Telling And Retelling The Stories of The India-Pakistan Partition
"This past year has marked seventy-five years of Partition, a process of fracturing that continues in the imagination and in memory. Each generation has...
How Mass Cancellations Will Re-order The Streaming Landscape In 2023
The story of the year was undoubtedly HBO Max; Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslav made radical changes to the streaming structure and axed many in development, renewed,...
This Year’s Television Focused On The Price Of The American Dream
"On TV, 2022 has been the year of the American dream — with a catch. For many of the hustlers, entrepreneurs and strugglers onscreen,...
Pointe Magazine’s Favorite Ballet Performances of 2022
"Here are 12 standout onstage moments from 2022, in chronological order, from large ensemble works to surprise star turns." - Pointe Magazine
In San Francisco, A First-Ever Sensory-Friendly “Nutcracker” For Kids
"The idea is for the show to be a relaxed, shush-free, shame-free environment. ... House lights will be kept on (and) guests will also...
Dorothy Iannone, Whose Erotic Artworks Drove Censors Nuts, Is Dead At 89
"Iannone depicted female sexuality in a bold graphic style that drew from Japanese woodcuts, Greek vase painting, and visual themes from various Eastern religions."...
The Biggest Art-History Discoveries Of 2022
"A long-lost Renaissance painting languishing in a nursing home — check. A 200-year-old marble statue by an Italian master forgotten in a garden —...
Remains Of A Huge, 2,000-Year-Old Mayan Kingdom Discovered In Guatemala
"This long-lost urban web encompassed nearly 1,000 settlements across 650 square miles, linked by an immense causeway system, which was mapped out with airborne...
“Avatar: The Way of Water” Has Grossed $1 Billion In Less Than Two Weeks
Believe it or not, the movie still hasn't made a profit: it will need to gross between $1.5 billion and $2 billion to recoup...
Turbulence At Fractional Ownership Art Fund
Throughout 2022, and at times before, the company has weathered conflicting business strategies, rifts between management and key teams and non-existent human resources practices,...
Milwaukee Symphony Had A Good Fall, But Some Unusual Audience Patterns
"What we’re seeing throughout the entire performing arts sector at least in Milwaukee is people are coming out for the traditions and the pieces...
The 2022 Visual Art World’s Biggest Controversies
2022 was a year chock-full of controversies in our industry as museum masterpieces were covered in mashed potatoes, artists fretted about being replaced by...
The Earth Is Losing Its Memory
How does a billion years go missing? The Great Unconformity has long been a geological mystery, in no small part because it is a...
How Historians Made A Video Game To Better Tell A History
History is not a window into the past, but something made by people looking at the past through whatever evidence survives. Rather than hiding...
Charting The Decline Of Programming On Cable TV
All of the major cable network operators — A+E Networks, AMC Networks, Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery — have seen annual output...
The Ever-Malleable Figure Of Santa Claus
"Today's Tedium talks about Santa Claus as a visual and cultural icon who has had more changes in style than Madonna, a figure that...
Hollywood’s New Creative Crisis
The danger of the current moment is a second hollowing: the relegation of even lower-budget productions to commercial oblivion, the ever-widening gap between the...
Art Spiegelman Is Worn Out By 2022’s Culture-War Battles Over “Maus”
"Ironically, the ban has brought droves of new readers to his work, ... (and Maus) sold 665,000 copies this year, more than triple its...
Revisited: More Sinister Readings Of Classic Poetry
There is hope in these poems, but it’s something made in the face of grim predictions. - The Guardian
Artist Vanessa Beecroft Places A Tribute To A Stolen Caravaggio Painting In The Sicilian...
In 1969, thieves cut Caravaggio's Nativity With Saints Lawrence and Francis of Assisi from its frame at the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo....
The Original Mickey Mouse Copyright Is Finally Expiring. So What Will Happen To The...
The matter is more complicated than it appears, and those who try to capitalize on the expiring “Steamboat Willie” copyright could easily end up...
Building The Instrument That’s At The Heart Of Broadway’s “The Piano Lesson”
"That piano is so central ... that (August) Wilson's script dedicates half of its mandate for the play's setting to a description of the...
We’re Fascinated By Musical Prodigies. Should We Be?
The spectacle of a pint-size virtuoso — in any field, not just music — feels otherworldly, and it inspires an almost lurid fascination that...
It’s Been Quite The Year Of Drama On BookTok
"With more than 77 billion views globally to date, TikTok's collection of literary-minded creators and clips, ... (has) (a lot of) drama, much of...
The Days Of TikTok Dance Videos Becoming Viral Megahits Are Ending
Unless, that is, you're already famous; Lizzo's dance videos easily draw a million viewers. Earlier in TikTok's history, before there were mountains of content,...
