“He Is France Incarnate, In All Its Glory And Awfulness” — On Gérard Depardieu...
"(He) is firmly woven into the fabric of French cultural identity. As such, to condemn Depardieu amounts to a kind of self-harm. ... 'He...
Disney-As-Religion
More than ever before, people are identifying less and less with a religious tradition. This leads some people to look for meaning and identity in...
A Symphony Of Ships’ Horns In A Newfoundland Harbour
Every other summer since 2004, composer Delf Maria Hohmann has been visiting the vessels docked in the harbor at St. John's to learn about...
If Theatres Phase Out Unpaid Internships, There Will Be A Tradeoff
"In conversation with (several) artistic directors, one trend seems abundantly clear: more equitable access to better opportunities for fewer people. ... Is that a...
The Heatwave In China Has Melted The Roof Right Off Of A Museum
The Forbidden City Cultural Relics Museum, which opened in 2020 in a restored Yangtze River-front warehouse complex in Chongqing, had a large number of...
Unpublished Poems By Ted Hughes About His Lover’s Suicide Have Been Discovered
No, these aren't about Sylvia Plath (who was Hughes's first wife): they're about Assia Wevill, who took up with Hughes (her landlord at the...
Award-Winning Documentary About Yazidi Women Enslaved By ISIS Is In Big Trouble
Among the issues surrounding the film, titled Sebaya: a key scene doesn't show the rescue it purports to show, whether the women onscreen legitimately...
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founder of Dance Troupe Urban Bush Women, Wins $250,000 Gish...
"Revolutionary at the time – and still cutting edge — Zollar's choreography synthesizes movement from modern dance and traditional folk African dance styles with...
Rescue Deal Falls Apart And San Francisco Art Institute Closes For Good
Twice the financially beleaguered school had secured a merger deal with the University of San Francisco, and both times USF backed out due to...
Claes Oldenburg, 93
Mr. Oldenburg entered the New York art scene in earnest in the late 1950s, embracing the audience-participation “Happenings” then in vogue and expanding the...
We Miscalculated. The World Is Not A Game
As the scope of algorithm-based applications in social reality has expanded over the past decades, we have by the same measure been conditioned to...
The Meaning Of Art: To Point Out Evil
I am using the word “evil” to encompass the whole range of negative human experience, from being wronged, to doing wrong, to sheer bad...
How NFTs Are Upending The Art World
This so-called revolution strikes at something many hold sacred: the relationship between artist and art, the meaning in an act of creation. What’s happening...
The Complicated Remaking Of Oscar Hammerstein
Of all the great makers of the American song, none has undergone so drastic a change in educated—O.K., call it “élite”—opinion in the past...
Nicholas Payne: The State Of European Opera After COVID
"I think opera went through a sticky time, with all that Darmstadt stuff where people were deliberately writing music that people couldn’t understand, as...
Maryland Institute Of Art Lays Off Employees After They Unionize
The news comes roughly two months after employees working across various departments voted 86–17 on to join SEIU Local 500 on May 24. -...
Are NFTs The Killer App for Tickets? The NFL Experiments
This coming season, each ticket will be an NFT, which means that ticket holders will be able to buy, sell, and trade their tickets...
Adding Back The Color To Those Ancient Greek Statues
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York scatters recreations of what these statues ACTUALLY looked like throughout its galleries:...
The Metropolitan Opera’s Inexorable Decline?
The Metropolitan Opera has been on a downward trajectory for fifty years. For the first thirty or so of those, the descent was gradual,...
For Romans, A Chance To See Art On Its Way Back Home
The Museum of Rescued Art is rescued from thieves, from looters, and occasionally from natural disasters, or time itself. "I think of this as...
What The Newly Discovered Van Gogh Self-Portrait Teaches Us Is This
It's "not hitherto unknown biographical or psychological detail, but an understanding of general artistic process that serves to humanise Van Gogh, to make his...
Gangnam Style Turns Ten, And It Still Holds Records On YouTube
"In December 2012, “Gangnam Style” became the first music video to earn more than a billion views on the platform. That momentum continued to...
Movie And TV Studios Have Extended COVID Protocols Through The End Of September
They're not messing around with omicron variants. - Variety
A Time To Laugh, A Time To Cry
Sometimes, it's easier to attack serious subjects with biting satire - and for Black authors, though that's not exactly new, it is having a...
How Relentless Right-Wing Attacks Shut Down An Entire Library
Vinton, Iowa's library shuttered as the staff resigned after a barrage of attacks. The complaints: "That we were not being fair to President Trump...
