For Its New Artistic Leadership, Philadelphia Theatre Company Scores A 2-For-1 Deal
Co-artistic directors and spouses Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky are coming from Trinity Rep in Providence, where they were, respectively, associate artistic director and...
It Seems The Prized Galileo Manuscript At U.Mich Is A Forgery
"Now the staff of the Michigan library is considering ways to use the object to examine the methods and motivations behind forgeries, potentially making...
The Unexpurgated Darwin — Lost Notebooks Reveal His Thinking
For academics, the uncooked contents of the notebooks represent some of the liveliest writing in biology. “A lot of Darwin’s prose feels quite Victorian....
The Internet Has Become A Giant Whataboutism Chamber
Attention is finite, the record of how we spend it public, and it is easy enough to check if somebody who tweets every day...
Publishing’s Blockbuster Merger Trial Is Turning Out To Be Something Of A Circus
The spectacle has been curiously entertaining. Publishing executives have had to initiate federal employees into a dialect of “backlists,” “advance copies,” and “BookTok influencers.”...
Why Streaming Services Are Adding Ads
But ads are coming back because streamers have more info about our consumption habits than the cable companies or networks ever did, so the...
UK Literary Festivals Are Back. But…
“The mood music seemed that ‘leisure’ activities had to be jettisoned due to the already felt increased cost of fuel/food, and there was a...
The 1927 Scandal That Made Mae West’s Career
"Before West hit the big-screen, she was prosecuted for staging not one, but two scandalous plays. In this episode of Decoder Ring, we look...
Mounting Evidence? People Are Stopping Listening To Music
For the last few years, I have felt the inescapable disappearance of music from my friends’ lives. Even people with whom I have longstanding...
“Soylent Green”, Made 50 Years Ago, Is Set In 2022. Here’s Why It Got...
" Movies like Soylent Green abandon such messiness in favor of predictive certainty as they set out to shock people into action. ... And...
Seattle’s Arts After The Pandemic: Reckoning Or Opportunity?
In the ’80s and ’90s the arts were ascendant here, and Seattle was well regarded nationally as an up and coming arts town. Then...
Public Radio’s Efforts To Diversify Its Interviewees Are Working
"Journalists at NPR and Minnesota Public Radio say they are seeing the payoff from a heightened focus on tracking the diversity of their sources,...
Performers Were Among The Hardest Hit In The Pandemic. Recovery Is Slow
During the worst days of lockdown, some artists who couldn’t afford rent squatted in empty theaters to save money. Others left the art world...
Taking Standup Comedy Between Countries And Languages
Edinburgh Fringe comedians from Japan, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Argentina, and Denmark talk to a reporter about establishing connections with a foreign audience, differing...
Carl Sagan’s Warning On The Dumbing Down Of America
“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, but especially a kind...
What Salman Rushdie Has Meant For The South Asian Diaspora
"Rushdie helped change how ... Europe and North America saw desis. He defied stereotypes and resisted all assumptions. He became, through no choice of...
Architectural Digest Airbrushed Cambodian Antiquities Out Of One Of Their Fabulous-Home Photo-Spreads — And...
The feature on the San Francisco mansion of Roger and Sloan Lindemann Barnett includes an image of an interior courtyard with empty pedestals. Those...
Ten Of The World’s Most Ingenious Repurposings Of Buildings
The list ranges from a small watertower in England converted into a home to a steel mill in Shanghai transformed into an eco-park to...
Gina Lollobrigida, 1950s And ’60s Movie Star, Is Running For The Italian Senate At...
"(She) is endeavouring to become a senator with the Sovereign and Popular Italy party (ISP), a new Eurosceptic, anti-Mario-Draghi political alliance that opposes sending...
Are Audiences Really Behaving Worse Than Before COVID? Sure Seems Like It
It especially seems like behavior's gotten worse in Britain, where complaints have soared and one hears and reads stories about groups chatting with each...
Joffrey Ballet Launches The First U.S. Training Program Dedicated To Contemporary Ballet
The new two-year, ten-dancer program will run parallel to the Joffrey’s longstanding Trainee Program in classical ballet, with the primary difference being in the...
More Repairs At Philadelphia’s Grand Old Academy Of Music
The exterior balconies overlooking the main entrance to North America's oldest purpose-built opera house — "still the city's formal parlor for everything from Broadway...
Can Theatre Make Any Impact In The Abortion Debate?
When faced with a loss of human rights—with accounts of real women being forced to bleed out because they cannot get an abortion for...
A Warhol Copyright Case With Potential Big Implications For Artists
On Oct. 12, the justices will consider whether he violated the federal Copyright Act by basing a portrait of the musician Prince on a...
Evidence Howard Carter Stole Some Of King Tut’s Treasure
An accusation that Carter handled property “undoubtedly stolen from the tomb” has emerged in a previously unpublished letter sent to him in 1934 by...
