Yearly Archives: 2023
A Talk With Yasuhisa Toyota, The Great Concert-Hall Acoustician
The man responsible for the sound at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, and the...
New York City’s New Old Hangout: The NYC Public Library
An ongoing $200 million renovation of the 1911 landmark has sought to open its doors and world-famous collections to more people — and not...
A March On City Hall For Arts Funding (!)
In Bristol, England, cultural organizations expected to have their upcoming grants from the local government confirmed by the end of last October; now, they're...
Dance Everywhere (Except On A Stage)
Each performance produced by Duckler and her company, Heidi Duckler Dance, transforms spaces not traditionally used for dance into something new, as the choreography...
England’s Libraries Generate At Least £3.4 Billion In Economic Activity Every Year: Study
"Libraries in England generate at least £3.4 billion in value a year through services supporting children's literacy, digital inclusion and health, a study has...
Gustavo Dudamel’s Slow-Motion Departure From LA
Celebrity has a tendency to reduce talent, even of the most prodigious kind, to a series of narrow gestures, a sort of mimeograph of...
Those Unknown Rembrandts Discovered This Past Spring Have Sold For $14.2 Million
"A pair of previously unknown and 'exceptionally rare' portraits by Rembrandt sold for over £11.2 million ($14.2 million) Thursday after they were discovered in...
The Fascinating Dance Around Remaking America’s Busiest Train Station
If all this still seems dizzying, the bottom line is that the next year will decide the station’s fate. Perhaps not since the demolition...
“Here Lies Love”, The Imelda Marcos Disco Musical? Filipino-Americans Have Feelings About It
For immigrants, it's seeing their own history on a Broadway stage; for their children, it's a major lesson. ("Growing up, the only thing I...
Does The Karaoke Disco Musical About Imelda Marcos “Trivialize The Suffering Of Millions Of...
"Here's what to know about Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos, the People Power Revolution of 1986 and the controversies the show" — Here Lies Love,...
ABT’s Gabe Stone Shayer Publicly Calls Out The Company For Seeing Him As Black...
"Nothing bothered me more than being cast in Lifted, a 'groundbreaking' show designed to feature only ABT's Black dancers. … I trained to be...
Cultural Centers Are Burned, Bombed, And Looted In Sudan’s Savage Civil War
Museums and archives have lost their collections to bombing, at least one performing arts center has been burned down, and some places whose buildings...
On The First Day Of Threads, 30 Million Users Signed Up. Could The New...
"Threads, the latest of Meta's copycat innovations, faces a long slog in its bid to topple Twitter as the microblogging platform of choice. …...
Mario Vargas Llosa Is In The Hospital With COVID (Again)
The 87-year-old Nobel-winning novelist was hospitalized on July 1 in Madrid. This is his second bout of the respiratory illness. - CNN
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Selects An Alum As Artistic Director
As of Sept. 1, Tim Bond, who was the festival's associate artistic director from 1996-2007 and is currently AD at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, succeeds...
How Photography Has Changed The Ways We See The World
The photograph is deeply entangled in our contemporary experience, playing a crucial role in recording and informing our understanding of the world. Which means...
Special New Camera Revolutionizes Restoration Of Old Paintings
The King’s College team developed a 25,000-pixel photon sensitive camera that uses a technique called macroscopic fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) to harness the natural...
UK Immigration Minister Tells Immigrant Detention Centers To Remove Welcoming Artwork. Leading Artists Rally...
Robert Jenrick told staff to paint over artistic depictions of animals etched onto the walls of Tug Haven, an asylum intake unit in Dover,...
How The New Director Of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum Wants To Make It More Accessible
His two years in Vienna—plus a Ph.D. in art history that involved study of the Habsburg collections—have given him insight into the institution he...
Las Vegas Lights Up $2.3 Billion Video Screen — World’s Largest
The MSG Sphere’s 580,000 sq ft fully programmable LED screen, named the Exosphere, was illuminated for pre-launch testing overnight to celebrate the Fourth of July. The...
Social Media Platforms Now Seem Up For Grabs
In a flurry of unexpected strategic decisions, holiday news dumps and pure opportunism, the social landscape suddenly looks up for grabs (at least for...
William Byrd: The Remarkable Life And Music Of Elizabeth I’s Favorite Composer
For years he managed the tricky business of remaining a committed Catholic at Elizabeth's Protestant court before settling in a rural haven. He wrote...
Four Leading Composers On How William Byrd’s 400-Year-Old Music Influences Their Work
Comments from Caroline Shaw, James MacMillan ("Classical music audiences tend to forget about the pre-Baroque, and it's a pity because William Byrd is one...
San Francisco Arts Funder Attack For Change Of Criteria
Change in the leadership, direction, and procedures of the SF Grants for the Arts reduced or eliminated support for dozens of organization, big and...
Wayne Sleep At 75: How The Little Firecracker Of British Ballet Became A Major...
He was a virtuoso, able to match any jump by Nureyev or Baryshnikov (and he worked with both). But, at 5'2", he'd never dance...
