Palm Springs Decides To Move Marilyn Monroe Statue To A City Park
The move is a result of a lawsuit from, well, people who love cars. They’ll be disappointed, though; the city council did not decide...
The Lincoln Center Composer In Conversation With Robert Schumann
Hannah Kendall knew, when she read Schumann’s letters about his struggles with depression, that her next piece would be a response to him, and...
Britain Releases Its Stirling Architecture Prize Shortlist
The list includes the entire new Elizabeth Line in London, a dairy farm in Dorset, and the National Portrait Gallery. - BBC
No, The Olympics Opening Ceremony Did Not Refer To Leonardo’s The Last Supper
“A depiction of Greek gods partying atop Mount Olympus at the Olympics opening ceremony spurred conflicting public reactions as primarily conservative critics erroneously claimed...
One of Oakland’s Favorite Bookstores Is Destroyed By Fire
Firefighters arrived at East Bay Booksellers just before 5:30 am on July 30 and were able to keep the flames from spreading, but the...
Francine Pascal, Author Of The Sweet Valley High Books Who Remade YA Publishing, Has...
"The concept: Dallas for young people. The main characters: twin sisters, one mischievous (Jessica), the other more sensible (Elizabeth).” The Sweet Valley High universe...
Ukraine’s Badass Art Rescuers
"With the help of a motley group of intrepid friends, (Leonid) Marushchak has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has organised the evacuation of dozens...
The State Theatre Of Melbourne Is Under Renovations Until 2027, But There’s A Small...
That is, the old rehearsal room is now a 150-seat theatre. And the size is a plus, they say: “Without The Show Room we...
Samuel Zimmerman Wants You To Be Terrified, And Knows Just The Way To Do...
"He’s the curator at Shudder, the bespoke streaming service owned by AMC Networks that, alongside the movie studios Blumhouse and A24, is shaping the...
Hollywood Actors May Have Some Protection From AI, But What About Editors And Artists?
Editors are, rightfully, worried - and they’re unhappy with their union, which they believe sold them out on AI - perhaps out of necessity....
Dressage: The Olympic Sport Of Teaching A Horse To Dance
"Popularly known as horse dancing, dressage involves riders directing their horses to perform a series of moves, including pirouettes, that are thought to have...
Massachusetts May Appoint The First-Ever Choreographer Laureate
The proposal is twinned with the appointment of a music laureate. “If the legislation is ultimately signed into law, the home state of Jacob’s Pillow, Boston...
Lewis Lapham’s Secret For Great Editing? “Steal”
"Many of Lapham’s innovations at Harper’s and LQ were elegant systems of thievery. (Copyright holders were always paid for the republication of their poetry...
John Eliot Gardiner Is Completely Repentant — Isn’t He?
"I was very dehydrated. … I didn’t strike him too hard. I did nonetheless cuff or biff a young singer. … There is no...
Baritone Benjamin Luxon, One Of 20th-Century English Music’s Greatest Interpreters, Has Died At 87
He had an international career in a wide repertory and was a star at English National Opera, but his greatest contribution was in British...
“Blues For Mister Charlie” — Reconsidering James Baldwin’s Broadway Debut, 60 Years Later
"An impassioned play about the murder of a Black man that implicates progressive white viewers … which opened in a white-dominated environment inimical to...
After 25 Years, Mass MoCA Is A Great Museum. But Has It Been Great...
"One 2017 study put its annual lift to Berkshire County at just more than $50 million. But the numbers tell a less convincing story...
Britain’s New Labour Government Cancels Planned Stonehenge Highway Tunnel
"Rachel Reeves, chancellor of the exchequer, told Parliament on Monday that the tunnel 'would not move forward.' Scrapping the project, which had a proposed...
One Of Edinburgh’s Best-Loved Arts Venues Has Been Saved
"Arts and cultural leaders were alarmed about Summerhall’s future, and the future of Scotland’s independent arts scene, after it emerged in May that the...
A New Trend? Two Downtown NYC Theatres Decide To Bunk Together
The prestigious Soho Rep is giving up its longtime home in TriBeCa and will instead share space with Playwrights Horizons, a Midtown theater company, while trying...
More States Pass Book-Banning Laws
Over the past few weeks, new laws or regulations have gone into effect in Utah, Idaho, South Carolina and Tennessee that will make it...
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra And The Role It Tries To Play
In the face of these vast geopolitical movements, and accompanying humanitarian catastrophe, you can’t help but consider the purpose and the impact of cultural...
Why Are We Attracted To Fear? (As Entertainment?)
Why do we do that—why do we crave small doses of terror? Why do we like “safe” fear? - The Believer
Why The Can Can Dancers In The Olympics Opening Ceremonies Couldn’t Couldn’t
"We were so dissapointed. It started to Rain just before the Can Can began. 10 seconds before you saw us. We were trying to...
Is Culture An Industry? It Doesn’t Work As An Argument
The policy discourse framing culture as an industrial sector, which became a trend in the 1980s, has not proven effective - for the economy,...
