Art

In 2018, Kristine McDivitt-Tompkins—an American expatriate living in Chile and the former CEO of high-end outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia—donated to the Chilean government one million acres of land held by Tompkins Conservation. Combined with nine million acres of existing federal land, the bequest led to the creation of five new national parks and the expansion

May 13, 2024 First, some quick announcements: The latest episode of Our Opinions Are Correct is about America’s proud tradition of psychological warfare. Promises Stronger Than Darkness, the final volume in my young adult trilogy, is out in paperback. It’s nominated for the Locus Award for young adult fiction, and the Lodestar Award! (If you

 My Wall Street Journal review of Kurt Jensen’s new Rouben Mamoulian biography takes stock of a unique near-genius, perhaps the least known and appreciated American theater and film director of consequence.   I came to Mamoulian (1897-1987) while writing my book on immigrants in the performing arts: Artists in Exile. The juxtaposed magnitude of his successes and failures confounded comprehension. Because

View image in fullscreen ‘Explosive’ secret list of abusers set to upstage women’s big week at Cannes film festival Crisis management team reported to be in place as Meryl Streep heads roster of female stars and directors collecting accolades For good and bad reasons, on and off the red carpet, the spotlight is trained on

Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) values staff diversity and actively encourages people from a variety of backgrounds with different experiences, perspectives, skills, and stories to apply in order to advance our nonprofit mission and enrich our organizational culture. All staff will work with others throughout the organization to implement and exemplify policies as part of

Looking to safeguard its future in a world in which the Oscars have lost some of their ratings luster, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Friday a new $500-million global campaign aimed at extending the organization’s influence worldwide and diversifying its revenue streams. The announcement of the Academy100 campaign, made during

Finding a public space to sit down and write this article was a struggle. My neighbourhood library is under renovation and will be for the next 12-18 months, and it was still too chilly and rainy this past month to set up in a park nearby. When the weather eliminates outdoor options in Toronto, it’s

Every few days, a notification pings my phone: a fresh installment of Elif Shafak’s Substack. In one post, the Turkish British novelist recalls reading Don Quixote at age 11; in another, she offers a dispatch from New York, where she met the publishing team for her upcoming novel There Are Rivers in the Sky before

Those of us who believe in the power of books worry all the time that reading, as a pursuit, is collapsing, eclipsed by (depending on the era) streaming video, the internet, the television, or the hula hoop. Yet, somehow, reading persists; more books are sold today than were sold before the pandemic. Though print book

The American Youth Symphony was on the threshold of its 60th anniversary. Carlos Izcaray, music director since 2016, had just signed a contract that extended his tenure through 2027. The orchestra was preparing to release a recording, made on the Fox scoring stage, of a new concerto by Oscar winner Kris Bowers — part of

‘Workshy’ is a label often applied to the young. Is it fair? Data suggest that something is amiss: across Europe, the average proportion of 15-29-year-olds not in work nor education or training exceeds the EU’s 9% target. Last year in France, the figure peaked at 12.5%. Yet a Europe-wide study has found that young people

NEW YORK (AP) — Oksana Lyniv, Speranza Scappucci, Marin Alsop and Xian Zhang filled their lockers in the guest conductors’ dressing room off the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra pit. Just four women had led the orchestra from 1883 through 2016, but four took the baton in a landmark week from April 19-26. “Maybe I’ll say it

Postscript The Indestructible Art of Frank Stella The artist, who has died at eighty-seven, rattled standards of modernist abstraction rather as Bob Dylan did those of folk music. By Peter Schjeldahl May 4, 2024 Frank Stella was the poster prodigy of a new breed of artists: post-bohemian, university-trained, professional from the get-go.Photograph by Chris Felver

Jack Clark is 18 years old, but already he has performed in Abravanel Hall — the downtown Salt Lake City home of the Utah Symphony — several times. Clark, who lives in Layton, said he was in rehearsal with the Utah Youth Symphony, when Barbara Ann Scowcroft, one of the Utah Symphony’s violinists, talked to

Under Review Work Sucks. What Could Salvage It? New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it. By Erik Baker May 1, 2024 Illustration by Calum Heath Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story There’s a line in one of my favorite

Annals of Inquiry The Battle for Attention How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age? By Nathan Heller April 29, 2024 As the market chases our ever-waning focus, a secret society of writers and artists fights back.Illustration by Brian Rea Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story Listen

Artificial Intelligence Teens are opening up to AI chatbots as a way to explore friendship. But sometimes, the AI’s advice can go too far. Share this story Illustration by Ard Su for The Verge Early last year, 15-year-old Aaron was going through a dark time at school. He’d fallen out with his friends, leaving him

May 3, 2024, 3:20pm If you haven’t read yesterday’s New York Magazine piece about the former Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief and recently hired chief creative and content officer at The Daily Beast, I highly recommend it. It seems that the media industry, having tried pivoting to video, hedge funds, newsletters, and union busting, is back to rage-bait listicles. My

American studio Manica Architecture and National Football League team Chicago Bears have unveiled the design of a football stadium along Lake Michigan in Chicago, drawing criticism from preservationists. Manica Architecture designed the multi-purpose recreational campus – featuring a stadium enclosed with a translucent roof – to bring a variety of concerts, community celebrations, and sporting

The National Gallery in London is well into a £85m project to upgrade its Sainsbury Wing entrance and provide new facilities to celebrate its 200th anniversary. It had been hoped the wing would reopen this month, but work has taken longer than expected and the reopening is now scheduled for May 2025. In an in-depth