Comedy culture before Pryor, that is, white comedy culture, depicted copys "as clownish bullies, and their violence, divorced from any racial context, played as a kind of shtick. When they s…
Chika Okeke-Agulu, professor of art history at Princeton, says that the sale of the two alusi would "perpetuate the violence" of the 1960s civil war, when the sculptures were "removed" from …
Music that unites protestors is not new, and it wasn't new in the 1960s either. "Music at protests reminds dissenters of their humanity, even when the powers-that-be attempt to strip away th…
Zafón, who had been dealing with colon cancer for two years, wrote The Shadow of the Wind after a visit to a book warehouse in Los Angeles. It became the second-best-selling Spanish book …
Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race was a sensation when she first published it, but it took a lot of police brutality for her book to top the lists. She n…
For one thing, it's really time to change the name of "Father Serra Park" in Los Angeles. But taking down the statues to the architect of the mission system, which brutalized thousands of Na…
Francesco and Grazia Lotoro have spent their lives collecting and cataloguing "symphonies, operas, scores and songs that were composed and performed under conditions so horrible one imagines…
It doesn't seem clear what will happen until there's a vaccine, but perhaps " "Museums will reopen, and galleries can stop pretending their online viewing rooms are actual shows. Exhibitions…
Banes' writing "paired a vivid and inquisitive approach with a lack of agenda and a belief that dance was a crucial part of cultural history." " The New York Times
John Wilson's student mural The Incident made such an impression on David Siquieros that the famous muralist and head of Mexico's Department for the Protection and Restoration of Murals requ…
Our brains, working at home: "The kitchen is a mess. How can I concentrate when I know that two rooms over, the kitchen is a mess? The sink is filled with plates and glasses that couldn't fi…
After the murders in Charleston and in Charlottesville, the National Trust for Historic Preservation encouraged contextualization of monuments to the Confederacy. But now, "we thought long a…
The director in lockdown says he reads and watches everything: "WrestleMania. The Kardashians. I'm fascinated by it. So I don't say read Tolstoy and nothing else. Read everything. See everyt…
Writer Elizabeth Alexander: "Seeing is important, and helps you understand. But I think the repetition of that image without thought to who's watching it and how it affects them is something…
Bolton's lawyer; "The full story of these events has yet to be told"but it will be." " Slate
Malcom Procter, street artist and clothing designer, as he paints the plywood covering Nordstrom's in downtown Seattle: "Never did I think I'd get a canvas like this. … This is a dream spo…
Sorry, Cats!, "It's the ultimate cult movie. The first. The biggest. The one cult movie to rule them all." And despite the Covid-19 shutdowns, Rocky Horror Picture Show devotees have found w…
Bemused locals were left to digest the fact that the pleasant newcomer to their island paradise, who had been helping out at the local animal shelter, was in fact a fugitive art dealer who s…
A precocious talent who began playing in Texas jazz clubs at age 12 and continued to perform for most of his life, he spent many years teaching theory and composition at UMass-Amherst and wr…
For the first time in its 36-year history, we at American Theatre have made the difficult decision to forgo printing and mailing hard-copy issues of the magazine for the next six months, or …
"Publishers can be accused of being slow to wake up to the internet, but they're not that slow, nor that likely to leave money on the table. But there is, it turns out, a long list of reason…
Over the centuries nationalism has swung back and forth as a progressive and retrograde force, depending on historical conditions. In revolutionary France the "nation" started as a wrecking …
On stage, he enjoyed a dazzling early period and triumphant later years, most especially in Shakespeare and Pinter; but, if there was a prolonged period when Holm was absent from the theatre…
Rather than stuffing children full of moral precepts and academic knowledge, the aim was to work with the grain of the pupil's innate capacities and desires. Rousseau was one of the first pr…
The confluence of these explosive books, in the months leading up to the 2020 election, has made Simon & Schuster the current front-runner in an ongoing race among publishers to produce …