Yearly Archives: 2023
Why The French Idea Of The “Good Life” Is Irrational
France has long been associated with a specific version of the good life, from haute cuisine to haute couture. In the global imagination, the...
Another Casualty Of The Shrinking Of Dance Criticism: US Work Visas For International Dancers
Part of the stack of paperwork required for an O-1 visa is evidence that the dancer or ensemble applying possesses "extraordinary ability." Reviews from...
John McWhorter: My Experience With Affirmative Action
It may have been a necessary compromise for a time, but it was never truly proper in terms of justice, stability or general social...
Here’s Stable Work That Will Use Your Studio Art MFA: Custom-Designing Corporate Artworks
"In the firms that cater to mid-market developments, art-school graduates spend their days pumping out huge volumes of the kind of innocuous work a...
How Dancing Helps Rewire The Brain
“Dancers are better able to connect that incoming sensory information, whether it’s visually through the eyes, or through touch, and then connect that to...
Satire? Or Sunday School? Lily Janiak On The San Francisco Mime Troupe
"When I watch the shows each year, I feel like I'm at a church pageant for a religion I don't belong to. It's as...
Asian-American Actors Are Finally Getting To Move Beyond Model-Minority Characters. Way Beyond.
"For decades after The Joy Luck Club, the handful of movies with Asian-American casts mostly offered family-centric stories filled with generational hardship, sacrifice and...
Regional Theater In The US Is In A Dire State, And It’s Not All...
"The crisis is a perfect storm of bad economic and demographic trends, exacerbated by a change in cultural habits during the pandemic. … The...
Dallas Adopted A Cultural Plan In 2018. Where Does It Stand Post-Pandemic?
"By the spring of 2023, the promise of the Cultural Plan" — equity — "had gotten shoved to the side, as the so-called 'Big...
Director Of Smithsonian’s Planned Women’s History Museum Has “Withdrawn”
"Nancy Yao, who had been criticized for her handling of sexual harassment allegations at a New York museum, has withdrawn from a prestige post...
Threads, Mark Zuckerberg’s New Twitter Competitor, Makes Its Debut
"Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta's photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides 'a new, separate space for real-time updates...
One Of The World’s Oldest Newspapers Ends Its Print Edition After 320 Years
"The Wiener Zeitung, which is owned by the Austrian government but editorially independent, suffered a sharp decrease in revenue after a recent law dropped...
Study: Drumming Helps Those With Autism
"What we see is children who learn how to play the drums aren't afraid of making mistakes. When they stop and make a mistake...
Grammys: Music Created With AI Is Eligible For Awards
“Here’s the super easy, headline statement: AI, or music that contains AI-created elements is absolutely eligible for entry and for consideration for Grammy nomination....
Checking In On Ireland’s Basic Income For Artists Scheme
Grant recipients, including visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, actors and dancers, were chosen at random from a pool of more than 8,000 eligible applicants,...
Robot Conductor Debuts With Korean Orchestra
The two-armed robot, designed by the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, made its debut at the National Theater of Korea, leading musicians in the...
Why “Living In The Present” Might Be Overrated
The identification of the present, not as a hectic shimmer of zeptoseconds but a series of temporal clearings where one might deeply linger, originates...
Why Archaeologists Rebury Their Excavations
It will help preserve the site for future archaeologists who might have more modern methods and can study the evidence better or ask new...
About Two Million Muslims Make The Pilgrimage To Mecca Every Year. What About The...
About two million people call Mecca home, and while there are concessions to the city's sacredness — no movie theaters, no loud music at...
Our Culture Is Obsessed With Stories. But What If Stories Are A Trap?
When did the so-called narrative turn—the doctrine of narrative supremacy—go mainstream? “At a certain point in history, people started saying, ‘We are born storytellers,’ ”...
The Jackass Who Carved Graffiti On Rome’s Colosseum Says He Had No Idea How...
"Ivan Dimitrov, a 27-year-old fitness instructor living in Bristol, wrote a letter of apology to the Rome mayor after allegedly engraving his and his...
Why Must The Worth Of Canada’s Culture Be Measured Primarily By Economics?
The value of culture is hard to measure - everyone's experience is different. But governments' obsession with justifying cultural worth economically gets in the...
What’s Happening With, And To, The Russian Language In Ukraine
Ten years ago, almost half of Ukrainians said Russian was their first language; now, 21% say so (or, at least, admit to it). These...
Just How To Stop Russians From Plundering Ukrainian Culture?
As Ukraine launches its summer counteroffensive, historians fear that Ukrainian cultural objects from Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine might be moved to Russia if the Russians...
George Benjamin’s New Opera Is About, Believe It Or Not, Happiness
Not that it's cheerful, mind you: Picture a Day Like This is about a mother whose child has died. Yet, after Benjamin's brilliant-but grim...
