Welcome To The Cheech: Major Chicano Museum Opens
Cheech Marin has amassed a collection of more than 700 paintings, drawings, sculptures and mixed-media works by Chicano artists. In art-world circles, Marin’s...
A Fluxus Pioneer Explains It All
On June 21, Nye Ffarrabas turns 90. She is "in the midst of several new Fluxus projects". When asked whether she had any advice...
How BAM Expanded Its Audience During The Pandemic
“BAM isn’t just for one audience. We were consistently sold out this season and more often than not had a standby line. That’s because...
Renee Fleming – Keepin’ On Keepin’ On
A good run indeed. At 63, an age when many if not most opera singers have retired, Fleming is still keeping extremely busy —...
In Which I Attempt To Convince You Of The Value Of Reality TV
For many Americans, watching so-called lowbrow, “mindless” reality TV — the type of content that doesn’t further our intellect in any tangible way —...
James Baldwin On Fire Island
He had two stays in the gay community of Cherry Grove, neither during high season, during which he worked on Another Country (May 1959)...
Russia’s Cultural Brain Drain, In The Words Of The Brains Who Have Drained
Actress Renata Litvinova: "I suddenly realized that maybe I'm never going back." Director Kirill Serebrennikov: "I continue to allow myself the illusion that my...
New AI Breakthrough Makes Startling Pictures, Raises Questions About Creativity
It's leaps and bounds ahead. It raises immediate questions about how these technologies will change how art is made and consumed. It also raises...
How Did Stanley Kubrick Ever Get Away With Making A Hollywood Movie Out Of...
"Forced to excise or elide some of the book's thorniest elements for the sake of (the film's) being allowed to exist at all, ......
How Much Responsibility Do You Have To Be An Informed Citizen?
There are two reasons why it is unclear whether positing a personal responsibility to be informed improves our information practices. - Psyche
Jaron Lanier: A Non-Obvious Way To Fix Social Media? Groups!
The point is that the people in the groups know one another well enough to take on the pursuit of trust and quality, and...
Is It Telling, In This Age Of Mistrust, That Tom Hanks Is Playing A...
"At the end of the day, the only people who care about your image in a movie is the marketing department." Hanks discusses finding...
Donor Run Amok: A Museum Sells Its Soul
Welcome to Long Beach. Here at Cal State University, Kleefelds in the Kleefeld at the Kleefeld are the new norm. Disturbingly so. It’s a...
Discovery Of 13,000 Ancient Artifacts Sheds Light On Lost Culture Of Sanxingdui
The find, which includes bronze, jade, gold, and ivory pieces, many intact, is at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan province. The site was the...
How Pixar Grew From A Little Experimental Studio Into A Global Gold Standard For...
"Going back to its earliest days, Pixar was always a place where some minds succeeded by solving intractable problems with vim and whimsy, and...
Voguing — Dance, Subculture, Liberation Movement
The hybrid of dance, costuming, satirical mimicry and other ingredients that has provided community to several generations of Black and Hispanic queer people is...
Talking About “The Book Of Mormon” With Three Guys Who’ve Been In Its Cast...
Graham Bowen (dance captain and swing), Lewis Cleale ("all the old white guys"), and John Eric Parker (Mutumbo) "joined a reporter at the theater...
After 110 Years, “Poetry” Magazine Has Its First Black Editor
In a Q&A, Adrian Matejka, a multiple award-winner who holds an endowed chair at Indiana University and was the state's poet laureate from 2018-19,...
Norway’s New National Museum Looks Like A High-Tech Fortress. What Is It Protecting?
"This is a building that says 'No': after years of delays, here is a complex of enormous hard-edged boxes clad in dark gray slate...
The Head Of London’s Royal Opera Writes About Race, Representation, Black- And Yellowface, And...
Oliver Mears: "Notwithstanding their subject matter, these operas are masterpieces. Instead of cancelling them we should find creative ways to live with them. ......
Saving A Language Through Techno Music
"Benoit Fader Keita never intended to make electro music. But after a sell-out first show in Dakar last month, the singer believes the genre...
Why Do We Forget The Books We’ve Read?
Two big reasons: Interference - that is, the other books we've read get in the way; and passive engagement. That is, if you write...
Insurrection, Foretold In US Monuments
"Stone Mountain is a shining example of selective amnesia and Lost Cause propaganda. And the inventions of the Lost Cause bear a remarkable parallel to the...
On The Jewishness Of Pinter And Stoppard
"In the New York theatre, ... the fact that these two major figures happened to be Jewish may seem inconsequential. But in the universe...
Ballet Is The Pursuit Of Perfection
Siphe November, who's 23 and has risen through the ranks to become the youngest principal dancer in the National Ballet of Canada's history, "has...
