Bronx Museum Picks A New Director
Shamim M. Momin is, most recently director of curatorial affairs at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle and co-founder of Los Angeles Nomadic Division, succeeds Klaudio Rodriguez, who...
First Look At LACMA’s New Home
Created to house the museum’s permanent art collection, the David Geffen Galleries increase the total museum space from 130,000 square feet to 220,000 square...
Columbia University In Discussion To Pay Trump Administration $200 Million
Part of the money would be paid to the government, people familiar with the matter said. White House officials said the deal also includes...
Kennedy Center’s Director Of Jazz Joins Long Line Of Leaders Quitting
He is the latest administrator to leave the performing arts center following the Trump takeover. Other administrators who also left included Renée Fleming, Shonda Rhimes and...
Restaurants Consider Ditching Recorded Music Because Of Higher Licensing Fees
The National Restaurant Assn. said its members pay an average of $4,500 per year to license music, or 0.5% of the average U.S. small...
The Harvard Linguist Who’s Figured Out How Algorithms Have Shaped Our Language
“I want to balance being a ‘ha-ha funny’ TikToker with academic credibility. It’s a little hard to strike that balance when you are talking...
La Scala To Ticket-Buyers: No Flip Flops! (We Mean It!!)
The venue is stepping up the enforcement of its dress code this summer, reminding patrons via signs in the foyer to dress “in keeping...
Is It An Honor Just To Be Nominated?
These shows, and actors, may find out tomorrow at the Emmy nominations. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
It Might Be Time To Revive This Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner’s Plays
“Gale didn’t coin the term ‘think global, act local,’ but that’s what Sodality does: Gale’s stories imagine an anti-capitalist vision of ‘sodality’ that could...
Perhaps Inevitably, A British MP Has Called For The Bayeux Tapestry To Travel To...
Sure, why not just take that fragile tapestry to the south coast and “reserve at least 1,066 tickets to the exhibition for people from...
Can The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Survive?
The venerated, invaluable theatre incubator is facing, like so many performance-related sites, money trouble. - The New York Times
Navigating The Cluttered World Of Author Newsletters
Authors love to write, and some choose Beehiiv, Ghost, Buttondown and other alternatives to converse with a similarly word-obsessed public. Here are a few...
Doubt Can Fuel A Life Well Lived, And Maybe Take The Edges Off A...
“Certainty serves a powerful social identity function. Declaring a clear position, especially a strong one, signals belonging. … Certainty is rewarded not just with...
The Superman “Backlash” Is Super-Overwrought
And Superman himself is hardly an icon of liberal values. Instead, he’s a white dude from Kansas struggling to make it, hiding who he...
Clare Chambers Learned How To Expand A Novel By Reading Iris Murdoch
Upon reading The Bell, she says, "I realised that a novel, if perfectly executed, could be about absolutely anything.” - The Guardian (UK)
Charles Reinhart, Who Brought Modern Dance Into Prominence, Has Died At 92
He managed the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Meredith Monk, and he produced modern dance festivals in New York, but “it was as the...
On Bastille Day, Just How French Are The Irish?
And vice versa, of course. For instance: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Oscar Wilde all found some freedom in France, but Charles de Gaulle?...
The Salt Path’s Author Had A New Book Coming Out, Then Came Last Week’s...
“Penguin, publisher of The Salt Path, is delaying author Raynor Winn’s next book after reporting cast doubt over the truth of the 2018 memoir....
Saving Material History Isn’t Always Easy, But These Queer Communities Are Finding A Way
There’s “a growing wave of collaborative projects in which Latin American LGBTQ+ communities preserve and share their struggles and triumphs. They digitize photos, collect...
The World’s Newest Gaming Obsession Is A Cow
Cow (as the cow character is known) “has become Mario Kart World’s breakout star, validated by her leading role in popular videos on Instagram...
What Does Beauty Mean In The Age Of AI?
“When you have surgery to look like your best self as shown on a flat screen, the results in three-dimensional reality can be very...
How The Author Of Space Raptor Butt Invasion Went Legit This Summer
“Perhaps the best way to understand Tingle’s career plot twist is as part of a trend in horror fiction that speaks to contemporary identity...
Supe Saves The World, But Also Warner Bros.
Why in the entire heck did no one previously think of adding a dog? - The New York Times
As You Might Have Suspected, A Small Percentage Of People Are Ruining Social Media...
“Most people aren’t posting, arguing, or fuelling the outrage machine. But because the super-users are so active and visible, they dominate our collective impression...
Will Popcorn Buckets Save Movie Theatres?
Well, why not? “Every movie is a new chance for a popcorn bucket artist to shine.” - NPR
