David Remnick: Remembering Peter Schjeldahl
Peter was a man of well-developed opinions, on art and much else. He was someone who, after being lost for a time, knew some...
The Alluring Aroma Of Old Books
There are old books and there are old books. Sometimes opening one that I have innocently purchased for 3.99 plus postage can feel like...
Calculating The Moral Value Of The Distant Future
Unless you think—and some philosophers do think this—that the large-scale future consequences of our practices don’t matter at all, it’s hard to see how...
Reconsidering The Music Groupie
The argument for me as groupie is more complex than the definition of the term. Groupies were women who hung around bands. They were...
Audiences For TV Soap Operas Are Falling Off
One of soap operas' major problems in recent times has been a failure to bring in new fans on top of their existing ones....
Fear Of Cancel Culture Makes Me Wonder…
The experience made me wonder: Why do we assume that cancel culture is a pervasive reality, and what’s the impact of that assumption? - The Atlantic
Why Aren’t Dallas Audiences Returning After COVID?
Audiences are being more selective, according to researchers and arts leaders across the region. Some are scared to gather in crowded indoor venues. Others...
Why Peter Schjeldahl Mattered As A Critic
Schjeldahl was a belletrist as a writer — a once fashionable, now vaguely disreputable genre of fiction, poetry and essay writing with an acute concern for...
A Bookstore With Blood On Its Walls Opens In Time For Halloween
Or, if you like horror books, then it's also Hanukkah and Christmas and Solstice and Valentine's Day rolled up into one in Louisville, where...
Geoff Nuttall Of The St. Lawrence Quartet Has Died At 56
Nuttall, who also ran the chamber music series at the Spoleto Festival, was a violinist, "a charismatic musician who played boldly," with an "electrifying...
Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes At A Monet
"People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying. We are in a climate catastrophe. And all you are afraid of is tomato soup,"...
Choreography As Group Protest
Emily Johnson's "expansive work often brings its viewer-participants into outdoor public spaces, drawing our attention to the land beneath and around us — to what...
The Secrets Of A Great Writers’ Room
According to Abbott Elementary's Brittani Nichols, writers getting to produce episodes means something important, and it keeps the writers' room bonded, on track, and...
Carmen Callil, 84, Who Founded Virago Press And Introduced Atwood To The UK
Callil "championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature," including by bringing many women authors back into print. - The Guardian (UK)
Playwright Martyna Majok Wants To Believe In Theatre’s Magic
And her play, new to Broadway, is "about 'the precarity of life' — the way that one bad break, financial or physical or emotional,...
Moshe Safdie Said He Paid A Price For Not Being A Postmodernist
Rowan Moore: "Once, Moshe Safdie was the future. Then he wasn’t. Now, decades later, it turns out that, after all, he was." - The...
Remote Work Is Here To Stay
"The point isn’t that there’s something wrong with working from an office. It’s that there’s something right about working from home." Now, what does...
Author Alice Taylor Says Ireland Has Changed Massively, And For The Better
Even though she's famous for memoir and novels of country life, she says, "I do not miss the deference which was shown to people...
Seattle’s Alt-Weekly Says People Should ‘Power Through’ Tristan And Isolde
Why? At the Seattle Opera, "they fucking love Wagner." - The Stranger
Facebook Threatens To Block News In Canada
Proposed legislation in Canada, "the Online News Act, compels online platforms like Facebook and Google to share revenue with the publishers they aggregate their news from."...
Is Cate Blanchett’s Predatory Conductor The Villain Or The Hero?
"Watching Tár, you’re likely to be spectacularly divided about what happens to Lydia. We experience it all through her eyes, and it’s the nature...
The Art Of Cannabis Cultivation
Artist Pao Houa Her draws parallels "between the heyday of Hmong opium cultivation in Laos in the decades before the Vietnam War and the...
TikTok’s Many Singing And Dancing Users Are Addicted
But that usually doesn't translate to dollars for creators - even ones with millions of views and followers. - El País
When Streaming Fails, Merch Saves Popular Musicians
Maybe the classical world can take some notes from Billie Eilish? - The Guardian (UK)
Actor Who Fled Iran In 2008 Offers Sympathy, Solidarity To Protesters
Zar Amir Ebrahimi was a young actor when a leaked sex tape forced her to flee her country. Now, she says, "This Islamic Republic...
