The Pompidou Wants, And Now Needs, A Global Reach
The Pompidou is closing for five years, starting in 2025 because, well, “If we don’t take immediate measures, the building will collapse: There are...
Unexpectedly, And Beautifully, The Onion Has Saved Itself From A Content Farm Death Spiral
Is something going right for a beloved media product? This doesn’t sound like 2024 - and yet. The Onion, which many people had long...
The Many Balloon Artists Who Rallied To Create The DNC Balloon Drop
The DNC balloon designer was fighting for his life at the hospital, but “a team of 55 balloon artists from 18 states — and...
Paramount May Be Jeopardizing Its Huge Skydance Deal
Chaos just as Skydance was heading to the finish line: "Seagram liquor company heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. this week persuaded Paramount’s independent board members to consider his...
How To Survive – And Maybe Thrive – While Performing In The Edinburgh Fringe...
One performer who was new to the 2024 Fringe: “Everyone is telling me you can’t understand the Fringe until you go to the Fringe. … I’m...
Musicians Are Extremely Tired Of Obsessive Fan Behavior
Chappell Roan is the latest to call out her so-called fans. She recently posted, “It's weird how people think that you know a person...
The Bad, Even Truly Terrible, Sculptures Of The Rich Might Be Pointing Toward Our...
The sculpture of Priscilla Chan, wife to Mark Zuckerberg, is so obviously self-referential and AI-influenced that it’s hard to discuss critically. But “is this...
Hettie Jones, Supporter And Publisher Of The Beats, Has Died
Jones was “a poet and author who with her husband, LeRoi Jones, ... made her household a hub for Beat writers and other artists...
How Did Chicago’s Improv Comedian Masters Deal With The DNC?
Well, Second City doesn’t really do a ton of political comedy, per se. However, if someone shouted out Tim Walz: “We know he likes...
How To Go On With The Show When Your Closest Collaborator Dies
“Adam thought that solo shows should answer the question: What is our place in the world? I looked after the jokes, and he looked...
Disney Is Fined A Trifling Amount For The Death Of A Worker On A...
Surely $36,000 will make Disney more careful. The fine came “in connection with the death of Juan ‘Spike' Osorio, a lighting technician who fell...
Washington Post Kills Its Galleries Column
In an email sent to several DC-area art exhibition spaces on Monday, August 19, column author and critic Mark Jenkins announced the series would shut down...
Lessons For Theatre From This Year’s Edinburgh Festivals
While the international plays are overtly political, encompassing disability rights, antiracism and ecology, the homegrown works explored the more personal terrain of addiction, recovery...
What Republican, Democratic Pop Music Choices At Conventions Says About Them
These days, you get this sort of unabashedly instructional approach to pop music only from Republicans, whose musical choices at July’s Republican National Convention...
Did Google Get Off Easy In California’s New Media Law?
Critics say it’s a textbook political maneuver by tech giants to avoid a fee under what could have been groundbreaking legislation. California lawmakers agreed...
A Librarian Targeted By Hate After She Defended Access To Books
She was labeled a “sicko, pig, trash,” she writes in the memoir. "The sense of betrayal was overwhelming." One message was particularly alarming: “Continue...
Conducting An Orchestra Made Up Entirely Of Traditional Chinese Instruments
The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra may look, from a distance, like a European orchestra, but its musicians play erhu, gaohu, huqin (all bowed strings),...
Why “Weird” Works As A Critique
In the 20th century, the word lost its hint of the macabre as its meaning became something quieter. “Weird” now means peculiar — perhaps...
Did Brian Eno Really Use Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” As The Urinal It Was Originally...
He's certainly happy to claim that he did, having told the tale several times with plenty of backstory and detail. And he has quite...
Takeaways On The TV Industry From This Year’s Edinburgh TV Conference
The problem is, at the moment, networks aren’t taking risks, as the tough economic conditions of recent years have led to glut of tried-and-tested...
The Politics Of, And In, Indonesia’s Traditional Shadow-Puppet Theater
Over its thousand-year history, wayang kulit has been at once high art and popular entertainment; both exemplified and parodied elites and common folks, invaders...
The Museum Of London’s New Logo (A Pooping Pigeon): Weird? Or Inspired?
The new design features a white porcelain pigeon trailed by a golden “splat”. It’s a choice that the museum’s director Sharon Ament interprets as...
Immersive Art Shows Have Become Big Business. Can Museums Get In On It? Should...
Serious institutions might legitimately turn up their noses at the immersive van Gogh or Monet "experiences," but nearly half of the immersive art shows...
Only Eight Percent Of UK TV Workers Are Working Class –What’s The Solution?
“It is the category of representation with the largest disparity between make-up of the country and make-up of our industry … Yet it is...
Is Cable TV Dying Or Not? And How Might That Play Out Either Way?
"Pay TV has entered into what may well be the final impasse between distributors like Comcast and content companies like Disney. Here's why this...
