Carmen Bambach, a curator at the Met, says no. "In her forthcoming four-volume study of the polymath " a vast project spanning more than 1m words and 1,500 images " Bambach attributes most o…
The paper that plays a major role in the series and new movie, The Black Hills Pioneer, is real, and it's still around … and you can read the archives. "The editorial voice of the paper st…
Advocates for net neutrality say it just needs a big push from the public " support is high, and no one believes the FCC. But on the Senate floor, Mitch McConnell says legislation restoring …
Or at least what we know about our history, and how we look at it. Check out two recent concerts that work as art, of course, and "as historical corrective, guided by a commitment to scrambl…
Kaling was initially embarrassed about that when she was on The Office, but she's over it. And now, as a 39-year-old movie writer, she says, "It does feel amazing to have done this, but I've…
The author of An American Marriage says she was 19 when she read Beloved, and it changed her life. "I hate to use such a chilly word to describe an experience that was spiritual, emotional a…
The chair of the players' committee strode to the front of the stage and said, "We are stunned and grieve for our beloved B.S.O. … We will be making music with even more passion and purpos…
And who better to do that than generations of women, thinking and theorizing about those mind-body connections? "Fresh theories and findings about human cognition suggest that those feminise…
The museum, which opened on Staten Island in 1947 after the collector Jacques Marchais and a local Italian stone mason worked to find the right stone for a "traditional mountain feel," is in…
Taron Egerton wrote on Instagram, "'I, in no way, condone this decision and feel disappointed I wasn't made aware and given the chance to fight this move. Love is love. No compromises.' He a…
Who needs another cover " a jazz cover! " of "June Is Bustin' Out All Over"? (We do.) " Doug Ramsey
As theatre makers confront a rapidly shifting landscape " one of them, a professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, saw her entire department eliminated, all student productions ende…
The Erdogan government has become a nastily anti-art authoritarian regime, Shafak says. "'Turkey today is the world's leading jailer of journalists,' she told the Hay Festival. 'It's also ve…
Zabriskie's New York gallery started in 1954 and closed in 2010; her Paris gallery was so beloved that when she closed it after a 21-year run in 1998, the city awarded her a Medal of Honor. …
Vinson Cunningham and Alexandra Schwartz have been staff writers at The New Yorker since 2016, and they "filled in on the stage beat while longtime chief critic Hilton Als was on…
In the planning for New York's Figment Arts Festival, moving from Governors Island to Roosevelt Island this year, "'Everything was fine,' Judith Berdy, a longtime resident said. 'And then ca…
That wasn't 100 percent the plan when comedian Ali Wong and actor Randall Park wrote and starred in Always Be My Maybe, but … well. "As writers and producers they give an unprecedented arr…
The return of the paper diary may be at hand. "Contrary to what I'd like to believe, media that lives 'on the internet' is not actually floating above our heads in a cloud, like Mike Teavee …
Let's look a little more deeply into Avengers: Endgame. (Yes, it's been covered, but this is different.) "It's a reality-bending cultural phenomenon that proudly wallows in its own mind-numb…
No, a $44 million settlement is not going to satisfy everyone " or, more likely, anyone at all. "Attorneys for two of the alleged victims rejected the proposal outright; while another questi…
Spencer Tunick takes photos of choreographed crowds of naked people at monuments and in natural settings all over the world. He calls them "flesh architecture," and he'd like it if Instagram…
No pressure, but if this movie doesn't do well, Hollywood might force itself back into its (extremely long lasting, tight, and transparent) closet, or at least that's the threat. "Rocketman …
Arkatov was "a child from Russia who landed in San Francisco, befriended violinist Isaac Stern " whose fame was still to come " took up the cello and decided to pour his life into making mus…
The buildings of Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School was drab gray and green until Saturday, when the artists got to work. "The Maya Angelou school project, which includes prominent artis…
Shore, a stand-up comedian who opened for Elvis' comeback and comeback tour, and for everyone from Barbra Streisand to Sammy Davis Jr. to Bobby Darin, spent the last 20 years touring with hi…