A Return To Western Liberalism?… That’s Problematic
When some commentators call for a return to classical liberalism, they forget that it rested on the moral foundations of Jewish and Christian monotheism...
Just How Does The Dallas Museum Of Art Expect To Pay For A Major...
The involvement of wealthy donors sets up a balancing act for the DMA at a time when patrons’ money is under more scrutiny perhaps...
Some Of The Best-Loved Scenes In Iconic Movies Are Only There Because Of Test...
Anne Archer shooting Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Julia Roberts dancing with Rupert Everett to end My Best Friend's Wedding. The freeway dance that...
How Do You Know You’re Not Living In A Simulation? (No, Really…)
Can you prove you’re not in a simulation? You might think you have definitive evidence that you’re not. I think that’s impossible, because any...
What Should Be Done With Fascist Monuments After The Fascists Have Been Ousted?
Most Nazi monuments in Germany were torn down after 1945, but in Spain and Italy many of the buildings and statues glorifying fascism are...
Just So You Know: This Is What Streaming Platforms Pay Artists Per Stream
I think we can all agree that this system is not set up for independent artists with a growing fanbase. The benefits of this pay-out scale are designed...
Theatres Are Experimenting With Varied Curtain Times — Again (And That’s A Good Thing)
It was only from the 1970s that American commercial theater settled on the rule: start at 8:00 for evening shows and 2:00 for matinees...
Data: Who Gets To Be A Resident Choreographer
The position of resident choreographer, while it does not exist at every company and varies between organizations, represents job stability, resources, and artistic opportunity...
There Will Be No Picasso NFTs After All
"After a granddaughter and great-grandson of the artist trumpeted the upcoming sale, lawyers for the family said Thursday that his heirs have not authorized...
The Essential Opera Quality
Opera demands engagement. It’s best if it accomplishes this by being creatively provocative or ravishing or infuriating, but as long as there's enough to...
An Alvin Ailey Star Choreographs His First Piece For A Big Ballet Company (New...
Jamar Roberts, who only stopped dancing for the Ailey company last month and who remains its resident choreographer, says that the new work is...
Remember When Damien Hirst Sold That Diamond-Covered Skull For $100 Million? Turns Out That...
The artist has now admitted that the very widely reported sale of the piece (titled For the Love of God) in 2007 never actually...
Even In A Scary Time Like This, The Head Of One State Arts Funder...
Massachusetts Cultural Council executive director Michael Bobbitt is "convinced the crisis presents an opportunity to restructure arts funding, transforming the sector into one that...
Meet The Publisher Who Picks Up The Books Big Houses Have Just Cancelled
Skyhorse Publishing acquired the books by Woody Allen, Blake Bailey, Norman Mailer and others that were dropped when controversy hit. Says Skyhorse chief Lyons,...
Tennessee School Board Bans “Maus”, Art Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel About The Holocaust
The board governing the McMinn County school district in southeastern Tennessee deemed the Pulitzer-winning book inappropriate for eighth-graders because of a drawing of a...
Minnesota Orchestra Posts Third Consecutive Multimillion-Dollar Deficit
Damn you, COVID-19! yet the good news is that 2020-21 season's shortfall, $6.3 million, is down by almost half from the previous season. And...
Lucy Rowan Mann, Who Ran The Naumburg Foundation And Its Classical Music Competition, Dead...
She started working at the foundation in 1972 and continued until this year, and the prestigious competition and awards she administered helped launch many...
Why Art Ought To Be A Daily Habit
Arthur Brooks: Engaging with art after worrying over the minutiae of your routine is like looking at the horizon after you’ve spent too long...
Did Marshall McLuhan Lead Us To Fake News?
McLuhan's doctrine was attractive to the Boomers because it explained that everything the older generation knew, or thought they knew, was an illusion. Everything...
You Think AI Ought To Make Moral Judgments For Us? (Psst! It’s Already Happening)
Recently, some scientists taught an artificial intelligence software, called Delphi (after the ancient Greek religious sanctuary), to make moral pronouncements. Type any action into it, even...
Oops: Nielsen Admits It Undercounted Viewership And Cost Ad Dollars
Between April and the end of the 2021, the VAB says, Nielsen did not count “one and a half billion impressions” in 20 top...
Why Is It Taking So Long To Develop More Female Conductors?
“If you don’t have role models, it’s much harder to see yourself as a conductor – and there were male musicians who wouldn’t see...
Kennicott: Why It’s Difficult To Know What To Make Of The Academy Movie Museum
The Academy Museum, like the Newseum before it, does an imperfect job of balancing two basic identities and purposes, one essentially self-promotional, the other...
I Was At The Auditions For “Shortbus”, John Cameron Mitchell’s Sex Movie
Back in 2003, journalist Mark Harris had been going to write a book about the film and its process; now, as Shortbus is being...
How Alternative Art Spaces Changed LA
Despite the chorus of mainstream voices that had written off Los Angeles as essentially devoid of noteworthy cultural activity, the 1970s gave rise to...
