Another Endangered Japanese Art Form: Bathhouse Murals
The sentos of Tokyo - where people go "to observe the time-honoured ritual of soaking in frighteningly hot water" - are beginning to fade away: the city has fewer than half the bathhouses it…
The sentos of Tokyo - where people go "to observe the time-honoured ritual of soaking in frighteningly hot water" - are beginning to fade away: the city has fewer than half the bathhouses it…
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - A rather large mouth is painted on the aqua-blue wall of a prominent, centrally located building here. Part of a new indoor-outdoor exhibition mounted in May by the Portsm…
I enjoyed Sebastian Smee’s article [about the Citgo sign] (“Simple, vivid, compelling: the blinking heart of the city,’’ g, July 5). My grandfather used to work for U…
An Oakville show of the young Ontario candidates presents a worthy roster
Ben Brantley: "For centuries, [an] overwrought approach was widely considered great acting and frequently rewarded with prizes. (Just check the list of Oscar winners over the years.) Such pe…
New public art, and a new model for getting it up and running, arrived on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in June. The project has all the makings of invigorating a dreadfully stodgy tr…
For studio artists of all kinds, finding opportunities to exhibit their work can sometimes seem like a lifelong quest. The popular and well-trafficked exhibit spaces in local libraries are o…
Summer show looks at new growth from the rubble
A settlement has been reached that will keep the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University open with its collection intact.
Brandeis University will keep the Rose Art Museum open and sell none of its prized collection, according to a court settlement announced yesterday. The deal effectively ends the bitter two-y…
Written by E.M. Lewis. Find the original post here. In the last year, I've had two opportunities to practice the art of adaptation. They were my first tries, and I learned a lot as…
French director Antoine Viviani presents a new web-based documentary exploring artistic intervention in daily urban life
Glenn and Norma Haines are allowing a construction crew to cut up and cart away a group of 18 mural-covered walls in their Maine home, which will be installed in a nearby museum for display.
At the beginning of his 2001 book The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett, Beckett’s friend and publisher John Calder writes: Voltaire considered himself to be a novelist, a poet, a dramatist…
New exhibitions increasingly are moving to outdoor spaces, giving visitors a carefully curated museum experience but without the walls.Few sculptures by Sol LeWitt actually resemble skyscrap…
Victoria Looseleaf reporting from Zürich on excerpts from the Zürich Festspiele
New Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale launches his first season at the helm of The Art House with a new concert series hosted by Broadway and Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky.
Giorgione's The Adoration of the Shepherds On Monday night, Karigee and I went to a reading of Simon Gray's The Old Masters at the Metrolitan Museum of Art. The reading was by Sam Wate…
In Seattle, Washington, 5th Avenue Theatre is preparing for the premiere of Disney's Aladdin, directed by Mormon's Casey Nicholaw. Check out the just released promo art for the new productio…
By Isaac Butler If it's factually accurate, you can't write about it without it having already happened. At some point, all nonfiction must grapple with how it positions the past. The most c…
"After a 2010-11 Broadway season acclaimed for strong performances, five casting directors sat down ... to talk about their work and some of the hits (and misses) of the year."...
Five Broadway casting directors discuss the challenges of matching actors and shows.
Nearly two years after an ugly spat that led to its director’s exit, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art has a new leader.
New Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale launches his first season at the helm of The Art House with a new concert series hosted by Broadway and Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky.
A UCLA conference gathers a creative and philosophical group to ponder the contemporary artist's place in society. The age-old question persists: Can art change the world?Forty years ago, ar…