The clumsy, ill-conceived rollout of "American Dirt" illustrates how broken the system is, how myopic it is to hype one book at the expense of others and how unethical it is to allow a gatek…
The President and CEO will be a dynamic, flexible, and forward-thinking leader and administrator with an exceptional work ethic, passion for the performing arts, and solid experience in ma…
This new MOMA is exhausting"and serene, and thrilling, and, finally, to a degree that only the greatest museums achieve, transcendental. Wandering the vast new spaces, tracing the familiar c…
At CES 2020, Samsung introduced Neon, an AI-based companion that is being developed to be indistinguishable from a human companion. AI models are composing at a pretty high level right now. …
Dancers and musicians have been striking alongside public sector workers to oppose the government's plan to scrap more than 40 separate pension schemes and replace them with a single points-…
More independent bookstores, sales up, even new plans for Barnes & Noble. But there are looming problems. Big problems with today's publishing industry. " N+One
Long one of the stingiest states in terms of support for the arts, Georgia is now virtually at rock bottom, not willing even to put up enough money to collect the full amount of matching fun…
For music fans, tracking such a harrowing volley of allegations and denials feels equal parts absurd and sad (especially arriving, as it has, in the midst of a Presidential impeachment trial…
In the face of critiques, Jeanine Cummins is pushing back in public. Her publisher released a statement encouraging discussion around the title, while some authors and booksellers have come …
Artistic director Whitley, who has worked with the Royal Ballet and performing arts company Saddler's Wells, suggests there are "a lot of assumptions" that go with words like grime and balle…
The striking resemblance left many critics as stunned as though they had been zapped by Captain Kirk's phaser. But others online insisted the logo was really based on the US Air Force One. "…
"The 'Brexit' 50p coin is missing an Oxford comma, and should be boycotted by all literate people," wrote the novelist Philip Pullman on Twitter, while Times Literary Supplement editor Stig …
This series of unstaged performances of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust was an accident " they were meant to be seven fully-staged performances. But what a happy accident, and what the Met c…
A couple of ideas: Give more to regions, and have the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera tour the entire nation. " The Guardian (UK)
Can any other film win the Oscar? Doubtful. "The strongest best-picture spoiler is likely Parasite, the South Korean thriller that prevailed at the Screen Actors Guild Awards thi…
Australia's Aboriginal poets had some ideas as Australia Day " or #InvasionDay, as it's known by many on social media " fever hit the country over the weekend. Problem: "Australia is the onl…
He's not a big fan of artistic cowardice. "As far as I'm concerned, it's all about the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. End of. To get to that, you have to go in close, unco…
Of course, it was for the sequel to the young adult rom-com To All the Boys I've Loved Before, and of course, the place was packed with superfans who could answer obscure trivia questions an…
The other things Schoonmaker, who is nominated for the eighth time for an Oscar for The Irishman, says, have more to do with Netflix as a studio, and the long experience of trying to get the…
Tom Huizenga explains opera to NPR listeners: "It's one of the most complicated art forms because, if you think about it: you've got drama, you've got music, you've got singing, you've got c…
The answer seems obvious, and it seems like it must be no. And yet, says a (supposedly) liberal and progressive architect who recently agreed to work with the homophobic and environmentally …
Keys was not playing the "sweep this mess under carpet for the awards show" game: "I't's a new decade,' she said. 'It's time for newness. And we refuse the negative energy. We refuse the old…
When the actor playing Lady Macduff injured her knee a few minutes into a performance at the Watermill Theatre in England, the production stopped " until a woman who toured nationally as Lad…
Tuomas Hiltunen, the former top administrator at the Barenboim-Said Foundation who came to Fort Worth Opera after Darren Woods was fired in 2017, resigned last week, saying only that he and …
The Indigenous Art Code, established in 2008, is a voluntary code "designed to protect artists by getting dealers to commit to treating them fairly and honestly. Sanctions can be imposed on …