TV Newsrooms Are Jumping To Streaming In 2022
As the nation’s big media companies look to woo new viewers trying to pick their way through a dizzying number of streaming outlets, news divisions...
We’re Addicted To Stories With Trauma. But Are We Lazy?
The prevalence of the trauma plot cannot come as a surprise at a time when the notion of trauma has proved all-engulfing. Its customary...
Recontextualizing Messiahs In Confronting Racism
How these two Canadian companies chose to respond to our contemporary context of anti-racist calls when interpreting Messiah provides an opportunity to have a conversation about...
Perspective: Seeing The Real Chuck Close
Seeing Chuck’s image reduced to the accusations against him in recent years has inspired me to tell my story, not as a defense or...
Maria Rosario Jackson Confirmed as New NEA Chair
Jackson, 56, earned a doctorate in urban planning from the University of California at Los Angeles, and she’s a professor at Arizona State University...
While Paris Wants To Be A “Fifteen-Minute City,” Sweden Experiments With A “One-Minute City”
While Paris works with a 15-minute radius and Barcelona’s superblocks with nine-block chunks of the city, Sweden’s project operates at the single street level, paying attention to...
The Original Novel “Bambi” Was No Cloying Tale For The Kiddies
"Far from being a children's story, Bambi was actually a parable about the inhumane treatment and dangerous precariousness of Jews and other minorities in...
Meditating On The Art Of Giving Up
The way the idea of giving up figures in our lives, as a perpetual lure and an insistent fear. The giving up that involves...
Too Many Words! (The New York Times Dance Critic Has A Problem With Spielberg’s...
Gia Kourlas: "With so much emphasis on dialogue and character development, the tension — the very glue of West Side Story — seeps away....
Kennicott: Remembering Wayne Thiebaud
There’s a Warhol, there’s a Lichtenstein, there’s a Thiebaud. His work was routinely grouped with that of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and thus...
“Junk Turned Into Art”: L.A.’S Watts Towers At 100
"Are those towers the most powerful act of recycling that California has ever seen? Maybe." Christopher Reynolds recounts the history of their building, including...
Is The Met Museum Well-Served By Showcasing Disney?
The self-consciousness isn’t necessary; Disney transcended the high-low debate a long time ago. A better question is whether a major art institution dedicating programming...
A Choreographer Designs Movement For Robots So That Humans Will Trust Them (And Maybe...
Folks may love R2-D2 and WALL-E up on the screen, but they tend to be suspicious of robots in real life, especially when they...
How Disgust Drives Behavior
Once you are attuned to disgust, it is everywhere. On your morning commute, you may observe a tragic smear of roadkill on the highway...
“A Ring Of Authenticity”: Period Instruments Make An Astonishing Difference In Kent Nagano’s “Das...
"Put it this way," writes David Patrick Stearns, "in a year when Berlin, London, and much of the operatic world were abuzz over higher-profile...
How Many Stars Can Hollywood Cram Into One Movie?
More than ever before, both in blockbusters (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Eternals) and prestige pictures (Nightmare Alley, The French Dispatch), casts are being packed...
Boston’s New Mayor Has Big Plans For The Arts
"It's impossible to separate out 'arts issues' and 'arts equity' issues, from the stabilization of our communities," says Michelle Wu. Among her priorities are...
Los Angeles’s Leading Arts Institutions Will Require Audience Members To Have Booster Shots
Beginning in mid-January, audience members at all performances at the Ahmanson Theater and Mark Taper Forum, as well as those by the Philharmonic and...
Amid The Omicron Wave, Understudies Have Become The Heroes Of Broadway
As cast members test positive for the new coronavirus variant and have to isolate, these under-recognized performers — many of whom must master two...
Filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée Dies Suddenly At 58
The director of the Oscar-nominated films Dallas Buyers Club and Wild and the series Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, Vallée was found in...
Belgium Agrees To Return Art Looted During Colonial Period To DR Congo
"The Belgian government plans to set up an expert commission with the Democratic Republic of Congo that will determine the fate of thousands of...
Checking In With Claire Chase’s Multi-Decade Flute Project
Since 2013, she has been commissioning scores for a monumental project called “Density 2036”; when it comes to completion, in the designated year, it...
E.O. Wilson, 92, Often Referred To As Darwin’s Successor
Dr. Wilson was an eloquent and immensely influential environmentalist and was the first to determine that ants communicate mainly through the exchange of chemical...
YOLA Grand Ambitions For Music In LA
It is one of the most vivid examples of efforts by major arts organizations across the country to bring youth education programs out into...
The Landmine Field That Is Pop Christmas Music
With Christmas pop the companies are on tricky ground. As one company executive put it, the Christmas record needs “an indefinable atmosphere.” Sex is...
