English In India: The Colonial Oppressor’s Language? Not Anymore.
"English has always been a language that has looked ahead to the future. Forged multiply in the crucible of caste, class, gender, and ethnic...
As The Russian Invasion Rages, At Odesa Opera The Show Must Go On
Mary Harris interviews Katarina Tsymbalyuk, a mezzo and a member of the Odesa Opera's resident ensemble, about the love, and the fear, she and...
Turning The Notre-Dame De Paris Conflagration Into A Disaster Movie
When the president of Pathé approached filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud (Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose) about making a documentary about the catastrophic...
Actors’ Equity And IATSE Sue Producers Of “Paradise Square” For Non-Payment
"Actors' Equity and the union representing theatrical designers are separately taking Broadway musical Paradise Square to court for close to $350,000 total in owed...
Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Now Has No Programming, No Top Execs, And No Resident...
The apparent strife between the theater's board and its staff and artists has culminated (unless things get still worse) in playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza withdrawing...
Meow Wolf Co-Founder Matt King Has Died At 37
"King was an instrumental figure behind a company that The New York Times Magazine once described as 'the Disney of the experience economy.' …...
Margaret Keane, Whose Paintings Were Claimed To By Her Husband To Be His, Has...
"Her husband Walter Keane fraudulently took artistic credit, while she painted for 16 hours a day to satisfy demand for the work, originally presented publicly...
Artist Maurizio Cattelan Narrowly Wins A Lawsuit, But Questions Of Attribution Remain
Basically, the plaintiff sued the wrong entity - Cattelan's gallery and a museum, not the artist himself. So "the ruling still leaves the key...
Take A Little Vivaldi, Add A Little Irish Dance
And the result is a viral video set in a beautiful environment: "The performance takes place in Swords Castle, an early medieval castle in...
New Use For Spotify Playlists: Recipe Instructions
Why not? People often listen to Spotify playlists while cooking — though a recipe for kimchi fried rice shouldn't usually take as long as...
“Frenzy” Is Alfred Hitchcock’s Most Violent, Most Controversial Film. But Is It Really All...
"Hitchcock's fear and loathing of women is accompanied by a lucid understanding of – and even sympathy for – women's problems in patriarchy. ......
The Full List Of Emmys Nominations, As It Happened
Ted Lasso? Only Murders in the Building? Squid Game? Better Call Saul? Find out here. - Los Angeles Times
On Turning Benjamin Britten’s And Peter Pears’s Love Letters Into A Song Cycle
Composer Conor Mitchell: "How come these two men, so buttoned up and alien to empowered, liberated me, felt they could write passionate love letters...
Italy Tells Museums To Cut It Out With The NFTs
After an eye-popping NFT sale for the Uffizi turned out to net the museum only €70,000, far less than half of the sale, the...
Percy Shelley: Poetry As Political Crusade
"Shelley's greatest gift was in the deftness with which he interwove the poetical and the political. Poetry had, for Shelley, of necessity to appropriate...
Before The Museum Of London Decamps For A New Neighborhood, It Will Host An...
The Museum of London - whose collection and attitude are absolute gems - has been squeezed into "an eccentric building" for years. Now "in...
Why Are Americans So Snotty About Skyscrapers?
The best way for cities to grow is up, but you'd never know it from height restrictions in places like Washington, DC. - The...
And Here Is The New Poet Laureate Of The United States
Ada Limón "assumes the role with two primary intentions: to use poetry to help people reclaim their humanity and to repair their relationship with...
These Silk Weavers In Florence Still Work On 18th-Century Looms
"In a quiet corner of the bohemian district of San Frediano, hidden behind an 18th-century iron gate that opens onto a whimsical wisteria-covered alleyway,...
Why Ireland Has Become A Hotbed Of Horror Flicks
"The country's small film industry has made 20 horrors in the past six years, with another two (this) autumn. ..." Says one filmmaker, "Irish...
“Bad Art Is Doing Very Nicely These Days, And The Reason Is That People...
David Bromwich: "In The Importance of Being Earnest, Algernon recoiled from the display of affection by the happily married: 'It is simply washing one's...
Why This Former Martha Graham Star Is Doin’ The Hustle
"Hustle is fluid, fleet, as elegant as it is funky. A dance in 3/4 time, it moves elliptically through disco's 4/4 beat. ... Hustle...
Why Jeri Lynn Johnson Founded The Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra
She got the idea after losing a music director post, following a successful audition, because "we just didn't know how to market you" (meaning...
Southern Rep Theatre In New Orleans Closes Permanently
Founded in 1986 to focus on new plays from and about the South, the company moved into a new space in 2018 that raised...
PETA Has A Damien Hirst Installation Shut Down For Wanton Murder Of Flies
Hirst's A Hundred Years, a glass cube in which flies hatch on one side and then fly into a bug zapper on the other,...
