Why Is Civil War So Evasive About The Nature Of Its Civil War, And...
"Garland sets so far apart from the fray that their objectivity starts to look like incuriosity. Journalists, at least the old-fashioned kind, are...
The Joys And Hazards Of Replacing Dudamel In Los Angeles
"What might a young music director mean to an orchestra and to a city when an amazing crop of international and, for the first...
Non-Profit Journalism Is Growing. But Where’s The Audience?
“Journalists are not very good marketers. They do a story they are excited about and think most people in the addressable audience will want...
Why All The Broadway Theatre Standing Ovations?
Some have attributed the trend to the tourists who fill many of the seats at Broadway shows; they may be less familiar with theater...
The Downside Of Outsourcing Skills To AI
Making thoughtful and defensible decisions requires practice and self-discipline. And this is where the hidden harm that AI exposes people to comes in: AI does...
A Short History Of Artists Sneaking Work Into Museums
Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the museum applauded the mischievous initiative. “We think this is funny and would like to know the artist,” a...
Why Studios Make Movies And Sometime Don’t Release Them
Near-complete movies have been mothballed, underperforming shows pulled from streaming libraries. - The New York Times
A New Fellowship For Rising Young Theatre Critics
Critical Insight is "a new generative arts journalism fellowship that will bring the best in the field to early-career and aspiring critics through mentorship,...
An AI-Powered Salvador Dalí, Answering Your Questions Via A Lobster Telephone
Yep, that's pretty surreal. - Forbes
Pappano: People In The UK Are Embarrassed By Opera
“Here it’s looked on with great suspicion. That drives me nuts, I have to tell you. England is a haven for culture whether it...
4-D Theatre About Irish Peat Bogs (Wait, What?)
"Staged at a massive round table for 25 audience members, covered with 330 pounds of dried Irish peat," Luke Casserly's Distillation "is not easy...
San Francisco Chronicle Music Critic Josh Kosman To Retire
On April 30, Kosman will flip his critic’s notebook closed for the final time, retiring from the newspaper at a crucial juncture for classical...
A Connecticut Civilian At A Pilobolus Workshop
"Emily told us to 'start walking' — all of us, in any direction, or all directions, as she and Matt called out instructions. …...
What It Costs To Attend Coachella (Thousands of $) And Why These Fans Say...
Many people are willing to lay out a lot of money for the experience and party in the VIP section, but it's possible to...
Salman Rushdie Reads From His Memoir About Being Stabbed Onstage
“I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up in some public forum or other, and coming for me in just this way....
How Our Obsession With Self-Improvement Is Harming Us
A consequence of the cultural obsession with self-improvement is the hyperfixation on the self. From elaborate skin care regimens to the culling of “toxic” friends...
The Power Players In Arts And Culture In New York City
This inaugural list by Politics NY includes the obvious (directors of prominent institutions like the Morgan Library, Roundabout Theater, BAM, both Mets), the famous...
All That Money Being Spent On The Downtown L.A. Arts District — What Exactly...
Buildings and facilities, mostly. There's the Grand, the $1 billion apartment/hotel/retail complex, designed by Frank Gehry, which opened across the street from (Gehry's) Disney...
How The O.J. Simpson Trial Changed Television News
"All of a sudden, TV news ... wasn’t just about war and peace, elections and Supreme Court decisions. The salacious, it turns out, rates...
Beautifully Preserved 2,000-Year-Old Frescoes Uncovered In Pompeii
"Mythical Greek figures ... are depicted on the high black walls of a large banqueting hall. … It was likely the walls' stark colour...
AGMA Accuses Miami City Ballet Of Union-Busting Campaign
"Miami City Ballet management has begun an aggressive, coordinated union-busting campaign against their dancers, the majority of whom are fighting to unionize. … Furthermore,...
Early Reactions In The Mediasphere To The NPR Editor’s Essay Accusing The Network Of...
Some came to Uri Berliner's defense, notably including one former senior NPR executive; others accused Berliner of using straw men or bad-faith arguments. A...
New York Philharmonic To Tour China This Summer
The five-concert tour to Guangzhou, Nanjing and Shanghai, led by outgoing music director Jaap van Zweden and running from June 27 to July 3,...
What’s Behind The Comeback Of Vinyl Records?
Where barely one million new vinyl albums were sold in the United States in 2006, that figure has grown every year since, soaring to...
Inside The Artist’s Mind
How do artists think? As I considered my flailing artistic efforts, I realized I was begging for entrance into the artist’s head. If I...
