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Why ‘Nadiya Bakes’ Is Such A Big Deal In Foodie Shows
The new show demonstrates just how drastically far food shows have come - but reminds us of how far that had to be, especially...
Teresa Burga, Groundbreaking Peruvian Conceptual Artist, 85
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...
What The New Movie ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’ Reveals About The United States’...
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...
Outdoors Is The Way For The UK To Return To Theatre
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...
A Blow-Up Over Racism, Antisemitism, And Academic Politics In American Musicology
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...
When Science Doesn’t Cut It
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...
The Hidden, All Too Contemporary, History Behind Middlemarch
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...
Moving The Louvre’s Collection Far From The Floods
In 2016, when the Seine flooded its banks, museum workers toiled 24 hours a day to haul thousands of artworks out of underground storage...
Why Are The Met’s Trustees Sitting Idle While The Museum Contemplates Selling Its Treasures?
The problem isn't earned income lost to tourism (that is, no tourism). The problem is the trustees. "Met trustees established a special fund to...
Missing ‘Bridgerton’? Turn To TikTok
First there was Ratatouille: The Musical or Ratatousical, which raised more than a million dollars for actors, with the no doubt bemused blessing of...
Cole Porter Created A Pro-Immigration Protest Ballet In The 1920s
Of course he did. "Like modern immigration laws, the Emergency Quota Act inspired a wave of pro-immigration activism, and Porter, who was born...
Legendary Casting Director Lynn Stalmaster Has Died At 93
You know his work even if you don't know of the man. "Stalmaster’s accomplishments are too numerous to list exhaustively, but among them: He...
The Modernist Poet Who Understood The Precarity Of Civilization
Aime Césaire, whose Discourse on Colonialism remains (all too) relevant - and who protested to some effect in 2005after French President Jacques Chirac instructed...
What The ‘To All The Boys’ Trilogy Has Meant For Its Star
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,...
Will Covid-19 Kill The Pandemic Movie?
Maybe, but then again, the form has a way of shifting with new information to meet the times. However, it will have to be...
Brenda Ballin, Longtime And Well Loved Guide At The Met, 91
Ballin started volunteering as a docent in the 1970s. "Whatever lucky group she had in tow was pretty much guaranteed a good show. Along...
The Secret Life Of Museums During Lockdowns In The UK
Each lockdown has meant something different for the staff, especially of science and natural history museums. For instance, James Maclaine, senior fish curator at...
The Indianapolis Museum Of Art’s Job Ad Asked Director To Maintain A ‘Traditional, Core,...
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...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Amy Tan
Maybe Asian American writers should stop dissing Tan. "I understand the resistance to being lumped in with her; I feel it, too. But when...
Can Theatre Help Heal The United States’ Political Divides?
Well, that sounds hokey. But it's powerful, a program from Georgetown that, a co-founder says, shows "there is a particular power that performance has,...
How A Few Women, In Just A Couple Of Years, Changed The Course Of...
Women Artists for Revolution (W.A.R., of course) weren't shy about their rallying cry in 1969. "The group ignited a robust movement against gender discrimination...
What’s The Best Place To Work (And Work Only) From Home?
Turns out it might not be sitting on the couch behind your daughter in the TV room. (Who could have known, pre-pandemic?) - Fast...
Get Watching: The First Oscars Shortlists Are Out
Of course, we've all probably been watching quite a few things during the past year, but have those things included Academy-honored movies? Time to...
A Right-Wing Mayor Opens Museums In France Despite National Restrictions
Not that left-wing art-lovers can't sympathize (and a socialist mayor in another town is planning to defy the national orders as well), but ......
Malls And Nail Salons Are Open, But Not Museums?
Dear Gavin Newsom, this makes no sense at all. Signed, a lot of LACMA and other art-lovers in California. Weirdly: "LACMA can open its...