Art and Culture

Ever since film director Quentin Tarantino revealed last summer that his next project was going to be to bring a play to the West End, everyone has been wondering what on earth it will be.Could it be an adaptation of one of his films –…
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The centerpiece of the agreement is expected to be structural changes to Live Nation’s ticketing business. Under the settlement, Ticketmaster will be required to open parts of its platform to rival ticketing companies, allowing…
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Hollywood has been fretting over the death of the movie star for nearly a decade now, and the fear is not unfounded: The golden era when the likes of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, and Denzel Washington could coax audiences to the…
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I read at least 100 books a year. People are always impressed when I tell them this. But what I…
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The self-taught Mosley’s works “show as much concern for pure form as any modernist’s, and reflect the influence of Constantin Brancusi and Isamu Noguchi, two particular heroes, as well as that of pre-modern African tribal…
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I stand with Jessie Buckley. This week, the Hamnet actress—highly favored to win the Oscar for Best Actress next Sunday—is going viral due to a resurfaced interview from November, in which she told a story about how she…
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‘He was after me. Always had been. Why else would he target me months ago? Infiltrate my flat, my supposed safe space? Question was, what did he want from me. Who, for that matter, did I mean by me?” Isabel Waidner’s fifth novel, As If,…
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“This is the frustration of working in the fine arts. The people who care about ballet, for example, care deeply. And most of those who don’t care think of ballet through stereotypes or quick hits of dancers on TikTok.” – The New…
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Gross: “Using Grammarly’s ‘Expert Review’ allows an approximation of Stephen King and Neil deGrasse Tyson to nitpick your work. While Tyson has the opportunity to say whether he’d like to be turned into a chatbot, other authors, like…
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It was a rainy afternoon in Copenhagen, and four exhausted ballet dancers were hard at work in a large rehearsal room on the fourth floor of the Royal Danish Theatre. The choreographer Alexei Ratmansky was pacing the studio,…
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