Woman Artist Finally Gets Old Master Cred
After her death in 1689 in Brussels, Michaelina Wautier largely became a footnote in art history, occasionally drawing a mention here or there. Much...
Check Out The Huge New Mosaics By Yayoi Kusama And Kiki Smith At Grand...
The artworks, four by Smith and one by Kusama, are in the soon-to-open Grand Central Madison, an addition to the historic train terminal built...
Sydney’s Big New Contemporary Art Museum Has More Works By Women Than By Men
"Fifty-three percent of works on display in Sydney Modern's exhibition spaces, its corridors and terraces are made by women. Five of nine site-specific art...
Looks Like Actors’ Equity And The Broadway League Have Settled On A New Contract
"The details of the agreement have not yet been released and remain subject to ratification by Equity members who have recently worked on these...
The Right-Wing Twitter Mob Comes For The Washington Post’s Theater Critic
Last week, a review by the Post's Peter Marks of Bruce Norris's Downstate carried an eye-catching headline: "Downstate is a play about pedophiles. It's...
The Critics’ Poll Has A New Greatest Movie Of All Time — And It’s...
The once-a-decade list of the top 100 films from Sight and Sound magazine has nudged 2012's champion, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, down to runner-up status...
Money Troubles At NPR Bring A Hiring Freeze And $10 Million In Budget Cuts
"The cuts, CEO John Lansing says, are due to a sharp drop in sponsor revenue and represent approximately 3% of NPR's current annual budget." ...
The Washington Post Lays Off Dance Critic Sarah L. Kaufman
The Pulitzer Prize winner, who has been at the newspaper for 25 years and was one of only two full-time dance critics in the...
It’s Worth Reviving The Fading Art Of Writing Longhand
I’m old enough to remember writing by hand when it was the only choice. Then I fell to the seductions of these newfangled things...
Italian Government Fights Over Museum Policy: Free Museums?
During the election campaign Giorgia Meloni, defined culture as a “cardinal strategic point”, noting that the country’s arts industry generates roughly €85bn annually. The...
Time To Reconsider David Mamet?
Since Mamet’s 2008 essay in The Village Voice, “Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal,” he has been subject to a towering wave of enmity from the...
Twenty-Five Years Ago The YBA’s Took The Art World By Storm. Here’s Where They...
The YBAs are now all middle-aged. Hirst is 57, Emin 59, the Chapmans 56 and 60 respectively, and the years have been kind to...
Is The BBC “Dumbing Down” To Appeal To Lower Income Viewers?
The broadcaster also said it would try to attract viewers from lower socio-economic groups by making sports documentaries and crime shows, after criticism from Ofcom that...
Internet Culture Now Is Mainstream Culture
Boundaries between “traditional” culture and online culture have been breaking down. Television audiences have shrunk. Newspaper circulations are in terminal decline. Meanwhile, people have been...
What Exactly Is Geopolitics, And Who Invented It? (Losers, That’s Who)
"Do the politicians and pundits who speak of geopolitics really know what they are talking about? Geopolitics is a classically ambiguous or nebulous term,...
Democrats New House Leader Has Been Congressional Champion Of Music
Hakeem Jeffries co-sponsored the Music Modernization Act, the most important copyright law passed in decades, as well as the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act...
For Her Final Full-Length Work, Choreographer Sally Silvers Is Reworking Her First One
For her 40th anniversary season, the 70-year-old dancemaker returned to Pandora's Cake Stain, which premiered in 1996. Pandora's New Cake Stain features 12 dancers...
Phillips Collection Gets A New Director
He replaces Dorothy Kosinski, who led the Phillips since 2008, increased endowment from $18 million to $100 million, expanded art holdings from 2,000 to...
How Do You Put A 1957 Radio Documentary About Gay Men On The Stage?
The Homosexual Condition, the BBC's first-ever documentary about the lives of gay males, was believed lost until the script and other documents were located...
Why Is Theatre Dealing With (Or Not) Climate Change The Way It Is?
“Perhaps the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis,” observed Bayo Akomolafe. Producers can’t decide how climate change should be...
A Brief History Of “Y’all”
Some linguists suggest that the word comes from Scots-Irish; others think it originated among enslaved Igbo-speakers. In any case, the OED says "y'all" was...
Why Is TikTok Obsessed With “Alvin And The Chipmunks” Music
The whole music culture, it seems, is now under the sway of a chipmunk aesthetic. This, to my way of thinking, is even more foreboding...
What Brendan Fraser’s Comeback Says About Hollywood, Him, And Us
"Everyone seems happy to have Brendan Fraser back. Which prompts a question: Why? He never actually went away. The truth is that we've come...
American Bookstores Are Offering More Spanish-Language Books
"Driven by language-immersion schools and bilingual families, many stores are now specializing in bilingual books for young readers. Others serve heritage-language customers who want...
Funding Cuts To Two Small London Theatres Could Have Big Effects
Not only do the Donmar Warehouse and Hampstead Theatre regularly send productions out into the commercial theatre world (including the West End and Broadway),...
