Richard Wright, Who’s Been Dead For 60 Years, Has A New Novel Coming Out
"In July 1941, Richard Wright, then America's leading Black author, began writing the novel he felt was his masterpiece. Written 'at white heat,' …...
Chiefs Of ‘The Gold Standard Of Art Film Studios’ Retire After 21 Years
Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley have been at the helm of Searchlight Pictures since the turn of the millennium, and one could argue that...
With The Castros Gone, Will The Arts In Cuba Be Any Freer?
Since Raúl Castro's government had recently had another period of censoring art and arresting artists, there's some hope — off the island, at least...
Entire Board Of New Zealand’s National Organization For Museums Resigns
"The entire board of Museums Aotearoa has abruptly quit after concerns about its governance and management. The organisation’s remaining executive director, Phillipa Tocker, is...
Class Struggle, Artists, And Changing The World
Struggle without class analysis results in the many empty institutional statements and surface-level concessions we’ve seen across the United States this past year. Class...
Reconnecting: Linking The New Moral Purpose
"For all sorts of understandable reasons, we have become very wary of public and social norms. We are conscious of the legacy of appealing...
NFTs — Not Just For Art Anymore
"What we are primarily focusing on at Time is how NFTs relate to subscriptions, memberships, and access to unique experiences, which would allow us...
Lesson: Streaming Theatre Works When It’s Designed For It
The problem that companies like ACT had been having, said Randy Taradash, was that they weren’t just having to juggle new technology, but also...
As The Pandemic Eases, Netflix Forecasts Much Lower Growth
This year Netflix is forecasting 6 million new subscribers, the lowest first-quarter increase since 2017, well down on the almost 16 million sign-ups in...
The Walkie-Talkie, Big Underpants, And The Bathtub: What Modernist Architecture’s Abhorrence of Imitation Has...
For centuries, great architecture involved innovation and invention within the context of established, tried-and-true styles, materials and techniques — and the result was buildings...
The Pursuit of Equity
The intent is to overcome the very real danger that the nonprofit arts industry’s “equity statements” could easily become like the “thoughts and prayers”...
Study: The Psychological Benefits Of Attending Live Theatre
We found that attending these plays increased empathy for people depicted in them and changed people’s political attitudes about a variety of issues related...
Literary Scholar And Critic Denis Donoghue Dead At 92
"First at University College Dublin and later at New York University, Professor Donoghue carved out a middle ground in the contested landscape of late-20th-century...
Dudamel Isn’t Known For Conducting Opera. Will That Be A Problem As Music Director...
Almost all his renown has come from his exhilarating performances with symphony orchestras. Does lacking operatic experience matter in landing an important opera post?...
Here’s A Landmark For A Growing Company: Indianapolis Ballet Hires Its First Executive Director
"More than three years after its 2018 debut, the professional company … announced April 6 that longtime Indianapolis arts leader Don Steffy will take...
Make Room For Theatre Visionaries
Lacking in visionary leaders? Absolutely not. They're just blocked from the table by their status as a young person, or as a queer person,...
Anthropology Museums Start Reckoning: What To Do With Bones Of Enslaved Africans In Their...
It started last summer with the Morton Cranial Collection at Penn, spread to Harvard's Peabody and Warren Museums, and, in recent weeks, has come...
Preparing To Resume
"I think part of the answer is going to be for arts organizations to look in the mirror and ask themselves, “What really was...
The Rise And Fall Of ‘Florida Man’, Once The Internet’s Favorite Laughingstock
Tyler Gillespie, author of The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State and Florida Man: Poems, traces the course of this icon of the...
Why Did Scott Rudin Step Back From Broadway? Maybe Not Just Because He’d Seen...
The key seems to have been Rudin's high-profile, high-stakes production of The Music Man, set to start previews in December. While some of the...
At The RSC, ‘The Winter’s Tale’ Is Finally Coming Together After Two False Starts
The COVID lockdown hit Britain just days before this production was to open and put the company's entire operations on hold; the show was...
Has NPR Recovered From COVID Cutbacks? ‘Not Completely’, Says CEO
"NPR cut spending in areas including staff and executive pay to offset a decline in revenue spurred by the pandemic, particularly in corporate sponsorship....
Two Senior Staffers Quit MOCA In L.A. Over ‘Hostile Environment’ And Resistance To Diversity...
One of the departing execs, the director of human resources, left over conflict with his boss, the deputy director, and alleged retaliation which he...
The Cutting Edge In Breathing Therapy For Recovering COVID Patients? Opera Singing
Last June, English National Opera and a branch of the NHS launched ENO Breathe, a program that offers what are basically online voice lessons...
Beijing, Hong Kong, The Streisand Effect, And The Oscar For Best Documentary Short
" Hammer is bemused at the lengths to which China has gone to stop its citizens catching even a brief glimpse of his latest...
