Big Changes In Theatre During The Pandemic, Right? Well…
In many interviews I’ve included a simple question: Apart from a pandemic-necessitated lockdown and now a tentative reopening, have you actually seen change in...
Twitter As A Critical Medium?
I learned a lot about myself as a critic while live-tweeting, and a lot about criticism: about how and when opinions are formed, and...
Turnaround: Benin Artists Offer Contemporary Bronzes To British Museum
The Ahiamwen Guild of artists and bronze casters says it wants to change the terms of the debate by giving the British Museum contemporary...
New Metropolitan Opera Radio Host Named
Only the fifth person to serve in this capacity, Debra Lew Harder follows in the footsteps of former legendary voices of the Met, Milton...
How An Opera By A Black Composer Finally Made It To The Met
The company's certainly had opportunities before: William Grant Still submitted scores in 1919 and 1935; both were casually dismissed. So Terence Blanchard was astounded...
French Pianist Colette Maze, 107, Releases Her Sixth Album
It's that humor, a sense of optimism and her beloved piano that have buttressed and comforted this centenarian through an often difficult life. Maze...
Was An Exploding Space Rock The Inspiration For The Story Of Sodom And Gomorrah?
Archaeologists report that the destruction, circa 1650 BC, of the city of Tall el-Hammam was caused by a large meteor disintegrating in the atmosphere...
What’s Behind The Proliferation Of All Those Immersive Van Gogh Rooms?
At least five companies — including, controversially, one major museum — have stepped up with immersive exhibits based on the life and work of the famous...
How Jasper Johns Changed Modern Art — And My Life: Jerry Saltz
"Looking at Johns's work, I sometimes almost no longer feel like a person. I wonder if I have died in the instants between synapses...
Thirty Years Ago Nirvana Changed Seattle Music Forever
The album represents a moment in time when everything about Seattle culture changed. The very words “Seattle music” meant something different afterward, both in...
Elia Kazan’s Annotated Script For The First Stage Production Of “A Streetcar Named Desire”
The script, along with 100 pages of unusually detailed notes for the actors, comes from the pre-Broadway New Haven tryout in the fall of...
The Met Museum Is Selling Art To Raise Money. Should It?
As sloppy as AAMD’s new rule is, being born of a rattled, anxious moment, it’s clear who it’s intended to help, and it’s not...
Somalia Gets Its First Public Movie Showing In 30 Years
"The event was held at the National Theatre of Somalia, whose history reflects the tumultuous journey of the African nation. It has been targeted...
For the Second Time In Two Years, America’s Chinatowns Are In Danger
"(The delta variant surge has) worsened a host of additional issues, like technology and language barriers and pandemic-stoked xenophobia. Community organizations fear that the...
Dutch Police Arrest Suspect In Thefts Of Van Gogh And Frans Hals Paintings
DNA evidence at the crime scenes, museums in suburban Amsterdam (van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring) and Leerdam (Hals's Two Laughing...
Kerry James Marshall To Design Stained Glass Windows For Washington National Cathedral
The new work, which will replace windows depicting Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson which were removed in 2017, will be Marshall's first in...
Pennsylvania School Board Reverses Ban On Black Authors’ Books, Children’s Bios Of MLK And...
The vote by the Central York district board came after weeks of protests by students and unflattering reports in national media. The list of...
Melvin Van Peebles, Dead At 89, Was So Much More Than The Maker Of...
Over 60 years, he was a master of self-reinvention: Air Force navigator; cable-car operator in San Francisco; indie filmmaker; author (in English and French);...
Choreographer Jan Fabre Will Stand Trial For Sexual Harassment And Assault
The case, to be tried next spring in Antwerp, "stems from complaints by 20 dancers from his company who in 2018 alleged … a...
Honest Brokers And The Clement Greenberg Problem
Greenberg had made it clear that the single most lucrative move for a modern-day critic was to announce the newest new thing, the coming...
BBC Chief Says Culture Wars Make It More Difficult To Be Impartial
"I think the culture wars are raging, I think we've got a real battle on our hands. I walk a tightrope every day on...
Picasso’s Daughter Pays French Taxes With Nine Artworks
“It is an honour for our country to welcome these new artworks by Picasso. They will enrich and deepen our cultural heritage." - ARTnews
What Will Happen To Online Performances When We’re Back In Theatres?
‘We’ve had thousands of years to get good at but virtual connection is new, and we need to do some interrogation of the...
Has Philosophy Really Been Replaced By Science?
A perennial favorite of this alleged replacement of philosophy with science is the claim that, while philosophers haven’t been able to really get ahead...
Why Do We Refer To Some Composers With Only Their Last Name?
Who gets last-name-only treatment and who requires a full identification is a weightier, more politically fraught question than it might initially seem. - San Francisco...
