Ah, of course. Of course. "Instead of being a unifying project, the vexed question of the restoration of the Notre Dame has become a metaphor for the battle between Macron's modernising 'sta…
One of the writers of Jane the Virgin says, "What is Game of Thrones if not the story of Jon Snow, who saves a bunch of refugees, gets killed by his people for doing so, gets brought back fr…
Well then, you become obsessed with theoretical physics, of course. Just ask Nell Freudenberger. Freudenberger "was, like so many other young women, encouraged to believe she didn't 'have th…
To put it bluntly, Russia is terrible for activists and artists. Both? Wow. So, for the ones who haven't fled the country, it's necessary to find new, creative ways to protest the repression…
It has nothing to do with who is ready to direct, Rachel Chavkin said. "There are so many women who are ready to go. There are so many artists of color who are ready to go. … This is not a…
Kathleen Breene Combs has been with the Boston Ballet for decades. now, she's packing up her pointe shoes, putting on the business shoes, and moving to Rhode Island's Festival Ballet Provide…
Oh, you thought it was cool, or even OK, that [SPOILER ALERT HIDDEN] is ruling Westeros? Let's think of alllllll of the reasons why that person is a mass murderer who may rule for hundreds o…
We didn't used to worry or predict it, aside from religious prophets. Then came the idea of progress. "The Enlightenment gave humanity the idea that we might make things better, that perh…
The Telling Project works with veterans and their families to create devised work all over the country. How does that work, really? "We are using our decades of training as artists to transl…
Returning to the book itself is something of a tonic against despair, but: "We are living with a new kind of regime that didn't exist in Orwell's time. It combines hard nationalism"the diver…
"Over the history of our big and small screens, audiences have been treated to thousands of variations of whiteness. White people have stood in as the face of humanity's fullness and complex…
It doesn't seem entirely likely, but artists, activists, and even a judge have asked the museum to try. "They accuse the central London gallery of helping to launder the oil industry's image…
Basically, Hadestown. Sure, it didn't win all 14 awards it was nominated for, but eight's not bad. " The New York Times
In 2001, the music industry "faced an existential threat" because its "vanquishing of Napster turned out to be a pyrrhic victory: the genie had escaped from the bottle. Dozens of filesharing…
Just take a look at Shrill or Fleabag versus, oh, Game of Thrones, or Chernobyl. "Over time, length came to be correlated with quality, and with TV auteurs who declined to have their genius …
The U.S. permits shocking abuses of privacy online. Why? Well … "Congress's earliest attempts to regulate computing in the 1980s and 1990s were embarrassing." " The New York Times
"Deep into the symphony, Symphony No. 6, there is a paradoxical passage that, when played, no one will be able to hear. This is because Tchaikovsky scored it to contain a musical illusion. W…
Svetlana Alexiévich published Voices from Chernobyl in 1997, 11 years after the catastrophe. Now, a new HBO miniseries is bringing the story to life for a new generation " "but for Alexiév…
Laura Stearns, the survivor, says it's a bit too late. "They should never have made the motion to begin with. … It was an insensitive choice and it's grown bigger." " Minneapolis Star-Trib…
Reading the history of this week of YouTube announcements, discussions, demonetizing of right-wing accounts, and the subsequent high-profile, high-volume, high-intensity harassment campaign …
Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph are two of the funniest stars out there, but on Russian Doll and Forever, they're forced to put that humor to use in the middle of some pretty intense situati…
The dazzling, dense, glorious career of the New Orleans musician. " Howard Mandel
Will Harry Potter and the Cursed Child get a sweep? Will Hadestown dominate in the musicals? Here's what New York Times readers said, and at the link in this post, find out what Los Angeles …
Twyla Tharp revivals bring to mind how we understood her 40 years ago. " Deborah Jowitt
Linda Fairstein published 24 books after retiring as a prosecutor, but the new Netflix series When They See Us shows her "determined to see the boys convicted, regardless of inconsistencies …