Henry Moore was a canny and vicious manipulator of the Tate, a former director's diary reveals: "In 1945, the Tate's board was considering whether to purchase a wooden sculpture by Barbara H…
Euro Disney comics, that is, which are multitudinous and a little weird for those used to U.S. Disney style and storyline. For instance, "the 200-page volume features a story about Mickey ba…
No, really: "Michael Ellis, the arts minister, has put a temporary export bar on the artwork, Lobster Telephone (White Aphrodisiac), by Dalà and Edward James, to give buyers a chance to k…
A video of this building, with a lot of show notes after the video. If you love Broadway, you'll probably want to watch it a few times. Like, a lot of times, just to enjoy the building: "Mor…
The museum, an hour north of Toronto, sits on ground that has low-level radioactive contamination - and now it is being forced to pack up and leave ... with nowhere to go. "'We thought we ha…
Basically, we have a cultural disconnect, or a potential one: "What happens when art shaped by utopian principles and intended as a civic gift to a temporary city is uprooted from its native…
Customers feared it, but "Beats executives likely knew this would be the case when they accepted the acquisition: that Beats would become a shadow of its former self, with its resources, tal…
You take some a woman with button eyes, a portal into another world, and a plucky heroin, and add music, of course. "Around a table, two "magic consultants" were huddled around a miniature t…
And - perhaps ironically! - the book is titled after a viral blog post from 2014 by author Reni Eddo-Lodge: "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race." The prize is for, in Brita…
Yikes: "Anna Harding, the chief executive of Space studios, which provides premises for nearly 800 artists including three Turner prize winners, blamed rising property prices and shrinking s…
"While he was performing an aerial straps number, long-time aerialist Yann Arnaud fell onto the stage, a Cirque du Soleil representative said in a statement. He was taken to Tampa General Ho…
Austin, which has been struck by a series of handmade bombs in the last few weeks, is on edge, so when the promotion company Live Nation said it had gotten an emailed bomb threat, the police…
Oh: "'Southern folk music's overwhelming dominance " for all its championing by non-Southern liberals " also subtly reinforces the 'heritage not hate' defenses of the Confederate flag and ot…
Ask David Foster Wallace - or Leslie Jamison: "I'd been afraid that meetings were basically lobotomies served alongside coffee-flavored water and Chips Ahoy!; afraid that even if sobriety co…
Since the new play opened last weekend, the Footlights Theatre in Falmouth, Maine, has been getting hate calls. "I had one woman tell me, 'I don't want to see a play about those (expletive) …
It's been 50 years since the massacre, and since Hugh Thompson and his helicopter crew stopped it from being far worse. Now, as the opera plays around the country, traditional Vietnamese ins…
Nasrallah was a journalist, teacher, lecturer and novelist who advocated for women's rights and wrote about refugees and war in Lebanon. Her books "recount the emptiness left by immigration,…
Why? And how? "We might deny that morality needs to be taught, putting our faith in the natural goodness of children or their propensity to discover and sign up to moral standards of their o…
You call it 'blackened faces,' the parent who pointed it out was concerned that it looks more like 'blackface' - perhaps it's time, Bethel Park High School, near Pittsburgh, to call the whol…
One problem is simply the numbers in the U.S. - single digits for women directors, compared to women being 1/4 of directors in France, for instance. And then, of course, "sci-fi is still fie…
This is part of what it's like: "By day, a steady stream of tourists came, posing for pictures (and peeking in the windows) dressed in the free costumes provided by the visitor center " cali…
Rasquache is the art of making do with very little - something that might lead to, well, black velvet paintings. "For generations, these pieces have been placed on the mantles of Chicano hou…
A man who worked on the technology of Hawking's voice synthesizer in 1986 got a call in 2014 about saving the tech. "In nearly 30 years, he had never switched to newer technology. Hawking li…
The theatre took down its website and all of its social media at the same time the announcement went out on a Friday morning. "The unsigned statement from ATC's board (which declined intervi…
Sharmaine Lovegrove, the woman who opened the first English-language bookstore in Berlin when she couldn't get any hold in London, returned to Britain 20 years later - only to be met with a …