Why Steve Reich Finally Set The Hebrew Traveler’s Prayer Now, At Age 86
"I guess because it was no longer about travel. It was about age. It wasn't, 'Will the flight make it safely?' The odds are...
Theatre’s Biases About Larger People
"I am a woman performer who wears pant/dress size 10-12. In the eyes of directors, producers, choreographers, and theatre’s other decisionmakers, that means I...
As Everyone Pivots To Video, Life Is Turning Into TikTok
"No matter where you swipe or tap, video is there — a torrent of pixels, fury, and sound that is, if not literally infinite,...
Art Of The Twitter Apology (Ewww!)
Knowing how to apologize on Twitter became crucial to brand management. “It’s easy to say sorry, but knowing how to say it effectively on...
Good News For Dance In Arts Council England Funding Round (As Long As You’re...
The Royal Opera House, which includes the Royal Ballet, got the biggest cut (9%), while English National Ballet, Rambert, and Sadler's Wells saw their...
Many Ukrainians See The War As A Fight For Decolonization — And That Includes...
Yes, that means — for now — no Tchaikovsky or Tolstoy, no Shostakovich or Chekhov or Pushkin. "The context for this rejection has to...
Museums Gird Their Loins To Defend Against The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals
"Though most museums don't share details about security matters as a policy, some of the measures being enforced will be immediately obvious to the...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals’ Latest Victims? Van Gogh In Rome and Goya In Madrid
"On Friday, three activists for Ultima Generazione threw pea soup at Van Gogh's The Sower (1888) at the Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome. ... Just...
Arts Council England Funding: For Orchestras, It Could Have Been Much Worse
In London, three of the four non-BBC orchestras had their grants cut, with only the Royal Philharmonic seeing no change. The major orchestras beyond...
Arts Council England Cuts: Besides Defunding ENO, How Else Has Opera Been Affected?
"Firstly, there is a substantial transfer of funding away from opera (11% down), most of which has gone to dance (12% up). In addition,...
Arts Council England Cuts: Contemporary Classical Music Sees Losses, A Few Gains
The Manchester-based ensemble Psappha and the Cambridge-based Britten Sinfonia were defunded, while the London Sinfonietta and the service organisation Sound and Music saw cuts...
Donmar Warehouse, A Dynamo Of London’s Theatre Scene, Loses All National Funding
Arts Council England has cut 100% of its grant to the company, which is known for small-scale productions that often go on to successful...
$100,000 Giller Prize For Best Canadian Fiction Work Goes To Suzette Mayr’s “The Sleeping...
"The Calgary-based Mayr won for her novel ..., which follows a queer, Black sleeping car porter making a treacherous trip from Montreal to Vancouver...
How TikTok Is Changing Not Just Content, But How We Think About The Medium
The overriding focus on the algorithm—and the content it delivers—has caused us to overlook a central part of TikTok’s operating logic: the phone. A...
Activists Attacking Art – Forcing Us To Consider Our Values
By attacking a famous and high-value cultural target like Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring — it even starred in its own movie — the protesters are asking...
The Inimitable Mr. B (A New Biography)
Balanchine is an unusual subject for what critics like to call, and I’ll go there, a magisterial biography. He was a shy, somewhat receding...
The Dreariness Of Book Clubs
I read and write about books for fun. And yet, time and again, my mind goes blank during book discussions, and all I can...
Art As Difficult Conversation? That’s Rather Limiting, Isn’t It?
Art is now viewed as a pretext for collective discourse, raising “issues” that provide the raw material for op-eds, Twitter threads, college seminars, and...
New Orange County Museum Disappoints
With the museum, designed by Thom Mayne, obviously the headliner, OCMA might have shown off its collection as the main exhibition, with perhaps a tangy...
Toronto’s Habourfront Theatre: Exec Director Leaves, Board Resigns, So What’s Next?
Last week, mere days after long-time director Gaëtane Verna left for a bigger job in the United States, board members resigned en masse, saying interference...
David Duchovny, Playwright?
Duchovny has moved fluidly between social circles, careers, and media. He was well into graduate school, preparing the fancifully titled (but never written) PhD...
A Hula Renaissance
Real hula is primal, archetypal, esoteric and ever- evolving. And it’s now shared digitally all over the world. This is a good thing, because...
Time To Get Rid Of Oscar’s Best Foreign Film Category?
Every year, the Academy tweaks the rules, trying to improve the controversial and oft-criticized process by which the international nominees are selected: But they...
Where Many Have Faltered, Boston Dance Theatre Aims To Step On Sure Ground
"Unlike the members of the Boston Ballet, who are on season-long salary, local contemporary troupes pay their dancers by the hour for rehearsals and...
Opening A Small Town Bookstore At The Height Of The Pandemic Wasn’t Easy
But Roman philosophers helped a lot. Truly. - LitHub
