The Spanish Artist Creating A Visual Memory Of Fascism’s Horrors
“People were repressed into silence during the dictatorship and they couldn’t talk about the tragedies in their lives for 40 years. And it’s even...
Why Broadway Performers Make A Hot, Buggy Summer Trek West To St. Louis’s Muny
The Muny seats 11,000 people, in a bug-prone, humidity-drenched St. Louis outdoor theatre. It’s getting a Tony tonight. - The New York Times
Need A Guide To Surviving Hard Times?
Try this 40-year-old kids’ movie. Beneath The Goonies’ "awkward stereotypes and slapstick humor from 1985 lies powerful messaging about what it means to belong,...
How, And Why, Emmy Nominees Ply Their Trade
Javier Bardem: "This is a job, and you just do the job as good as you can with your own limitations. You put everything...
Juggling The Tension Between A Writer’s Creative Vision And Historical Trauma
“I understood the didactic logic of forcing the reader to intellectually and emotionally live through those brutal moments, but the personal distance nagged at...
Scorsese Is Finished With Cinemas
And that’s thanks to us, the great unwashed movie audience: He "explained that he found himself too distracted by the chat and mobile-phone disturbance...
Misty Copeland, Whose Groundbreaking Career Was So Improbable, Is Retiring From ABT
“It’s never been about me. It should never have been about me. It should have been about a broader understanding that people from Black and...
Post-Apocalyptic Theatre
Performance, after the cataclysm, is a common theme in science fiction books and shows. That includes, in one of the genre's most literary forms,...
Why The Time Was Right For George Clooney’s Broadway Play To Get Broadcast On...
"The pressures that deformed the news in Murrow’s day have only grown more intense, and its defenses weaker. The last line of protection is...
Gertrude Stein Was A Self-Promotion Genius
Some of her PR tactics were terrific even by today’s standards, and she achieved a level of fame in America that’s astonishing, then or...
What Trump Learned About Book Banning From Florida
Since 2021, the Sunshine State has led the country in advancing the “parental rights” agenda. Contrary to its name, this agenda has used fuzzy, coded...
Bettie de Jong, Paul Taylor’s Factotum, Still Working At 92
For decades she has been Taylor's star dancer, muse, buddy, rehearsal director, and choreographic reconstructor. (He was never particularly interested in the details of...
Just Whom Are We Calling A Genius?
You can tell what a culture values by who it labels a genius—and also what it is prepared to tolerate. The Renaissance had its...
Has Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Become Our Best Playwright?
“Obviously, I’m very neurotic. I’m always trying to understand what’s happening and why. My friends every day talk about what they’re anxious about, and...
We’re About To Be Able To Translate Animal Languages. Then What?
The prospect of speaking dolphin or whale is irresistible. And it seems that they are just as enthusiastic. In November last year, scientists in...
Idris Elba Wants To Build An “African Odeon” Of Cinemas Across The Continent
“There’s a crazy number across the entire continent: less than about 3,000 cinemas, actual cinemas,” said the actor. “I would love to be able...
Ai-Generated Music Is Flooding Streaming Services
Fraudsters are flooding Spotify, Apple Music and the rest with AI-generated tracks, to try and hoover up the royalties generated by people listening to...
How Florida Inmates Incredibly Made A HipHop Album, Despite The Challenges
County jails are incubators for hip-hop, especially in Broward county, which cultivated “legends like Kodak Black and YNW Melly … but the diversity of...
Four Takeaways For Galleries From This Year’s ArtLogic Report
Even as technology opens new doors, the daily realities of operating a gallery have never been more daunting. - Hyperallergic
The First Authorized Stage Adaptation Of James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” Makes Its Debut
“There have been many efforts to adapt Baldwin’s works since he died in 1987, nearly all unsanctioned or unsuccessful in earning approval from his...
UK House Of Lords Rejects New AI Copyright Rules. Wants More Protections For Artists
The Lords, who are looking for more protections for artists from AI, rejected the latest amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill on...
New EU Regulations Will Hold Art Importers Accountable For Provenance
Importers will be required to identify an object’s country of origin and the date it left the country, as well as the hands the...
The Science Of Visual Learning
Feeling baffled by a work of art is similar to the experience of many chemistry learners. In both scenarios, viewers might ask themselves: What...
Will Ferrell Is Adapting His Eurovision Song Contest Parody For Broadway
“A stage musical based on the 2020 Netflix movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is under development with Will Ferrell, Harper Steele and Anthony...
With Their NEA Grants Rescinded, Nonprofit Publishers Contemplate Their Prospects
“Many of the grants were meant to partially reimburse nonprofit publishers for projects they’ve already paid for and completed, leaving them with surprise shortfalls....
