Dec 22 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, visitors to London galleries who come off the city's snowy streets have been tracking in art-harming salt. Continue reading
Dec 21 Nutcrackers Around the Nation Display Regional Flair When "The Nutcracker" premiered in America in the 1940s, the holiday show became a perennial favorite and a reliable moneymaker for big and small ballet companies around the country. Since then, Tchaikovsky's ballet has been re-imagined innumerable times, customized to… Continue reading
Dec 21 A Seasonal Standby, Re-envisioned to Reflect Local Flair By Molly Finnegan The Nutcracker is the cash cow of ballets, with performances raising between a third to the entire amount of a company's annual budget. Companies big and small put their own spin on their productions to differentiate it from others nearby… Continue reading
Dec 21 Conversation: Best Unsung Books of 2010 By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Andrew Altschul, books editor for the Rumpus, about the under-appreciated novels of 2010. Continue reading
Dec 21 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to six years in jail and banned from filmmaking. Continue reading
Dec 21 Festival Gives Cubans a Window to the World By Tom LeGro The grand lobby of Havana's historic Hotel Nacional de Cuba was humming with activity earlier this month as documentary filmmakers, directors, actors and producers from around Latin America gathered to pay homage to their craft at the International Festival of… Continue reading
Dec 20 Weekly Poem: ‘The New Intelligence’ By Tom LeGro Timothy Donnelly is the author of "Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit" and "The Cloud Corporation," is a poetry editor for "Boston Review" and a full-time faculty member of the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the… Continue reading
Dec 20 Monday’s Art Notes The fountain of Piazza della Repubblica is unusually frozen in Rome. Photo by Andreas Solaro/ Getty Images * The Washington Post profiles a new ice art museum in Russia, that preserves once-ephemeral sculptures by kepping the temperature down… Continue reading
Dec 20 ‘The Calling’ Chronicles Lives of New Generation of U.S. Religious Leaders Watch the full episode. See more… Continue reading
Dec 17 Conversation: Patti Smith By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to rock legend Patti Smith, whose memoir, "Just Kids," won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Continue reading