Joni Mitchell Performs Her First Full Live Set In 20 Years
The 78-year-old folk legend, who has spent years recovering from a 2015 brain aneurysm, made a surprise appearance in what had been billed as...
The Climate-Activists-Gluing-Themselves-To-Artwork Phenomenon Has Arrived In Italy
Following the lead of the British group Just Stop Oil, two young protesters from the organization Ultima Generazione (Final Generation) glued their hands to...
The Things You Find When You Dig A New Elevator Shaft In Old Jerusalem
"Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem say they have made numerous discoveries, including an ornate first-century villa with its own ritual bath, after...
Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Appoints An Alumna As Its Next Artistic Director
"Susan V. Booth, a former Goodman literary manager and currently artistic director of the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, will be the new artistic director...
Actor Paul Sorvino Dead At 83
Over a five-decade career in theater, film, and television, he played a wide variety of men who were tough in one way or another,...
Earthquake: France Eliminates Viewer License Fee For State Broadcasters
Many in France are concerned that broadcasters will now rely on a government grant from VAT receipts instead of a tax levied on households....
The Best New Theatre Building In Years
What makes the Patterson the best new theater I’ve seen in years is the clear prioritization of the theater itself, which sits like a...
Film Music Concerts Have Become Big Business For Symphony Orchestras
They provide an entry point for film enthusiasts to appreciate the power of a live orchestra, which can enhance the emotion and excitement of...
How Did Wellness Become A Commodity For The Wealthy?
For less-privileged others, wellness is an unattainable luxury, gatekept by racism, ableism and fatphobia, and thus cordoned off from those who need it most,...
How The TikTok Remix Brands As Genuine For Gen Zers
Olivia Rodrigo’s brilliance lies in her use of TikTok as a tool to present her celebrity image as authentic to a young, global audience....
The End Of Individual Authorship?
Authorship as we know it — that is, singular, capital-A Authority — will become narratively obsolete. It won’t die, or disappear, but merely get...
Being Cheerful Went Out Of Fashion In The Late 20th Century. How To Get...
In Adorno’s stricken 20th century, ‘any gaiety in art’ implied ‘an avoidance of the pain of history’. Good cheer had withered into a fake...
Digital Concert Programs Are Replacing The Program Book
As anyone who has attended concerts or stage performances over the past year can tell you, digital programs are increasingly sprouting up as the...
What Makes A Great Bookstore (And No, Don’t Smell The Books!)
There is a breed of Homo sapiens that will walk inside, take a deep breath, and say, “Mmm, I just love the smell of old books.”...
Banning Books Is Becoming Subtler (But Still Banning)
Though the publishing industry would never condone book banning, a subtler form of repression is taking place in the literary world, restricting intellectual and...
Carlos Acosta Says The Pandemic Caused A ‘Dip’ In Ballet Talent
The director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet says it's because dancers leaving the academy haven't spent as much time training with each other as...
The Ukraine Artist Collective That Met In Secret And Hid Their Work From Putin’s...
The six artists in Kherson wanted to tell the truth about life under Russian occupation - and to continue making art. "The results, which...
Artists, Access, And Authority
Who gets to tell a region's story? - Hyperallergic
It Took Jordan Peele Five Years To Completely Change What Horror Looks Like
"Peele, who won an Academy Award in 2018 for Get Out's original screenplay, has brought industry prestige to a historically overlooked genre." And his influence...
London Might Actually Have Gotten Its Olympics Architecture Right
The Olympics are hard on cities. But 10 years on, says Rowan Moore, London's site "has achieved at least two things usually thought difficult:...
Ticketmaster Tries To Defend Its Awful ‘Dynamic Pricing’ For Final Springsteen Tour
"Only 11 percent of tickets are involved" and "most tickets are under $200" might not be the ironclad defense the company widely known as...
Please Don’t Banish Russian Culture Along With Putin
"The Putin regime has dealt Russian culture a crushing blow, just as the Russian state has done to its artists, musicians, and writers so...
The Man Who Gave Federal Buildings To Modern Architects Has Died At 75
Edward Feiner, as "the chief architect of the U.S. government, revolutionized the public image of countless federal agencies by hiring renowned architects to design hundreds...
Say You’re Planning To Glue Your Hands To An Artwork In A Climate Protest
You might want to know whether or not it has a protective layer of glass. - BBC
What Exactly Is A ‘Crime’ Novel In A Time Of War, AR-15s And Police...
"You’re seeing a lot less cop novels, a lot less cop procedurals, because I think there’s an inherent disbelief in the goodness of the...
