Monthly Archives: May 2024
A New Beckett Festival Is Coming To Liverpool
Co-curated by actor Adrian Dunbar, Beckett: Unbound 2024 is "a multiarts festival that juxtaposes familiar pieces by the Dublin-born author with new responses to...
A Tale Of Two Orchestra Initiatives
Philly’s program is swimming, while Pittsburgh’s, after making initial waves, is treading water. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Why The American Youth Symphony Orchestra Collapsed So Suddenly
"This is a cautionary tale of performing-arts nonprofits, of board burnout, of soaring costs in a post-COVID world, of the precarious state of philanthropy....
From The American Youth Symphony’s Ashes, A New Orchestra Quickly Arose
"Conductor Anthony Parnther and the Musicians at Play Foundation speedily formed a new training orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Los Angeles, and scheduled an inaugural...
U.S. House Committee Begins Hearings To Investigate NPR For Alleged Bias
"NPR CEO Katherine Maher was a no-show today (at the hearing) but she will 'testify on a date in the near future that works...
UCal Davis Gets $20 Million Gift To Beef Up Arts Programs
"San Francisco philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem has promised UC Davis the largest gift ever to arts at the school — $20 million to create...
Washington National Opera Offers A New Ending For Puccini’s “Turandot”
Puccini died before composing the final scene, and many find the standard ending by Franco Alfano unsatisfying. This alternative by composer Christopher Tin and...
AI Helps Identify Forgeries Of Monet, Renoir On eBay
"Dr. Carina Popovici, a specialist in authenticating artwork, said she applied cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to pictures advertised on the online platform and was...
John Waters Briefly Hospitalized After Car Accident
The 78-year-old filmmaker/artist/author's car was struck near Baltimore by a driver running a red light. "Since it hurts when I laugh," he said in...
Reinventing The Meaning Of Work In Europe
Data suggest that something is amiss: across Europe, the average proportion of 15-29-year-olds not in work nor education or training exceeds the EU’s 9% target....
New Jersey Is Building A Billion-Dollar Studio Production Complex
The state economic development authority today approved a partnership with a $1+ billion studio complex including 22 sound stages set to rise in the...
Silent Disco And What We’ve Learned About The Power Of Moving Together
So what does the “silent disco” phenomenon tell us about dance? Researchers have used it to study social dynamics, finding that it interferes with the...
The Eccentric Volunteers That Make The Oxford English Dictionary Work
Though the OED is published by Oxford University Press, it is, in many respects, the spiritual and intellectual opposite of an elite university. For one thing,...
Evelyn Glennie On Music As A Physical Phenomenon In Your Body
I’m not a medical person, but we do know that sound is about vibration. The body is like a resonating chamber; every part of...
Study: Arts Branding Results Down, Values Up
Arts and cultural organisations that are achieving the strongest audience growth right now are not necessarily those pouring the most money into their branding...
The Kids’ Show “Bluey” Can Make Grownups Cry. What’s Its Secret? Classical Music, That’s...
Musicologist Sarah Caissie Provost lays out the evidence. - Slate (Yahoo!)
How Headline Language Shapes Perception Of Stories
We found, for example, saying “Scientists believe methane emissions soared to a record in 2021” led readers to view methane levels as more a...
When ESPN Meets Mark Morris Dance Group
"The new ESPN+ series 'Tryouts,' … tracks some of the country’s most intense tryouts and auditions. Rather than focusing exclusively on traditional sports, many...
AI Bots Are Flooding The Web With Fake Reviews And Comments
We found AdVon had been running a similar operation at the magazine Sports Illustrated, publishing product reviews using bylines of fake writers with fictional biographies and AI-generated profile...
Why Yan Lianke Would Prefer That You Not Call Him “China’s Most Censored Author”
"Several years ago, a Chinese author spent hundreds of thousands of yuan bribing the Chinese publishing industry (to) criticize and ban his works," so...
Visitors Buying Tickets To Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Scammed By Fraudsters
Around 50 people sounded the alarm to the institution after coming across an imitation website purporting to sell tickets to see Van Gogh’s greatest...
A Play About Sexual Assault Is Being Used To Train Judges
Playwright Suzie Miller's Prima Facie, a one-woman show about a defense attorney in sexual assault cases who is then raped by a colleague, starred...
100-Year-Old Sam Ash Music Stores To Close
Derek Ash, whose great-grandparents, Sam and Rose Ash, opened the first Sam Ash store in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn in 1924, said the...
Museum That Was Court-Ordered To Admit Men To Its Women-Only Exhibition Finds A Work-Around
Kirsha Kaechele's installation Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania will be made into an actual ladies' lounge...
After Eight Years Of Work, Broadway’s Palace Theatre Has A Beautiful, New, Very Blue...
"The venue, owned and operated by the Nederlander Organization, will house Ben Platt: Live at the Palace for a limited engagement beginning May 28,...
