How MTV’s “The Real World” Pioneered Today’s Reality TV
In many ways, “The Real World” was a great leap forward from the proto-reality ventures of the past. These attempts had ranged from culture-rattling...
Why Does The UK Conservative Party Not Want To Talk Arts And Culture?
The Conservatives state that culture and sport lie “at the core of our national and local identities” and pledge to “support our world-leading creative...
In Praise Of Ambivalence
Ambivalence can be quicksand, slowly swallowing us whole. But some ambivalence, as lyric poetry taught me, is essential to a life. - Poetry Foundation
Of Balanchine And Graham: Important Lessons About Legacy
If the intertwined fates of Balanchine and Graham tell us anything, it should be that trajectories of dance styles and legacies of choreographers are just...
Debating How Babies Learn Language
First, is language acquired by specialized mental processes that are dedicated to this task or learned by general-purpose processes used for a variety of...
Were Or Were Not Berthe Morisot And Edouard Manet Lovers?
"(The question) is a matter of wide speculation. New Criterion says they burned their correspondence when she wed. However, Morisot’s letters with her sister...
Boston MFA Director To Step Down
His tenure at the MFA was marked by both successes and challenges, from the overhaul of many galleries, conservation facilities and education programmes, to...
Your Off-Broadway Show Is A Hit. Should You Move It To Broadway?
With production costs soaring, is it even worth moving a hit off-Broadway show to Broadway anymore? - TheatreMania
Virginia Opera Owes $270,000 In Unpaid Rent, Says City of Norfolk
"The city, which leases Harrison Opera House to Virginia Opera, says the organization owes $270,000 … for (2019-2024). … Virginia Opera leaders dispute those...
Scottish Arts Leaders Brace For Big Funding Cuts, Exodus Of Talent
The possibility of wide-ranging cuts has emerged as industry leaders warned of growing evidence of an exodus of talent from performers and arts workers...
Sophocles In A Maximum-Security Greek Prison
A photo essay on a production of Antigone, with a cast almost entirely of inmates, at the Korydallos prison in Athens. - Reuters
Why Evolving Our Morality Is Really Hard
When we’re told that something we see as ordinary – like eating meat – is actually wrong, our first reaction is to get irritated and dismissive. If...
The First Post-Pandemic Carbuncle Cup, For Britain’s Worst New Building, Goes To —
"A bunch of developers have been allowed to knock down a happy, eclectic row of buildings ... and (have) replaced it with such nothingness,...
The Online News Media Is About To Try Another “Pivot To Video”
True, the last one didn't work out so well. Yet "aggregate data from 47 countries shows all the growth in platform news use coming...
Is There Any Corporate Funder Of The Arts Who’s Pure Enough For The Activists?
"Activists targeted an asset manager that invests much less in fossil fuels than most of its peers. They succeeded in reducing funding for literary...
BalletMet In Columbus, Ohio Appoints New Artistic Director
Remi Wörtmeyer, an Australian-born choreographer and visual artist and a former principal of the Dutch National Ballet, succeeds Edwaard Liang, now artistic director of...
Folger Shakespeare Library Reopens In “A Building Transformed”: Philip Kennicott
"By opening itself more forthrightly to a wider audience, the library is doing something that Henry Clay Folger could probably never have imagined would...
Abruptly-Shuttered University Of The Arts Doesn’t Have The Cash For Legally-Required Severance Pay
"(The school), which shut down suddenly earlier this month, does not appear to have enough money to pay its employees the minimum it owes...
Museum Of Fine Arts Boston Director Announces Retirement
"Matthew Teitelbaum, … who stewarded the institution through a tumultuous era of social upheaval and change, announced his retirement Thursday evening at a meeting...
France’s Far-Right Party Pledges To Privatize Public TV And Radio
"Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally intends to privatise public television and radio if it wins an absolute majority in the French parliament in...
Rise Of The Efficiency Gurus
We flaunt long workweeks and disdain anyone working less than full-time. But we’re likewise seduced by get-rich-quick schemes and “labor-saving” gimmicks. The rich may...
The Radical Meaning Of Paradigm Shifts
Paradigms and normal science? Sure. But the truly radical idea here is that outsiders—in this case, historians—can offer better insight into the inner workings...
Donald Sutherland, 88
Across six decades, starting in the early 1960s, he appeared in nearly 200 films and television shows — some years he was in as...
How Architecture Is Defending Ukraine
In the third year of this epochal war — which has destroyed some 210,000 buildings, according to a recent New York Times investigation — Russian forces...
When, Actually, Is A Crisis An Opportunity?
Overall, we can think of a crisis as an emergency situation requiring a bold decision to go in one direction rather than another. So...
