Machines Will Save Us/Machines Will Kill Us — Time To Figure It Out
"We once obsessed about how to restrain machines we could not predict or control — now we worry about how to use machines to...
Why Is Shakespeare Still Such A Big Part Of Our School Curriculum?
This has serious consequences for what ought to be the primary function of high school study: developing a love of reading that will last...
They Tell Aspiring Writers To Read Read Read. What If That’s Wrong?
"Now that I am a published writer, it is against this backdrop, of limited exposure to books in my adolescence, that I find the...
Morris Dickstein, Cultural Historian And Literary Critic, Dead At 81
"A self-described 'freethinking intelligence yet a child of the ghetto,' … a public intellectual who examined such topics as the cultural ferment of...
Venice Passes New Rules Restricting Biennale Business — Will They Help Or Hurt?
It may be a hasty measure in which practical consequences have not been thought through, or it may, as some suggest, be an indirect...
Latvia’s Huge Body Of Traditional Poetry Is Finally Appearing in English
The verses, typically four lines long and metrical, are called daina. Thanks to an effort to transcribe them in the 19th and 20th centuries,...
American Museums Versus Looted Art — They’re Failing
"In 2008, the AAM admirably pledged to fight the trade in looted antiquities by passing a set of guidelines for its member institutions that...
How Do You Become A Broadway Choreographer? It’s Not Easy, But It’s Fairly Straightforward
"In much of the dance world, the process of becoming successful as a choreographer can seem frustratingly oblique. On Broadway, however, that path is...
The Arts Went Online During COVID — What Happens When Theatre Audiences Return?
“Right now, a streamed concert that sells well will just about cover the cost, and we have to proof every second of the video....
Salman Rushdie: India Is No Longer The Country I Wrote About In ‘Midnight’s Children’
"When I wrote this book I could associate big-nosed Saleem with the elephant-trunked god Ganesh, the patron deity of literature, among other things, and...
A Supreme Court Ruling On Computer Code Has Hollywood Worried
"While a copyright dispute about computer code might not seem like a subject of particular consequence for them, an opinion from Justice Stephen Breyer...
The Spectacular Golden Parade Of The Mummified Pharaohs
"Crowds gathered on Saturday to witness the multimillion-dollar spectacle of 18 kings and four queens making the 7km journey (four miles) from the Egyptian...
Another Pandemic Silver Lining: Overhaul Of Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall Is Way Ahead...
"With concerts in the hall canceled since March 2020, construction began in earnest over the past few months. Work is expected to continue for...
Guillermo Del Toro Absolved In ‘Shape Of Water’ Plagiarism Case
"The producers of The Shape of Water will no longer have to contend with a copyright lawsuit that claims that Oscar-winning Guillermo del Toro...
Want A Subscription With Top Seats To Broadway Shows At Philly’s Kimmel Center? Give...
"The Kimmel Center is instituting a mandatory $1,000 donation for access to the best seats in its Broadway series. That's $1,000 up front, before...
A Report From New York’s Wary Return To Indoor Shows
"Like budding flowers awakening just in time for spring, music, dance, theater and comedy began a cautious return this past week as venues were...
Spoleto Festival USA Moves Cautiously Back Into Live Performance
There will be 80 events spread across four stages, three of them outdoors and two of those newly-constructed. (The old Dock Street Theater, site...
From The Wreckage Left By ISIS, Mosul’s Museum Begins To Rise Again
"By the time Mosul was liberated by Iraqi government forces in July 2017, most of the artefacts in the Mosul Cultural Museum had been...
Is Network TV Done For?
According to Nielsen, through Feb. 28, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW, on average, showed a loss of 23 per cent from the...
Does The Identity Of A Translator Matter?
Lawrence Venuti’s watershed book, The Translator’s Invisibility (1995), argued that the practice of ignoring the identity of the translator, to the point of being...
Ken Burns Does Hemingway
Let’s talk about the Burns Method: the frowning pan across the blotchy manuscript page, the dreamy plunge into the old photograph, the smatters of...
A Hollywood Plan To Make More Movies About Older People
A study released in 2017 by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism looked at...
How The Values Of Theatre Move Forward
"The American theatre is a very slow-moving ship, especially when I think about how quickly culture moves, and particularly now that we are in...
Savage Beauty
A generation of important Chinese composers, paradoxical beneficiaries of enforced rural relocation, wound up studying in the West. For many, Bela Bartok became a...
46-Year-Old LA Stage Alliance Disbands After Awards Mistake
Last week, more than 25 Los Angeles area theater companies, including the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Deaf West Theatre, revoked their...
