Saudi Arabia Commissions World’s Largest Mural, Which It Hopes Will Be Visible From Space
The job — to create a painting 50,000 square meters large, roughly the size of nine football fields, in the Saudi capital, Riyadh —...
Louvre’s No. 2 Official Says Ticket Fraud Is “Inevitable” At Large Museums
“Which museum in the world, with this level of attendance,” said Louvre general administrator Kim Pham, “would not at certain moments have some issues...
How Will Academy Voters Decide Which Movie Should Win Best Casting Oscar?
“Yes, casting directors are finding the right person to carry the weight of the movie, but they are also responsible for nearly every face...
Oscar-Nominated Co-Writer Of “It Was Just An Accident” Released From Iranian Prison
Mehdi Mahmoudian, who wrote the screenplay for the Cannes-winning film alongside director Jafar Panahi, has been released on bail after 17 days. He was...
Actor Shia LaBeouf Arrested In New Orleans After Alleged Mardi Gras Fistfight
He is charged with two counts of simple battery following incidents in the midnight hours of Tuesday morning. This is, of course, by no...
Architect Oscar Niemeyer’s Final Building Was A Diner In Leipzig
The great Brazilian modernist, best-known for the futuristic government buildings in Brasilia, had recently turned 103 when he drew the first sketch for what’s...
Stephen Colbert Says CBS Censored Talarico Interview On His Late Night Show
Colbert said that CBS lawyers had told him “in no uncertain terms” that an interview he had planned for Monday’s show with State Representative...
A Rare Edition Of Shakespeare’s First Folio Was Stolen And Damaged. Now That It’s...
When in 2010, Durham University got back the Folio which had been stolen in 1998, the book’s leather cover, boards and end papers were...
Michael Silverblatt, A Radio Interviewer Who Really Knew His Subjects’ Work, Dies At 73
Michael Silverblatt, the longtime host of the KCRW radio show "Bookworm" — known for interviews of authors so in depth that they sometimes left...
In Australia, Arts Education Enrollment Is Plummeting
A comprehensive review of national data shows a steady decline in arts subject enrolments at senior secondary level and a parallel contraction of creative arts degree...
The Anatomy Of (Enduring) Class Struggle
Despite years of Eat-the-Rich–type discourse, we seem to struggle with how money and power operate without falling into either conspiratorial exaggeration (the fantasy of...
A Verbatim Play Reimagines One Of The Most Notorious TV Debates Of The AIDS...
In Kramer/Fauci, director Daniel Fish stages a transcript of the 1993 C-SPAN debate between Larry Kramer, the legendarily combative writer and AIDS activist, and...
Arguments For Why People Are Worthwhile
When we speak of dignity, worth, or the respect owed to persons, we are not engaging in idle abstraction. These concepts do real work....
Why Do We Have An Instinctive Attraction To Music?
People have relished music for so long that we have evidence, from forty thousand years ago, of humans making a flute-like instrument out of...
How Universities Became Centers Of Liberal Thought
In the past thirty or so years, the academy has replaced the church as the center of the liberal moral imagination, providing the sense...
“Train Dreams” And “Adolescence” Lead 2026 Independent Spirit Awards
Train Dreams, Clint Bentley’s feature about an isolated logger in the early-20th-century Pacific Northwest, led the film categories with three wins. In the television...
The Cultural Debate About Wall Texts
“When curators withhold information about the works and the artists, they are reinforcing their own curatorial approach, which is a contradiction. Decontextualizing and dehistoricizing...
What Musical Variations Can Teach Us About Divergent Creativity
It’s hard to imagine creativity without divergent thinking. How are you being exploratory? How are you being adventurous? A theme and variations is a...
America’s Post-Modernist Architecture Legacy
Postmodernism began as a critique of modernism's exhausted promises. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, many designers no longer treated modernism as radical or socially...
At 85, Choreographer Lucinda Childs Is Still Busy
“I’m not, um, young,” she says. “And I do have help. I don’t go in without somebody there who can help to translate and...
Head Of Arts At London’s Barbican Centre Is Out After Only 18 Months
Devyani Saltzman was named director of arts and participation in February 2024; she was one of seven senior leaders installed after the Barbican replaced the managing...
San Antonio Philharmonic Cancels Remainder Of Its Season
“After the loss of its musical director, the cancelation of multiple concerts and a dispute locking it out of what was touted to be...
Chicago Symphony Is Deemed “World’s Busiest Orchestra” — What Exactly Does That Entail?
Basically, it means the CSO shows more scheduled performances than other orchestras in the comprehensive concert listings on the classical-music website Bachtrack. However, both...
Warner Bros. Will Let Paramount Submit Another Bid To Buy It
“Warner Bros Discovery Inc. has agreed to temporarily reopen sale negotiations with rival Hollywood studio Paramount Skydance Corp., setting the stage for a potential...
Frederick Wiseman, Dean Of Documentary Filmmakers, Has Died At 96
“Among the world’s most admired and influential filmmakers, … with subjects ranging from a suburban high school to a horse race track, his work...
