French Protest Macron’s Stained Glass For Notre Dame
President Emmanuel Macron’s vision to immortalize himself in glass? Replace some windows in the recently reopened Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The custodians of French architecture...
Is This Really A Forgotten Van Gogh?
“People love it when things fall through the cracks, and it would be wonderful if they found a Van Gogh—but they’ve got to pin...
Site-Specific New York Company On Site Opera Shuts Down
"For more than a decade, (the) small but nimble group brought opera to unexpected places: the Bronx Zoo, Madame Tussauds, cafes and soup kitchens....
Climate-Protesting Theatre Vandals Interrupt West End “Tempest”
On Monday evening, two members of the group Just Stop Oil climbed onstage at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, fired a confetti cannon, stopped Sigourney...
Artistic Director Of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre To Step Down
Weyni Mengesha will depart as of August 31 after seven years in the post. A statement said she is leaving in order to focus...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Pioneering Native American Artist, Has Died At 85
"For five decades (she) mapped the Native American experience in dynamic and complex artworks. … The past few years have seen a reawakening (for)...
Ballets By Female Choreographers Performed By US Companies See Slight Decline
Women choreographed 30.6% of works presented by the largest 150 companies in the 2023-24 season, down 1.5 percentage points from the previous season. However,...
Smithsonian To Close Its Diversity Office Following Trump’s Order
"The organization is also freezing federal hiring immediately and instating a five-day return-to-office policy," both pursuant to othr executive orders from the White House....
Mona Lisa To Get Its Own Room In Extensive Renovation At Louvre
"The renovation project, branded 'Louvre New Renaissance,' will include a wide new entrance near the Seine River, to be opened by 2031, (President) Macron...
Want To Understand Good Poetry? Study The Bad Stuff
Much can be learned by close reading poetry, which is well written, that has withstood the test of time. By reading bad poetry, however,...
This Broadway Play About Fighting Over Vaccines Is Very Tricky — Because The Audience...
The third scene of Eureka Day depicts a board meeting at a private school in Berkeley (!) after a student gets mumps. The board...
“Hamlet” And “Grand Theft Auto.” Okay.
A film about a performance of “Hamlet” within the world of Grand Theft Auto suggests that the moral environment of revenge tragedy is not...
Little-Known Bernini Sculpture Is On Public View For First Time In Centuries
"Triton (1653) is on permanent loan to the (Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam) courtesy of a private collector. A terracotta study model, it depicts the Greek...
Will The Smithsonian Have To Obey Trump’s Anti-DEI Orders?
The Smithsonian, which oversees 21 museums, including ones dedicated to American art, portraiture, and African American history and culture, has a unique structure. That...
Leaked Memo: The Damage Overcrowding Is Doing To The Louvre
There is a “proliferation of damage in museum spaces, some of which are in very poor condition,” Des Cars wrote in the memo, which was...
Australia’s Contemporary Dance Pioneer Is Still Performing At Age 91
Elizabeth Cameron Dalman more or less created the country's contemporary dance scene when she co-founded and directed Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide in 1965....
Spotify: The Aural Drug That Flattens Music
As its playlists became increasingly dominated by music from content farms—low-wage operations producing dreck for somebody else’s profit—these mood classifications turned into what Ms....
Indie Bookstore Service Launches E-Reader Platform
Today, the online platform that connects readers to local bookstores launched an e-reading platform of its own. For the first time, local independent bookstores can sell...
The Louvre Has Become Overwhelmed By Visitors
One of the largest arts centres on the planet and the world’s most visited museum, the Louvre attracts more than 8 million people a...
Is This The Worst Page On The Internet? Or An Important Lesson About The...
"The name of this monstrosity, which was released earlier this month, is Stimulation Clicker, and it is more than a game. It is a...
Checking In With Theaster Gates
"Why is it so often that the people with the least amount of imagination and the most concern for the bottom line – real...
Might Media Publication Bundling Resuscitate Journalism?
The New York Times is a competitor to all local newspapers. For the cost, you get much more value with a subscription to NYT...
Laughing Is Fun. But Anthropologically…
There’s nothing like getting caught in a giggle loop, where the desire to laugh builds until it bursts out at a disastrous moment. Only...
McVulnerability (Beware The Influencers Who Cry On Camera)
"(Their) weepy confessions are, ostensibly, gestures toward intimacy. They’re meant to inspire empathy, to reassure viewers that influencers are just like them. But in...
Bring Intermissions Back To The Movies!
The Batman (176 minutes). Oppenheimer (180 minutes). Avengers: Endgame (182 minutes!). The Irishman (a whopping 209 minutes!). Do Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan want...
