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We Survived the Massive Military Parade!
Let's recap the dumpy Trumpy politics of June.
Mulling Monterey: Steinbeck, Class and ‘Big Little Lies’
Do you know the way to Monterey? Reflecting on different perspectives of a familiar place.
For Quality Cultural Diplomacy, Watch Hulu’s ‘Ramy’
With laughter and understanding across religions and culture, 'Ramy' is the future -- for the next generation and beyond.
For Indie Artists, Does the Daisie App Match the Hype?
It's the wild, wild west (of Westeros).
Pip with Pizzazz: Ethan Mordden Assesses Barbra Streisand
Diversity, inclusion and curious sins of omission in a new book on the "greatest star."
Native Playwright and Others Fear a New Trail of Tears
With the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) under right-wing attack, Mary Kathryn Nagle sounds the alarm.
It’s Good to Be Alive
How a US military intelligence officer survived catastrophic injury and found a path to Hollywood.
Why Must Arts Workers Equate Long Hours with Success?
If your art cannot get done in the hours you have budgeted for it, you have lied. To everyone.
Getting Arts Into Global Politics? Look to the Mekong
Here's to the up-front, unapologetic inclusion of arts and culture within larger discussions of war and peace, prosperity and poverty.
The Art and Politics of the Flip-Flop
It seems that each election year, presidential candidates find out the hard way that their personal belief may not align with the voters they are courting.
How a Michael R. Jackson Musical Throws Us for a ‘Loop’
An autobiographical musical about an autobiographical musical about -- well, you know.
12 Plausible Creators of the Deplorable Coin
Yes, the Deplorable Coin is a real product! Who designed it? No one knows! Or maybe we do...
‘Convention’: Staging a 1944 Progressive-Moderate Slugfest
Danny Rocco's sprawling experimental history play proves that everything new is old again.
Biden Is Really the Best Democrats Can Do?
After the supposed front-runner's no-good, very very bad week, it's an open question.
A Little Bird Told Me: Announcing the Trump Presidential Aviary
To be located in a drained swamp surrounded by a big, beautiful wall, paid for by Mexico.
‘Long Lost’: New Margulies Play Should Stay Undiscovered
The playwright thinks he’s offering us shocks. They register more like mild nudges.
New Podcast: Trump Can’t Go to England and Not Be a Dick
We also dish Mueller's speech, slow-clap a Tea Partier, and handicap the Dems. Plus: a cold open!
The Bronx Fires as Metaphor for Community Erasure
Reflections on a documentary about the structural racism that erased a community -- and the people who rebuilt it.
Does Your Nonprofit Arts Board Always Vote Unanimously?
Unending total agreement can hurt nonprofit arts groups. There are better ways to be a board.
That Time Susan Sontag Did Something Stupid
She staged "Waiting for Godot" in 1993 Sarajevo. A Sontag biography raises current questions on what motivates social practice.
How Halston Predicted the Future and Became a Pariah
Frédéric Tcheng’s documentary retraces the rise and fall of an iconic, enigmatic American designer.
‘Frankie and Johnny’ Beams a Strong Broadway Half-Light
Playwright Terrence McNally can be greatly thanked -- especially in the light of the moon.
Who Are The 1491s and What Is ‘Between Two Knees’?
An intertribal, Indigenous sketch-comedy troupe exposes a deep cultural scar.
Time For All Democratic Hopefuls To Do One Simple Thing
I'm still thinking about She the People -- and all the Democratic candidates not getting specific.
The Currency of Bertolt Brecht
What a shame we still live in a world that the playwright would so readily have recognized.
Harris/Castro: Progressive 2020 Fantasy League, Part I
They have executive, prosecutorial, legislative and Cabinet experience. But can they win?
Boycott For Choice: Can Artists Be Profiles in Courage?
If you are an artist and pro-choice, you have to confront a terrible and difficult question.
Spurning the Sacklers’ Money Seems Easy Now, But…
Funny things can happen at arts organizations when an economy goes into a tailspin.
‘The Old Gray Homestead’: Centenary of a Forgotten First Novel
Frances Parkinson Keyes is little remembered these days; she may have been the Joyce Carol Oates of her time.
Notes on ‘Notes on Camp’
High, low, Beau and no: more thoughts on the Met gala's camp-y hits and misses.
Dancing on the Head of a Constitutional Crisis Pin
And if Trump won't comply with court orders, what then? Or refuse to leave office, what then?
Biden Our Time as the 2020 Democratic Primary Gets Hot
On our new podcast episode, summing up the Biden launch, mourning hate, and a quiz!
Latinx Artists Probe Sci-Fi in ‘Mundos Alternos’
Artists from across the Americas playfully show that science fiction has always been a metaphor for addressing complex political and social realities.
All the Good News I Could Find
Nine not-a-little-bit-bougie pieces of good news and nice things for the decadent extremist in us all.
Can Economic Impact Make a Case for Arts Nonprofits?
Nonprofit arts is to commercial arts what food banks are to supermarkets. Or maybe not.
Pip with Pizzazz: Ethan Mordden Assesses Barbra Streisand
Diversity, inclusion and curious sins of omission in a new book on the "greatest star."
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Spurning the Sacklers’ Money Seems Easy Now, But…
Funny things can happen at arts organizations when an economy goes into a tailspin.
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