Dept. Of Silver Linings: Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Identified After 2020 Beirut Explosion
"In one Lebanese mansion an anonymous painting — pierced by shards of glass from a blown-out window and impaled by wood from the window...
Mike Davis, L.A. Urbanist And Author Of “City Of Quartz”, Is Dead At 76
"(His) work exposed L.A.'s social fractures and disquieted its most ardent boosters, and (his) mark on the intellectual history of Southern California remains indelible....
Arkansas Museum Of Fine Arts Gets A Starchitect Makeover
"The countdown is on for the much-anticipated April 22, 2023, reopening of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock as it emerges...
One Day Before They Were Due, England’s State Arts Funder Postponed Its Plans For...
"Arts Council England has revealed it has hit the brakes on its imminent investment programme announcement. ... The 2023-26 programme has promised to be...
Feeling Trapped By The Nonbinary Gender Brand
We got stuck with this particular version of nonbinary identity—singularly focused on pronouns, clumsy corporate integration, and iconoclastic affect—because nonbinary identity has become a...
Meet Italy’s New Minister Of Culture: He Wants To Shake Things Up
Citing 19th Century patriotic poetry and Mussolini-era writers and philosophers, the freshly appointed culture minister of Italy’s new right-wing government has promised a new era...
How “Strictly Come Dancing” Is Changing How People See Dance
With this year being hailed as the most diverse series ever, Strictly is attempting to better reflect the diversity that exists across the British population...
A Linguist Weighs In: Just How Do You Say/Spell Ukraine’s Capital?
‘Kiow’ and ‘Kiou’ seemed to be the most common terms in the 18th century, while ‘Kief’ was the most popular word at the turn of...
A Jobs Crisis In The Arts? Here’s What The Numbers Say
In the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry grouping, the job vacancy rate was 6.8% in March 2022, double the rate before the pandemic (3.4%...
Nope, Sorry. Cooperation Isn’t Always A Good Thing
We often talk about cooperation in glowing terms, associating it with ideas of virtue and morality. But viewing cooperation solely as a force for...
118 Composers Join Forces To Complete One Of Bach’s Great Unfinished Projects
Original sources indicate that J.S. planned to have 164 chorale preludes in his Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book), but he only wrote out 46 of...
The News Is Broken. It’s Not Going To Get Better
I am learning to accept that our mainstream media will not adapt to the needs of this moment in our public life. Having talked...
While Repairing Damage Done By ISIS, Archaeologists Discover Unknown Assyrian Carvings
"A cache of 2,700-year-old marble relief carvings have been unearthed by archaeologists beneath the dilapidated Mashki Gate, just east of Mosul in Iraq. The...
Opera Company In Turmoil? Fort Worth Opera Loses Another General Director
Afton Battle, one of the few Black women to ever run a U.S. opera company, is resigning from the Fort Worth Opera. She will...
“The Paper Chase” Author John Jay Osborn, Jr. Is Dead At 77
"The Paper Chase became a sort of pre-law school bible that students read before embarking on a career in law. One of them was...
Why People Misspeak
This word substitution – and thousands like it – suggests that our mental dictionaries link words with related meanings. In other words, semantic connections...
The Bolshoi And Mariinsky Ballets Have Made Alexei Ratmansky A Non-Person
He's the world's most admired classical ballet choreographer, and he was artistic director at the Bolshoi. But, because he opposes Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...
Alex Ross: The Acoustics Of Lincoln Center’s Geffen Hall Makeover
My initial impressions, after three performances, were mixed. The sound is bright and clean, with excellent separation of instrumental voices. When the entire ensemble...
“The Waste Land” At 100 — The Most Important English Poem Of The 20th...
"In honor of the 100th anniversary of the publication of 'The Waste Land,' we invited four writers and academics — Beci Carver, Jahan Ramazani,...
“The Waste Land” Is 100 Years Old, But Part Of It Is 2,500 Years...
Alok A. Khorana: "When I first read the poem, I was puzzled by the structure ... because it felt strangely familiar. ... The entire...
After A Few Years Of Progress, Is Hollywood Backsliding On #MeToo And Diversity?
"In recent months, however, Hollywood's business culture has started to regress in subtle ways. New problems — widespread cost-cutting as the box office continues...
MetLife Fired This Guy Because He Co-Hosts A Popular Supreme Court Podcast
"On the official 5-4 website, there is a one-liner that pretty much tells you everything you need to know: 'A podcast where we dissect...
A New Arts Journalism Initiative In Dallas
"The Dallas Morning News and KERA announced Monday the formal launch of their new shared endeavor Arts Access, 'a first-of-its-kind journalism partnership' designed to...
Irish Dance’s Match-Fixing Scandal Sees Its First Resignations
Two members of the board of competitive Irish step dancing's chief governing body have stepped down in the wake of revelations that some coaches...
Leslie Jordan, Beloved Actor And Social Media Star, Dead At 67
"After a late start in his performing career, (he) became a recognizable face from roles on numerous television shows, most notably Will & Grace,...
