Monthly Archives: May 2024
With “Illinoise”, Justin Peck Has Expanded The Idea Of What A Broadway Musical Can...
"The 37-year old’s directorial debut is the result of a three-force collaboration: the dance is by Peck himself to Stevens’s introspective coming-of-age album with...
Australian Arts Organizations Struggle With Inflation In Costs
Unfortunately, it’s not only large-scale music festivals that are copping severe losses, as many other vital players within the performing arts are battling rising...
Puccini The Modernist?
"Puccini is typically seen as representing the end of a tradition, but might he actually have sown the seeds of a variety of new...
How Your Sense Of Time Impacts Your Creativity
When it comes to how you would ideally plan your days, the research suggests that people differ, with some more drawn to clock time...
Well, Here’s What Happened When Another Large Country Banned TikTok
"After (a 2020) border skirmish, the Indian government banned the app. … As the app's 150 million US users swipe through videos in limbo,...
One-Quarter Of Young-Adult-Lit Readers Are More Than 28 Years Old
"According to the report (commissioned by HarperCollins), 74% of YA readers were adults, and 28% were over the age of 28. The research suggests...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals In Paris Arrested Before They Could Vandalize Art
"Two people were arrested on Sunday morning at the entrance of the Musée d’Orsay for being suspected of attempting to damage classified property. …...
When James Baldwin Went To Hollywood
He loved cinema all his life and wrote some genuinely great film criticism. Yet, says one Baldwin scholar, he "craved an Oscar almost as...
State Of The Arts In The US: Cultural Organizations’ Staffing Levels Post-COVID
"On average, organizations retained their full-time staff through pandemic shutdowns. Average staff size has grown over the last two years (2022 to 2023) through...
Author Paul Auster Dead At 77
"Called the 'dean of American post-modernists' and 'the most meta of American meta-fictional writers,' Auster blended history, politics, genre experiments, existential quests and self-conscious...
Toronto’s Largest Art Museum Reopens After Monthlong Strike
"The Art Gallery of Ontario, which closed to the public on March 26 as more than 400 unionized workers went on strike, (reopened) on...
