The Future Of Opera: Detroit?
It’s hard to overstate the unlikelihood of a director as innovative and internationally celebrated as Sharon taking the reins of a decidedly regional (and...
Richard Armstrong To Step Down As Guggenheim Director
He took the helm of the Guggenheim in 2008, following the resignation of firebrand director Tom Krens. Only the fifth leader in the institution’s...
And You Think You Have A Spam Problem (Twitter Removes A Million Accounts Each...
Human reviewers manually examine thousands of Twitter accounts at random and use a combination of public and private data in order to calculate and...
Hollywood’s Answer To The World’s Problems: Only Superheroes. So Ordinary Humans Are Powerless?
There’s a preponderance of copaganda and superheroes saving the day and a category of narrative best described as wealth-aganda — stories focused on the interior lives...
The Most Unlikely Literary Rediscovery Ever? “Don Quixote” In Sanskrit
The 1937 translation was commissioned two years previously by wealthy American accounting executive Carl Tilden Keller, who already had versions of Cervantes's novel in...
Romanticism Was Once A Challenging Dynamic Force. What Happened To Defang It?
It’s an irony that arguably the most radical movement in European thought should have been appropriated by the conservative forces of the market, but...
Black Mountain College — The Underfunded, Never-Accredited, Long-Defunct Rural School That Transformed American Arts...
It only operated from 1933-1957 in North Carolina's Swannanoa Valley, and its great impact was through its summer program. But to see how important...
Roy Moore Loses His Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen Over The “Pedophile Detector” In...
Moore, the notorious judge and Senate candidate from Alabama, sued Cohen for $95 million, alleging he was deceived and defamed in the latter's 2018...
What Was (Or What Is) The Chitlin Circuit?
It was a network of theaters, nightclubs, and church halls throughout the US where Black entertainers performed during the segregation era, and where many...
Why Not Just Have A Robot Make Copies Of The Elgin Marbles To Replace...
Oxford's Institute for Digital Archaeology has lidar-scanned some of the sculptures at the British Museum; its robot is now chiseling copies of them from...
A Battle Breaks Out Over Who Gets To Design And Make Philadelphia’s Harriet Tubman...
When Wesley Wofford's touring sculpture of Tubman stopped there this winter, it was wildly popular, and the city commissioned him to make a permanent...
As Boris Johnson’s Prime Ministership Collapsed, British TV News Got Very, Very Weird
Featured on the commercial networks' coverage this week: a "Government Resignations Ticker", an anti-Brexit campaigner belting "Bye Bye Boris", a discussion of the Tories'...
Actor James Caan Dead At 82
"(He) memorably displayed his tough-guy screen presence as the trigger-happy Mafioso Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (among many other roles) but also proved, beyond...
Warning: Current Streaming Model Is Rotten, Must Change
The longer that this new “business model” is allowed to operate, the harder it will be to change. I often think about how 25...
How Is It A Century-Old Book On Prose Is Still Popular?
Nearly a century old, it’s still avidly read and discussed in MFA circles, thanks to its author’s meticulous dissection of the devices of fiction,...
Man Recreates Banksy Mural Inside A Vending Machine To “Start Discussion”
"Like everyone else I felt a real pride that he'd come to Lowestoft and the surrounding area and done that (painted his artwork) because...
Until The 1880s Anthropologists Researched In Libraries. When They Finally Went Into The Field...
Instead of sitting in libraries, they began to study “primitive” cultures for themselves, across Africa, Asia and the Americas, living with their subjects for...
Authentication Wars: She Bought A Chagall. Years Later Sotheby’s Suggests She Sell. Panel Says...
To Ms. Clegg’s dismay, the expert panel in Paris declared her Chagall to be fake, held onto it and now wants to destroy it....
Clint Eastwood Wins $2 Million In Lawsuit Against Defendants Who Used His Name And...
"The verdict is the second in favor of the actor in a pair of suits against CBD manufacturers and marketers that fabricated news articles...
Journalists Prize Access To Sources. But Too Much
I’ve come to believe that one of most overrated aspirations in journalism is access. This is particularly true in any story involving people who...
Twitter Sues Indian Government Over Orders To Remove Tweets
"Twitter's suit, filed in the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore, challenges a recent order from the Indian government for the company to remove content...
It Took War For North Americans To Learn About Ukrainian Music
There has been little known in the West about Ukrainian composers until recently, especially in Canada and the U.S., according to experts. “North Americans...
CBC News Is Launching A New Streaming Service. But Aren’t They Providing Us Enough...
There are the main TV and radio networks, a cable channel (CBCNN), streaming service CBC Gem, the app, the YouTube channel, the "documentary Channel"...
Japan Is Conflicted About Resuming Tourism
Japan's opening up to mass tourism over the last decade brought an economic boost — a record 32 million tourists visited in 2019 and...
Pay Equity Is Great, But Can Theater In America Afford It Without Shrinking?
Jesse Green surveys the unpaid and underpaid work that has always been part of making theater in the US, especially early in a career...
