Reversing an earlier decision, the National Park Service has now denied an omnibus petition for 199 sites on public land near Moab, Utah to be listed in the National Register. The NPS agrees…
The fired-then-reinstated New York City Ballet principal was a figure in the company's recent #MeToo scandal (and accompanying lawsuit). While City Ballet's dancers and the company of West S…
Arthur Brand has recovered one of the oldest surviving copies of the Divan of Hafez, one of the most important and beloved works in all of Persian literature. The volume was the only still-m…
There exists in the hearts and minds of at least some in the nonprofit arts sector a sense that the work they present is superior to most or all popular culture " and that those who patroniz…
After many years, I recently re-opened The Closing of the American Mind and discovered that Allan Bloom was prophetic. In effect, he prophesied identity politics and political rectitude " an…
"Serebrennikov was a particularly Russian type of rebel: one who sought, and attained, mainstream success, often with the blessing and support of the state." Until, that is, his sudden arres…
"I am also interested in consent, by far the least attended to aspect of the play, which we encounter in the especially difficult junction between sexuality and trauma. At this strained inte…
Doubts about the authenticity of the painting, which depicts the artist giving some serious side-eye, first arose in 1970. But research conducted jointly by the National Gallery of Norway (w…
"A few minutes into the speech, secretary of culture Roberto Alvim said, 'The Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and it will be national, it'll be endowed with great capacity fo…
"A usually cheery online community of quilters has been ripped apart by a sewing challenge depicting a No. 2 pencil erasing the 'in' from the word injustice. Some members of the National Qui…
The sessions, attended by leaders from New York City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Charlotte Ballet, were held i…
"Dutch design company Jora Vision will use Pushkin's works as inspiration for the 17,000-square-meter Lukomorye park, named after the mythical Slavic land in which Pushkin's fairy tales take…
"[Alice] Guy-Blaché was in the room when the Lumière brothers held the first-ever cinema screening, in Paris in March 1895. By the following year, she was making her own films. And while t…
"Writing on her blog, Not Another Music History Cliche!, and standing as a pillar of classical music's niche on Twitter, Linda elegantly deployed her encyclopedic knowledge, research skills,…
"Rianto, is a master of the Lengger Lanang, a traditional [Javanese] dance performed by men dressed as women. But Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, has seen rising intolerance i…
"But as is the case with other musical genres indigenous to Spain, they initially developed with no ties to one political ideology over another. Zarzuela is nowadays perceived in the nationa…
The metropolis does not have a high profile in generally accepted narrative of jazz and other progressive music, although it should: Mexico City has a thriving community of skilled, sophisti…
When we talk about organizations, or other forms of collective action by groups of people, we often speak as if we have dominantly conscious control. But evidence from a range of disciplines…
It's been 10 years since I published what seems to have been some prescient commentary about the now (belatedly) completed Jean Nouvel-designed 1,050-foot tower (known to CultureGrrl readers…
"Funding cuts over the past 10 years are impacting cultural organisations ability to deliver non-artistic operations, such as site maintenance and recruitment, Arts Council England has warne…
"In 1997, a group of German classical musicians moved to the village of Klein Jasedow, a tiny, nearly abandoned hamlet close to the Baltic Sea. The performers were looking to escape the care…
"Fifty years after Samuel Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature, newly opened archives reveal the serious doubts the committee had over giving the award to an author they felt held a 'b…
No, machines aren't writing usable scripts. (Yet.) But we all know about projects that seemed terrific on paper but turned out to be disastrous bombs " and about sleeper hits that seemed ver…
It's the annual conference of the International Association of Blacks in Dance, which was started 32 years ago by Philadanco founder-director Joan Roberts Brown. "In the mid-1980s, she start…
He started playing the horn at age 13 and within two years landed a position in the Melbourne Symphony; by age 19, he had gone to Britain and played in orchestras there; at age 24, he was ap…