Charles Fuller, Pulitzer-Winning Playwright Of “A Soldier’s Play”, Is Dead At 83
"A soft-spoken writer who liked to populate his plays with sprawling casts of characters, Mr. Fuller launched his theater career in the late 1960s...
“Suzan-Lori Parks Does Not Like To Be Policed!”
"We (Black people) have to wake up to the ways we are policing each other to our detriment. 'No more trauma-based writing!' These are...
NPR’s Board Chair Named CEO Of New York Public Radio
LaFontaine Oliver, who is CEO of Baltimore public radio station WYPR and is serving his second term heading NPR's board, takes over the US's...
Daniel Barenboim Cancels All Performances “For The Coming Months”
On the same day that he won a Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement, the conductor and pianist announced, "My health has deteriorated over the...
Gramophone’s 2022 Record Of The Year: Korngold’s “Die Tote Stadt” From Kirill Petrenko And...
The Bavarian State Opera also took honors for Hans Abrahamsen's The Snow Queen and, under Petrenko's baton, Mahler's 7th Symphony. Among other winners were...
The Finalists For The 2022 National Book Awards
Among the shortlisted authors are Gayl Jones, Alejandro Varela, Imani Perry, Meghan O'Rourke, John Keene, Sharon Olds, Jenny Xie, Scholastique Mukasonga, Yoko Tawada, and...
We’re In A Golden Age Of Fake Art
With little authority policing them, you’re basically on your own when determining if a work of art is fake or not. This is a...
Is Australian Opera Losing Its “Vibrancy”?
While COVID-19 was a box office disaster for every opera company, large or small, it did have an upside, said Mould. ‘COVID exposed and...
Opportunity Isn’t The Same as Equality
What we should want is to make outcomes more equal – not opportunity. Antiegalitarians resist calls for equality via the ideology that if people...
Cop Shows After George Floyd
Two years later, it is clear that rumors of the cop show’s demise were greatly exaggerated. “Cops” is back, now on the Fox Nation...
The Role Of Body Percussion
Clapping, stomping and striking body parts from head to feet in rhythmic or repetitive ways is a timeless means of human interchange, whether for...
“Seeing” Without Seeing: Perception and Consciousness
Blindsight is now a well-established clinical phenomenon. When first discovered, it seemed theoretically shocking. No one had expected there could possibly be any such...
Do We Need All These Books With Bombshell Revelations About Trump? What Difference Do...
"The other defining aspect of the collected works on Trump is that virtually nothing in any of them – none of the 'bombshells' or...
The Curator Forced Out At The Guggenheim: A Scapegoat?
How did a simple offer, over a single painting, lead to such a spectacular destruction of someone’s life and career? The answer involves the...
How John Luther Adams Feels About All The Mathematics In His Compositions
"I always used to say that I observed this formalism to protect the music against the bad taste of the composer. And I still...
We Each Perceive The World In A Different Way
We are strongly influenced by context. From the effect of shadows on how we perceive the brightness of a surface, to our tendency to...
Bollywood Has Become A Major Target In India’s Culture Wars
Hindu nationalists, frequently using the hashtag #Urduwood (Urdu being, in effect, the Muslim version of Hindi), are calling for boycotts and harassing Muslim filmmakers...
Hollywood’s Big Art Collectors
As more and more celebrities are getting interested in collecting, LA galleries, like Various Small Fires, Sprüth Magers and M+B can barely meet the demand: “Some of...
Loretta Lynn, Country Music Legend, Is Dead At 90
"(Her) career was remarkable for its storybook ascent from hardscrabble origins. She was a teenage bride and mother, a country star and a grandmother...
Regal Cinemas Starts Closing Theatres
Many of the Regal Cinemas locations were run down, such as the Anaheim 14 in Anaheim, California. Others simply grew too expensive as leases...
The Arts In Britain Are Being “Privatised By Stealth”
"For many cultural organisations, the Arts Council or their local authority is often no longer the major funder – and as a result, the...
Time’s Up: How, And Why, The Entertainment Industry’s Response To #MeToo Fell Apart
"Time's Up was supposed to put Hollywood's considerable power and money — and its sudden outrage — to work fighting sexual harassment. Instead, today...
Florida Is Enacting School Library Book Bans On A Statewide Level
The news stories coming from the state have been mostly about bannings on a school district or city/county level. This past spring, Gov. De...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s New Director Has Been Making Major Changes (And Some Folks Are...
Nataki Garrett has reduced the amount of Shakespeare in the company's programming, introduced color- and sometimes gender-blind casting as well as non-traditional stagings, made...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Strike: The Five Biggest Points Of Contention
"Basically it comes down to compensation and health care." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
