The Redemption Of Speedy Gonzales
By the end of the 1990s, the “fastest mouse in all Mexico” had been pulled from US television amid concerns about stereotyping and racist...
Does There Even Need To Be A Separate New York Times Magazine Anymore?
In ink-on-dead-trees print, sure. But a large majority of the newspaper’s readers consume the Times online or on an app, where the difference between...
Regional Governments In Madrid And Basque Country Are Fighting Over Picasso’s “Guernica”
The town whose bombing the painting depicts is in the Basque region, and politicians there want to borrow Picasso’s canvas and display it in...
Dean Of Juilliard’s Drama Division Will Move To Lead Yale School Of Drama
“Evan Yionoulis, who has been dean and director of The Juilliard School’s drama division since 2018, will take over the post at Yale starting...
L.A. Phil Creates New Position, Conductor-In-Residence, For Anna Handler
The Colombian-German conductor, who turns 30 next week, is a former Dudamel Fellow at the Phil and currently assistant conductor at the Boston Symphony;...
Salzburg Festival Appoints Interim Artistic Director
Less than two weeks after summarily firing director Markus Hinterhäuser, the festival’s board has named Karin Bergmann, most recently director of the Salzkammergut Festwochen...
Britain’s National Gallery Selects Architect For New $464 Million Modern Art Wing
The annex, being built for Project Domani, the museum’s expansion of its collection into 20th- and 21st-century art (which has traditionally been left to...
Fact-Checker Jasper Lo On His Illegal Firing From The New Yorker
“Why me? I wondered. I had finished my three-year term as the first vice chair of the New Yorker Union the week prior. Condé...
How Two Recent AI Publishing “Scandals” Will Changing The Books Industry
Stories like Shy Girl and The New York Times’ profile of AI romance author Coral Hart, who boasted of using AI to write and self-publish 200...
Original Dancers In Pina Bausch’s “Kontakthof” Revive The Piece After Half A Century
“Nearly 50 years since that first performance in 1978, Meryl Tankard is getting the Kontakthof band back together. Now a choreographer, she has assembled nine of...
How The Humanities Declined Into Crisis
A combination of technological, economic, political, and cultural forces, at work both within and without the university, had by the early 2020s effectively pummeled...
Duchamp’s Ideas A Century Ago That Still Have Us Debating
I think Duchamp got at something vital about Western culture over the previous 400 years: that an object didn’t count as “art” because of its...
An Essay That Explains Why The New York Art World No Longer Works
Titled “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art” and published by October, Kline’s essay is a despairing portrait of the city’s art scene....
Vocal Cortex, A Choir For Recovering Survivors Of Stroke And Brain Injury
“The choir is part of a wellness program at (a D.C.) hospital that uses music to stimulate neurologic change in the brain and help patients with...
Chicago’s Uptown Theatre Gets A New $46M Home
For almost three decades, the ambitious, history-centered company had to make do with the second-floor of a 110-year-old church building in Lake View —...
The City Of Boston Gets A New Arts Chief
“Many cities are facing affordability crises, lack of access to physical space for creative work, and tighter budgets. It’s more important than ever to...
Inside The Project To Remake Paris’ Catacombs
Over the past five months, architects, designers, technicians and masons have been renovating this vast tomb — installing new lighting and ventilation systems, restoring...
UK Bans Ye (Kanye West) From Entering Country
“The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was barred Tuesday from entering the U.K., where he was scheduled to headline the Wireless Festival in July, after a backlash...
Why It’s So Difficult To Get Our Heads Around AI
Artificial intelligence is both a technology and a theology, and in its latter aspect, it too often resembles a doctrinal dispute among an assortment...
Justice Department Settles Investigation Into Broadway Touring
The Justice Department has quietly resolved a yearslong investigation into possible anticompetitive practices by a major player in the lucrative touring market for Broadway...
Alternative Conservative Entrance Exam Gains Traction In US Schools
The CLT stands out because it mainly features passages from noted philosophers, religious scholars, scientists and authors in the canon of Western literature, including...
How Larry McMurtry Convinced E. Annie Proulx To Let Him Adapt “Brokeback Mountain” For...
“Proulx (said) she had already gotten ‘a couple of anything-you-want film tenders.’ But Larry had said the magic word: ‘West.’ Some would-be producers saw...
Betty Buckley, Broadway’s First Grizabella In “Cats”, Writes About The New Drag-Ball Production
“Cats has always been a ballroom: Distinct personalities enter the floor, presenting their style and story, and a community watches to see who commands...
Major Arts Institutions In Minneapolis-St. Paul Are (Mostly) Bouncing Back
After some very challenging years, the Walker Art Center, Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Minnesota Opera have all posted budget surpluses; while...
Can This New Theater For Magic Revive Chicago’s Magnificent Mile?
“There are a lot of maybes involved in The Hand & The Eye, the 36,000-square-foot magic-themed entertainment and dining complex set to open this...
