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...
Is Burning Man Burning Itself Out?
Last year, freak rains left the place a wreck, the year before that saw a severe heatwave, and the two Burns prior were cancelled...
Washington Post Axes “In The Galleries” Local Art Review Column
"In an email sent to several DC-area art exhibition spaces on Monday, column author and critic Mark Jenkins announced the series would shut down...
Now Even Chick-fil-A Is Getting Into The Streaming Video Business
"The fast food chain has been working with Hollywood production companies and studios to create family-friendly, mostly unscripted original shows. The chicken house is...
Most Americans Are Opposed To Book-Banning In Schools But Don’t Feel Overly Engaged: Survey
"Just 3% of respondents have personally engaged on the issue — with 2% getting involved on the side of maintaining access and 1% seeking...
Sarasota Orchestra Appoints Nashville Symphony’s Giancarlo Guerrero As Music Director
The Nicaraguan-Costa Rican conductor will be music director-designate in 2024-25 as he completes his 16th and final season in Tennessee's capital, and his initial...
Director Ivo van Hove Fired By Theater Where He Made His Career
The International Theater Amsterdam, where he was artistic director from 2001 (when it was called Toneelgroep Amsterdam) to 2023 and continued as a salaried...
Greek Filmmakers Pull Films From Oscar Contention
The confusion began in early August when the Greek Ministry of Culture, as is customary, invited a committee of Greek film professionals to select...
Intimate Opera On The Prairies
Des Moines Metro Opera, founded in 1973, can’t rival Salzburg or Aix-en-Provence in scenic luxury. Yet musical values by no means suffer; casts are...
The Genius Of Banksy’s London Animal Murals
The murals have captured the public imagination, not because they’re artistic masterpieces, but because they play with something beyond the world of pop art...
In Praise Of Dilettantism
I’m a serial learner and hobbyist. Maybe you’d call it being a dilettante. Over the past 20-odd years, I’ve tried my hand at painting,...
What Determines Whether A Book Is Remembered?
Even limiting ourselves to literature, it’s simply the case that what endures has minimal correlation to either contemporaneous popularity or contemporaneous acclaim. - Countercraft
American Booksellers Association Publishes Handbook For Fighting Book Bans
The ABA Right to Read Handbook: Fighting Book Bans and Why It Matters … features more than a dozen interviews and profiles, and includes...
How A Play About Depression Became A Worldwide Phenomenon
An uplifting play about depression, Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing has become a global phenomenon since its Edinburgh fringe debut 10 years ago. It has...
The Company That Invented The Portable Pop-Up Theater And Locked Writers In A Room...
"It began over a pint in a Bedford pub. Fifty years later, Paines Plough is a theatrical trailblazer. … To mark its half-century, the...
Why Seattle Dance Companies Have Started Touring
“Touring gives the dancers a chance for exposure for our creativity and artistry.” And a chance for audiences around the world to get a...
Walking Around The Bronx With Ian Frazier
Dan Kois writes that their excursion showed him just why Frazier may be, in Kois's words, "the Greatest Nonfiction Writer in America." - Slate...
What The Grooves Of A Vinyl Record Look Like At 1000x Magnification
Here’s a photograph of the record grooves captured by Supranowitz at 500x magnification. Those dark chunks you see are dust particles. - Hasan Jasim
How To Sing Infanticide: Karita Mattila On Portraying Janáček’s Villainesses
"The bottom line ... is to remember that she, (and) everybody else in Janáček’s operas, are actually human beings. There aren’t any heroes, there...
Scottish Arts Organizations Protest Deep Funding Cuts
Many of Scotland’s best known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh fringe and national jazz orchestra, are in uproar over plans for deep cuts in...
A Breakdown Of All The Upheaval At Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Here's what was and wasn't in the video that DBDT bosses claim is the reason they fired all the company's dancers, how the sackings...
