Original Dancers In Pina Bausch’s “Kontakthof” Revive The Piece After Half A Century
“Nearly 50 years since that first performance in 1978, Meryl Tankard is getting the Kontakthof band back together. Now a choreographer, she has assembled nine of...
How The Humanities Declined Into Crisis
A combination of technological, economic, political, and cultural forces, at work both within and without the university, had by the early 2020s effectively pummeled...
Duchamp’s Ideas A Century Ago That Still Have Us Debating
I think Duchamp got at something vital about Western culture over the previous 400 years: that an object didn’t count as “art” because of its...
An Essay That Explains Why The New York Art World No Longer Works
Titled “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art” and published by October, Kline’s essay is a despairing portrait of the city’s art scene....
Vocal Cortex, A Choir For Recovering Survivors Of Stroke And Brain Injury
“The choir is part of a wellness program at (a D.C.) hospital that uses music to stimulate neurologic change in the brain and help patients with...
Chicago’s Uptown Theatre Gets A New $46M Home
For almost three decades, the ambitious, history-centered company had to make do with the second-floor of a 110-year-old church building in Lake View —...
The City Of Boston Gets A New Arts Chief
“Many cities are facing affordability crises, lack of access to physical space for creative work, and tighter budgets. It’s more important than ever to...
Inside The Project To Remake Paris’ Catacombs
Over the past five months, architects, designers, technicians and masons have been renovating this vast tomb — installing new lighting and ventilation systems, restoring...
UK Bans Ye (Kanye West) From Entering Country
“The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was barred Tuesday from entering the U.K., where he was scheduled to headline the Wireless Festival in July, after a backlash...
Why It’s So Difficult To Get Our Heads Around AI
Artificial intelligence is both a technology and a theology, and in its latter aspect, it too often resembles a doctrinal dispute among an assortment...
Justice Department Settles Investigation Into Broadway Touring
The Justice Department has quietly resolved a yearslong investigation into possible anticompetitive practices by a major player in the lucrative touring market for Broadway...
Alternative Conservative Entrance Exam Gains Traction In US Schools
The CLT stands out because it mainly features passages from noted philosophers, religious scholars, scientists and authors in the canon of Western literature, including...
How Larry McMurtry Convinced E. Annie Proulx To Let Him Adapt “Brokeback Mountain” For...
“Proulx (said) she had already gotten ‘a couple of anything-you-want film tenders.’ But Larry had said the magic word: ‘West.’ Some would-be producers saw...
Betty Buckley, Broadway’s First Grizabella In “Cats”, Writes About The New Drag-Ball Production
“Cats has always been a ballroom: Distinct personalities enter the floor, presenting their style and story, and a community watches to see who commands...
Major Arts Institutions In Minneapolis-St. Paul Are (Mostly) Bouncing Back
After some very challenging years, the Walker Art Center, Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Minnesota Opera have all posted budget surpluses; while...
Can This New Theater For Magic Revive Chicago’s Magnificent Mile?
“There are a lot of maybes involved in The Hand & The Eye, the 36,000-square-foot magic-themed entertainment and dining complex set to open this...
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Proactively Changed Material After Trump Returned To Office
“Unlike his posture toward the Smithsonian, Trump has not publicly commented on the USHMM’s content. … But two former museum employees who left amid...
Temple University’s Next Arts Partner: Opera Philadelphia
“Students will sit in on Opera Philadelphia rehearsals and attend master classes by opera artists, and emerging vocalists will have the opportunity to audition...
Trump White House Says Halting Construction Of Ballroom Is National Security Risk
“In a motion filed on Friday, US National Park Service lawyers say that the federal judge’s order to suspend construction of the new facility...
How to Make Resistance a Daily Part of Our Lives
'Don't let anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.' — Toni Morrison 'Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait.' — Rebecca Solnit
Why Did the Boston Symphony Decide Not To Hire Leonard Bernstein? Did that Decision...
Today’s Boston’s “The Arts Fuse” carries an investigative piece of mine exploring how the Boston Symphony trustees decided not to hire Leonard Bernstein as the orchestra’s Music Director in 1949 even though he was the chosen successor of Serge Koussevitzky. This story is not irrelevant to the current controversy over
Can An Artist Retreat Over Clay Pots Suggest A Direction For AI?
Es Devlin is calling order on a group of artists, AI researchers, spiritual leaders, academics and experts from global tech gathered at the kilns...
Pepsi Pulls Sponsorship Of UK Festival To Protest Booking Of Kanye West. Now The...
Keir Starmer joined criticism of the festival at the weekend, saying it was “deeply concerning” that West had been booked to perform “despite his...
It’s Our Phones That Have Caused Our Brains To Rot. Not AI
Even if you spend very little time online, there’s little you can do outside the logic of the internet. It is a force that...
The Industrial Revolution Killed Jobs. To Fill Idle Time With What, Was The Question
It might repay us to take a moment, not just from our jobs but also from our leisures, to make some to-do about doing...
