What Cuts To Federal Funding (Small As It Is) For Public Radio Stations Means
Every nickel we get we use it to provide public service to the community. So what that 10% means is that we would have...
The Exotic Dancers Of Minneapolis Are Unionizing
“The Stripper Guild was created by the Sex Workers Outreach Project of Minneapolis, which received a … grant in 2022 to start building a...
How Do We Make Culture Visible? Who Controls Visibility?
Visibility is only part of the equation. Who controls it? How are cultural narratives shaped? What systems determine access? If we don’t ask these...
French Cinema Sees A Surge Of Patrons Returning To Theatres
In France, there has been a more celebratory feeling of late, with fresh statistics suggesting that its audiences are leading the way in returning...
Concert Tickets Have Become Eye-Poppingly Expensive. Fans Are Struggling
In recent years, concertgoers have paid eye-popping prices for tickets to see popular artists like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Oasis on tour. But Gen Z fans...
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Is Moving To Los Angeles
The group’s primary concert venue has been in Glendale in L.A. County rather than in the city proper, but starting next season, LACO will...
M. Paul Friedberg, Landscape Architect Renowned For Urban Mini-Parks, Has Died At 93
In radical breaks from the traditions of his profession, “his playgrounds and landscapes emphasized abstract, elemental forms for play and exploration, inserted into gritty...
“Emilia Pérez” Had A Disappointing Oscar Night But Did Very Well At France’s César...
The unconventional movie musical only won two Academy Awards out of the 13 it was nominated for, but two evenings before that, in Paris,...
Missing Fragment Of Bayeux Tapestry Turns Up In Germany
The piece was removed from the tapestry’s underside by SS officers in Nazi-occupied France in 1941 and sent for remeasurement to the Schleswig-Holstein State...
Harper Lee’s Unpublished Short Stories To Appear In Print This Fall
“The Land of Sweet Forever compiles short fiction Lee wrote in the years before the 1960 release of her classic novel (To Kill a...
Pritzker Prize For 2025 Goes To Architect Liu Jiakun
“In China’s era of architectural excess, Liu has instead quietly thrived by letting each site — and the history, nature and craft traditions surrounding...
2025 Olivier Award Nominations: “Fiddler”, Imelda Staunton, Adrien Brody, John Lithgow, Romola Garai (Twice)
Garai received nods as best supporting actress (play) for both The Years and Giant, which led the dramas with five nominations each. A revival...
When The Bauhaus Took On Ballet
Revisiting Triadic Ballet, Oskar Schlemmer’s 1922 experiment with applying Bauhaus aesthetic and design principles to a very dissimilar art form. - Colossal
Against The Encroachment Of AI On Creativity
The Brutalist’s AI touch-up fits the broader culture’s fetishization of perfection and flattening, but image filters and technologies like Auto-Tune consciously draw attention to...
Interjections — Those Little Junk Words We Toss Into Conversation — Serve An Important...
“For many decades, linguists regarded such utterances” — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — “as largely irrelevant noise, the flotsam and jetsam that accumulate on the margins...
The New Cultural Critique: Anti-Fans
Anti-fans, as pop-culture scholars have termed them, are similar to hate-watchers: consumers who become fixated on what frustrates them. Both groups tend to target something...
Our Times Can Be Understood As A New Kind Of Cultural Revolution
Unlike the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, which imposed ideology on their populaces by means of culture and entertainment, America’s current reality is...
The Curious Case Of Francis Bacon’s Friend Barry
For over a decade before that spring day in 1992, Barry Joule, a Canadian handyman with a rock-star mane, had been one of Bacon’s...
Bong Joon Ho Intends To Destroy Yet Another Genre
As the Oscar-winning director/screenwriter (Parasite, Snowpiercer, Okja) once told an interviewer in his native South Korea, “Whatever genre I choose, I intend to destroy...
Delayed George Lucas Museum’s CEO To Step Down
Jackson-Dumont’s departure comes just months after the museum quietly delayed its opening from this year to 2026. The museum has now delayed its opening...
America’s Oldest University Is Threatened. Can It Survive?
Harvard is the flagship of American higher education ...and what started as a crisis of speech and authority on campus has grown into a...
The Main Oscars Message? Hollywood Is Afraid
I feel for public figures in a way: damned if they do, damned if they don’t. After Sunday night, the film industry looks craven...
The Case For Playing Tchaikovsky With Period Strings And Bows
David Faber, cellist of the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: “In the early days of recorded classical music, string players exclusively used gut strings. Musicians like...
Artist Hal Hirshorn, Who Used Old-Fashioned Means To Make Unearthly Images, Has Died At...
“An artist known for his ubiquity around New York City’s cultural scene, (he) nevertheless managed to exist outside its manic commercial hustle, using antique...
New David Byrne Immersive Theater Piece To Set Up In Historic Chicago Landmark
The piece, titled Theater of the Mind and based on current research in neuroscience, will be housed in a 19,000-square-foot space inside the Reid...
