Features
Peter Gelb Stages a Worthy Debut at the Metropolitan Opera
Major cultural institutions are not noted for their agility with change. Board structures, subscribers’ tastes, administrative ballast, and the sheer…
Chihuly: Gardens & Glass
Dale Chihuly will never be accused of not thinking big. At the beginning of one of his many videos, the…
Review: Beauty is never simple.
It comes as no surprise that New Yorkers now officially love their artists more than they love their art. People…
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art — Part 2
Global Feminisms situates itself within a sequence of art shows that have sought to correct the traditional Western prejudice against…
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art — Part 1
The Brooklyn Museum is certainly one of the least risk-averse of the major New York museums. After all, it hosted…
A degree of talent: studying for a life in the theatre
Flicking through American Theatre magazine, one’s eye is assaulted with a glossy panoply of advertisements for various theatre degrees. One…
Artist's Voice: Annie Leist — Closing the door
As we began the fourth and final semester of our MFA program, my classmates and I were in the throes…
Trip report: The Future of Electronic Literature Symposium
"Electronic Literature? Is that like e-books?" you ask. Well, yes and no — in a sense, electronic writing has been…
Ad Hoc Choirs
Usually the one thing all choirs have in common is singing — recognizably musical activity of some sort. But the…
Protecting Endangered Species: The National Endowment for the Arts
Modern dance is one of the enduring creations of the American twentieth century. And yet many of the greatest dances…