Closing Of A Literary Magazine Demonstrates The Perilous Nature Of Literary Magazines
Its short existence offers insight both into what is possible for a literary magazine to accomplish and into the tenuous place such publications occupy...
London’s National Gallery Cancels Exhibition With Pushkin Museum
Although it was never publicized, the two institutions were to have jointly presented next year’s exhibition After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, but the arrangement was...
Steven Dietz: New Theatre Is More Important Now Than Ever
"We quit on the theatre much more readily than the theatre quits on us. I am aware now—as a working artist in my 60s—that...
Pantone’s Color Of The Year Gets The Assessment It Deserves
The color company used AI to create an "endless new ecosystem to be explored, called 'the Magentaverse'." Well. As the subhed puts it, "Say...
Woman Arrested For Spraying Fake Blood On Toulouse-Lautrec Painting in Berlin Museum
The incident was reminiscent of recent climate actions at European museums, however the prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday that it has been deemed an...
Timbuktu Isn’t The Only Place With Badass Librarians. They’re Heroes In Ukraine, Too.
"The brutal material horrors of the struggle, might make any cultural reading of the conflict seem fantastical or glib. But at its core, and...
Why Theatre Isn’t Just For The Privileged
We have to collect the stories and inspire people, rather than fighting hipsters and fighting people who are gentrifiers—people don’t really understand how gentrification...
When Good Oral History Demystifies Hollywood, What Do We Really Learn?
"For all the clouds of publicity, moviemaking is an artisanal business with a craft base. How you light, shoot, edit, even make deals —...
Theatre That Redefines “Disabilities”
“Disability theatre is not all cute little community projects. I know that sounds like I’m dissing community projects, but that’s not what I mean...
A Battle Over Whether John Neumeier’s “Othello” Is Racist Rocks The Royal Danish Ballet
Neumeier's adaptation includes a dream sequence which takes the Venetians' stereotypes of Othello to their limit, with the Moorish general doing an "African hunting...
Teachers At The Mannes School Are On Strike. Here’s Why
Our base salary is some $70 per hour, as opposed to other parts of the university, where the average is about $130 an hour....
Revisiting The History-Making Obscenity Trial Of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
D. H. Lawrence's novel had been banned in Britain since it was first printed privately in 1928, but in 1960, Penguin UK published the...
Adrienne Kennedy Is A Revered Playwright. She’s 91. Why Is She Only Now Being...
Her theory: "It's because I'm a Black woman." But there's more than that: her plays are more avant-garde than those of Lynn Nottage or...
With Its Leading Arts Philanthropists Leaving The Scene, Can Boston’s Arts Ecosystem Keep Thriving?
Many of the wealthy individual donors whose regular gifts have kept the region's institutions running are passing away, and their heirs may not have...
A New $100 Million Arts Complex For Boulder, Colorado? Let’s Not, Says The Arts...
A series of surveys and workshops has evidently found a consensus that "the big, 700-ish seat theater is kind of the least needed thing"...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Threaten To Start Slashing Paintings If We Don’t All Do...
Comparing their campaign to that of the suffragettes — one of whom attacked a Velázquez at London's National Gallery with a meat cleaver in...
Vienna State Opera Will Abolish Its Music Director Position
When conductor Philippe Jordan steps down from the job in 2025, it will be eliminated, announced superintendent Bogdan Roščić. "Historically, the State Opera has...
Emmy-Winning Actor Kirstie Alley Dead At 71
"Though she had an impressive body of work," — most notably, lead roles in the sitcoms Cheers and Veronica's Closet and in the surprise...
How Virtual Musical Theatre Is Changing Participation
Our research has revealed that virtual music theatre — music theatre online — allows for a more accessible and a less exclusive way to engage...
Jed Perl: Art As Organic Influencer Rather Than Issue Crusader
Art’s primary task, Perl asserts, is not to “promote a particular idea of ideology, or perform some clearly defined civic or community service.” Art...
NBC Peacock Adds Huge Number Of Subscribers, Competes With Disney In Animation
Universal now rivals Disney in animation, a key for IP that drives theme parks, among others things. - Deadline
California’s Education Workers’ Strike Could Transform Higher Ed
It is by far the largest and most important strike in the history of American higher education, with the potential to transform both the...
Richard Serra’s Most Inaccessible Work (In A Remote Desert)
Who would put a piece of art by arguably the world’s greatest living sculptor in a place that you cannot access without a location...
Just What Will It Be Like To Attend A Live Event In The Future?
In order for future fans to experience the amazing things on your list, they will need to be technologically empowered to participate in the...
Disney AI Can Now “De-Age” Actors
FRAN uses this information to come up with a prediction about which areas of a real person’s face would age and how and then...
