We’re Seeing More Male-Male Love Depicted In Ballet. Why Not More Female-Female Couples?
Lily Hyde: “They have appeared in contemporary ballets, such as Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games and Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, but are by no means at the heart of...
Ancient Gold Artifacts Stolen From Dutch Museum May Still Be Recoverable
“While the whereabouts of these gold treasures — three Dracian bracelets dating from 50 B.C.E. and the 2,500-year-old Cotofenesti helmet — remain unknown, Dutch...
A Wave Of Closures And Cutbacks At China’s Private Art Museums
“The current crisis in China is a result of corporate backers tightening their budgets, consumers curtailing their discretionary spending, and rising costs, people working at...
The Art That Homeland Security Is Posting To Instagram? It’s Intended To Piss People...
Ben Davis: “It’s smug provocation. And there’s no particular love for classic art here; the aesthetic sensibility is totally internet-brained. These specific paintings are...
What The New Chief of New York City Opera Has Planned For Reviving The...
Constantine Orbelian, now both Music Director and Executive Director: “The main thing for me at this point is getting a home. ... I believe...
How One Arts Group Managed To Get Its Cancelled NEA Grant Restored
“Through a complicated process, Three Bone Theatre received the remaining $13,000 from its three-year, $20,000 grant to help put on a trilogy of plays that retell...
Time For The Annual Cleaning Of The Metropolitan Opera’s Spiky Crystal Chandeliers
“The chandeliers are wood-and-metal spheres that have been called ‘sputniks’ ever since the Met opened in 1966. Legend has it that a prototype was...
Awful As It Is, Ad-Supported Streaming Is The Future
But hey, one currently hard-up business might benefit: "If anything sends viewers back to the cineplex, it will be ads for depression meds in...
Loni Anderson, Star Of WKRP In Cincinnati, Has Died At 79
“Anderson’s seemingly ditsy, bombshell character was anything but, and her performance as Jennifer showed that looks and smarts could go together.” - The New...
On The Muppets, And Grief
“After a great loss, some people find themselves communing with nature, at the seaside or deep in a forest. Others turn to spirituality, toward...
This Theatre In Upstate Wisconsin Survives, And Thrives, On Local Lore, And Cheese
At Northern Sky, “There’s kind of an ownership because you saw shows about people that you know, Midwesterners.” Some of them, like Lumberjacks in...
The Salt Path Scandal Could Put An End To The Nature Memoir
Or not: “Reading about someone else’s deep dive into forest, field or water furnishes us with the sense that we’re participating in an environment that,...
The Quest To Preserve Marfa
Four years after a fire gutted it, Donald Judd’s “Architecture Office will reopen with new ventilation systems, recycled-denim insulation and an upstairs apartment for...
How Emmys Voters Award, And Ignore, Writers And Directors
“Writing and directing winners often get caught up in a sweep … so when they do diverge from the series winner, it can...
Ann Harris, Who Shaped The Exorcist, The Thorn Birds, And Many Other Bestsellers, Has...
“'She was a classic, old-style editor,’ Frances McCullough, who worked with Ms. Harris as an editor at Harper & Row, said in an interview....
Can ‘Bricking’ A Phone Fix Phone Addiction Issues?
No. “The main problem is that Brick requires you to be intentional about being present. I was addicted to being omnipresent.” - The Verge
South Koreans Are As Obsessed As People In The US With Netflix’s K-Pop: Demon...
“The film’s popularity in South Korea is rooted in its keenly observed details and references to Korean folklore, pop culture and even national habits...
This Gen Z Journalist Got The Washington Post On TikTok
And he thinks short-form videos are, yes, once again, the future of journalism. - NPR
Staff Member Dies In A ‘Tragic Accident’ At Jacob’s Pillow
Production manager Kat Sirico and an intern lost control of a dolly carrying heavy platforms. Sirico tripped and fell, and the dolly and platforms...
How Virginia Woolf’s London Became The London So Many People Know
In Mrs. Dalloway, "London is not just a backdrop but an essential character. It is a living, breathing organism, to be held, touched, traversed,...
The Smithsonian Now Says It Will Restore Trump To Impeachment Display
Eventually. And by the way, they removed the info, they say, because it "was meant to be a temporary addition to a twenty-five year-old...
Covering Forty Countries’ Worth Of Arts And Culture Is No Easy Task
One of the Times’ Culture Desk writers in Europe checks 36 news outlets from various countries twice a day, adding in more, from the...
The Birth Of The Attention Economy — More Than 125 Years Ago
The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper in the 19th century created the first true attention economy—an endless churn of spectacle and sensation that...
Choreographer Sues Fortnite Video Game For Stealing His Dance
Over the years, Fortnite has found itself in hot water for adding in-character dances that bear striking similarity to ones created by professional dancers,...
Edinburgh Fringe Needs A Big Overhaul To Survive
So many of the Fringe’s problems could be solved by a massive injection of cash: to subsidise performers’ costs, to shore up struggling venues,...
