Baldessari's decades of teaching and witty art-making in Los Angeles helped define it as a visual arts cultural capital. "Inspired by the spirit of Marcel Duchamp, who overturned traditional…
As they say, he could just have said nothing, and no one would have had to figure out that complicated dance of dealing with sexist whining from a(nother) beloved filmmaker. Instead, he"has …
Mattei's voice and stage presence have made him a popular Figaro or Don Giovanni, but the 54-year-old "was cast against type as Wozzeck, a soldier who is ground down by poverty and oppressed…
Legal observers warn that the tweets themselves could be considered threats of war crimes; "the 1954 Hague Convention, of which the US is a party, bars any military from 'direct hostilities …
The speech, which introduced Ellen DeGeneres as that comedian won the Carol Burnett Award, made it clear that Ellen was a trailblazer. McKinnon said, "She risked her entire life and her enti…
Well, one writer: Rachel Syme, who, every once in a while, calls herself the Perfume Genie " and people on Twitter ask her for recommendations. She thinks, "When people are saying, I want to…
Giichi Matsumura died during a freak summer snowstorm when other members of his hiking group went on to fish in a lake, and he stayed back to paint. Though the family knew roughly where his …
The V&A's collection of women's hats from the time has a lot of feathers, and those feathers were preserved in arsenic salt. Yikes. " The Guardian (UK)
And Lloyd Barnes, the founder of Wackie's, wants his reggae studio and label to live on after he retires " but more than that, the sound and the style. "His concerns now are ensuring that hi…
Vigdis Hjorth's novel, in which a woman in her 50s reveals to her family that her father sexually abused her as a child, has touched off a debate in Norway " and fury in her own family. "Hjo…
After Nipsey Hussle was killed on an L.A. street in front of his shop last March, fans wanted to figure out how to honor him. Shop at his store? Paint his face as murals on walls? Yes, and s…
Science in the 2010s became more global and collaborative than ever before. These days, major breakthroughs are likelier to come from groups of 3,000 scientists than groups of three. " Natio…
The questions facing the National Theatre reflect the broader themes of British politics right now: elitism, identity, diversity. In the half century since it was founded, the National has a…
Pigments, the common type of coloring found in almost everything around us, create color by absorbing certain wavelengths of light, or colors, and reflecting others; when the reflected ones …
Twenty-four hours after the release of Emily Hale's letters, the TS Eliot Foundation published a statement from beyond the grave, written by the author of the letters himself in 1960 and exp…
The new finding changes the way people look at the painting, from all sides. While some have argued that the oddity of the glass ball is evidence that the work is actually by a lesser painte…
"Today we can say there is maybe a 50% chance that it will be saved. There is also a 50% chance of the scaffolding falling on the three vaults, so as you can see the building is still very f…
"We ask too much of attention and not enough of concentration. The recent cultural emphasis on attention risks subsuming too many variables of human experience, as if they could ever be held…
The European Parliament, which shares legislative and budgetary authority with the European Council, last year agreed a €400m increase already proposed by the European Commission, the …
Does Trump know what would be lost? Probably not " but he's hardly the only one. The fact that the country is rarely visited by western tourists is not due to a lack of attractions. With a c…
"One tweet claimed Cats was so bad it must have been made by the dog lobby. As a lifelong cat lover, I don't regard this film as an insult to cats. Yes, the production is over-CGI'd, but the…
Christopher Acebo, who spent 14 years working with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, starting the Latinx Play Project and and helping found the Latinx Theatre Commons, says the only way forwa…
Netflix had 34 nominations, but HBO " and Sony " topped the list. " Los Angeles Times
"Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery," an undated interview with the animator-director who created the prototypes for Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Porky Pig: (This is …
"Comedy is the salt of civilization, its critical voice." Guy Davenport, "That Faire Field of Enna" (courtesy of Anecdotal Evidence)