The stereotypes of "boat people" and "nail girls" persist in Britain, but playwright and actor Tyumen Do wants British people to think about the new generation and its concerns, and if she h…
Wang Jingchun, who won the Best Actor award at Cannes, says, "The rising box office is a really good thing. At its worst, we hardly had a box office to speak of. There also used to be a prob…
The Music Publishers Association may long for the past, but they're also trying to plan for the future. "There still is not a lot of 'jumping to digital' at professional orchestras since the…
In 1977, artists fought for a sculpture park in Yorkshire " but it was a very, very uphill climb. "More than 40 years later the stubbornness appears to have paid off. The YSP is at the heart…
It's for security, officials say, as they ban books about coding and cybersecurity off of lists of books prisoners can receive. But some on the lists date back to the 1990s " and no one's ha…
Jon Chu, on Asian and Asian American actors in Hollywood: "What's great about this whole movement is that instead of getting one shot at this next time, maybe we get five. I just hope we get…
That's the hope as Rose Theater gets a large new building and plans to open one of the country's biggest theatre academies " a "game-changer" for Omaha, but perhaps for the wider theatre wor…
Surprising no one who has pr-oordered, ordered, put on reserve at the library, or flat-out bought books mentioned by friends and authors on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook, the consensus is…
Jacobin Magazine's take on the Baltimore Symphony musicians' lockout emphasizes worker solidarity, even for elite musicians. "A lockout is probably the nastiest of tactics used by orchestra …
Pitt "created phantasmagorical worlds in ingenious animated films that dealt with miracles, mortality, depression and women's sexuality." " The New York Times
This is actually advice for parents: "We don't read Ramona, or Junie B. Jones, or The Wild Robot in the bathtub. Those are bedtime books. Bath time is for epics, myths, and class…
Now this is a worthy portrait subject: "Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj was the power behind the papal throne, and the reputed lover as well as sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X. Nicknamed Papes…
The original "restoration" in a small town in Spain reminded many people of, well, Tintin. This is different, and better. " The New York Times
Sherald knew she had the mural space on a Target in Philadelphia, and she wanted to paint someone who, to her, represented the community. A young woman in an arts program provided the spark.…
Though much of the online discussion featured some questions for how the paper decides what's front-page news, it quickly shifted to the content, and, well, this became front-page news. " Th…
Yes, there's even a new home redecoration show called "Unspouse My House." What the … oh, there's a reason for this. "If shows like The Bachelor provide a narratively satisfying, intention…
The singer's first album since 2011 shows off the depth and layers of her career. " Doug Ramsey
So much that President Macron just awarded him a Legion d'Honneur, France's highest award for civilians. " BBC
We can't say it better than this: "The career of Joan Mitchell, who once likened Clement Greenberg to a 'toilet seat,' ought to remind us of how tribal the art world continues to be. There a…
So progressive! "After three centuries of Broets (I'm not sorry) hogging the big chair, Oxford University"arguably the world's most venerable institution of higher education"has elected its …
When people have a hard time seeing climate change as real, Hollywood could step forward " but it could also cause more problems. "While Hollywood's version of climate change might bring a m…
Fertility in the arts at the Jacob's Pillow Gala. " Deborah Jowitt
Selz's views strongly shaped MoMA's take on European and non-Abstract Expressionist art during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and his time at Berkeley made the museum "a locus of activity i…
The museum lost about 15,000 items " but its collection is huge, luminous, and important. "Art historians and archaeologists know how exceptional the collection is. But despite Baghdad's rel…
The two actors were embracing in the street when "'assailants verbally abused them and thew stones at them from their car window,' with one of the actors being hit in the face by a stone." "…