Yearly Archives: 2023
Ontario’s Conservative Government Eliminates One-Time Arts Grants
"The Ford government says it will maintain its $60-million in base funding for the Ontario Arts Council in next week’s budget but will not...
Vermeer Detective: His Captivating Theory About The Artist’s Daughter
Of course, I sometimes still had to weather the churning roil of his stream of consciousness. I won’t try to replicate his frenetic, perseverating...
How Do Choreographers Come Up With Names For Their Works?
"It's a precarious task that needs to carefully shape the audience's experience but not smother it. A title should be just enough of a...
Fascinating: What Scientists Are Learning About Cognition In Animals
More and more scientists are realizing that animals, like people, are individuals: They have distinct tendencies, habits, and life experiences that may affect how...
Ai Weiwei Recreates Monet’s Water Lilies With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Legos
The exiled Chinese artist's Water Lilies #1 is 50 feet long and incorporates 650,000 Lego bricks in 22 colors. The first public display of...
Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Struggles On Through Invasion And War
"The number of titles published in Ukraine was cut almost in half last year, dropping from 17,000 in 2021 to just under 9,000. …...
How Aaron Sorkin Is Remaking The Script Of “Camelot” Into Something Today’s Audiences Can...
The songs "How to Handle a Woman" and "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" haven't aged well, and the book of the Lerner &...
NPR And WHYY Will Make 40 Years Of “Fresh Air” Archives Available To Paid...
"Subscribers to Fresh Air+ will also get more recent exclusives, such as unaired excerpts from recent interviews and behind-the-scenes content that pulls back the...
Perhaps For The First Times, A Prominent Podcast Company Is Sold To Its Employees
Jesse Thorn, host/producer of the public radio show Bullseye and founder/owner of Maximum Fun, which produces several other podcasts, worried about the fate of...
Yet Another Director Of A Major Moscow Museum Is Ousted
Just a month after the director of the Tretyakov Gallery was forced to resign after being pressured to make the exhibits "in line with...
Virginia Zeani, Soprano And Teacher Revered By Colleagues, Is Dead At 97
"The conductor Richard Bonynge ranked her among the top four sopranos of the 20th century. And according to Ms. Zeani, Maria Callas's husband,...
Artists Protest Proposal To Triple Fees For Artist Visas To The US
O-1 visas for “individuals with extraordinary ability or achievement” would increase from $460 to $1,655. P-2 visas would jump from $460 to $1,615. The...
Bollywood Music Removed From Spotify
Spotify says it's not been able to reach an agreement with the owners of the tracks after the old one expired. Soundtracks with millions...
Using Tech To Probe The Grammar Of Dance
The Functional Grammar of Dance (FGD) explains how body parts create meaning by interacting with the space and the people surrounding dancers in a performance....
How Theatre Is Doing In A Post-Pandemic (Yeah, We Know) World
The more pressing question, now that theatres are back in some kind of business, is: How is business? Are audiences coming back at anything like pre-pandemic...
New Technology That Reads A Movie Audience To Alter The Plot
Using this data from the brain, audiences create a non-conscious edit of the film in real time – reinforcing the films’ respective stories of science-fiction dystopia...
A Headlong Scramble To Protect Artists In A Time Of AI
Collective campaigns, lawsuits, international rules and IT hacks are all being deployed at speed on behalf of the creative industries in an effort, if...
Timbuktu Isn’t The Only West African City With Libraries Full Of Priceless Medieval Manuscripts
The oasis town of Chinguetti in north-central Mauritania, a major trans-Saharan trading stop in centuries past, has 13 libraries housing more than 6,000 manuscripts....
In Our Distraction Maze, It May Be That Slower Art Becomes More Valuable
Paradoxically, we may come to want the things that we cannot have in an instant, that demand our time and patience before they will reveal...
How Does A Public Radio Star Cope With Hearing Loss? Ask Mary Louise Kelly
"When I'm anchoring, I never have trouble, because the NPR studio is soundproof — there's no background noise to distract you, and I wear...
The Museum Director Who Stayed In Ukraine To Protect Culture
Her ideas of war had come from art—from photographs of the devastated city of Warsaw, which appeared deserted in the still images; from books...
A Shostakovich Operetta About Australia’s Housing Crisis
"What could be more pressing than an operetta about the housing crisis? This is something that everybody in Australia is grappling with at the...
Just How Important Is Identity To Who You Are?
In an identity crisis we question our purpose in life, what our role or place in society is, what values we ought to be...
Iranian Women Are Posting Protest Videos On TikTok, Dancing Without Headscarves
Earlier this month a video of five teen girls dancing -- bareheaded, outdoors -- to the Rema/Selena Gomez hit "Calm Down" went viral. The...
The Ideas About Threats To Truth That Orwell And Camus Shared
The political turbulence of twentieth-century Europe forced both Camus and Orwell to confront the question of truth as a matter of necessity, even and...
