Where Has The Sex Gone? Our Literature Is Getting Cleaner
Literary writers have other demands to satisfy. In general, readers come to their books seeking not an escape from reality but perspective on it....
A Dystopian Story About An AI-Ridden 2028 Sparked A $200 Billion Crash Of The...
A speculative blog post about 2028's AI-choked economy just vaporized $200 billion in market value. When your dystopian fiction gets confused for a Goldman...
A Real Shit Show: Berlinale’s Director Faces Axe Over Israel Stance
Tricia Tuttle discovers that running a major film festival means navigating more landmines than a war correspondent. Her crime? Apparently failing to muzzle artists...
A Gay Cultural Critic Resistant To “Heated Rivalry” Explains Why He Finally, Happily Succumbed
Wesley Morris: “Why wouldn’t I have wanted this? A six-episode show that’s exemplary as romance, as physical intimacy, as banter, as athlete psychology, as conversation, confession...
Rena Bransten, Pillar Of San Francisco’s Gallery Scene For 50 Years, Has Died At...
“Rena Bransten Gallery was known as one of the pioneering contemporary art programs in San Francisco. She helped the gallery develop a long tradition...
Venues Hosting Shen Yun Dance In Australia Get Bomb Threats
The theatre presenting the controversial Falun Gong-associated troupe in the Gold Coast had to be evacuated; the venues where the group will perform in...
Public Radio’s Young-Musician Show “From The Top” Acquired By KERA Dallas
“We're not spending a dollar on this acquisition. They're essentially folding into KERA,” said station CEO Nico Leone. “We feel really good about our...
Nadia Boulanger’s Little-Known Opera Revived
Her opera La Ville morte was set to premiere just when World War I broke out; she never returned to it and only a...
France’s Controversial Culture Minister Steps Down To Run For Mayor Of Paris
Rachida Dati, a member of ex-President Sarkozy’s right-wing party Les Républicains (she was once his Justice Minister), is running to succeed outgoing mayor Anne...
DePaul Art Museum In Chicago To Shut Down This Summer
Announcement of the closure, which is effective June 30, comes two months after DePaul University laid off 114 full-time and part-time staff. Administrators cited...
Netflix Backs Out Of Offer For Warner; Paramount Wins
Netflix said that it would not raise its offer to counter a higher bid made earlier this week by Mr. Ellison’s company, Paramount Skydance,...
BBC Radio 3 Fires Norman Lebrecht Over Email To Yuja Wang
The broadcaster’s decision to end its long relationship with Lebrecht — the widely-read, controversial critic and blogger who has hosted several interview programs on...
Cappella Romana Founder Alexander Lingas Steps Down After 35 Years
In the decades since its founding concerts, the Portland-based professional vocal ensemble has gone on to become the premier exponent and explorer of the...
How Awards Have Defined The Canadian Music Industry
National arts award ceremonies like the Junos are part of a cultural system that help define who belongs, who succeeds and what counts as “Canadian” in...
35 Rembrandt Etchings Rediscovered After A Century In A Safe
Charlotte Meyer’s grandfather, who had a sharp eye, picked them up inexpensively back when etchings weren’t highly valued, and they remained in her family’s...
A Rebirth In Critic-ing?
If the review sections of newspapers are closing down, there’s a sense that this moment could make room for a meatier, weirder kind of...
Cellist Steven Isserlis On Composer György Kurtág, Now Aged 100
“Playing to him is transformative in every way. His imagination is boundless; he will produce startling, unexpected images – or point out connections, musical...
LA’s New Golden Age Of Museums
This shift to the West Coast has long been driven by the region’s many art schools, including the ArtCenter, California Institute of the Arts,...
London’s Globe Theatre Launches “Environmental Playwright” Prize
It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespeare’s Globe to launch its first climate playwriting prize for 2026, which it...
Study: Gen Z’s View Of Masculinity Is Changing
The study surveyed 1,500 tweens, teens and young adults, ages 10-24, finding that these groups want to see boys and men on TV and...
A Reporter Starts A “Book Club” For Newspaper Articles
At a St. Petersburg bookstore, Lauren Peace, an enterprise equity reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, moderates conversations about a selected story among its...
The Existential Challenges Facing Disney’s New CEO
There’s a phrase that’s used around the Magic Kingdom to describe this phenomenon: “the Josh Effect.” D’Amaro — tall, slender and silver-haired — has a politician’s ability to make anyone he encounters feel...
The Qualities Of Ethics Required For Good Government
In a world increasingly defined by distance, between citizen and state, between policy and experience, between law and justice, Rammohun Roy offers a reminder...
Did This LA Arts Icon Personally Profit From Foundation Grants?
They allege Judy Baca personally benefited from a $5-million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to expand “The Great Wall,” sold the project’s archives to the...
Should Young Girls Really Have To Wear Makeup For Dance Class? Or Even Competitions?
“The question of whether children should be encouraged to break out the grease paint has been pressing on parents and dance teachers alike. …...
