A Brain Abscess Left Alison Stewart Unable To Speak. Here’s How She Worked Her...
She had spent decades as a TV and public radio journalist and host, and, this past February, she suddenly found herself unable to utter...
Pig Iron’s MFA Program In Devised Theater, Left Orphaned By Collapse Of UArts, Finds...
"The Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training will become part of Rowan University in New Jersey, almost four months after it was cast...
San Diego Museum of Art Reveals Initial Design For Redesigned West Wing
"The proposed design is likely to please critics who feared the renowned English firm (Foster + Partners) would build a glass dome, high-rise tower...
Metropolitan Opera Settles Decade-Long Case With Mezzo Who Was Injured Onstage
During a 2011 performance of Gounod's Faust, Wendy White was injured when a piece of scenery collapsed and she fell eight feet. In 2013...
Is The Arts Sector Preparing For A Possible Trump Victory?
"Can they take action now to mitigate its potentially serious consequences? Calling around, I found that many people were not eager to discuss the...
“The Worst Insult I Ever Heard As An Opera Singer” (A Letter To The...
"Recently, I was playing guitar and singing a cute little country ditty that required no vocal skill. My sister-in-law, who was listening, exclaimed, 'That...
How Comic Sans Became The Most-Hated Font
Quibble with its gaucheness all you want, but a huge number of people have formed an opinion about Comic Sans, in the same way someone might...
Tim Burton: Going On The Internet Makes Me Depressed
"If I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed," the 66-year-old said. "It scared me because I started to go...
How The Book Publishing Industry Deals With American Election Season
"Because publishers can’t rely on surprise bestsellers like Hillbilly Elegy, they find themselves playing a game of 4-D chess every fourth fall: How can...
UCLA Study: Going To Movies Is Adolescents’ Favorite Pastime
A survey of 1,500 young people across the U.S. aged 10 to 24 — identified going to see a film on opening weekend as adolescents’...
Are We In A Crisis Of Storytelling?
“A country is only the stories it tells itself about itself.” It’s James Graham's contention that, since the 2008 financial crisis, the West has...
How DIY Has Transformed The Music Industry
One of the most significant shifts has been the rise of DIY artists. These independent musicians take on roles traditionally held by record labels...
Adapting Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” For The Stage
Writer-producer/adapter Armando Iannucci (Veep), director Sean Foley, and actor Steve Coogan (playing all of Peter Sellers's roles) are brave and perhaps foolhardy, but they...
The Art Of Travel Writing
Travel writing, historically, has followed suit in expressing everything from performative adoration and exoticization to sheer racism and erasure. But at its best it can...
When The Ukraine War Broke Out, International Artists Abandoned Working In Russia. Now One...
As the war nears its third year, a cohort of Italian curators, artists, and art historians, including Luca Tomìo and Alessandro Romanini, have bucked...
How To Get Hooked On Opera
Operas deal with all of life’s big issues, from unrequited love to the death of a loved one. They address social issues too: political...
The African-American Woman Who Turned J.P. Morgan’s Collection Into The Morgan Library
"In 1905, Morgan’s bibliophilic nephew recommended a co-worker in the library at Princeton: Belle da Costa Greene. … She would remain at the helm...
How Cheerleading Took Over Girls’ Sports
It is a huge part of the country’s arts scene, quietly flourishing and influencing new generations of dancers and choreographers. - The New York...
A Simple Old Computer Program And Its Invitation To Be Creative
Art made on Paint is often amateurish, but amateurish in a way that celebrates human flaw. Struggling to make something out of nothing —...
ByteDance Introduced A Sister App For TikTok. Will It Catch On?
"Since last summer, Lemon8 has more than tripled its user base, hitting 12 million downloads in the US (less than a tenth of TikTok's...
South Korea Has Become A Hotbed Of Contemporary Dance
"Its popularity and reach are evident throughout the country, especially among the dozens of companies, in Seoul and other cities, that share dancers, choreographers...
Smithsonian Receives $40 Million From Lilly Endowment For US Semiquincentennial In 2026
"(Celebrations) will include exhibitions and events throughout the Smithsonian's museums (and zoo), an expansion of the institution’s annual Folklife Festival, temporary public reopenings of...
Former Chicago Tribune Architecture Critic Pays For His Successor Out Of His Own Pocket
Why is Blair Kamin doing this? "I’m a realist, and I realize that, given who the Tribune is owned by now and given the...
The 20 Best Art Museums In The U.S. (Per The Washington Post)
Yes, the Met tops the list (by Post art critics Philip Kennicott and Sebastian Smee), and museum aficionados will have heard of the others,...
America’s Ten Best Small Art Museums (Per The Washington Post)
Some of these institutions are so famous that a reader may be surprised that they're considered small museums, but they are. And just about...
