How To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature
First, book-length sentences are good. Also, well, “The Nobel Committee for a certain stretch of history, like the last 40 years, has had something...
If You Build A Small Cinema, Regulars Will Come
Carlos Costa, in São Paulo: “The movie theater is just me. I project the films, make the popcorn, sell the tickets, everything. For economic...
The Arts Column That The Washington Post Refused To Run
“Monuments are supposed to be collective tributes to shared ideals. Like Confederate statues, would function as the opposite — broadcasting a one-way message.” ...
The Cincinnati Symphony Gets Its New Music Director
Cristian Macelaru: "The work is a lot more complex and challenging here , but it’s also much more rewarding. … I’ve always had such...
Perhaps Because Its People Now Control All Branches Of The US Government And A...
Actually, the conservative watchdog group is bankrupt. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Apparently, Some People In The US Have A Deep Love For The Toppled Christopher...
“Many of the statues have been revived with the help of Italian American groups, who cherish Columbus as a figure their ancestors embraced as...
Cleveland State University Just Closed A Decades-Old College Radio Station For No Apparent Reason
“A student-run radio station trains kids to do all sorts of things. It’s the engineering, it’s the on air, it’s the music, it’s the...
Czech Writers, Including Ivan Klima, Created An Anti-Authoritarian Manifesto In 1977
In the U.S. (and other countries dealing with regimes antithetical to art), cultural workers could sure learn something from Charter 77. - LitHub
Why Is San Francisco About To Destroy This 96-Year-Old Artist’s Defining Work?
“Destroying the Vaillancourt Fountain, its supporters say, would be erasing history and modern architecture, and counter to the city’s reputation for being weird.” ...
Smithsonian Museums, National Zoo Close Amid Federal Shutdown
The Smithsonian museums “had been able to keep their doors open for the first 11 days of the shutdown by relying on prior-year funds, but...
Hollywood Vs. OpenAI Heats Up Hard With Release Of New Software
“At the core of the dispute is who controls the copyrighted images and likenesses of actors and licensed characters — and how much they...
Zora Neale Hurston’s Play, Forgotten For Decades, Sees The Light Of Day At Yale
“Building these moments for the stage entailed leaps of imagination and acts of faith among the collaborators. ‘I’d say to the team, ‘Trust Zora.’...
Pepperdine Suddenly Closes Art Show After Censorship Of Some Work Leads Other Artists To...
One artist wrote that the private university's censorship of other artists’ work, mostly about immigrants, “is a loss for the students and for the...
New Studies Suggests That People With ADHD May Be More Creative
Researchers found “that those with ADHD may experience more frequent episodes of mind-wandering, and that that, in turn, could lead to greater creative thinking...
Indiana’s Annual Three Day Blowout Honoring James Dean
“Dean was symbolic of the burgeoning country’s place in the world: rough-hewn and handsome, young and hungry, pure potential. That his potential was never...
Take MTV, Subtract The M, And Then Most Of The TV As Well
In Britain, after December 31st, MTV will be no more - for the most part. “The flagship channel, MTV HD, will remain on air,...
What It’s Like Opening A Feminist Play On Broadway Amid, Er, Gestures Around
Playwright Bess Wohl: “I wanted to make a play that I wished existed: a good, interesting, complicated play. How many plays are there really...
Rick Caruso’s Malls Are An Oddly Cold Version Of Urban Life
As the developer mulls a gubernatorial run, Carolina Miranda has some thoughts. “These places are rigidly controlled simulacra. … Collectively, these cloyingly tantalizing spaces...
Diane Keaton Has Died At 79
Keaton was the star of Annie Hall, for which she won an Oscar, and many other Woody Allen movies; she was also an Oscar...
Bernini’s Designs For The Louvre Were Too Much Even For Louis XIV
Yes, the favorite sculptor and architect of 17th-century Rome was the first designer whom the Sun King commissioned to make over the traditional Paris...
Are We Having The Wrong Debates About The AI Actress?
The question isn’t whether the future will be synthetic; it already is. Our challenge now is to ensure that it is also meaningfully human....
Theatre And Opera Director Ian Judge Dead At 79
“(He) enjoyed a wide-ranging career as a theatre and opera director without any of the obvious attributes for being so – no university or...
Meet America’s New Poet Laureate
“You can’t speed-read a poem,” he explains. “You have to read it, hear the sounds, the rhythms, reread it, not be in a hurry....
Jean Nouvel’s New Museum In Paris Upends The Traditional Gallery
Nouvel’s latest movie: a new home for the Fondation Cartier, a private art foundation established in 1984 that’s dedicated to the accumulation, display and...
Why, With Broadway’s Stresses, Revive A Long-ago Flop?
Put simply, “Chess,” first produced in the U.S. in 1988, didn’t work on Broadway. So remounting the show, even though it’s become a cult...
