The Final Christo/Jeanne-Claude Project Is Happening! Isn’t It?
Earlier this month, there were reports that Mastaba, a 500-foot-tall quasi-pyramid made of 410,000 brightly colored steel barrels and planned for a desert site...
Artist Carmen Herrera, Whose Big Break Came When She Was 89, Is Dead At...
"Critics and collectors, once made aware that Ms. Herrera existed, were rapt by the intensity of her work, which she achieved by juxtaposing geometric...
After Three Years With No Hosts, This Year’s Oscars Will Have Three Of Them
Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes — "an all-female team with broad appeal and comedic chops" — are in final talks to serve...
The Theatre Wisdom Of Stephen Sondheim
I learned all of these compositional principles from Babbitt. What it amounts to is, music exists in time, so how do you make...
Nothing But Guests: A Lineup Of Potential Music Directors For The NY Philharmonic
For the next six weeks, the Philharmonic’s calendar is filled with nothing but guests. - The New York Times
What Does Your Musical Taste Say About You?
Most half-serious music fans would consider their tastes eclectic. Which seems more feasible than a distinct personality type exclusively cleaving to one genre, and...
Why Is Canada’s CBC Moving Away From Classical Music?
The orchestras and concerts have disappeared and so has most of the critical commentary associated with them. To be blunt about it, from a...
How “Infodemics” Of Conspiracies Spread
The current infodemic isn’t just familiar because of this history. Culture constantly recycles materials: stories are re-told, revised and re-told again. - The Conversation
Ghostbusters Director Ivan Reitman, 75
Born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Canada (where he first met such young comics as his later stars Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis), Reitman...
Mexico Passed A Cultural Appropriation Law. It Doesn’t Seem To Be Working
To fight back against the plagiarism and dispossession of Indigenous art, Mexico has approved a law meant to protect and safeguard the cultural heritage...
St. Valentine Had Nothing To Do With Romance. So Why A Day?
The name was so popular that over 30 Valentines, not to mention “a few Valentinas,” ultimately achieved sainthood. However, no matter which Valentine you...
When The Olympics Had Arts Competitions
Between the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and the 1948 London Olympics, artistic competition was a vibrant part of the summer Olympic games. There were five categories in...
The Spotify Backlash Offers A Rare Glimpse Into The Struggles Of Working Musicians
When the Joe Rogan controversy broke with Neil Young removing his music from Spotify, other musicians decided that enough was enough: They didn't want...
Romance Isn’t Only For Twenty-Somethings
Let filmmaker Nancy Myers show Hollywood the way: "Rom-coms typically suggest that thrilling courtship is for people in their 20s and 30s." They fall...
American Films Don’t Really Matter Much To China Anymore
Hollywood is not pleased; China let in no Marvel movies at all last year. "There's routinely Chinese comedies, Chinese dramas, Chinese science-fiction epics topping the...
This Year’s Super Bowl Ad Theme Is Certainly Not Joy
The bad, the good, and the deeply joyless — or, ad agencies have all of these creative people, and this is what they came...
The French Director Who’s Relieved That Netflix Asked Him For A Movie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Amélie who wouldn't bow to Harvey Weinstein, loathes the pressure of theatrical openings. But "with Netflix, half a billion...
The Courtald Institute Is Under Fire For Its Cutesy, Weird Van Gogh Gifts
Mental illness, hilarious: "Apart from the eraser ear, visitors can buy a £5 bar of soap, marketed as ideal for 'the tortured artist who...
Pictographs May Be Beautiful To Look At, But They’re Not Now And Never Have...
Petroglyphs and pictrographs aren't "rock art" - they're heritage objects. "Vandalism and theft is a physical attack on heritage objects. Another is appropriation of...
An Australian State Orchestra Finally Gets An Indigenous Conductor
At least for a brief time: Noongar man Aaron Wyatt "conducted the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in Long Time Living Here, a musical Acknowledgement of...
Ancient Roman Porta-Potties
How do we know the pots weren't used for something like olive oil instead of, well, feces? Ah, science: "Intestinal parasitic worms trapped in...
The Sleep That Never Ends
If we're feeling surveilled, it might be because our electronic gadgets never really turn off. Instead, they're "sleeping" - or perhaps lying in wait....
Looking For Electrifying, Informative, Creative Books For Black History Month?
If you're tired of the same old lists, the editors of The Rumpus will definitely surprise you with an eclectic list ranging from memoir...
A Massive Renovation In Glasgow Goes Right For Visitors, And Wrong For Architecture
The Burrell Collection "represents a road that turned out to be less travelled in modern British architecture, where buildings were considered as things composed,...
Julie Saul, Effervescent Manhattan Gallerist Who Began Championing Photographers Out Of An Upper West...
Saul, an art historian with the ability to be bluntly honest with her artists but also to protect them fiercely, created a place for...
