A post about race and racism from The Relevant's former managing editor went viral, and the fallout "has already led to a 'sabbatical' for Relevant Media Group's founder and CEO, an outpouri…
At City Ballet, the master is coaching other dancers in a piece created for him by Jerome Robbins. "Dance, to Mr. Baryshnikov, is about five points:Â the head, the two hands and the two fe…
Patchett, author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder (and the new The Dutch House): "It was a funny thing to throw a book out. People seemed much more upset about it than I was. Some people sai…
Of course, that would mean it might need to release numbers because, after all, what is "successful" for Netflix? Bonuses for awards, however, might also be in the works at the streaming gia…
In Europe, an entire way of life is ending. "Around 1960, there were still about 110,000 nuns and monks in Germany. Twenty years ago, there were 38,348. Now, there are about 17,900." But wha…
The recent #BoysDanceToo discussion " and the need for that discussion " highlighted the issue that boys and men who become dancers, especially ballet dancers, face bullying and homophobia o…
These photographers have the covers of (American) Vogue or (British) Vogue, gain access to their subjects for portraits on social media, and change the way the people they photograph are tho…
Blamey was an utterly prolific illustrator of wildflowers. She "contributed all the colour illustrations, amounting to many thousands of paintings, for a succession of distinguished field gu…
Agree, disagree, tick off the ones you've read on a list … whatever, here they all are, from nonfiction to poetry to doorstop novels to graphic novel memoirs to everything else that won th…
Eisenberg's character Nog was supposed to be a joke, like all of the Ferengi. But Eisenberg helped change all of that. (And here's a Twitter thread that explains it more beautifully than a n…
The New Museum planned a whole festival about climate change. "Â IdeasCity Bronx … was supposed to feature a series of discussion panels, artist talks, performances, and workshops," but …
Not really, but let's try: Strictly "is a lightheartedly competitive dance show that is still rigorously ruled by ancient stone tablets engraved with edicts and stored in a holy room at the …
Well, let's start with the snubbing of Veep and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but there were others. (Here's the complete list of winners, too.) " Variety
Williams, who won for playing Gwen Verdon in Fosse/Verdon, said, "The next time a woman " and especially a woman of color, because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her w…
When playwrights get company residencies, they learn a lot " how seasons are put together, what kinds of casts theatres are looking for, and how not to take it personally when their plays do…
How can that be real? Chemistry, biology, physics … "The real measure of whether two people hit it off is how much they synchronise internal bodily functions, like heart rate and sweating.…
Keke Palmer came to fame playing Queen Latifah's niece, and 17 years later, she's about to become the host for the third hour of Good Morning America (oh, and she plays a part in the new mov…
Is the account of this shofar credible? Holocaust historians say it definitely could be. "The impossible was possible, both to the bad and the good." " The New York Times
It's "a deranged hodge-podge," according to Andrzej Lukowski. The list of 50 shows "veers from resolutely mainstream to borderline obscure without a tremendous amount of sense or coherency. …
The author of White Teeth and Swing Time says we should all read a 700-page nonfiction book about technology and capitalism. "If a book's importance is gauged by how effectively it describes…
Kolodny, who specialized in incisive and groundbreaking " or perhaps ground-mending, to be a bit more ecofeminist about it " essays, "was a prodigious author and scholar with many area…
And why it's a problem: "What we're looking at right now, this extreme marginalization of classical music, is really the chickens coming home to roost." " Joe Horowitz
Composer Kenji Bunch had what he called a weird idea while watching the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings: Why not create music in response to "such a fraught moment, a watershed event"? He to…
The writer Ismail Muhammad says, "You can't disentangle blackness and California" " and nowhere, he explains through books, movies, and memories, is that clearer than in the history of Los A…
Well, at least his "Poetic and Religious Harmonies." Why? Pianist Jenny Lin: "This is definitely a very private Liszt, one who's retreated to his inner self. … I don't think you could do t…