As the monument "Rumors of War" prepares to leave Times Square for its permanent home in Richmond, some security officers talk about their time as special "art ambassadors" slash security gu…
It's generational, really: "The old consensus decreed that in order to build a respectable legacy, an estate should protect what the artist had already put out and be discerning with anythin…
As In the Cut is reissued, "What is more shocking about the book in 2019 than 1995 … is not the violence, or the fact of a woman having sexual desire, but how little else has changed " fro…
To be blunt, well, ugh: "Beyond the curious clicks they draw, gift guides often allow publishers to sell outright sponsorships or subtly blend content and commerce through back-end deals wit…
Well, no time to confront those fears like filming a Noah Bambach movie, of course. Julie Hagerty has been in everything from Airplane to Lost In America (and a whole lot more), but it was n…
McClinton, who was mourned on actors' Instagram feeds and Twitter posts as soon as word spread that he had passed, was "a noted director who was a favorite of the playwright August Wilson an…
Yalom, who was a professor of French at Stanford before she segued into writing history books for a wider audience, admired the salons of the 18th century in France and ran one of her own in…
Because of the music, Lauderdale "had become the de facto social director of Portland's underground political scene, staging rallies, parties and functions at coffeehouses, private homes and…
And on the other hand, dancers really have to keep their feeds up to become big stars. It's a responsibility far away from the rehearsal studio. " The Observer (NY).
Lesbians, the producers of The L Word thought after the show ended its run in 2009, would become more omnipresent in mainstream U.S. culture. Maybe true, but no queer women's ensemble show a…
In Portland, Oregon ArtsWatch's Matthew Neil Andrews is writing a series about classical music and meaning. For instance: We know music can help people process trauma (think of the Boston Sy…
German researchers started working on this new dictionary in the 1890s, thinking it would take 10-15 years of work. But "the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (T.L.L.) has seen the fall of an empire…
Fines probably seemed like a great idea at the time " an encouragement for children (and adults) to keep track of time, keep track of library books and DVDs, and go back into the library to …
One of the ideas of Les Arcs was to make skiing holidays easier and more affordable for French holidaygoers. "This huge block of holiday apartments is cantilevered into the hillside, one sid…
And a very merry apocalypse to you too. Artist Anne Hardy got the Tate Britain commission this year, and she says she worked back from the Winter Solstice, "creating what could be a ransacke…
Broadway is … people, of course, and despite how touristy some of the shows can get, "there's still a weird, gritty New York patina in there somewhere," says one of four photographers sent…
The Cuban artist has been making important work first in Cuba and then in Puerto Rico for decades. "But outside the Caribbean archipelago, she has been largely ignored. Until the mid-80s, ma…
Playwright Aleshea Harris, who won the Obie Award in 2018 for Is God Is, "is part of a vanguard of young, African American playwrights boring into questions of race and history through humor…
Eliot's work on Spinoza's Ethics, one scholar says, "was the last thing she did before she wrote her stories and became George Eliot. A large part of Spinoza's Ethics gives this insightfu…
Perhaps, and also perhaps by design. In 2010, Instagram (before it was bought by Facebook), "that free photo-sharing app with a hipster sheen, hit the iPhone. Several months later, Justin Bi…
Freddy Tsimba uses all kinds of materials to respond in sculpture to his hometown of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. "In 2014 he took a house he had built from 999 machetes to on…
This seems like a pretty solid idea for a company that has a lot of young women involved. And, of course, "earlier this week the duke announced he would be not be undertaking public duties '…
As a record number of people want more than just Spotify or YouTube videos, well, the logical result is that "music cruises are one of the interesting growth areas of music tourism. There ha…
The 28-year-old was a member of one of the first big K-pop girl groups, Kara. She had attempted suicide in May. In her solo career, she had some hits and also some TV and movie roles. " The …
Aw, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, we appreciate the attempt. "The Contract for the Web is a global plan of action created over the past year by activists, academics, companies, governments and …