Art and Culture

 The cancellation of Colbert’s show right before a deal that needed government approval has given his exit an additional resonance. – The New York Times The post What We Lose When “The Late Show” Goes Away appeared…
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Broadcast once provided a predictable, repeated structure built into daily life. As the “tune-in” habit has eroded, we haven’t been deliberate enough in designing something to take its place. – Greater Public The post…
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On the international biennial circuit, what are the definitive themes and styles of the last four years? In a separate article, I laid out the artists who appeared in the greatest number of…
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TOUBAB DIALAO, Senegal (AP) — Twenty-five dance companies from across Africa descended on a Senegalese fishing village over the weekend for the African Dance Biennial, the continent’s largest…
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In an explosive follow-up to her dismissal from Teatrale La Fenice, conductor Beatrice Venezi has struck back against the institution and her former political allies. Speaking from Los Angeles in an exclusive interview with Corriere…
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The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has…
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GBH (WGBH Educational Foundation) and New England Public Media plan to formally merge operations by the…
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“Hollander made Sylvia, who got her own strip in 1980, a tart-tongued, witty, loquacious single mother who held court — sometimes from her bathtub — on sex and relationships as well as politics, health care reform, the environment and…
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The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has filed charges against the Kennedy Center, accusing management of permanently cutting union jobs as it prepares to close for a two-year renovation at the behest of…
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“Liberation centers on a group of women who gather to talk, during the second wave feminist movement of the 1970s, about changing their own lives and the world. Fifty years later, one of their daughters looks to the past for answers…
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