Here's the deal: It's a movie that laughs at the Nazis and laughs at Hitler. "The controversy " or, at least, the orchestrated illusion of it " is built into the film's faux outrageous aesth…
She's at the intersection of race, gender, and social media. "Kim's particular fame derives from a cherished place in the American racial imagination that, combined with wealth, prevents con…
The 2019 BP Portrait Award will still take place in December, but that will be the last time NGS will host that show (at least, as sponsored by BP). The holdouts, that is, those arts organiz…
The person doing it takes nonfiction books about Trump or guns " specifically the ones that aren't favorable to the 45th president or gun enthusiasts " and hiding them. "'I am going to conti…
Griggs, who played Ivanka in ONCE: The Musical for 17 months after making her Broadway debut at age six in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, died from a massive asthma attack. " Variety
Bumbershoot, the Labor Day arts festival is almost 50 years old. But it's changed significantly over the years and in its latest configuration began to resemble just another generic expensiv…
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
I posted this for the first time on November 11, 2008. It's still relevant, and (I suspect) always will be. * * * On October 9, 1918, an HMV sound engineer named Will Gaisberg set up a primi…
British Pathé newsreel coverage of the hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities on August 25, 1948, during which Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers publicly confronted one an…
"Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (trans. Constance Garnett)
Barnett founded Black Arts/West in Seattle in 1969, and "was a vocal advocate for contemporary theater, pursuing funding for new work and training and opportunities for African American perf…
Why? It might actually be good for some people " the youth, as they say, or those chasing social media influence. "The hope is that the change can reduce anxiety among Instagram users,…
You'd think authors would have things like, oh, the titles of their books, links to buy said books, maybe a list of book tour dates, press contacts, etc. Sure, sure, but there's so much more…
Seventy-five years ago, in a San Francisco busy with Naval activity in the middle of WWII, the San Francisco Ballet staged the first full-length Nutcracker in the U.S. The snow is still fall…
"Chicago, for all of its demographic diversity, isn't immune to the racism and (not so blissful) ignorance that plagues American theatres more generally. Many artists see the theatrical expe…
"Potter Nathan Youngblood says it can take a lifetime to learn his craft. Youngblood, whose pottery balances traditional forms with innovative technique, learned by watching his grandmother …
"Mark Larson's new book Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater (Agate Midway), tells the stories of the town's theatre in the words of its makers, from Steppenwolf to Second City to Go…
"A gathering last month in Georgia lifted up the work of Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer, and their mentor, Freddie Hendricks, in developing empowering approaches for Black actors." "…
"Twenty years of her works will come together for the first time in Miami, where she was born after her parents emigrated from Cuba. … The artist has never wanted to limit the interpretati…
"The Goethe-Institut has partnered with the Los Angeles Poverty Department in organizing Worlds of Homelessness, a weeklong interdisciplinary series of events featuring artists, architects, …
"Over the decades, the artist has only become more confrontational, exploring such themes as gun violence, racism, police brutality and corporate greed." " The New York Times
"Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, [is] one of several major exhibitions in the nation's capital that celebrate women " from the batt…
"Bright, colorful murals are turning up all over town on the walls of office buildings, warehouses, condos, corner stores, laundromats, and even public schools, sports stadiums and a police …
"Thomas Jefferson, Architect: Palladian Models, Democratic Principles and the Conflict of Ideals … at the Chrysler Museum, in Norfolk, Va., is one example of how some museums are working t…
On playing Willy Loman: "I knew that it would challenge me like no other role. It is the American Hamlet. And now that I've done it, I'm going down the list of all the roles that I want to d…