Monthly Archives: May 2024
As These Medieval Tibetan Monasteries Began To Crumble, Local Community Members Learned How To...
Heavy rains brought by climate change have caused serious damage to the 14th-century rammed-earth monasteries and temples of Lo Manthang in far northern Nepal....
What Made Beethoven Stand Out
What did make Beethoven stand out from the crowd was his personification of the Romantic revolution, which coincided more or less with his lifetime....
The Classical Music Sector Has Recovered Faster From COVID Than Other Art Forms. Why?
Evidence shows that even in the early post-pandemic days, music recovered more quickly nationally than other performing arts disciplines, and the losses during COVID...
How Eight Dungeons And Dragons Nerds Built Themselves An Online Mini-Empire
"In nine years, the show (Critical Role), hosted on Twitch and YouTube, has become the team’s full-time job, spawning a transmedia kingdom of novels,...
How Notions Of Apocalypse Shape Our Challenges
We have found that discussions of the apocalypse unite the ancient and modern, the religious and secular, and the revelatory and the rational. They...
Why Gregory Dolbashian Up And Moved His Dance Company To Dallas
"In the four years since making the seemingly counterintuitive decision to leave his native New York for Dallas — moving his DASH Ensemble dance...
Why Bellevue Arts Museum Is In Constant Financial Struggle
Dogged by debt, over-optimistic financial forecasting, leadership turnover and overreliance on a small group of funders, the museum patched holes by creating new ones....
The Turkish Government’s Relentless Campaign Against Author Elif Shafak
"Over the past two decades, she has become one of Turkish literature’s most attacked authors. … Shafak’s case is part of a wider trend...
If Sony And Apollo Buy Paramount Global, They Plan To Sell Off CBS And...
"The plan would include auctioning off CBS, cable channels like MTV and the Paramount Plus streaming service, said (sources). Paramount Pictures … would be...
San Diego Symphony’s $125 Million Concert Hall Renovation Is Nearly Complete
The soon-to-be-renamed venue "will now boast significantly improved acoustics, state-of-the-art new audio, visual and lighting systems, new aisles and seats angled to face the...
One Of The Great Black Broadway Musicals Premiered 50 Years Ago And Then Disappeared....
John McWhorter makes the case for Raisin — a 1973 adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun with book by her former...
Have American Universities Forgotten What, And Whom, They’re For?
For years, the numbers of fully-employed faculty have fallen as universities use poorly-paid adjunct professors instead. Yet tuition prices keep soaring. Why? Because the...
Despite Boos And Protests, Israel Makes It To Eurovision Song Contest Final
"(Eden Golan) was one of 10 acts who made it through Thursday’s semifinal, which was decided by votes from Eurovision viewers around the world....
Yet Another Public Radio Station Is Offering Buyouts And Preparing For Layoffs
This time it's Southern California Public Radio, the entity that combines KPCC and the website LAist. All full- and part-time staffers in the newsroom...
Kids’ Interest in Reading Is Dying. What’s The Reason?
At least among one audience, books are dying. Alarmingly, it’s the exact audience whose departure from reading might actually presage a catastrophe for the...
The Complete Bach — All 1000+ Pieces — Over 11 Years
This will be one the first occasions, if not the first, that all of Bach's works have been performed live and in-person in a...
Australia’s Music Festivals Are In Trouble
Chair of the inquiry, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, said there was “compelling evidence” that the government needed to intercede to stem the rising cost...
Dudamel’s Long LA Goodbye
The L.A. Phil has had an uncharacteristic amount of worry, and Gustavo Dudamel has been at the center of it. Little has seemed right...
Reconsidering Mary Poppins: Why The British Film Rating Board Keeps Reclassifying Old Movies
A distributor is legally required to ask for a new rating when it rereleases a movie that was classified before the introduction of the modern ratings...
Professor Argues AI LLMs Refute Some Fundamental Ideas Of Linguistics
He argues that LLMs demonstrate a wide range of powerful language abilities and disprove foundational assumptions underpinning Noam Chomsky’s theories and, as a consequence,...
The Prolific, Proud, Perverse Prince Of Latin American Literature
At 75, César Aira has written more than 100 books, has been translated into 37 languages, and has lately been tipped for a Nobel...
Some Museums In L.A. Are Trying An Experiment: Cutting Back On The Air Conditioning
"Museums have historically maintained strict, narrow ranges of temperatures and relative humidity since the British Museum created the standards around 100 years ago. New...
Should UK Museums Start Charging Admission?
For all kinds of reasons and on all kinds of levels, charging entrance would create a more equal culture and a more equal society. -...
She’s Been Lighting Contemporary Dance In Downtown Manhattan For 46 Years
Carol Mullins, now 85, has been designing and operating the lighting for Danspace Project since 1978. "When people ask her why she has stayed...
The Virtues Of Performing All Of Something
A composer cycle is no mean feat – for both musicians and audiences. But there is something remarkable about hearing works from the same...
