Ideology And The Censorious Tilt Against Art
Art has become so heavily politicised, so narrowly interpreted through the lens of identity and ideology, that many people can no longer even see the art...
What A 1964 Book About Anti-Intellectualism Tells Us About Now
In this world-view academics are seen as “anemic, priggish, effeminate;” “Harvard professors” as “twisted-thinking intellectuals”; Elite universities are the breeding grounds for the “enemy...
How The Notion Of Friendship Has Changed Over The Centuries
Medieval Christian Europe inherited from antiquity a deep reverence for the virtue of friendship. Thinkers in the Middle Ages read Cicero and Seneca, and...
Is This Why English Departments Are Dying?
By claiming literary fiction to be trope-free, we can pretend that literary fiction is not a genre in its own right. If we admit...
Just What Was Behind The 1990s’ Thomas Kinkade Craze?
In the 1990s, Kinkade estimated that one in twenty American homes owned a piece of his art, and reports suggest that his company boasted...
The Studio That’s Making A Name For Itself With AI-created Projects
The studio is now among the most popular A.I.-powered artists on the internet for its roster of subversive videos released on YouTube and then...
ABT Dancer Gillian Murphy Steps Down After 29 Years
Murphy joined Ballet Theater as a teenager in 1996 with technique that was glitteringly strong from the start and a clear joy for the...
Why Did This Film Studio Buy An Off-Broadway Theatre?
The company says it plans a wide-ranging slate of programming, prioritizing theater — Cherry Lane describes itself as the birthplace of the Off Broadway...
What AI Is Doing To My Creative Writing Students
As a teacher of creative writing, I set out to understand what A.I. could do for students, but also what it might mean for...
Five Essential Roger Norrington Recordings
On one side were those who admired his indefatigable research into 18th- and 19th-century performance practice, and the ways in which he deployed the...
Conductor Roger Norrington, 91
His mission wasn’t only to make us hear the repertoire we thought it knew through the prism of the techniques and playing styles of...
Seattle’s KUOW Will Lose $1M In Funding Congress Just Axed. In A Fundraiser, Listeners...
Money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting accounts for about 5% of KUOW’s revenue — $1 million — and funds infrastructure like satellite interconnection and emergency...
How YouTube Became The King Of All TV
People now watch YouTube on TV sets more than on their phones or any other device—an average of more than one billion hours each...
Lauding Lauder: The Consummate Museum Benefactor Dies at 92
I’ve been unpardonably remiss about this (having been uncharacteristically off-blog for two months). But I must belatedly add my voice
What Happens When You Expose Octopuses To Art?
The Japanese artist Shimabuku wanted to find out — so he started making artworks for them. - CNN
The Power Of Gossip And Spiritual Ease
I was able to differentiate between types of gossip through this association: the kind that aims to bring a rival low, that tries to...
Just Whom Is Spotify’s New Time-Limited Audiobook Subscription For? Not Enough Time For The...
The 30-hour limit won’t get you through titles like George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones or Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings, for example. You...
Yale Art Gallery Withdraws Grant Applications After NEA Anti-DEI Rules
The Yale Art Gallery, the renowned university museum in New Haven, Connecticut, has withdrawn two federal grant applications for an African art exhibition after rejecting...
Stephen Petronio Company To Give Its Last-Ever Performances At Jacob’s Pillow Next Week
The 69-year-old choreographer announced earlier this year that this season, the company’s 40th anniversary, is its last. Two years ago, he announced that the...
How Trump Managed To Kill Bipartisaan Support For Public Broadcasting
Trump had campaigned on retribution and made the news media a core element of his grievance. Public broadcasting has offered a ready target, given...
How Trump’s Attacks On Journalists Are Weakening The First Amendment
They show Trump has found tactical ways to prevail in his nonstop battle to discredit outlets that report critically on him and his activities....
Fantastical Set Designer John Conklin, 88
The term “prodigy” rarely applies to set designers, but Mr. Conklin’s instincts were on full display in his youth. Growing up in Hartford, Conn.,...
The Most Dangerous Book In America?
“What has been labeled the ‘bible of the racist right’ has influenced American culture in a way only fiction can. … There is no...
The search for the very nice arts philanthropist
Last month, the Scottish government came up with a one-time grant of £300,000 to cover the Edinburgh International Book Festival, after pressure from environmental protestors caused...
“Citizen Kane”‘s Rosebud Sleigh Sells For $14.75M
Film director Joe Dante had owned the piece since 1984, when a person was clearing out a section of the Paramount Pictures film lot that had...
