Why Critics’ Opinions Matter
"I’ll claim that my response to art is more complex than the average museumgoer’s because it’s my professional responsibility—and passion—to be as well informed...
How Matt Damon Keeps Complicating Our Ideas About Matt Damon
"You only have to look a bit closer at Damon's career, at the notion of Matt Damon, Movie Star we have in our heads,...
American TV’s Journey In The 21st Century Has Been From Irony To Sincerity
"Two decades ago, TV's most distinctive stories were defined by a tone of dark or acerbic detachment. Today, they're more likely to be earnest...
Spotify Now Has 165 Million Subscribers – More Than Apple And Amazon Combined
As for the rest of Spotify’s Q2 2021, the company reported 365 million monthly active users—a growth of 22% YOY. Total revenue was €2.33...
West African Talking Drums Really Can Imitate Speech, Say Researchers
Yorùbá speech, that is. The West African language is tonal, using three different pitches, and dùndún drummers can adjust the tension on their drum...
Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre — Under A Microscope
"I hope that the theatre generally, will be open to the idea that when you limit yourself to doing only primarily white theatre for...
12th-Century Organ, By Far The World’s Oldest, To Be Reconstructed
The pipes and carillon bells of the instrument were discovered a century ago at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Scholar-performer David Catalunya...
Choreographer Drew McOnie On What Success Looks Like
"Success isn’t how many awards you win, or how many five-star reviews you get. Success is built on how quickly you bounce back, how...
“Sunday In The Park With George” Barely Escaped Being A Disaster
First, Stephen Sondheim couldn’t come up with songs because he didn't think James Lapine's script needed any. So began a cascade of calamities, right...
The Man Who’s Saving Rohingya Folk Tales
Mohammed Rezuwan is himself one of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya driven out of Myanmar by that country's military and mobs. He now...
The Hermitage Hops On The NFT Train
Following in the footsteps of the Uffizi in Florence, the St. Petersburg museum will auction off digital tokens of five works in its collection,...
Amar Ramasar, Last Remaining NY City Ballet Dancer Involved In Sexting Scandal, Will Retire
The 39-year-old's decision to end his 20-year career with the company next May comes three years after the scandal roiled City Ballet and two...
How Activists Got New York The Beautiful New Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
The much-praised new branch of the New York Public Library, across 5th Avenue from the famous flagship, wasn't supposed to happen. The NYPL board...
Young People Are Using France’s Culture Pass To Buy … Manga
Granted, the program was only just gearing up when the pandemic closed arts venues, but officials' hopes that 18-year-olds would use their few-strings-attached €300...
UNESCO’s Latest World Heritage Sites
Among the monuments added are Madrid's Paseo del Prado and Retiro Park, the old port of Guangzhou, Peru's ancient Chankillo observatory, Mexico's 16th-century Tlaxcala...
Simon Rattle: We’ve Lost Many Musicians in the Pandemic
“Many of the first-choice people said, ‘Look I’m sorry, I’m not doing this any more. I have a family. I had to take another...
We Need New Thinking About Looted Art
‘Looted’ is a contested term: it covers a spectrum from out-and-out pillage to ostensibly legal transfers of title that may have occurred under coercion...
NPR Revenue Only Declined Two Percent Last Year
The public radio network’s operating revenue slid just two percent in 2020 to $270.1 million. And last year’s revenue was actually up seven percent...
Why English Is Such A Chaotic Collection Of Letters And Pronunciations
From the early Middle Ages, various European languages adopted and adapted the Latin alphabet. So why did English end up with a far more...
Theatre Critic Assumes Fellow Critic Is White, Then Has To Reassess When She Discovers...
I felt ashamed of my mistake, for not seeing a colleague for who he really is. “How limited your perception is, Lily!” I thought....
Barry Diller: Only Ten Percent Of Movie Theatres Will Survive
“Because of streaming, because of the pandemic, because of the enormous production of longform content … the word movies — what we think of...
Henceforth, The Main Unit Of Entertainment Is Not TV Or Film But Corporate Universe
The proof (as if Marvel weren't enough): Space Jam: A New Legacy — whose subtitle should be "Warner Media: We Own the Rights to...
Our Habits Aren’t Just Mindless — They Actually Help Make Us Smarter
Even our most mundane habitual routines actually display a great deal of intelligence. Indeed, they are often intelligently context-sensitive and flexible in such a...
In ‘The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas’, Gertrude Stein Depicted Great Artists And Writers....
"Such was the ire that the magazine transition published a Testimony Against Gertrude Stein. Matisse raged at his wife being described as having a...
ABT Executive Director Says She Will Depart To Work On Social Impact Fund
Kara Medoff Barnett will be leaving to lead social impact marketing and strategy at First Republic Bank and develop the recently established First Republic Foundation. -...
