U.S. Opera Companies Should Be Performing In English, The Language Their Audience Speaks
John McWhorter: “Sitting through a three-or-more-hour performance in a language we don’t understand is a peculiar cultural phenomenon, ... and it’s a big part...
Can The Designer Of The Iconic iPhone Give AI Its Breakout Device?
The news of his move to OpenAI felt something like learning that LeBron James was joining the Miami Heat: Jony Ive had become synonymous...
Romantasy Is Publishing’s Hot New Genre
Sales in the genre have electrified the publishing industry, reaching nearly 20 million in 2023 when U.S. book sales overall dipped. While there is no...
Chicago Art Institute Director Returns To Work After Airplane Incident
Rondeau has been on a voluntary leave since the April 18 incident in which police were called to a United Airlines flight after it...
A Desert Mirage? Plans For A Joshua Tree Art Museum Are At A Standstill
“On the Twentynine Palms Highway, a makeshift billboard declares “JTAM” in tall black letters. … Except for that recently erected sign — plus a website,...
Guthrie Theater In Minneapolis Bounces Back From Financial Debacle
After a record $3.8 million shortfall on a $32 million budget in fiscal 2023, the Guthrie has made a dramatic turnaround. For fiscal 2024 (which...
Pompidou Center To Open Branch Near Iguazu Falls in Brazil
While the Paris mothership is closed for a five-year renovation, items from its collection will be sent for exhibition at the museum’s satellites in...
San Francisco’s Three City Arts Agencies To Merge
Under Mayor Daniel Lurie’s budget proposal, Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Film Commission will operate side-by-side under a...
Paramount Offered $15 Million To Settle Trump’s “60 Minutes” Lawsuit. Trump Demanded More.
“Paramount Global in recent days has offered $15 million to settle, according to people familiar with the situation. Trump’s team wants more than $25...
All Remaining Voice Of America Employees Expect To Be Terminated This Week
“Those terminations would affect the 800 remaining workers at the agency, after nearly 600 VOA contractors were dismissed by the Trump administration earlier this month....
Composer Per Nørgård, 92
“Nørgård’s solution was to pioneer a form of musical functionalism that breathed new life into symphonic form. He hit upon an architectural formula he...
Damien Hirst’s Plan To Keep Producing Art For 200 Years After He Dies
“Hirst plans to fill up 200 notebooks, each representing one year after his demise. ... ‘The idea,’ he (says), ‘is to have a certificate...
Why Bad Ideas Seem To Spread So Easily These Days
It was simply that, when people who once functioned on a need-to-know basis were all of a sudden forced to adjudicate all of the...
Another Of India’s Non-Hindi “Regional” Film Industries Is Finally Getting International Notice
“Once pioneers of Indian cinema, Marathi films have long been hurt by Bollywood's dominating influence in the state of Maharashtra - where the language...
Everyone Sees Color Differently
Colour, as many people understand it, is the property of a thing. That light is green. The sky is blue. But scientifically, that’s not...
A Year Of Firsts For The International Booker Prize
It’s a year of firsts for the International Booker: this is the first time that a collection of stories has won; it’s the first...
Barry Diller’s Juicy Memoir: Postcard From A Hollywood That No Longer Exists
These days, two factors are pushing the fun out of memoirs. For one, the entertainment business itself is, as has been much remarked, a...
How AI Is Changing Theatre
We’re currently “embedded in the fourth industrial revolution” and points out that, like in previous revolutions, there is always a period of disruption and...
Artforum Attempts The Near-Impossible: Describing the Experience Of Watching A Richard Foreman Play
“Regularly staged behind large Plexiglas sheets that forced the audience to watch reflections of themselves perceiving the show, the plays had mesmerizing ways of...
The Universe Beyond Human Sight (As Revealed By Technology)
Venturing even a tiny bit beyond the red edge of the rainbow, into the undiscovered country of the infrared, is a transformative experience: it...
This AI Is My Dance Partner
“When I’m dancing with her, I feel her feeding energy back to me. It’s not quite like being on stage with another human, but...
Charlotte Symphony Busts Through Its Fundraising Goal
The orchestra unveiled details of its three-year comprehensive campaign in April 2024, after having already quietly raised $41 million since 2022. As of Wednesday,...
In San Diego, Dance Companies Scramble To Replace Abruptly Canceled Federal Grants
San Diego Ballet executive director Matt Carney: “We've been really tasked right now to solve problems we weren't anticipating. So the cut with the...
The Case That The World Is Still Getting Better
Rutger Bregman, 37, is a Dutch historian who has written best-selling books arguing that the world is better (mostly meaning wealthier, healthier and more...
Diversity Is Now Deeply Embedded In Today’s Theatre
"After a weekend of seeing four very different plays at four unique theatres, the word that hung in my mind was diversity. So many people...
