How Brands Like Nike And Pop-Tarts Suddenly Became Movie Stars
Blame Gen-X, sure, but there's more. "These movies have to do something smart: tap our innocent joy around old computer games and junk food,...
Publishers, And Many Writers, Fight A Civil War Against A Massive Library
Both sides have a point, but both sides are also, let's say, a bit touchy. Why? "Coming out against libraries making books more accessible...
Art Saves Lives, But Can It Save The Planet?
"The choice to vandalize Van Gogh’s Sunflowers suggests that beauty does have a role to play in the fight to save the planet. In the act...
How A Young Screenwriter Secured The Rights To A Revered Judy Blume Book
"I wrote Judy a letter telling her how impactful her work was for me and how passionate I was about Margaret in particular. ... The next...
When Ballet Needs Content, It Looks To Literature
The Scottish Ballet's artistic director says that ballet "can inhabit the space between the words, the unspoken, and it can often delve into the...
The Pandemic Effect On Some Writers, And Readers
"The world after the pandemic just got worse. And I thought, I just want to write something lovely, where the stakes are kind of...
The Last Days Of Beckett’s, A New York Literary Salon
"The venue had the clandestine air of a speakeasy. Notice of its existence was passed along by word of mouth. Guests stuffed cash into...
Music Lovers In Britain May Save Venues Through Grassroots Fundraising
"When the curtain comes down on the Music Venue Trust’s (MVT) #OwnOurVenues fundraising drive, it is expected to have raised close to £2.2m, a hemi-demi-semiquaver away...
One Dead, Many Injured In Illinois Theatre Collapse After Storm And Possible Tornado Hit
The Apollo Theater was hosting four heavy metal bands - meaning the audience and bands may not have heard the sirens - before the...
You Can Still Find Peace And Quiet In Manhattan
That is, if you can find your way to one specific part of the Met Museum. - The New York Times
Amazon Sues Companies That Created Fake Sites To Get Their Competitors Taken Down
Amazon claims the three groups "were abusing its takedown system by filing thousands of illegitimate copyright complaints against other products in a bid to...
In London, Gilbert And George Open Their Own Museum
"The Gilbert and George Centre, which they have planned for years, is a built representation of their slogan 'art is for all' and designed...
An Elegy For The Twitter Of Yore
"I required a reminder that there were quick and even wise people in the world with ideas, quips, even lectures that would force me...
How Disney May Have Defeated DeSantis’ Attempted Takeover
Wow, OK: "Disney can hold on to power of this land for possibly the next 100 years, if one of King Charles III’s grandchildren lives...
Hold On, Let’s Talk More About This National Portrait Gallery-Getty Joint Buy
The sale hasn't closed, so why all of the PR? To get Britain to pay up. "It’s Britain, after all, not the Getty that...
Italian Court Stops Puzzle-Maker From Reproducing Famous Leonardo
Ravensburger was brought to court by the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, where the real Vitruvian Man lives. The museum claimed that it was owed financial compensation...
Aesthetics As Data (Slave To Measurement?)
Where Quantitative Aesthetics is really newly intense across society—in art and everywhere—is in how social-media numbers (clicks, likes, shares, retweets, etc.) seep into everything as...
Reconceiving “New York, New York” Around Its Dance
Like Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse before her, Susan Stroman is a director-choreographer who should really be called a choreographer-director. In this show, “we...
How Atlanta Theatres Are Struggling To Recover
According to the letter, “coupling lower than average attendance with the fact that arts funding is the smallest fraction of philanthropic giving means that...
Robert Falls On American Theatre As He Leaves The Goodman
"I remain optimistic that the theatre has been around for a long time, and it’s going to continue. I just feel that way. There’s...
Please Please: Are We At The End Of Hollywood’s Superhero Obsession?
So far, this year's two superhero releases, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and Shazam! Fury of the Gods, have underperformed at the box office and received...
How On Earth Did A Spice Cabinet Survive For 500 Years At The Bottom...
It's the cold waters of the Baltic that kept intact the remains of the wrecked Gribshunden, the flagship of King Hans of Denmark and...
Apple’s New Classical Music App: Embracing Idiosyncrasies
Apple has turned classical music’s diversity of metadata into the new app’s raison d’être. And, with so many of what Apple calls “data points”—over 50...
The Gay Cherokee Playwright Who Wrote The Source For Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”
Lynn Riggs rode a cattle train, worked in New York as an extra in cowboy movies and in Hollywood churning out studio screenplays, wrote...
Riccardo Muti Reflects On America As He Completes Chicago Symphony Tenure
"In my life, thanks to Philadelphia and Chicago, I’ve been to Wichita, Des Moines, Ames, Toledo… For me, to make music, it’s not that...
