Visiting A Hindu Temple That Sculptures Were Looted From
The Tanesar sculptures were stolen from India circa 1961, ultimately ending up at such prominent locations as LACMA, the British Museum, and the Met....
I Went To The Royal Opera On A £1 Ticket
Journalist Hugh Morris managed to score the ultimate prize of a cheap-tickets-for-young-audiences scheme: £1 admission to the most expensive classical arts venue in London. ...
England’s “Levelling Up” Agenda For Arts Funding Will Probably Fail The Regions It’s Supposed...
"Without a wider strategy, the worry for many is that the changes in Arts Council England grants won't come in conjunction with other kinds...
Leonard Cohen’s Heirs Sue His Ex-Manager For Forgery
"Leonard Cohen's children and heirs, Lorca and Adam Cohen, have filed a motion accusing the legendary singer-songwriter's former manager, Robert Kory, and his legal...
Theatre Curtain Calls Used To Mean More…
The thing is, audiences love to go crazy. It means the tickets were worth it. - NPR
Why MSNBC’s Black Audience Is Soaring
On top of leading Black viewership among cable networks with 173,000 Black viewers on average in February — ahead of CNN’s 105,000 Black viewers...
Jazz Great Wayne Shorter, 89
His career reached across more than half a century, largely inextricable from jazz’s complex evolution during that span. His sound was brighter on soprano,...
Is “Post-Truth” The Result Of A Common World?
Hannah Arendt argues that while objectivity, as the view from nowhere, might be both an impossible and undesirable aim, there has been ever since...
When Big Brands Steal Unknown Artists’ Work
For the many independent artists who say that work they have posted online — in hopes of attracting paying gigs, or at least an...
Ukraine Commemorates Start Of The War With A Banksy Stamp
On February 24, the first anniversary of Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian postal service released a new stamp featuring a Banksy mural and...
Willem Dafoe Is Genuinely Addicted To His Work
"Acting is not so much a job for Dafoe as a way of being, a practice so essential he can't go without it. ......
Katha Pollitt: The Case For Not Censoring Roald Dahl
Did it start out as a few modest tweaks but got out of hand? In any case, there’s a loss in these changes—in vivacity,...
Revisiting The First Edition Of The Encyclopedia Britannica — And The Much, Much Larger...
"Encyclopedias are not like rose bushes, for which pruning is everything. They are usually the opposite, more like Japanese knotweed, spreading wildly and germinating...
As Small Businesses Collapse, Music Stores Are Closing. This Matters
If we take away music’s “shop window”, it recedes yet further out of view. There is not even the possibility that someone might walk past,...
Hip-Hop Meets Symphony Orchestras
Classical instruments have been sampled for hip-hop for decades, but in recent years such hip-hop stars as Mos Def, will.i.am, Pharrell Williams, and Kendrick...
How Vinyl Records Became Cool Again
Everything the music industry had learned in the twentieth century pointed to vinyl’s demise in the twenty-first. And it’s true that physical formats are...
Sweden Is Having A National Freakout Over A Documentary Series Called “Three Dads”
"The show didn't just annoy Swedish viewers, though — it wholly divided them. Three Dads has become a sensation during a winter of political...
How “Lord Of The Rings” Was Adopted By Italy’s Far-Right
Although the link between J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic and Italy's far-right is not new, it's a phenomenon that has re-surfaced with new vigor since...
How Exactly Do Movies And TV Shows Get Chosen For And Licensed To Airlines?...
"In-flight licensing (is) unique in the licensing business in that it raises questions among everyday consumers — like how titles are chosen, why a...
In War-Torn West Africa, A Pilot Project To Fight Looting And Trafficking Of Antiquities
Mali and Burkina Faso are blessed by active art scenes and scores of museums — and afflicted with militias causing murder and misery, and...
Dance Data Project’s First-Ever Gender Equity Index: The Results Are In
"We have ranked the Largest 50 U.S. ballet companies based on their equity score. ... Included are DDP's 'Best of' Awards for companies in...
The Number Of Broadway Shows That Closed This Past January Isn’t As Bad As...
"By the end of the month, 12 Broadway productions in total ended their runs. It may sound bleak, and many have reported these numbers...
Trying To Save A 112-Year-Old Toronto Theatre From The Wrecking Ball
"The theatre is set to be razed and redeveloped into a 76-storey, mixed-use building. ... The smallest of Mirvish's four venues, the 700-seat CAA...
Britain’s Coronation Throne Has Been Through An Awful Lot In Seven Centuries
"Of the hazards that Westminster Abbey's 700-year-old Coronation Chair has survived – a suffragette bomb, schoolboys with penknives, thick brown paint, the violent theft...
Restoring The 700-Year-Old Throne On Which Charles III Will Be Crowned
"The ancient throne, known as the Coronation Chair, has been at the centerpiece of English coronations for centuries, including those of Henry VIII, Charles...
