Art and Culture

“In getting to its exalted place, the book had to navigate a tricky set of rapids. Though it sailed through them, a question lingers. … Would a book like this, with its regional setting and its male and outdoorsy focus, face…
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Gallagher’s profane monologue went viral on account of its absurdity—four people on payroll to brew a single cup of tea? But the rocker’s screed contained a truth, one that has substantially shaped the contemporary ticket-buying…
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The latest in the Trumpite series of proposed oversized buildings—the previous one being a ballroom where the East Wing of the White House once stood, a project that a federal judge temporarily halted last Thursday, until an appeals…
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UPDATED: The FCC has launched a new inquiry into the TV ratings system, including whether issues of gender identity are being included in children’s programming without flagging that content to parents. The proceeding announced…
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My play The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York was just premiered (as a work-in-progress) at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor. It’s my good fortune to be working with a terrific actress and director: Esther van Zyl and Jack…
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Back in 2018, Brazilian philanthropist Olga Rabinovich sat her team down and gave them a mission: to find the most effective way to nurture a cause in dire need of effective financial support in her home country. After a year of…
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Good Morning: A $116 million gift from a single billionaire will now indefinitely fund the National Gallery’s program for loaning art to museums across the country (Washington Post). Same week, Cape Cod’s 42-year-old…
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It’s not only easy to get lost in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries, it’s inevitable, intentional — and one of the best things about the place.The museum has deconstructed the traditional, boxy narrative…
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“(John) Dowland was well regarded; (he) was also well-connected, cosmopolitan and at times unusually well-remunerated for his work. Yet his musical expression was dominated by melancholy. With that imbalance comes the sense that Dowland…
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