Why There’s A Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Being Built In A Tiny North Dakota...
"Mention it, and you tend to get a puzzled look and two questions: Doesn’t Roosevelt already have a presidential library? (No.) And why the...
Comedian Hasan Minhaj Responds To New Yorker Story Suggesting That His Stand-Up Act Is...
“To everyone who read that article, I want to answer the question that’s probably on your mind: Underneath all that pomade, is Hasan Minhaj...
Mario Vargas Llosa Says He Has Published His Last Book
"In a postscript to the new book, Le dedico mi silencio (I Give You My Silence), the 87-year-old novelist writes: 'I think I’ve finished...
Artforum’s Editor-In-Chief Fired Following Open Letter About Gaza War
"A week after Artforum published a widely criticized open letter calling for Palestinian liberation that didn’t mention the Hamas attacks on Israel, editor-in-chief David...
Why American Theatre Magazine Is Back In Print
"We weathered our own shutdown of sorts, pausing our print publication in May 2020. Now that we’re back on ink and paper, I have frequently...
Royal Winnipeg Ballet Gets A New Director
Elena Tupyseva was hired by the Moscow Department of Culture in 2012 for the position of CEO and artistic director of the City Theatre Ballet...
Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing
In her last years as an editor, Morrison helped lead the chorus of those calling to take up arms against conglomeration. - LitHub
Grand New Vision For Paris’ Grand Palais
Since taking on his role on September 1, Didier Fusillier has been eager to revive this “rather magnificent memory” of the Grand Palais’s history when the elegant...
Are You Really Smart? Then You’re Humble
Being intellectually humble means being open to the possibility you could be wrong about your beliefs. - The Conversation
Revered Taiwanese Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien Has Dementia And Has Retired From Filmmaking
A statement from his wife and two children, all collaborators, said that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's pre-pandemic and a recent bout of COVID...
Artists Say They’re Being Punished for Supporting Gaza Ceasefire
Hyperallergic has spoken with multiple artists, all of whom asked to remain anonymous, who said they had received threatening phone calls and emails from their...
Fanny Mendelssohn Was A Great Composer. But Women Musicians Didn’t Have Music Careers
Fanny was still allowed to compose and perform, but only in private. And yet inconveniently, she turned out to have a talent so enormous...
Eurovision Song Contest Added An Extra $66.4 Million To Liverpool’s Economy
"More than 300,000 people attended Eurovision-related events in Liverpool in May, giving the local economy a £54.8m boost. … In total, 306,000 people visited...
If The Arts Are In Crisis, What Should Arts Journalism Be?
If the media really want to cover what’s roiling culture — and how these forces reflect our fissuring society — the old “happy talk”...
Breakdancing, In The 2024 Olympics, Is Out For 2028 Games
"The incredible feeling of recognition on the highest event stage has caused a glow through (the World DanceSport Federation) since its unveiling — but...
The Writing Machines: They Won’t Kill Good Writing
These days, it is something of a fool’s errand to try to determine whether a text encountered online is written by a human or...
Shadow Puppet Production Stolen In San Francisco Is Found In East Bay
Early Monday morning, thieves stole a U-Haul containing the hundreds of puppets, costumes, and equipment used in Hamid Rahmanian's Persian-style shadow-puppet show Song of...
Artist Robert Irwin, 95
Within the contemporary art world, Mr. Irwin’s work on human attention and perception — he called it, with a nod to scientific research, an...
Is The Frank Gehry-Designed Museum In Arles Having The Desired “Bilbao Effect”? And Is...
"The Luma Foundation … has relit a cultural fire in Arles, bringing the delights of the international modern art world to a debt-laden, struggling...
Can A Redesign Bring More Vibrancy Back To Philadelphia’s “Avenue Of The Arts”?
The development of South Broad Street into a performing arts destination has been widely considered a success, but in 2023, visitor numbers remain roughly...
Museum of Censored Art Opens In Barcelona
"The Museu de l’Art Prohibit … aims to explain how censorship works by exhibiting artworks that have been subject to prohibitions (successful or merely...
A New High Schoolers’ Prize From Penguin Random House To Help Combat Book Bans
"The Freedom of Expression Award invites applicants to write about one banned book that changed their life and why. The $10,000 (£8,168) prize will...
A Chicagoland School District Canceled The High School’s Musical Because It Had An LGBTQ...
Hampshire High School in the Chicago suburbs had been planning to stage "The Prom" — about, ironically, a school that tries to cancel a...
Scholastic Reverses Course, Won’t Segregate Diverse Titles For Kids At Book Fairs
"The educational company, which both publishes and distributes books, waded into hot water last month after it confirmed that it was changing its policy...
The Director Who Transformed Boston’s Institute Of Contemporary Art Announces Retirement
Jill Medvedow, who in 1998 took over a small museum in a former police station with 20,000 visitors a year and turned it into...
