Arguing That Black Students Shouldn’t Have To Master Standard English Is “Underserving Black English...
John McWhorter: "The idea that for Black people standard English is something wholly apart is simply inaccurate. For most Black Americans, both Black and...
A Big New Foundation Funder For The Arts
A preliminary estimate of the worth of the collection is $180 million, according to Christie’s, and the designated beneficiaries include leading California-based organizations with...
Royal New Zealand Ballet Fires Its Ballet Master, The Artistic Director’s Husband, For “Inappropriate...
Michael Auer joined RNZB when Patricia Barker, his wife, took the helm of the Wellington-based company in 2017. His contract was terminated in April...
What The Embattled Guston Show Says About Our Critical Discourse
Statements about art from inside the silos are considered absolutely true, but not in a general, humanistic way. Thus balkanized, the art world increasingly...
The Guardian’s Chief Theatre Critic On Changing Her Mind About A Play
Arifa Akbar: "If a critic changes their mind, do they discredit themselves? No, because theatre reviewing is by its nature only ever an overnight...
One Of New York City Ballet’s Male Stars Reconsiders (Almost) Everything About Partnering
Russell Janzen writes, "Not the mechanics of partnering: I relish the physical challenge of supporting and entangling with someone else. But rather the politics...
Four-Year Prison Sentence For Botched Theft Of A Monet
The unnamed defendant, 49, and an accomplice were caught after taking Monet's De Voorzaan en de Westerhem (1871) from the Zaans Museum in Zaandam,...
Rebuilding Ukraine Must Include Culture, Not Just Infrastructure
"It's intergenerational heritage we're losing, and it's not just for one country. What's important to understand is that it's not just about saving the...
Vice Media Wants To Sell Itself Off — In Pieces, If Necessary
"Several buyers have expressed preliminary interest in acquiring Vice outright, ... (though) it also is exploring options to sell the company in parts." Just...
New York City Removes All Regulations On Sotheby’s, Christie’s, And Other Auction Houses
Now the city won't even require auction houses to be licensed, let alone disclose such things as whether they have financial interests in the...
Dave Chappelle Physically Attacked While Onstage At The Hollywood Bowl
"Footage showed someone running on stage and tackling Chappelle during his performance at the Netflix Is a Joke festival ... on Tuesday night. ...Chappelle,...
The Physical (And Spiritual) Power Of The Vibrations From A Single Musical Note
Though horribly abused and exploited by various New Age fads over the years, the old intuition still holds: vibrations reveal a lot about life,...
If America Didn’t Already Have Public Libraries, We’d Never Invent Them Today
I can imagine the internet hot take: Why punish people who can afford to buy books by making them free to read for everyone?...
The Essential Problem When Writing About Music
As far as I can tell, most writing about music is built on analogies and cliches. This is understandable; you can’t describe music literally...
How James Corden Turned His Show Into A Social Media Phenomenon And Changed Late...
"What James Corden has done incredibly well is to leverage this TV content, and amplify it with social media to create fame." - BBC
Polish Government Replaces Museum Director For One More Ideologically Aligned
“I am not going to get rid of the conceptual art that was acquired for the collection and is exhibited. But I intend to...
These Are The Books School Districts Are Being Forced To Ban
The United States is facing an unprecedented wave of schoolbook banning. PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom of expression, tallied 1,586 book bans in...
Statue Of Pioneering Native American Ballerina Stolen, Hacked Up, And Sold For Scrap Metal
The bronze sculpture of Marjorie Tallchief was part of a monument at the Tulsa Historical Society honoring the "Five Moons," American Indian women from...
Do Arts Non-Profits Do Things Backwards?
Solving the external problem has to come first. Then a good nonprofit strategizes the second part. Good faith efforts require that to happen in that...
So-Called “Wicked Bible” Or “Adulterers’ Bible” Turns Up In New Zealand
The 1631 printing of the King James Bible gets its nicknames, and its fame, from a typo: the printers omitted the word "not" from...
Are Big Stars Still A Draw On Broadway?
You bet. The relationship an audience has to a Broadway star is all the more intense for being in-person. Knowing a body in space,...
Immersive Van Gogh Shows Are Old Hat. The New Hotness Is Immersive “Bridgerton” Experiences
"The Queen's Ball: A 'Bridgerton' Experience" is one of several costume parties quasi-theatrical pop-up events based on famous media franchises (Star Wars and Game...
Something New In Hollywood: The 50-Something Female Lead
It’s been a slow burn, but Hollywood is finally recognizing a trend corporate America long ago seized upon: The spending power of the 50-something...
Meet Frankie Light, “YouTube Polyglot”
A handsome young Black man surprising Chinese immigrants with fluent Mandarin can amass quite a following on social media. Frankie Light is one of...
Smithsonian Announces New Policy Of Ethic Returns Of Art
“My goal was very simple: Smithsonian will be the place people point to, to say ‘This is how we should share our collections and...
