Mark Brokaw, Award-Winning Broadway/Off-Broadway Director, Dead At 66
“A prolific director of Off-Broadway, Broadway and regional productions, beginning in the 1990s (he) worked with some of the brightest emerging playwrights, including Douglas...
Inside Egypt’s New Grand Museum (The Opening Is Still In Question)
The museum, which allegedly cost $1 billion dollars, funded largely through Japanese loans and contributions from the Egyptian government, was first proposed by Hosni...
The Most Comprehensive Tour Of The Smithsonian Ever?
For many residents, visiting every local Smithsonian museum is a bucket list item. Kathryn Jones’s journey takes that challenge to the extreme. The 33-year-old...
The Taliban Want Tourists To Come Back To Afghanistan — And, Slowly, They Are
“By plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles, tourists are beginning to discover Afghanistan, with solo travelers and tour groups gradually venturing in. …...
The Louvre Launches A Design Competition To Expand The Museum
The winner of the international contest will be selected in October by a 21-person jury of experts from around the world and announced early...
International Support Grows For Returning Parthenon Marbles
There is a growing international momentum behind Greece’s campaign, as U.K. negotiations inch closer to a possible resolution and global public opinion continues to shift...
Julianne And Derek Hough’s New Kind Of Dance Competition
This fall, in partnership with the company DanceOne, they’re launching a dance tour called Ovation by DanceOne, which merges ballroom and commercial competition traditions into one...
CBS/Paramount Global And Trump Reportedly In “Advanced” Settlement Discussions For “60 Minutes” Lawsuit
Trump filed the suit last year, alleging that 60 Minutes producers deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris to benefit her campaign. (Trump won...
Dissident Art: A Dancing Trump On The National Mall
On Thursday morning, a life-size, gold-painted television set appeared near Third Street NW, pointed squarely at the Capitol, the Washington Post reported. Its screen played a silent...
I Observe. Must I Translate?
Human beings with a lot to say like to make noise. So do crickets, dogs, mice, other insects, rabbits when frightened or being killed,...
Canada’s Official Archives Are In Peril
After Confederation, some of the country’s oldest records were stashed in a loft in the reading room of the Centre Block on Parliament Hill....
With Their Primary Venue Closed, Where Will Chicago’s Experimental Dance Companies Perform Now?
Links Hall, long the hub of contemporary dance in Chicago, closed permanently in June. This raises two questions: Is there a crisis coming for...
Rising Star Jakub Hrůša Will Be Czech Philharmonic’s Next Chief Conductor
The 43-year-old Hrůša is currently chief conductor of Germany’s Bamberg Symphony; he becomes music director of the Royal Opera House in London this fall....
Leadership Changes At Both Of Utah’s Top Contemporary Dance Companies
At Repertory Dance Theatre, Linda C. Smith is retiring after 42 years as artistic director, 39 of them as executive director as well; two...
Ever Dream Of Looting Western Museums And Returning African Artifacts Yourself? This Video Game...
“Relooted (is) a side-scrolling puzzle platformer — think early Tomb Raider or Prince of Persia games — where players join a crew of Robin Hood-esque thieves staging elaborate...
Netherlands Repatriates 119 Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
“The Netherlands (has) returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a bell. … During the handover...
Music@Menlo, Silicon Valley’s Chamber Festival, Names Its Next Artistic Directors
Less than a week after founding artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han announced their 2026 departure, their successors have been revealed. They are...
The Met Museum’s Difficult Line Through Its Re-thought African Collection
The wing’s design stresses each region’s singularity while fostering an atmosphere of cosmopolitan exchange. We’re meant to feel that the Met is no longer...
The Struggle For A “Self” We Recognize
We imagine our choices are free, our selves sovereign, but much of our behavior arises automatically. We are driven by inner conditions, social cues,...
We All Read. But Our Reading Has Changed. This Has Changed Our Culture (And...
On average, we spend more than two hours scrolling through such platforms each day. But not all reading is created equal. The mind can skim over...
What Toni Morrison Was Like As An Editor
Her unwavering commitment to shoring up the integrity of a book at every stage solidified her legacy as an editor who could turn talent,...
Kennicott On The Met Museum’s Non-European Wing: Making The Case For Context
To appreciate these works only as visual objects exacerbates the intellectual violence of decontextualization. The Met has responded to this by writing extensive object...
How Much Do You Know About Publishing At The Beginnings Of America?
Which of America’s founding fathers began writing his memoirs in the early 1770s, a project that remained unfinished when it was posthumously published in...
Jordan Roth Made A Career Getting Other People’s Work Onto Broadway. Now He’s Making...
“I worked for a long time facilitating other people’s creativity, and that was very meaningful and very fulfilling, but I started to miss my...
The 21st Century’s Best Movies Reveal The Collapse Of Genre
What strikes me most about the list is this: Long-held categories in the movie business are fading, just like they are in the broader...
