Monthly Archives: May 2024
How Actors Memorize Their Lines
Repeating items over and over, called maintenance rehearsal, is not the most effective strategy for remembering. Instead, actors engage in elaborative rehearsal, focusing their...
A Surging Revival Of Calligraphy
Calligraphy, a centuries-old art form, is seeing a surge of interest, including among young people more familiar with coding than cursive. - The New York...
Bloomsbury Buys Big Academic Publisher
The purchase, which has already been completed, adds more than 40,000 academic titles published under the Rowman & Littlefield and Lexington Books imprints, which...
The Freaky, Fetishistic, Ferocious, Fascinating Flamenco Of Rocío Molina
"She moves in jaw-dropping ways: unexpected, angular, sometimes comical, intense, mesmerising, with blistering technique. … That’s just her dancing. Then there are the productions...
Songs For Working
"When was the last time you passed a worksite and heard their radio playing music that had something to do with their work, or...
How Director Mary Friedman Solved The Riddle Of Sondheim’s Notoriously Challenging “Merrily We Roll...
"Casting, casting, casting is the obvious answer," writes Charles McNulty, "though there’s a bit more to it than that." Friedman and star Jonathan Groff...
OpenAI Makes Licensing Deals With Atlantic, Vox
“The publishers willing to roll over this way aren’t just failing to defend their own intellectual property — they are also trading their own...
Why San Francisco Opera Is Getting Trauma Counselors For Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence”
"(The company) has developed trauma trainings, a symposium, and post-performance discussions to help guide people through the heavy subject matter" — a mass shooting...
Artists Add Value, Then Value Goes Up, Then Artists Can’t Afford The Neighborhood. So...
In Chicago, San Francisco and Boston, these groups are adopting unique organizational and financial structures to survive in overheated real estate markets. These arts...
Kaija Saariaho’s Harrowing Final Opera Arrives In The U.S., Where It Will Be Even...
Innocence, as the work is called, has been hugely impressing (and depressing) audiences and critics in Europe since its 2021 premiere at the Aix-en-Provence...
A Once-In-A-Generation Talent At NY City Ballet
Now, at just 23, she is a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, approaching the close of a momentous season at Lincoln Center, where...
Hollywood’s Tech Crew Members Are “In Panic Mode” As Aftereffects Of Strikes Linger
The volume of film and video being produced in Southern California is still far below what it was before last year's writers' and actors'...
Harvey Weinstein Will Likely Face New, Separate Sexual Assault Charges In New York
Manhattan prosecutors, preparing for retrial after Weinstein's 2020 conviction was overturned by New York state's highest court in late April, say they'll try to...
Drag Now Has Its Own National Advocacy And Service Organization
"Qommittee says it hopes, among other things, to connect drag performers and communities lacking in local support to resources including legal aid and therapy....
London’s Evening Standard To End Daily Print Edition And Become Free Weekly
The Standard, which has suffered six straight annual losses (most recently, £16.4 million through October 2022), hopes to repeat the successful switch to digital-only...
Sotheby’s To Lay Off 50 Staffers In Its UK Office: Report
"The house is reportedly set to cut around 50 employees based in London, and … similar layoffs may follow in New York and at...
It’s True: Audra McDonald Will Play Mama Rose In “Gypsy” On Broadway This Fall
“It’s one of the great roles in musical theater, and I’ve always thought maybe some day I could try it,” she said. “It scares...
La Scala’s Departing Superintendent Leaves The House, And Its Opera And Ballet Companies, In...
Despite beginning the job just as COVID shut down live performance, Dominique Meyer has increased corporate sponsorships to €38 million and has seen both...
British Museum Recovers 626 Of Its 1500 Missing Antiquities (Some Listed On EBay)
Most of the missing items are ancient gems and pieces of jewelry from Greece and Rome. Some were listed on eBay by the seller...
The UK’s Arts World Is Scrapping Over Funding. It’s A Distraction
The reality is that they are all scrapping over crumbs when the real betrayal is the state’s paltry investment in the arts. This includes the music education that...
AI Is Provoking Reconsideration Of Philosophy
Language has been a central object of philosophical attention ever since the ‘linguistic turn’ in the beginning of the 20th century. What can the emergence...
What Obligation Does A City Have To Physically Commemorate Its History?
While monuments to important figures and concepts are useful teaching tools, nothing is quite as impactful as physically confronting a space where historical tragedies...
A NY Banksy Museum Without Banksys?
“Banksy changed the rules. If you want to organize something about Banksy, you have to change the rules also,” he said on a recent...
Richard Sherman, 95, Co-Creator Of Iconic Disney Songs
“They were made by God for Walt Disney,” said Dick Van Dyke, who starred in “Mary Poppins” opposite Julie Andrews. “They somehow managed to...
What One Finds In Alice Munro’s Notebooks
"In them one finds a little bit of everything: fragments and false starts, alternate endings, even drawings. The notebooks were where Munro tinkered and...
