Why Did Canada’s Top Museum Push Out A Visionary Curator?
For many, Nanibush’s departure was a catastrophe. Prior to her arrival, the AGO, like many museums, tended to treat Indigenous culture as something ossified...
What Netflix Standup Specials Say About The State Of Today’s Comedy
Like other performers in our Balkanized, make-your-own-prime-time-entertainment landscape, many comedians act less like artists or court jesters than like notionally humorous leaders of affinity...
How Policing Audience Phones Changes Meaning In The Theatre
The “Starbucks!” sticker is an effort to physically prevent photography and videos circulating online. But this seemingly innocuous action creates a ripple effect about...
Ofra Bikel, Whose Documentaries Helped Exonerate The Wrongly Convicted, Is Dead At 94
"(Her) work for PBS’s 'Frontline' investigative series exposed frailties in the U.S. criminal justice system — the coercive use of plea bargains, the failure...
How We Communicate: Everything Is Story
Even the driest academic monograph or most threadbare opinion piece usually begins with some act of storytelling, whether we hear how a previous generation...
“Nutritious Work”: What Tarell Alvin McCraney Wants To Make Happen At The Geffen Playhouse
"When we get folks in from every walk of our community, they can start having a conversation differently than, 'Get out of my way,...
Hollywood’s Shifting Portrayal Of Asian Actors
Since the 2018 blockbuster “Crazy Rich Asians” became a box office hit, Asian and Asian American stories and characters have proliferated in American pop culture. And after...
Why Dark Comedies Are The TV Fare We Need
"In a world that’s bleak enough already, feel-good, heartfelt comedy feels like a salve; earnest sitcoms seem to counteract the vitriol of the real...
What Happens When You Put Contemporary Art In A Small Conservative Austrian Village
The contemporary art influx is a colour blast of creativity in an area that usually attracts tourists interested in historic villas, mountains and high-end...
Meet Guillaume Diop, Paris Opera Ballet’s First-Ever Black Etoile
"Diop’s progress through the strict hierarchy at the Paris Opera – he joined the corps de ballet in 2018 – has been stunningly swift....
Our Vanishing Culture: 78 Records
78rpm discs were the way we learned about each other and entertained the world. It was a time when the world became a much...
After Four Years And $125 Million, San Diego Symphony’s Renovated Home Is Ready To...
"Although the outside of Jacobs Music Center appears much the same as it did in March 2020, when the orchestra played its last concert...
By The Numbers: What Went Into The Renovation Of The San Diego Symphony’s Concert...
Two miles of HVAC piping, two miles of plumbing, three tuning chambers, five miles of lifting cable, 300 cable pulleys, 85,000 pounds of rigging...
Auctioneer Stumbles On Ten Signed Dalí Prints In Someone’s Garage
Chris Kirkham, associate director of Hansons Richmond auction house in London: "I was invited to assess some antiques at a client’s home. During the...
Bookshop.org’s New Plan To Buy And Resell Used Books
"The scheme, Bookloop by Bookshop.org, allows customers to trade books they own for credit to use on the website. Readers can register books through...
With $20 Million Deficit, California College Of The Arts Warns Of Layoffs, Considers Merger
"California College of the Arts is facing a $20 million deficit due to a dramatic drop in student enrollment, even as it prepares to...
Charlotte Symphony’s New Contract Gives Musicians 13.5% Pay Raise
"Under the agreement, reached with (AFM) Local 342, the minimum salary for CSO musicians will increase from $45,861 to $53,709 over the course of...
Hapless Four-Year-Old Boy Breaks 3,500-Year-Old Jar
"The Hecht Museum in Haifa (said) the crockery dated back to the Bronze Age between 2200 and 1500BC — and was a rare artefact...
Edinburgh Themes This Year: Theatre Of Wellness
A conspicuous number of shows were themed around psychological maladies. These included plays about grief, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and...
“Emily In Paris” And The Decline Of Streaming
No show charts the streaming industry’s decline in inspiration quite like “Emily in Paris,” or the rush to capture the maximum amount of attention...
AI Open Competition “Reads” Long-Baffling Scrolls From Pompeii
Since March 2023, more than 1,000 teams have entered this competition. In October 2023, the first letters and lines of Greek text were detected,...
Canada’s CBC Expands Its Coverage Of Books
CBCbooks, the division behind Canada Reads, is readying a new consumer-facing one-hour national literary program, Bookends With Mattea Roach. - Publishing Perspectives
Evergreen Question: Just What, Exactly, Is Poetry?
Poetry has drastically changed after World War Ⅱ; it’s parted from art—including poems, waka, haiku, and novels written until around the end of the...
Scholarship That Reinvigorates 20th Century Dance
When you peel away layers of cliché and coarseness accrued over the course of the twentieth century, you often find works that are full...
Chaucer, The Master Amalgamator (And Inveterate Thief)
Not only did he take characters and stories from all walks of 14th-century English life, he borrowed phrases from Latin, French, and Italian; took...
