Yearly Archives: 2023
Keen To Polish Their Hometown’s Tarnished Image, Hong Kong’s Flagship Performing Arts Companies Are...
After several years of protests, repression, and COVID lockdowns dimmed the city's international reputation and kept its performers at home, the Hong Kong Philharmonic,...
Teddy Abrams: The Next Model Of A Modern Major Maestro?
The 36-year-old music director of the Louisville Orchestra has largely eschewed the touring-guest-conductor circuit many of his peers use to build careers. He...
This Again: A Mass Transit System Is Going To Play Classical Music At Stations
The Tyne and Wear Metro, which serves the Newcastle-Gateshead-Sunderland area in northeastern England, played classical in some parts of the system 20 years ago...
Rumors Are Flying That A Right-Wing Journalist Will Be Made President Of The Venice...
No announcement has been made, and the current president remains eligible for a second contract term. Nevertheless, several Italian newspapers report that author/broadcaster Pietrangelo...
Free Luxury Housing For The Director: A Perk That Major Cultural Institutions Are Starting...
Many large organizations, such as the Met Museum, have owned condos or houses that they provide to their CEOs rent- and tax-free, as both...
Are UK Arts Selling Out To Corporations?
In the UK, there are three potentially large funding pots for the arts: government, local authority and private. Anyone who has lived through the...
How To Make Writing Better Than ChatGPT
If we want to push the art of writing out of a computer’s reach, the questions posed in writing workshops should go past “How...
The Potential Of AI To Assist Artists
I am a composer who has used creative AI in my music and sound practice for almost two decades. My creative practice and research has focused...
How Folk Music Got Into The Mainstream
Knowing there was no way for him to compete with the established recording companies, Asch’s plan was to do what they wouldn’t: record what...
Pronouncement Culture: Whether Something Is “Good” Or “Bad” Sometimes Isn’t The Point
Just about everyone has been made to feel like shit because someone with “good taste” declared that something they love is bad. We’ve been...
Greek Island Declares Emergency Over Over-Tourism
For a broad range of Sifnians the island is rapidly approaching a state of crisis, as unregulated development and overtourism have kick-started a grim...
Reviving Merce Cunningham’s “Beach Birds” On An Actual Beach
"The glittering scene seemed like a dream. Surveying the shoreline of Rockaway Beach on a recent morning, Patricia Lent, from the Merce Cunningham Trust,...
The Culture And Museums Lost In The Maui Fire
“We’ve lost four museums. If you’re into environmentalism, if you’re into surfing, if you’re into history, something was lost in all those ways.” - Artnet
A Bio-Musical About Hunter S. Thompson? Now That’s A Gonzo Idea.
And it's not called Fear and Loathing, either. In fact, its title is The Untitled, Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, it's premiering next week...
Scientists: A Link Between Being Creative And Aesthetic Choices
Neuroscientists currently agree that the creative process has two parts: coming up with ideas and then assessing them to choose the good ones. Led...
This Bespoke Video Message Service Is Helping Actors Earn A Bit Of Money During...
"Cameo, which allows celebrities to send personalized video messages to fans for a fee, … has seen a notable uptick of new talent onboarding...
How To Value A Song? The Music Business Is In A Confused State Right...
The discrepancy between the way digital download storefronts like iTunes and streaming platforms like Spotify value the worth of a song is going to...
Behold The World’s Best New Public Library
"A Barcelona library specialising in Latin American literature has been named the best new public library in the world by the International Federation of...
Schools Reverse ChatGPT Bans, Wrestle With How To Use AI With Students
As schools reopen for fall, educators and district leaders are wrestling with complex questions posed by the A.I. tools: What should writing assignments look...
This Ukrainian City Named Its Museum After A Still-Beloved Local Hero. But He Was...
Yukhym Prigozhin was a mining engineer who helped make the city of Zhovti Vody prosperous. But his brother's grandson grew up to be the...
Arts Groups In Texas Are Confused And Worried About The State’s New It’s-Not-Just-Anti-Drag-Anymore Law
When specific reference to drag in the bill, known as SB 12, attracted national criticism, it was redrafted to cover "sexually-oriented performance" — defined...
Edith Wharton’s Never-Produced Play Is Finally Having Its Premiere
She wrote The Shadow of a Doubt in 1901 and came close to seeing it staged briefly on Broadway, only for the project to...
LACMA Finally Meets The Fundraising Goal For Its New Building That’s Already Half-Finished
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced on Tuesday that it has exceeded the $750-million goal set for its fundraising campaign for a...
Woman Who Fatally Shoved Broadway Singing Coach Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter
Lauren Pazienza, 28, acknowledged throwing 87-year-old Barbara Maier Gustern, a beloved teacher and performer, onto a Manhattan sidewalk and then walking away in March...
John Eliot Gardiner Punched A Singer In The Face Because He Walked Off The...
After conducting two acts of Berlioz's Les Troyens at a festival in France, Gardiner allegedly berated bass William Thomas, slapped and then punched him,...
