Most people who live near the Cateura dump outside Asunción, the Paraguayan capital, scratch out a living by digging out anything that can be resold, and buying a musical instrument would…
"In the course of a writing life that spans 60 years, she's changed the dramatic landscape of two centuries, and evolved more than any other British playwright our conceptions of what a play…
Chipaul and Mille Cao, who grew up as members of wartime Vietnam's ethnic Chinese minority, met at a dance party just six months before the Communist takeover of the entire country; they fle…
"We're often told, in hand-wringing tones, about the growing differences between red and blue states, and about our increasingly divisive political and social rhetoric. But, in Dos Passos's …
"Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, AL Kennedy and Janice Galloway, among others, were all Gray's bairns. Authors invited Gray to illustrate their books. Little magazines sported his self-portraits …
As the year and decade end, "it will shut its doors for the last time, becoming a glass-and-steel white elephant " and an almost-too-obvious metaphor for the crisis facing America's newspape…
"At the archaeological site of Kulubá, nestled amid the lowland forests of Mexico's Yucatán state, experts have unearthed the remains of a large palace" " six rooms, 180 feet long, 50 …
"It feels like we're leaving this decade light years ahead of where we entered it. In 2010, salacious stories about queer people were still routinely seen in tabloids and on TV. Today, LGBTQ…
"Barbara Testa had enjoyed a perfectly anonymous life in Hollywood until she crawled up in the attic one day and opened a steamer trunk left behind by her grandfather, a 19th-century attorne…
In Pittsburgh, at least, it seems not to be nights at all: it's weekend matinees, across the genres. Sara Bauknecht and Jeremy Reynolds get into the details. " Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"GagaOOLala brings more than 1,000 feature films, shorts, web series, and documentaries to people across Asia, where censorship and traditional attitudes mean there has been little in the wa…
It's a provocative claim, and I'll admit my first reaction was to dismiss it out of hand. And yet … " Douglas McLennan
Spinning Song: Duck Baker Plays The Music Of Herbie NicholsIn the New York jazz scene of the 1950s and early sixties, the breadth and depth of his talent won enormous respect for pianist and…
In fact, that's what it was created to do. Installed in response to neighbors' noise complaints following the opening of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport's fifth runway, the Buitenschot Land Art P…
"[Rupi] Kaur's achievement as an artist is the extent to which her work embodies, formally, the technology that defines contemporary life: smartphones and the internet. … I'd argue that ma…
"How should museums relate to their surroundings? What are the most meaningful ways for them to connect and work with their communities? … These questions date to the beginning of the comm…
Since 2013, Radio Alwan, which started as community radio in a Syria just breaking out in civil war, broadcast politically neutral news and other programming to Aleppo and Idlib on FM as wel…
Cymbals are now mainstays of marching bands, drum sets, and orchestral percussion batteries, but they originally came from Ottoman Janissary bands, and Istanbul can be considered their home …
Even as the topical revue heads toward its final performance on New Year's Eve, it still gets tweaked to reflect current news. (Donald Trump's angry tweet at Greta Thunberg " he said she nee…
"This past year saw no shortage of controversies in both the art world and the real world. And perhaps more than ever before, the distance between those two worlds seemed to collapse, as art…
A previously unknown groups calling itself the "Popular Nationalist Insurgency Command of the Large Brazilian Integralist Family" has claimed credit for a Christmas Eve incident in which Mol…
Troy Patterson's choices range from Zadie Smith's essay "Generation Why"?, through Matthew McConaughey's nihilist scene in The Wolf of Wall Street, David Lynch's art show, the Kylo Ren light…
"The creator of 10 Broadway shows and contributor to several more, Herman won two Tony Awards for best musical: Hello, Dolly! in 1964 and La Cage aux Folles in 1983. He also won two Grammys …
"With technically demanding feats, male ballet training tends to emphasize jumps and batterie. In general, men are more privy to additional allegro combinations at the end of multi gender cl…
This was the year of our national discontent and contentiousness, as manifested in the artworld by the rallying cry, "Decolonize Museums!" " Lee Rosenbaum