vocally and dramatically (especially as a comedienne), in some of the most technically difficult roles in the repertory: Zerbinetta...
Why This Jazz Drummer Finally Left New York
I lived there 19 years. As we were coming out of lockdown, it seemed incredible to me that New York was becoming an even...
Deepfakes — The End Of Truth?
Like most digital technologies, the quality of deepfakes is increasing at an alarming rate, and it is clear that even the most complex deepfake...
Say Goodbye To Giant Skyscrapers
Planning applications for tall buildings in London plummeted by a third last year. Has the age of piling people into great glass shafts, of...
The Virtual Gallery Revolution
With technology that creates fantastical game worlds readily available, its creators could’ve set it on Tatooine if they wanted to, or at least the...
A Long-Missing Stone Masterpiece, Discovered In A Front Yard
“It was like finding the Holy Grail. William Edmondson worked in Nashville, so who would ever dream that a piece would be in St....
Diagnosing A Post-Liberal Culture
Postliberals, as Matthew Rose argues in his new book A World After Liberalism, agree on little. They know something has gone wrong, and they suspect...
Of Authenticity, Experience And The Right To Standing
In my experience, when people say they need to “listen to the most affected”, it isn’t because they intend to set up Skype calls...
The New Activism: Art Attacking The Institutions — Any Institution, Including Those Who Show...
One irony of contemporary art that critiques or transcends the institution is just how central the institution remains to it. Indeed, the complexity of the...
