Culture

‘Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists’ at Nashville’s Frist Art Museum

January 10, 2020 By Albert Bender

This is the first museum exhibition exclusively devoted to Native American women artists from the United States and Canada.

Red Vienna: The enduring legacy of an architecture of hope

January 8, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Europe’s zero interest rate is being used to further hollow out its major cities as those with capital in places such as Munich, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam are borrowing at no cost and buying up apartments.

HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Who will guard the guards?

January 7, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

Watchmen is an unblinking look at American right-wing populism and racism, through the eyes of lead Black characters in a science fiction comic book superstructure.

Decade of Asian cinema crowns 2019’s Top Ten Films

December 23, 2019 By Dennis Broe

There is an Asian pivot in global cinema which accompanies the economic strength of the region.

A revelatory performance of Erich Korngold’s opera ‘Der Ring des Polykrates’

December 23, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The 1914 one-act opera, composed when the precocious Korngold was but 17 years old, is in a full-blown, late German Romantic idiom.