Art and Culture

The champagne corks may be popping right now at Paramount over the David Ellison-owned company’s successful bid for Warner Bros Discovery, but up in Sacramento the mood is far from celebratory  over the latest possible Hollywood…
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“There are plenty of self-serving, self-aggrandizing, morally objectionable reasons for why people participate in public shaming. Nevertheless, the concept of moral self-defence reminds us that our self-respect, our social identities,…
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He was among the first Americans to study Balinese shadow theater and then perform it back home, which he did for his entire career. He expanded his practice to include collaborating in stagings of Shakespeare and Octavio Solis as well…
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At the age of 30, I became an editor. On my first day, while I was at lunch, a colleague tossed a photocopy of an essay onto my office chair, with a passage underlined. She’d highlighted a quote from a letter that Harold Ross, the…
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But there are two categories of nonprofessionals whose place in the history of the art strikes me as particularly exalted. The first is directors who act, whether in their own films or those of others. I don’t mean performers who go on…
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Wearing a pink dress and cardigan, Kaley told the jury that she started watching YouTube videos at age 6 and made an Instagram account at age 9. She and her attorneys said she uploaded more than 200 YouTube videos before she turned…
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Despite its desperate attempts to divorce art from politics, the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) sparked controversy yet again after multiple prizewinners' acceptance speeches included criticisms of Israel and…
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The head of the theatre hosting the Shen Yun dance troupe in Sydney says the company would not be intimidated to pull the shows by any “outrageous” anonymous threats and that the publicity had increased interest in the show.On Monday,…
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Her opera La Ville morte was set to premiere just when World War I broke out; she never returned to it and only a piano-vocal score survived. Composer David Conte and director Neal Goren arranged the score for singers and chamber…
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Announcement of the closure, which is effective June 30, comes two months after DePaul University laid off 114 full-time and part-time staff. Administrators cited financial troubles due to a significant drop in international graduate…
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