Honestly, will we never learn? "Americans have expressed their concerns about each new form of media through fears about children and youth. Younger Americans were supposed to be especially …
There's one metric, however, that stands out as a marker of success. Philadelphia Chamber Music Society's virtual concerts are technically free of charge, but the pay-as-you-wish donation mo…
Rauschenberg and Twombly were both southerners. Rauschenberg, who was quarter Cherokee, came from Texas, Twombly from the heart of the old Confederacy in Lexington, Virginia. The passion of …
"The entire structure of the traditional book-to-film deal has changed. Our authors are now at the cutting edge of those deals, in the selling of their work and as producers." " Los Angeles …
He suspects the engraver made the mistake while copying the score, and it didn't get caught during proofreading. If Tchaikovsky noticed, there's no indication of it in his correspondence aro…
Jerusalema is a song by South African house musician Master KG. Friends in Angola filmed themselves dancing to the hit " the moves have since been recreated the world over. From health worke…
French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas " specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism " are undermining their society. "…
"If the postmodernism of the 1980s considered the museum to be in crisis and contemplated its "ruins," today many see these same institutions as frustratingly intact, as bulwarks against cha…
Howard Sherman, author of a new book about the play: "It's a play that people think they know. People want to paint it as this old-fashioned love letter to the past. And that's not what it i…
All of this is true: "An effort to keep the industry alive has major stars taking to the virtual stage and much-lauded past productions available for streaming. These productions can't compa…
This story is convoluted, and needs careful reading to understand what's going on not only in musicology in the U.S. but also across the world. To quote the article, "How this ends is not cl…
Of course, "The British weather does not always help. A valiant 'drive-through' production of La Bohème staged in a car park by English National Opera last year did encounter problems…
In short, and in no surprise to anyone who has studied the history of the U.S., or indeed lived that history: "Judas and the Black Messiah makes an urgent case for why the FBI, and, by ex…
Burga's best-known work, 1981's Perfil de la mujer Peruana, confused many people in its day. She and a psychotherapist friend "interviewed 290 middle-class women between the ages of 25 and 2…
The Miles Davis Quintet plays "My Funny Valentine" on Italian TV in 1964: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesda…
And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. Raymond Carver, "Late Fragment" Continue r…
In 2016, when the Seine flooded its banks, museum workers toiled 24 hours a day to haul thousands of artworks out of underground storage for their protection. Cut to now: "For more than 16 m…
No, it's not that many mediocre men are threatened by smart women (timeless!) or that mismatched marriages can destroy those in the marriage (also timeless!). It's about plague. " LitHub
Director Iram Parveen Bilal (I'll Meet You There) explains: "I'm the daughter of a physicist mother and a chemistry professor father. … We were told from the get-go that education is your …
Maybe Asian American writers should stop dissing Tan. "I understand the resistance to being lumped in with her; I feel it, too. But when I recently re-read The Joy Luck Club, I could not …
The explanation of the current CEO and director of the Indianapolis Museum didn't, perhaps, help. Charles L. Venable said that "the decision to use 'white' had been intentional, and [he] exp…
Each lockdown has meant something different for the staff, especially of science and natural history museums. For instance, James Maclaine, senior fish curator at London's Natural History Mu…
Ballin started volunteering as a docent in the 1970s. "Whatever lucky group she had in tow was pretty much guaranteed a good show. Along with an extensive knowledge of the artworks, she cont…
Maybe, but then again, the form has a way of shifting with new information to meet the times. However, it will have to be something other than documentary: "Unless there emerges a bizarre pu…
Lana Condor on the To All the Boys I've Loved Before trilogy author Jenny Han: "When we first were talking years ago, she said, 'I just want you as Lana and as a young Asian-American girl to…