Intimidation And Self-Censorship Are Rampant In Poland’s Cultural Sphere, Says Report
"The 100-page report ... claims that instead of establishing an explicit, centralized censorship regime, the leading the Law and Justice party has taken a...
This Fernand Léger Painting Was Missing For 100 Years. Turned Out It Was On...
"A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas. The work, an unnamed piece from...
Which San Antonio Orchestra Will Get County Funding? There’s Been A Bit Of A...
The problem: during the period between the board closing the San Antonio Symphony and the musicians forming the new San Antonio Philharmonic, a stopgap...
He’s Actually Going Through With It: Damien Hirst Is Burning His Own Paintings After...
"A lot of people think I'm burning millions of dollars of art but I'm not. I'm completing the transformation of these physical artworks into...
Here Are The 2022 Winners Of The MacArthur Fellowships (Okay, The “Genius Awards”)
The arts figures included in this year's class of winners are visual artists Paul Chan and Tavares Strachan; musician/scholar Martha Gonzalez; film/video artist Sly...
An Idea Isn’t Copyrightable. But Art Is
Fundamentally, artists must realise that in copyright terms, their creative ideas are worthless until those ideas form part of a tangible piece of work...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Strike Enters Third Week. Here’s What’s Driving It
“It’s kind of a generational movement that I see here. I see it as something coming out of a young workforce that is mostly...
Why Superfans Treat Disney Like A Religion
To Deborah DeGiovine — and others around the world — visiting a Disney park isn't just a summer vacation. It's the site for important...
Appreciating The Singular Talent Of Angela Lansbury
Lansbury’s ability to be both broad and subtle, larger than life yet unmistakably human, was indispensable in introducing the world to “Sweeney Todd: The...
Riding AI Image Generators Down A Rabbit Hole Of Bizarre Pop Culture
After a while I started to realize that this was more than just fun and more than just horror: Stable Diffusion is birthing a...
Inside Orange County’s New Museum
Los Angeles-based Morphosis, which was founded by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, designed the structure to have a "gradient of architectural intensity, from...
Special High-Tech Glasses For Color-Blind Visitors At The Dallas Museum Of Art
Glasses from the specialist manufacturer EnChroma "use cutting-edge lens technology to enhance the color perception of visitors with red-green deficiency ... to give color...
The Point Of Poetry?
If you asked a hundred contemporary poets working today to define what they meant by poetry you would find yourself orbiting a hundred differing,...
“A Strange Loop” Will Have The Shortest Run Of Any Recent Best Musical Winner
"(The Tony and Pulitzer winner) will close on Broadway on Jan. 15, after a short run that reflects the industry's ongoing pandemic-related struggles and...
Even TS Eliot Couldn’t Make A Living By Writing Poetry
Not even great poets can live off their poetry — “The Waste Land” sold only about 330 copies in its first six months —...
Why Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Is So Pleased To Be Taking Over Geneva’s Ballet
"Although I was born in Flanders, I sometimes feel like a foreigner because of my background and the way my life has gone. In...
The New Economy: Warner Brothers TV Makes Deep Cuts
The studio is cutting 26% of personnel, a total of 125 positions, across scripted, unscripted and animation. - Deadline
How Hindu Nationalists Have Intimated And Bullied Bollywood Into Submission
Actors and directors are threatened by crowds and harassed by authorities; occasionally, a film set is vandalized; some stories become off-limits. "Out of fear,...
Why It Always Comes Down To Good Versus Evil
The ideas of “Good” and “Evil” are premised on some concept of “Value.” That is, “Good” and “Evil” can only be real if some...
Toshi Ichiyanagi, Composer And Major Figure In Japan’s Avant-Garde (And The First Mr. Yoko...
"(He was) a pioneer, using free-spirited compositional techniques that left much to chance, incorporating ... traditional Japanese elements and instruments but also electronic music....
Cate Blanchett Works Very, Very Hard, And She Really, Really Doesn’t Like To Talk...
"It's the eternal problem where you make a deep, instinctual connection with something ... but then you move through it, you put it out...
How Much Is The Life Of Cate Blanchett’s Character In “Tár” Like That Of...
In terms of the music-making, Justin Davidson observes, Blanchett and filmmaker Todd Field do very well. But Lydia Tár's awful behavior? She could've gotten...
A New Online History Museum Takes On A Very Touchy Event: The Spanish Civil...
"The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, ... which bills itself as the 'first museum dedicated to this central event of 20th-century history',...
Classical Music Groups Developed Some Impressive Online Programming During The Shutdown. What Happens To...
"Organizations are now accepting the fact that they will need an online presence, but ... they (also) want to be able to focus on...
CNN Drops Its NFT Project, “Vault by CNN”
"You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace for its own NFTs...
