The Loneliness, And Creativity, Of Zora Neale Hurston
The writer "was able to form an entire worldview out of her own pain of isolation." - LitHub
Edward James Olmos Is Passing The Torch
Tired of bemoaning a lack of Latin@ folks in Hollywood, he "decided to create a pipeline for training California elementary and high school students...
Scrivener Is For Newbies
Ann Patchett is still using WordPerfect - and why not? It's worked so far. - The New York Times
After Popular Vote, Here’s This Year’s Winner Of ArtPrize
Artist Abdoulaye Conde has won the ArtPrize 2023 public vote grand prize for ‘Raining Wisdom,’ a massive, bright and colorful mural depicting elephants in the African...
How French Museums Are Addressing The Mental Health Of Their Visitors
"The aim is not to cure, but to empower, outside of the medical framework." When it comes to relieving depressive episodes, discouraging suicidal thoughts...
Do Movie Awards Still Matter?
Perhaps understandably, the heads of the two organizations who put on the biggest award shows in the film world have put up a solid...
How Ratmansky Became Ratmansky
Prolific and astonishingly versatile, he has absorbed a wide range of Western styles, from the fleet-footedness of Balanchine to the physicality and casualness of...
Conductor Jonathon Heyward’s Rising Star
Heyward, 31, is Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s first music director of color and the youngest current music director of any major U.S. orchestra. To that,...
Michael Lewis At A Crossroads?
What happens when a writer who is used to rapturous reception, with a knack for shaping stories, collides with an active public drama he...
U.S. Theater Is In Crisis? Not In Branson, Missouri. Maybe There’s A Lesson To...
"Approximately eight times a week, 40 weeks a year, Broadway-sized crowds watch (the musical) Queen Esther in a town of 12,000 people in the...
One Seattle Theatre Adopts Another’s Scene Shop As It Goes Out Of Business
“We’re all trying to figure out what it is that makes people get off their couch, come through the rain and show up at...
How Lisa Simone Made Peace With Brilliant, Tormented (And Tormenting) Mother Nina
"Sometimes she despised the woman who bullied, rubbished, physically abused and neglected her. At other times she adored the woman who could be fun,...
Study: Working Conditions At US Museums Are Terrible
68% of art museum workers have considered leaving the field, 74% cannot always cover basic living expenses, and it takes an average of 12...
American Tourist Attacks Two Ancient Roman Statues In Jerusalem
"Police identified the suspect as a radical 40-year-old Jewish American tourist and said initial questioning suggested he smashed the statues (at the Israel Museum)...
Remembering Parterre’s James Jorden
Here was a zine, and then a website, dedicated to “remembering when opera was queer and dangerous and exciting and making it that way...
Revisiting The First Book Banned In The United States
Okay, strictly speaking, it wasn't the United States yet, but the Puritan government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony suppressed Thomas Morton's book The New...
When Theatre Is Ailing, What Should Be The Role Of The Critic?
"I ask myself whether, as so many theater companies grapple with ongoing pandemic-related challenges, I should reconceive my role. What ought arts criticism look...
The Gay Neo-Hula Master Of San Francisco Who Just Won A MacArthur “Genius Grant”
The MacArthur Foundation's citation for Patrick Makuakāne called him a "cultural preservationist," but it's not that simple. "I don’t take traditional dance elements and...
Meet One Of Hollywood’s Most Revered, Most Ingenious, And Most Obsessive Set Designers
Jack Fisk is also one of the most difficult to recruit, going years (and, at one point, two decades) between films. And once a...
UNESCO Is Developing A Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
"Developed with Interpol, whose database of cultural objects stolen from museums, collections and archeological sites worldwide lists more than 52,000 artefacts, the $2,5 million...
Dallas Theater Center’s “Rocky Horror Show” Is Now Part Of The Resistance
Intentionally or not, the stage version of the polymorphously perverse cult classic, produced by North Texas's flagship theater company, has become a standard-bearer of...
Industry Leaders In Theater, Dance, And Music Talk About What’s Changed In New York...
"(WNYC's Sean) Carlson spoke to Casey York of the Off-Broadway League, Anna Glass of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Jake Rosenthal of Elsewhere in...
Sexual Harassment Has Lessened In Hollywood, But It’s Definitely Not Gone: Survey
"The latest WIF survey found 59% of respondents agreed the culture around sexual abuse, harassment and misconduct in Hollywood workplaces had improved in the...
Nasher Prize For Sculpture 2023 Goes To Otobong Nkanga For Work That “Resonates Across...
The 49-year-old Nigerian is the first winner from Africa and the first since the award changed from annual to biennial. The $100,000 prize is...
North Carolina Station Will Air Met Opera Broadcasts After All
“It was a very hard decision,” Emily Moss, the music director of WCPE, a nonprofit station based in Wake Forest, said in an interview....
