Fukuyama: As Science Helps Us Live Longer, The Downsides Multiply
There is a lot of happy talk among gerontologists about how people can remain open to new ideas and able to reinvent their lives...
Archaeologists Uncover Large Ancient Marble Workshop In Greece
Paros wasn’t just rich in natural resources. It was also a hub for artistry and culture. At a dig on the site of Floga,...
How The Rebuilt Doris Duke Theater At Jacob’s Pillow Differs From The Original
Says executive director Pamela Tatge of the original: “It didn’t have a lot of modern amenities. It was not handicapped accessible, and it did...
What’s The Rococo Remake Of The Oval Office All About?
A parade of golden objects march across the mantel, relegating the traditional Swedish ivy to a greenhouse. Gilded Rococo wall appliqués, nearly identical to...
Why Are Silicon Valley Tech Leaders So Obsessed With Tolkien?
How did a trilogy of novels about wizards and elves and furry-footed hobbits become a touchstone for right-wing power brokers? How did books that...
The West Prizes Individualism. But It Breeds A Mindset That Isn’t Always Best For...
Even when we criticise individualism, we remain entrenched in individualist modes of thinking. Liberal and conservative, religious or secular, hip-hop or punk or country...
France’s Most Argued-Over Feminist Author Pivots Into Theatre
Virginie Despentes: “I attend a lot of plays, and I realized that theater audiences are very curious. They really show up, even for demanding...
People Love Janacek’s Music When They Hear It. So Why Isn’t He More Popular?
They are as propulsive and viscerally affecting as Arthur Miller plays, but those who haven’t heard them often think they’re esoteric, strictly for connoisseurs....
Two Of Seattle’s Most-Established Theatres Have Merged. So What Does That Mean?
The hope among ACT staff members, both past and present, is that, as this entity prepares to launch, ACT’s artist-focused legacy continues on through...
“The Handmaid’s Tale”: An Oral History Of The Novel-To-TV Cultural Landmark
“More than 20 key stakeholders behind its success — from author Margaret Atwood and adapter Bruce Miller to producers, executives and the cast led...
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, The Great Lieder Singer, Remembered By His Last Student
The teenaged Benjamin Appl was Fischer-Dieskau’s last private student, working with the baritone for three years until his death in 2012. Here Appl recalls...
For 50 Years This L.A. Theater Company Has Kept The Flame Of Audio Drama...
Charles McNulty looks at the history of L.A. Theatre Works, which has drawn on Hollywood’s extraordinary talent pool to perform and record audio drama,...
V&A Museum In London Opens Its Storehouse To The Public
“Striking juxtapositions, and the often contentious stories behind them, lie at the heart of the (Victoria & Albert Museum’s) new £65m facility, which provides...
Federal Appeals Court Removes Injunction Against Texas Book Bans
“United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction and dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano...
Robert Campbell, Former Pulitzer-Winning Architecture Critic For The Boston Globe, Is Dead At 88
For more than 40 years (he) wrote with clarity, wit and love about a city in transition from the era of “urban renewal” slum...
Getty Villa, Which Narrowly Escaped L.A. Fires, Sets Reopening Date
The museum of ancient Greco-Roman art and its collections survived the January fires, but 1,300 damaged trees have been removed from the grounds. The...
“A Tale of Two Cities” — Music and Race in Boston and New York
My latest installment of “More than Music” on NPR explores racial attitudes in Boston and New York at the turn of the
Untangling The Meaning Of Khipu, The Mysterious Knotted Strings Of The Incas
There’s no other system of encoding information quite like khipu, the knotted strings and cords used to keep records in the Inca Empire. For...
Brian Eno: What Art Does
The art schools were easy to get into and their teachers were well regarded. The schools’ core view was that the postwar world would...
The Librarians Who Helped Win World War II
“The big leap that the OSS made was book knowledge: the accumulation of a vast amount of seemingly trivial information, if analyzed intelligently, …...
Director Michael Arden Steps Into The Broadway Light
This season, Arden has given Broadway its most surprising and heartwarming new musical, “Maybe Happy Ending.” The show, which originated in South Korea, is...
Why Homer Still Resonates 3000 Years Later
Small wonder that the “Odyssey," a staple of the Western canon and the progenitor of so much, from sci-fi to rom-com, has been enjoying...
Wisconsin Arts Organizations Struggle For Funding
In an era when Wisconsin has consistently ranked near the bottom in per capita arts spending nationwide — and with ticket sales declining since...
Storm King, The Sculpture Park In New York’s Hudson Valley, Reopens After A $53...
“Storm King now boasts one of the world’s greatest collections of outdoor sculpture, with more than 100 works by 20th-century greats, but it has...
Politics And The NEA
“The current mood is one of dreadful anticipation of further hostility toward arts and culture, in general, and toward any institution or organization —...
