Yearly Archives: 2023
Laura Benanti Reveals How She Literally Sang Through An Onstage Miscarriage
"On Monday April 3rd, I performed on stage for 2000 people while having a miscarriage. I knew it was happening. … If it had...
The Conflicting Complications Of De-Colonizing Classical Music
As Black and brown musicians, the question is not whether we can “solve” classical music’s issue with racism. Rather we wonder: Why do we...
The Enslaved Painter Who Modeled For Velázquez And Became A Star Artist In His...
"(Juan de Pareja) remains an elusive figure within art history, with details of his life prone to myth, his paintings often misattributed and no...
More Research On Building Better Brains Through Participating In The Arts
"Children that are playing music, their brain structure actually changes and their cerebral cortex actually gets larger." - NPR
A Critic Makes The Rounds Of Immersive Art Shows
Adam Platt: "As you move from one pleasantly distracting set piece to another, pondering when to ingest the lemon-flavored edible in your pocket, it...
Fandom, Fake Friendships And The Real World
In 2021, psychologists found that forming parasocial bonds was strongly related to avoidant attachment. That is, people who tended to push others away in their day-to-day...
Brussels Museum Schedules, Then Cancels, Sparring Match Between Police Officers And Local Boxers
"The MIMA contemporary art museum in Molenbeek had planned to host a sparring session between around 20 amateur boxers from the Ixelles branch of...
Museum Of Peru’s Shining Path-Armed Forces Civil War Is Abruptly Closed
"Since its controversial inception in 2015, the Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion has received about 60,000 visitors a year. But Lima's ultra-conservative...
It Took A Dozen Years For “Shucked” To Plow Its Path To Broadway
"The history of iterations of Shucked is an interesting one, since it bears almost no resemblance to the show that McAnally and Clark started...
Will A Proposed New York City Law Banning Size Discrimination Make A Difference On...
"The bill … would 'prohibit discrimination on the basis of a person's height or weight in opportunities of employment, housing, and public accommodation.' …...
This Magazine With 1,000 Subscribers Has Become A Serious Force In Irish Literature
"Founded in Dublin in 1997 as a receptacle for 'all this great writing floating around,' The Stinging Fly has reached its 25th year as...
Pergolesi Meets Pole Dancing In Performance; Priest Punished With Death Threats
A performance titled Passions croisées (Crossed Passions) in a historic Strasbourg church featured Pergolesi's Stabat Mater accompanied by athletic (and non-raunchy) pole and silk...
Mimi Sheraton, Restaurant Critic And Food Writer, Is Dead At 97
"It's hard to find anywhere in the food universe that wasn't touched by (her) pen or panache. She helped shape modern food writing as...
How To Fight Book Bans
A poll published found 61 percent were more concerned that “some schools may ban books and censor topics that are educationally important” than by...
An Architect Dreams Of Rebuilding A Ukrainian City As A City of The Future
The vision that he outlined was grand. It included restoring the largely bombed-out building of the regional administration as a functional monument, the way...
Dallas Theatres Are Struggling With New Realities
“It’s not like we want to sound the fire alarm. It’s not all doom and gloom. But the current situation is not sustainable.” - Dallas...
Why Journalists Say They’re Leaving Twitter But Aren’t
The first and most obvious reason is inertia. Journalists spent more than a decade building up their presences on Twitter, and they were never...
Broadway Loved Our “Oklahoma.” On The Road It Was A Completely Different Story
"You know how some movies bomb with critics but still make millions at the box office? We were the inverse of that. We had...
Urgently Needed: A Defense Of Humanism
It’s suddenly plausible to imagine that freethinking, that tradition of poking and prodding at all fixed ideas and institutions, will drift into obsolescence, because...
The Choreographer, Videographer, And Oceanographers Who Worked On Boston Ballet’s New “La Mer”
It's the first live work in North America for beloved Dutch choreographer Nanine Linning, and among her many collaborators are video artist Heleen Blanken...
Man Arrested In Fake Vinyl Record Scheme
A businessman who made more than £1m selling fake vinyl records was caught after a fan of punk band the Clash complained that the...
The Psychiatric Troubles That Made Yayoi Kusama And Her Art What They Are
"From a very early age Kusama has suffered from severe panic attacks and hallucinations, episodes during which pumpkins might talk to her, which is...
Man Spends Years Trying To Convince Art World He Found A Raphael In An...
Twenty-seven years, reams of research and hundreds of thousands of dollars later, Ayers’ associates have come forward to claim the artwork, called the Flaget Madonna,...
As Translated Literature Gains A Higher Profile, Translators Gain A New Role
"In the new visibility, the literary translator possesses a different sort of identity: still the articulate spokesperson for another language and culture, but self-conscious...
Reminder: Digital Culture You Buy Isn’t “Bought.” It’s Only Licensed (That’s A Huge Difference)
E-books that had been published and sold in one form were retroactively (and irrevocably) altered, highlighting what consumer rights experts say is a convention...
