Figuring Out What Komar And Melamid Were (And Weren’t) Really Up To
Ben Davis: "For me, getting an overview of the twists and turns of the Komar & Melamid corpus here … is something like a...
The Literary Roots Of The Movie Die Hard
The screenwriter had to turn the author's "dense first-person prose, which featured its hero monologuing at length on CB radio and offering long sections...
The Strange Sepia Beauty Of Photographs Of The Smoke-Filled Skies
Philip Kennicott: "They are accidentally beautiful, rather like an 80-degree day in January is accidentally pleasurable. To some, they may suggest the science-fiction scenography...
Something Weird Has Happened To The Simpsons
The 34-year-old show is ... good again? Like the old days. The really old days. "Aficionados know there were some great episodes even in...
Joan Rivers And Her Carefully Cross-Indexed Card Catalog Of 65,000 Jokes
"Rivers, who wrote gags at all hours, paid close attention to setups and punchlines, typing them up and cross-referencing them by categories like 'Parents...
At Philadelphia’s Oddest Museum, Changes By New Leadership To Make It Less Odd Are...
The institution in question is the Mütter Museum, which is focused on anatomy. The actions by new leaders, "mostly centered on concerns about displaying...
Benjamin Millepied Leaves Behind His L.A. Dance Project To Start Up The Paris Dance...
"Despite his success in the United States, … Millepied says it is easier to work in France. … But French society can feel less...
Why The Public Theater Dropped The Under The Radar Festival (And What Happens Next)
Oskar Eustis, the Public's artistic director, said proudly that bringing Under the Radar to the theater was "the first artistic choice I made" in...
Radio Host Sues OpenAI For Defamation After ChatGPT Produced Copy Accusing Him Of Embezzlement
"Mark Walters, who hosts the Salem Radio Networks-distributed 'Armed American Radio' program, is suing OpenAI after its ChatGPT program accused him of embezzling funds...
Britain’s Telegraph Newspapers Are To Be Sold Off
"The Daily and Sunday Telegraph are to be put up for sale in a deal that promises to reshape the media landscape after the...
Juilliard Fires Composition Professor Robert Beaser
The dismissal comes after "an independent investigation (into sexual harassment allegations) found 'credible evidence' that he had 'engaged in conduct which interfered with individuals'...
Lessons From The First Revivals After Sondheim
I think it’s not an accident that after his passing, the gravitational pull toward his work and what he left us with, and the...
The Real Reason CNN Doesn’t Work In Today’s Culture
Less than 10 million people watch cable news nightly; 155 million voted in the 2020 election. There simply aren’t enough rabid news consumers who...
Here’s Hoping CNN Is Done With The Idea Of “The View From Nowhere”
A serious news organization in 2023 cannot adopt a “view from nowhere” mentality that draws false equivalence between the two major political parties—at least...
Study: One Third Of Those In A Survey Say Says Reading Books Is Best...
The survey by the trade body showed that a third (33%) of people think that books offer them the best form of escapism when...
Why Pop Music Is Currently Obsessed With Remixing The 90s
The sheer availability of music right now lends itself to a more sample- and interpolation-oriented pop music culture. “A hundred thousand tracks go live...
Here’s What Hollywood’s Directors Settled For In Their New Contract
The Academy may seek to apply all of the provisions to the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike for more than...
Wow, Egypt Is Really Upset About That Ancient-Egypt-And-Hip-Hop Exhibition In The Netherlands
The "Kemet: Egypt in Hip-Hop, Jazz, Soul & Funk" show at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden has so incensed authorities in Cairo...
Are The Good Old Days Of The Met Opera Over?
The days of being America’s grand repertory company, of 20-plus titles a year, could be slowly entering the rearview mirror. - The New York...
Why Influencers Are Leaving Instagram
Over time, she began to realize that she wasn’t the problem. The issue, she said, was that Instagram was implementing changes that she felt...
National Gallery Of Canada Appoints A New Director
Jean-François Bélisle, currently director of the Musée d’art de Joliette in Quebec, "arrives in Ottawa during a troubled period where a strategic plan to...
This Year’s Tonys Could Be Weird
As if coaxing people back to the theater wasn’t difficult enough — weekly Broadway ticket grosses are still millions of dollars short of pre-pandemic...
New York State Rescinds Policy Restricting Prisoners From Publishing Creative Or Journalistic Work
"A May 11 directive established a stringent, months-long approval process … (and) gave prison superintendents the power to block publication of work that violated...
Finally: Universal Says Its Video-On-Demand Strategy Is Making Money, Not Impacting Theatre Box Office
Universal has generated more than $1 billion in premium V.O.D. revenue in less than three years, while showing little-to-no decrease in ticket sales. In...
The “New Michelangelo”: This Italian Sculptor Has A 21st-Century Take On The Art Of...
The 36-year-old artist known as Jago says he uses the same techniques his Renaissance forbears did. He's so highly regarded for his ability to...
