How to make sense of Eliot's "Four Quartets"? The choreographer isn't sure, even after years of work. Pam Tanowitz: "It's massive, it's hard, it's abstract. I still don't understand the poem…
Winn didn't like the way that the academic world tended to get itself twisted into silos, he said, which is why he wrote about cultural life during Queen Anne's reign, the poetry of war, Bac…
The quickest way to the heart, and all that: "The activists offered pizza and veggie dumplings to protestors and members of the museum's staff in an action far less boisterous than in previo…
OK, fine, everything we thought was good in art from the 1950s and 1960s was indeed funded by the CIA in some way. As for Dr. Zhivago, "Literary propaganda was a company-wide preoccupation. …
Like New Zealand and Lord of the Rings, Belfast became a major tourist attraction thanks to its starring role across eight seasons of Game of Thrones. One local artist who spent a year makin…
Parents who lost children to the opioid epidemic are pushing Harvard to take the Sackler name off a building that used to host the Arthur Sackler Art Museum. One: "Harvard, we want the Sackl…
Really, why is Odon von Horvath so incredibly popular in Germany right now? Oh: "European directors have rushed to rediscover Horvath, who chronicled the struggles of ordinary people during …
And also the hot topics of 80 years ago. While Rebecca Makkai won best novel for The Great Believers, "Julia Boyd won the History prize for chronicling the Nazi party's ascent to power in Tr…
That's right, Rae (of Insecure fame) shares the screen with a young woman who conceived of the movie when she was 10 and then executive- produced it at 14. "The bullying that the young [char…
Writers vs. agents heated up over the weekend, and the sides don't look any closer than they were last week. "The contract battle between the WGA and Association of Talent Agents came to a b…
The reality is, the National Theatre is a leader in supporting women in theatre, at least according to one of its lighting designers. "If we want to give voices to women, then we need safe s…
Author Philip Pullman says, "Online piracy of books, music, and other expressions of the human spirit needs to be properly understood: it's an offence against moral justice. … It's the ver…
Lisette Oropesa "is one of the few opera singers who have been featured in both Opera News and Runner's World." " The New York Times
At least this one isn't just Millennials' fault. But seriously, buffets used to dot the landscape in the United States. No longer. "Yelp and Google Reviews and TripAdvisor and all of their i…
Dance to Be Free offers classes in women's prisons in 13 states, and it even trains them to be dance teachers after they get out. But it's not just because dance is nice or because teaching …
Hm. After lawsuits and countersuits and a lot of bad publicity, the museum deaccessioned and sold 40 pieces of art from its collection, including some Norman Rockwells, to fund a "New Vision…
Crickets? Fireflies? Metronomes … and clapping: "Objects with rhythm naturally synchronize." OK, but so what? Well, scientists are finding real-world applications of abstruse mathematical …
From Ann Reinking to Chita Rivera, from Hal Prince to Shirley MacLaine, the mini-series takes viewers on a tour of mid-century Broadway, and beyond. Here's how to keep track of the (many) dr…
And here's a guide: "These six surprising books " four novels, a memoir and a collection of essays " cover subjects as diverse as grief, loss, history, childhood and Indigenous resistance. T…
Where previous attempts to serve the one percent by showing new movies to them for a high price, a new venture may work because the founders have decades-long relationships in the industry "…
The big winners were the musical Come from Away, which won for new musical, the musical Company, and the play Inheritance, which won for new play. " The Stage (UK)
Cohen, a 28-year-old jazz piano player, was a finalist the last time the prize focused on jazz " the prize alternates classical and jazz " but won this one after a 14-month process. " The Ne…
Rowan Moore has had it with some extremely popular designers. "I like things such as nuance, complexity, multiplicity and depth, in architecture as in other art forms. It seems obvious and f…
The women of publishing in Mexico have had it. In a joint statement published in LitHub, they say, "We will remain firm and united until machismo across cultural fields is no longer normaliz…
One, for instance, will be "working on a project that deals with unequal birth outcomes and maternal mortality for pregnant and parenting black people in the Bronx." Says an assistant commis…