Culture
Decade of Asian cinema crowns 2019’s Top Ten Films
December 23, 2019There is an Asian pivot in global cinema which accompanies the economic strength of the region.
Read moreA revelatory performance of Erich Korngold’s opera ‘Der Ring des Polykrates’
December 23, 2019The 1914 one-act opera, composed when the precocious Korngold was but 17 years old, is in a full-blown, late German Romantic idiom.
Read moreHanukkah: A holiday rooted in struggle against imperialism
December 23, 2019In a world where the far right is resurgent, the message of Hanukkah—that an oppressed people must and can unite and win victory over their oppressors—is more relevant than ever.
Read more‘After Porn Ends’: New documentary explores lives of actors post-career
December 20, 2019The documentary shines a light on the hypocrisy of a society that fantasizes about sex workers on one hand, then stigmatizes them for that work on the other.
Read moreAt the Wende, ‘Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain’
December 20, 2019The extraordinarily vital and creative Wende Museum of the Cold War is currently commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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