Mantel, who works during and through quite a lot of pain, her sudden but last popularity has been unexpected. "The books are not for all readers, and some complain that they're too complex, …
Matthew Ball "was asked to rush back to the Royal Opera House and dance a key role in Giselle, a part he had performed only once before, after the American star David Hallberg injured himsel…
The comic book publishing company Lion Forge is based in St. Louis, but is finding success with digital comics, including one about eating disorders that just won an award as one of the best…
The first season of his new company is all white men, and last week, the former director of the National Theatre got mad at those who suggested it should be more diverse - and of course the …
The space was used for storage until, well, recently, when they took up the floorboards, only to find literally centuries worth of detritus - including many different centuries of stained gl…
Sickeningly, the Nazi-looted art led to a boom in the global art market from 1941 onward. They stole so very, very much art to fund the war effort: "In the decade leading up to 1945, it's es…
There was, as we all know, a famous glitch in the delivery of Moonlight's Best Picture Oscar, and Jenkins was so overwhelmed at the time that he didn't get to read his speech. So at this wee…
Led by photographer Nan Goldin, who was addicted to OxyContin for three years, "protesters brandished black banners with the phrases 'Shame on Sackler' and 'Fund Rehab' and hurled yellow pil…
Taylor Made Paul Taylor American Modern Dance at Lincoln Center, March 6 through 25. Eran Bugge and Michael Trusnovec in Paul Taylor's Roses. Photo: Paul B. Goode When Paul Taylor's Ro…
Deborah Willis, who asked one professor "Where are all the black photographers?" in college, has had "a storied career, to say the least, and yet it's one she almost didn't have at all. Whil…
Whew, what? The theatre teacher was fired after he made fake Facebook profiles to try to get into Facebook groups where parents - whose kids apparently weren't even into, or in, theatre - we…
"'Katy Perry, please stop,' [Sister Catherine Rose Holzman] said on Fox 11 in Los Angeles. Please stop trying to buy the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary's convent, even though the nu…
The poet won praise everywhere. "Stanley Kunitz once praised her 'brilliant nervosity' and 'taste for the fantastic.' Tracy K. Smith, the current United States poet laureate, who was a stude…
In the middle of a 700,000-woman demonstration on International Women's Day, the collective Nosotras Proponemos ("We Propose") presented a manifesto of 37 demands. "Out of the 47 major exhib…
Tomi Adeyemi was inspired to write the young adult fantasy book while she was in a gift shop in Brazil. "The African gods and goddesses were depicted in such a beautiful and sacred way ... i…
The Liverpool Museums have created about 40 suitcases full of mementos that help people with declining memory and function regain some understanding of the world around them. "Themes include…
How did independent bookstores bounce back against Amazon - and what could other retail industries learn? This is exactly what a professor of organizational ethnography set out to study in 2…
The forced demolitions of thousands of migrants workers' homes isn't a quiet process in China. The artists are making sure of that. "Musicians are performing rap songs that take aim at overz…
Do authors have any rights with their deathbed wishes for literary executors? Somtimes. "Slavish obedience is one route for an executor, defiance for the sake of literature another. When sev…
This is what happened between March 8, 2017, and this year: "A group of trailblazing academics has spent the last 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, wh…
That's right, it's Ibsen's Enemy of the People. Do we need to explain? Well: "What started as a response to a Trump presidency now seems to speak to our times in many ways, with a plot that …
The showrunner shot the episode in November, and it was supposed to run in February. Instead, it will never be shown. The episode "features Anthony Anderson's patriarch Dre caring for his in…
If you look at the early days of science fiction with the author of Frankenstein, and then turn to recent movies Black Panther, Annihilation, and A Wrinkle in Time, you get pretty serious ac…
The American Library Association had given him the Carnegie Medal and a $5,000 prize for nonfiction for his most recent book, and they had intended to hand out the prize in June. He declined…
At the center of Quiara AlegrÃa Huedes' Elliot trilogy of plays - Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue; Water by the Spoonful; and The Happiest Song Plays Last - is the former soldier. But Elliot is…