Who Asked You? (The Museum Did)
Good Morning,Missy Mazzoli’s new opera about the opioid crisis is a tragicomedy, with singing sheep, built on the premise that new opera gets boring when composers forget the job includes entertaining somebody (The Guardian).
London’s National Gallery made the same decision more literally, convening a 50-person citizens’ assembly to help shape its future — and drew conservative fire for asking at all (Artnet). The objection isn’t to the answers. It’s to the pr
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