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...
The Influential Women Movie Critics Of Boston
During the height of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Boston’s daily newspapers employed some of the nation’s best-known film critics. All of them were women. They...
Great News For Art Conservators: There’s A New Specialty Glue That Looks Like Rice...
“Art conservators were starting to panic after two critical ingredients for a glue called Beva 371 and used to line historical canvases were discontinued....
Mann Center, Philadelphia’s Outdoor Concert Venue, To Close This Fall For $70 Million Renovation
“After the close of the season in October, the Mann will begin the work of creating a roomier campus (in Fairmount Park) and constructing new or...
Russia Arrests Publishing Employees For Distributing “LGBT Propaganda”
“On May 14, Eksmo, Russia's largest publisher … sent a letter to ‘all interested organizations’ (including booksellers) with a list of 50 titles to...
A Klimt Painting Was On Sale For $16.4 Million. It May Have Been Exported...
“The 1897 canvas, Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona,” which was on sale at this year’s TEFAF in Maastricht, “had reportedly resided in Hungary for decades,...
Texas House Passes Another Bill To Remove “Indecent” Books From School Libraries
“Librarians, who normally curate book collections, would need the school board’s approval before buying books under Senate Bill 13. ... District officials could appoint...
Just a Reminder — June 30 Is Only Meaningful to You
Also: clearing the decks for an important announcement in August No one cares ...
Righting Old Wrongs: The Plan For Revamping Damrosch Park And The West Side Of...
Michael Kimmelman: “By far most promising aspect of the plan is to open the park up to a neighborhood it has long walled off....
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, One Of Africa’s Leading Authors, Has Died At 89
“In dozens of fiction and nonfiction books,” the Kenyan writer “traced his country’s history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only...
Local History Museums Are Overlooked Casualties In GOP War On Cultural Funding
“While organizations of all kinds were impacted, it is the small and midsized institutions that lack endowments, prominent donors, and broad outreach whose futures...
Diplomatic Row After Iranian Film Wins At Cannes
Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the prestigious Palme d'Or for his film It Was Just an Accident on Saturday, a political drama inspired by his time...
How The Cartoon Channel Made A Case For Animation And Fell Prey To Corporate...
Cartoon Network is an excellent case study for how the conditions of media conglomeration shape how media is made and curated. And in making...
New Hampshire Senate Wants To Gut State’s Public Art Program
The State Senate’s Finance Committee decided against eliminating the NH State Council for the Arts. Instead, by a 5-3 vote, the committee gave the...
The Point Of Mass Education? Obedience?
In the vast majority of education systems, you still see these disciplinary and coercive roots very embedded in the character of how schools today...
