Most “Petipa Ballets” We See Today Aren’t Really By Marius Petipa. So How Important...
"Today's dance audience is continually watching whole acres of choreography still called 'Petipa' that simply aren't Petipa. But even Petipa's audience was watching lots...
How Did This Fragment Of Dead Sea Scroll Wind Up In Montana?
"The scrap of papyrus — scarcely larger than a postage stamp with four lines of angular script — is one of just a few...
Construction Of The Yucatán’s “Maya Train” Route Has Uncovered Another Major Archaeological Find
"An archaeological survey along section 5 of the project, between Playa del Carmen and Tulum, has uncovered an 'impressive' archeological site of more than...
On A Mexican Cattle Ranch, Unearthing A Mysterious, Lost Mayan City
Sak Tz'i' was an ancient but small city, caught between more powerful neighbors; scholars weren't aware it had existed until they found inscriptions describing...
Pedro Almodóvar Gives Up On His First English-Language Feature
"Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will not be making his English-language feature directorial debut with A Manual for Cleaning Women, which has Cate Blanchett...
Jean-Luc Godard Committed Assisted Suicide, His Attorney Confirms
"The medical report on the death of the 91-year-old director said he had chosen to end his life. He 'had recourse to legal assistance...
UK Movie Theatres Will Close For Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral — Except …
... for the ones that will screen a free video feed of the ceremonies. Those will be smaller chains (e.g., Vue, Picturedrome, Reel); the...
Study: Does Gender Of The Artist Change Perception Of The Viewer
We showed average Americans pairs of paintings side by side. Each of the pairs are similar in style, motif and period, but one work...
Anna Netrebko’s Complicated Career Since Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
The debate over Netrebko has been part of a broader discussion in arts, culture and sport over how much individual Russians should bear responsibility...
Time To Remove Distinctions Between Physical Health And Mental Health?
In practice, physical diseases are treated by physicians working for medical services, and mental illnesses are treated by psychiatrists or psychologists working for separately...
Eradicating Speech Isn’t Free Speech
Most college students, according to a FIRE report published this week, do not believe that speakers who hold various conservative beliefs should be allowed on campus; I...
Scientists Discover “Switch” In The Brain That Determines Whether An Experience Was Good Or...
“If you have a brain response to anything that is important, how does it differentiate whether it is good or bad? It’s a central...
Making The Case For Art: It Can’t Be About Words
If you are presenting art because you enjoy art and only because you enjoy art, you are not respecting your charter as a nonprofit. That’s vanity,...
How Ivo Van Hove Went About Adapting An Edouard Louis Novel Into A Play
"During his brief six-week rehearsal periods, van Hove introduces sets, costumes, music and lighting as early in the process as possible. ... He wanted...
A Terrible Emmy Awards Show For Shows That Were This Good
This was one of the worst Emmys telecasts in recent memory. Not in the “claws are out” way that people tend to pounce on...
The Uffizi Gallery Is Lending, Or Renting, A Bunch Of Its Masterworks To Shanghai
"Self-Portraits: Masterpieces from the Uffizi ... is the first to kick off a series of 10 exhibitions that the Florence-based museum will loan to...
AI-Generated Images Flood Online Art Sites Provoking Fierce Debate
The arrival of widely available image synthesis models such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion has provoked an intense online battle between artists who view AI-assisted artwork...
Why Europe Couldn’t Have A Serge Diaghilev Today
"Everything Diaghilev did was ad hoc, on a wing and a prayer or a plea and a handshake. He answered to nobody; there was...
New AI Image Tools Disrupt Notions Of Ownership, Authorship
These new AI capabilities confront the world with a mountain of questions over the rights to the images the programs learned from, the likelihood...
London’s V&A Museum Prepares To Return Golden Treasures Of The Asante Kingdom To Ghana
"The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is in talks to potentially return a collection of Asante gold artifacts that were looted during a...
How The Pandemic Has Warped Seattle Arts’ Return To Work
“All the houses are trying to open up at the same time, and they all need the same people,” Terry Podgorski said, noting that...
One of France’s Hottest Bestsellers Is Disqualified From The Prix Goncourt, Ostensibly Because Its...
"Punk feminist" author Virginie Despentes's novel, titled Cher connard (roughly, "Dear Asshole"), goes deep into what this correspondent describes as "France's sometimes difficult relationship...
Fleming, DiDonato, O’Hara: The Three Divas Starring In The Met ‘s Next Premiere, “The...
Renée Fleming (Clarissa Vaughan), Joyce DiDonato (Virginia Woolf), and Kelli O'Hara (Laura Brown) give a joint interview about preparing Kevin Puts's opera (based on...
Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Will Stop Producing Plays And Become Strictly A Presenting Organization
After a turbulent summer that saw the artistic director fired, most of the rest of management resign, and the remaining staffers in open rebellion,...
Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, 91
"His use of long takes, jump-cuts and actors’ asides to the camera all changed the filmmaking vocabulary. He once famously stated that every film...
