How Saudi Arabia Is Using Culture To Distract From Government
To hide the precarity of its rule, the government wants to erase its people from political discourse. It has transformed the rich and varied...
New 20 Percent EU Tax Threatens French Art Market
The E.U.-wide rule, which was quietly approved last April but will not take effect until 2025, could impose a 20 percent sales tax on...
How Did Paul Mescal Make Ireland Really, Really Proud? By Speaking Irish At The...
"For a man whom the BBC had erroneously identified as British only a few weeks before, it was quite a moment. The two-minute interaction,...
How Ukrainians Are Trying To Defend Their Culture
As the one-year anniversary of the deadly 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches, we take a close look at the ongoing work of hundreds...
The Special Skills, And The Special Performers, You Need To Bring Back “Bob Fosse’s...
"There’s more to it than fishnet tights, bowler hats and thrusting hips. Fosse's dance language — subtle and internal — is fueled not just...
MacDowell Artist Retreat Chooses A New Director
Chiwoniso Kaitano is the former executive director of Girl Be Heard, a nongovernmental organization that uses theater and the performing arts to advocate for...
How Jewish Theatre Artists Deal With “The Merchant Of Venice” (Which, Yeah, Maybe Is...
"What does it cost a person if they are hateful, if they're driven by wealth? If they're racist or full of ugliness in their...
Netflix Is Lowering Subscription Prices Internationally. Why?
“Effective immediately Netflix is to drop monthly subscription pricing in more than 100 territories globally,” but not in North America and Western Europe where...
Meet The Playwright Who Transported “Waiting For Godot” To Kashmir
"In his nearly two-decade long career, Arshad Mushtaq has directed the first-ever Kashmiri digital feature, produced television dramas, and written seven original plays along...
As Iconic Characters Enter The Public Domain, Cheap Productions Start Making Money
As Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has shown, even if the movie isn’t a critical success, it can still make a hefty profit. Indeed, not...
Even The Big Vermeer Exhibition Is Getting A Reality TV Competition
In "The New Vermeer," "two professional painters and dozens of amateur artists compete to reinvent the lost works of the 17th-century master. The results...
Someone Who’s Read A Lot Of Roald Dahl Books To Kids Explains How To...
"What's interesting about this unneeded controversy is that I haven't so far seen anybody ... who thinks (bowdlerizing the books) is a good idea....
Roald Dahl’s Publisher Will Release An Unaltered Edition Of His Works, In All Their...
"The Classic Collection will 'sit alongside the newly released Puffin Roald Dahl books for young readers', the publisher said," referring to the controversial new...
Should Jessye Norman Recordings Which She Refused To Approve Be Released Anyway?
"Artists' wishes can be ambiguous or ambivalent. And some observers believe that the value to posterity of certain material can in some cases supersede...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Is Creating A New Center For African Art
"The center, endowed by trustee Ira Brind, will be dedicated to the acquisition, care, and study of art of the continent and its diaspora. ...
Massachusetts Arts Centers Get Nearly $4 Million From Gambling Taxes
"More than $3.7 million in state gaming tax revenue is flowing to 43 nonprofit and municipal performing arts centers, allowing them to compete with...
Kentucky Legislators Want To Disband The Board Of The State’s Public TV Network
"Called an effort to 'protect' the integrity of Kentucky's public television broadcaster, a bill passed unanimously (in) a Senate committee Wednesday that would disband...
The Creative Benefits Of Sabbaticals
In recent years, the number of employers offering sabbaticals has grown exponentially. In addition, many more workers, especially employees in managerial and professional roles, are...
Theatres In Ukraine Closed. Theatre Moved Into Homes
Kharkiv theatres closed at the start of the war; by the summer, the city’s famous puppet theatre performed a show about wartime in Bucha....
A History Of Having To Alter The Problematic Roald Dahl
Dahl’s antisemitism was widely reported around the time of his death. His editors had entered discussions regarding the misogyny and racism in some of his...
How Poetry Redirects Us In Language
“Poetry cannot save us, and yet the poets could do a great deal to redirect our minds and senses back to the proper object...
Tyler Cowen: We’re Failing To Make Progress In The Arts
I think in some areas of the arts we’ve moved backwards. It seems to me what you might call the design of neighborhoods, in...
The Failed Simon & Schuster/Penguin Random House Merger Hearings Tell You Everything About The...
"We invest every year in thousands of ideas and dreams, and only a few make it to the top. So I call it the...
Sex Scenes Seem To Be Fading Out Of Hollywood Movies
"Less than 1 percent of movies released in 2022 feature a sex scene. ... When audiences have been conditioned to want only sexless Marvel...
How California’s Major New Arts Education Funding Initiative Will Change Things
Proposition 28 creates a guaranteed annual funding stream for music and arts education by setting aside 1% from the state’s general fund. In 2023,...
