Art and Culture

Arts Engines highlights the perspectives of the thought leaders and game-changers who are creating significant impact in the field of the arts. As the only arts show of its kind with an African-American host, it is produced in…
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<a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2024/03/book-thief.html" title="Book Thief” rel=”nofollow”> Nothing like some biblioklept mischief Source link
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Senior management at GBH, which under the call letters WGBH operates both an NPR affiliate and a TV station which produces a number of national PBS shows, says it is “facing financial headwinds. … While final decisions have not…
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Robert Moskowitz, a painter who used the New York City skyline to stake out a unique position on the border of abstraction and representation, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 88.His son, Erik Moskowitz, said the cause of death, at a…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.Gossett’s first…
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Holst did find a solution to his competing ambition and physical incapability, and he left traces of it on the cover of the 1911 “Fairy Queen” program, which lists 28 copyists who worked for 18 months to copy some 1,500 pages of parts.…
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Updated Friday 6 p.m. Small Press Distribution (SPD), the 55-year-old nonprofit literary distributor, has closed its doors effective immediately. A reduced team is winding down business operations. “We know this news is both sudden and…
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You see it everywhere, even if you don’t always recognize it: the literary allusion. Quick! Which two big novels of the past two years borrowed their titles from “Macbeth”? Nailing the answer — “Birnam Wood” and “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,…
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I found Bradley Cooper’s biopic of Leonard Bernstein, “Maestro,” incurious in a related way. To build an entire film around Bernstein’s being gay or bisexual — with “West Side Story,” his masterful teaching on television and even the…
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Harvey LIchtenstein (1929-2017) Here are a couple of responses to my latest blog, mulling Esa-Pekka Salonen’s resignation as music director of the San Francisco Symphony: –From a major European artists’ manager of long experience:…
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