The World Of Stand-Up Comedy – In France
"There are only four clubs in France that follow the English-speaking stand-up tradition, with a lineup of several comedians each night. Generally, solo shows...
The Really Boring, Fairly Bad Art Of The Coronavirus
Our aesthetics just can't keep up. "The visual monotony of the crisis has put art departments at news organizations in a pinch. How do...
The Underground Art Museum In Los Angeles Has Closed
"Nearly ten years after the beloved cultural organization began, developing into one of the country’s leading venues for Black art, its two directors have...
Disney, Slightly Chastened, Has Restored A Queer Kiss To An Upcoming Movie
"In Pixar’s next film, Lightyear, a queer character named Hawthorne, voiced by Uzo Aduba, was originally depicted kissing a woman, according to a source close...
Who Won The National Book Critics Circle Awards?
A book of short stories by a young Cambodian American who died before his book came out, a first novel about coming of age...
What Happened To Franck’s Smash Hit Symphony?
OK, smash hit in that it was an absolute standard of the repertory for many orchestras - until it disappeared. "The variety of conductors...
Vimeo Walks Back Its Policy Shift That Suddenly Charged Indie Creators Thousands Of Dollars
Good apology, but "it’s worth noting that these changes won’t necessarily make Vimeo a better option for the creators that were hit with high...
There’s Never Just One
William Hurt's former partner Donna Kaz adds her voice to the discussion about surviving abuse from a famous partner. "You have to understand something...
The Arts’ Digital Problem
Digitalization has affected both the demand and supply for cultural content. Increasingly sophisticated technology and adoption of digital devices to experience things remote because...
Met Animates Under-Seen Rococo With Disney
The Met's eighteenth-century “decorative arts” usually languish in the museum’s emptiest galleries. Yet when Disney animated them into characters like the candlestick Lumiére in Beauty...
Why Are Black Women Museum Leaders Quitting?
The swift departures of these women in leadership positions have generally been swept under the proverbial rug, where these women quietly navigate the complexities...
How The Dua Lipa Plagiarism Case Could Change Music
If either Artikal Sound System or Linzer and Brown win their case, songwriters may have even more to worry about. Will one measure of...
Remembering Dance Critic Clement Crisp, 95
Crisp's dance reviews for the Financial Times – "the pink 'un" – from 1970 until 2020 were legendary for their passionate fastidiousness about ballerinas and high style, their acuity...
The Anti-Putin Songs That Have Gone Viral In Ukraine
A track titled “Bayraktar,” of indeterminate origin, has been receiving hundreds of thousands of plays online, and is in rotation on Ukrainian radio. Over...
Neal Stephenson, The Tech Billionaires’ Favorite Sci-Fi Writer
His 1992 novel Snow Crash is the source of the trem "metaverse"; his 1999 Cryptonomicon basically predicted cryptocurrency. With fans from Jeff Bezos to...
15 Things That Suck About Museums
Walking around a museum can feel a little off-putting when you know that workers aren’t being paid a fair wage — and, in the case of...
Why Don’t More North American Orchestras Have Adequate HR Staff?
Orchestral musicians have difficult jobs, yes. But they have notoriously low job satisfaction, and the workplace atmosphere can become fraught or even toxic. But...
Classical Music, Politics, And The Ethics Around War
The reactions to people being banned and insisting, Oh, we’re not politicians, we’re artists, and therefore what we’re doing is not political—I think that...
How Brooklyn Mack Suddenly Found Himself In Charge Of A Ballet Company
The company is the one where Mack first studied, Columbia Classical Ballet in South Carolina. Last fall, artistic director Radenko Pavlovich visited his hometown,...
End Of An Era: Humana Theatre Festival Calls It Quits
Several of the more than 400 plays presented at the festival have gone on to win wider accolades — “The Gin Game” by D.L....
In Russia, Ballet Has Always Been Tied Up With Politics And Diplomacy
"As a wordless art, dance travels well. With strong links to the Kremlin, the Bolshoi has been hailed as Russia's 'secret weapon' by former...
Does The Rock ‘N Roll Hall Need A Name Change?
When the artists being nominated and inducted are questioning their own “rock and roll” credentials, does the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have...
The Tories’ Culture-War Politics Have Britain’s Museums Confused And Worried
Administrators and staffers are "'taken aback' by the apparent cognitive dissonance between directives ... to increase diversity and improve access both in their programming...
Annie Flanders, Who Founded Details Magazine, Dead At 82
"In a way, she formed that '80s culture, which became not just an American phenomenon but an international one. We who were in the...
Would Chekhov Weep? A Drama Critic On Russia’s Bombing Of The Mariupol Theater
Peter Marks: "Russia is a nation of passionate theater-, music-, and dance-lovers. ... It is beyond comprehension that terrified women and children could turn...
