What Might Opera Look Like In A Post-Pandemic World?
Let the Long Beach Opera show you. "Guests have the choice of watching this production “tailgate-style” or from inside their automobiles. The action occurs...
Show Our Arts Orgs The Money, Please
U.S. arts organizations are still waiting for that cultural institution money to flow. "Business owners are wary of the promise after weeks of delay...
How A Book Gets Adapted For A Movie
It's not always obvious or a direct line. Start with a good story. Characters that lift off the page. And then it gets complicated....
Want To Sponsor Artwork In The Notre Dame Restoration?
The organization Friends of Notre Dame de Paris is letting the public donate directly to sponsor some of the cathedral’s individual artifacts. To date, 10 artworks have been...
A Film That Takes Us Inside The Met Museum In A Difficult Year
"The film puts us on remarkably intimate terms with the gargantuan organism that is the Met and the many tasks that keep it running....
Dysfunctional DC Arts Commission To Get A New Leader
If approved by the D.C. Council, Reginald Van Lee will lead an 18-member board that critics describe as dysfunctional, toxic and beset by cronyism...
Do Away With Classics Because They’re Imperialist?
"As the field’s most famous practitioner, and a dedicated anti-racist and feminist, Mary Beard takes a middle position: she believes neither that classics deserves...
How The AI That’s Supposed To Revolutionize Dubbing Foreign Films Actually Works
"The technology is related to deepfaking, which uses AI to paste one person's face onto someone else. … It involves capturing the facial expressions...
The Pitfalls Of Public Philosophers
"We urbanites, who dwell in the medium of public political discussion, also live in the element of opinion. Leo Strauss loved to intimate that...
Meet The Grand Old Man Of Kathakali
Kalamandalam Gopi, who's about to turn 84, has been studying and performing the dance-drama form from the Indian state of Kerala for 70 years,...
Why Are Telecom Companies So Bad At Media?
"Joseph Epstein once wrote that “Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.” He must have been talking about the...
‘This American Wife’: When Yale Drama Grads Take On The ‘Real Housewives’ Franchise
"This project takes formal cues from lensed images. It's styled as an episode of Real Housewives run amok, and the team cites French surrealist...
Claim: Virtual Reality Is Where The Internet Was 20 Years Ago
With VR evolving at its current rate, movie nights or game nights could eventually turn into cyber nights, a new norm for those under...
Sometimes The Best Way To Preserve Ancient Mosaics Is To Rebury Them
" an art form that is usually in good condition when first discovered because floors are the first area to be naturally buried over...
Gavin Larsen: The Everyday Ballerina
"I danced some fabulous ballets and fabulous roles. And yet there’s hundreds more like me — thousands maybe. We might be exceptional in one...
Sex Scenes On Screen Aren’t Disappearing. In Fact, They’re Getting Better.
"Today's sex scenes are first and foremost fun — as ideally sex itself should be — and emphasize the truthful over the tasteful. In...
‘The French Author Is No Longer Just The White Man Over 50’; The Gallic...
"Major publishers have created special collections to promote first-time authors and ethnic minorities while new publishing houses are opening the field to a larger...
Alix Dobkin, ‘Head Lesbian’ And First Star Of Womyn’s Music, Dead At 80
"In the early 1970s, long before the rise of lesbian or gay-friendly acts such as K.D. Lang, Melissa Etheridge, Ani DiFranco and the Indigo...
Eight Ways The Protests After George Floyd’s Death Changed American Culture
"From Judas and the Black Messiah to H.E.R.'s 'I Can't Breathe,' from the canceling of podcasts to the toppling of monuments to oppression, from...
Honey, I Found A Guarneri In The Attic
"A violin found in an attic in Italy has been confirmed as a priceless instrument made by Giuseppe Guarneri 'filius Andreae' in c.1705. The...
This Is What Banksy Gets For Saying ‘Copyright Is For Losers’
"In a new decision issued by the IPO Cancellation Division, a trademark owned by street artist Banksy has been declared invalid. … The...
New York’s Drama Book Shop, Saved By ‘Hamilton’, Set To Reopen
" quirky 104-year-old Manhattan specialty store that has long been a haven for aspiring artists as well as a purveyor of scripts, will reopen...
The Enduring Influence Of Midori
What might sound like general pep-talk fodder for the averagely scheduled person is actually just pragmatic paraphrase for Midori, whose prodigious musical talent was...
Manhattan Gets A Cool New Little Island
Mega-mogul Barry Diller’s $260 million, 2.4-acre pet project and civic mitzvah, near 13th Street in Hudson River Park, is the architectural equivalent of a...
New TRG Report: Arts Activity Increased In April
Currently the sales revival is uneven across venue types, with aggregate sales for symphonies and concert halls the lowest compared to the equivalent month...
