John Steinbeck talks to the Voice of America about how America has changed since he wrote The Grapes of Wrath. This radio interview was originally broadcast on February 11, 1952: (This i…
"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward." Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 13, 1929) Continue read…
Most of the statues are bad art in any case, with the Confederate ones intended to pave the way toward a white supremacist future. "Even if most of the hero statues remain standing, we shoul…
A new "museum" in Sydney is intended to be built on a flood plain, with no clarity about permanent collections, no storage on site, and so much more that's even worse. "The new Powerhouse in…
Stone "was enjoying a moderately successful career as a singer and actress when she jumped to a new level of fame in 1968 as part of the wildly popular musical revue Jacques Brel Is Alive an…
The government issued a five-step roadmap to reopening … a roadmap that "did not come with dates or monetary help attached." One theatre executive said the roadmap was "'as useful a map as…
Spinks was working as a school librarian in Pontiac, Michigan, when "she and a friend, also a librarian, contacted the U.S. Library of Congress and volunteered to visit Washington, D.C., to …
Six people were arrested in France, with two accused of organized theft and four of concealing the theft. "The artwork, part of a series made by Banksy during a visit to Paris in 2018, was s…
Why would Silas Farley leave the stage at New York City Ballet when he was absolutely at the top of his game? "My hope is to become a leader in a really substantive way in the art form. … …
The actor who played Burr in the original off-Broadway and Broadway casts on negotiating better pay for the soon-to-be-out movie: "You want to be an ally? You make sure that Black people and…
There's truly no way to perform the craft of being an orchestra conductor right now. So they, like most of us, are doing other things: "For conductors with steady work before the pandemic " …
They're busier than ever, but "as Black bookstore owners race to meet their demands, many are dealing with complicated, sometimes painful feelings about what the new business means," and why…
Some streets are pedestrian-only now, zoned for restaurants to spread into the middle of the street where cars once crowded. Though this design is new and pandemic-related, research shows "t…
Sudden, massive fame may seem grand " but it's not so easy to live through. "My life exploded and I'm still trying to put it back together. I jumped on the rollercoaster, it's been really ch…
Aluna Francis: "We not only need to give credit to the artists that created the genre, we also need to establish a long-term plan to secure a healthy future for dance music that is culturall…
Jose SolÃs: "As an insider who still holds a little bit of hope about the possibility of change happening within these overly white spaces, I would like to propose some things the Drama D…
Of course, there will be plastic between customers and food workers; there will be spaces between people in the theatres; and … there will be Singing in the Rain, at least until new movies…
And can brainwaves explain it? There's a place at "the frontiers of biotechnology and experimental music" trying to figure it all out. " Aeon
Yay for all of the many, many, many, many, MANY ways bookstores have figured out ways to stay afloat and, in some cases, paying all of their staff (shout-out to you, The Ripped Bodice in Cul…
The actors explain how being part of major TV series set in science fictional universes doesn't relieve the pressure of being Black men in a racist society. Mackie: "We have the power and th…
Glaser, a co-founder of New York Magazine and designer of iconic images and styles, "changed the vocabulary of American visual culture in the 1960s and '70s with his brightly colored, extrov…
The Old Bailey heard how Bravery spent more than 15 minutes stalking possible targets at the art gallery viewing platform before fixing on a young visitor who had briefly left his parents' s…
Appreciating social movements in hindsight is a complicated endeavor. Leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman are often whitewashed to appease modern sensibilities. Some, like…
Curtis Foley, who danced with the Royal Winnipeg ballet and Les Ballets Grandiva, was, until this year, a ballet master at the Polish National Ballet He had just arrived to coach the ballet …
Larry Morton: "I thought that digital would completely replace things like physical phone books and all that. Certainly digital is a huge part of the business, and it's growing quickly. But …