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A Talk With Yasuhisa Toyota, The Great Concert-Hall Acoustician
The man responsible for the sound at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, and the...
A March On City Hall For Arts Funding (!)
In Bristol, England, cultural organizations expected to have their upcoming grants from the local government confirmed by the end of last October; now, they're...
England’s Libraries Generate At Least £3.4 Billion In Economic Activity Every Year: Study
"Libraries in England generate at least £3.4 billion in value a year through services supporting children's literacy, digital inclusion and health, a study has...
Those Unknown Rembrandts Discovered This Past Spring Have Sold For $14.2 Million
"A pair of previously unknown and 'exceptionally rare' portraits by Rembrandt sold for over £11.2 million ($14.2 million) Thursday after they were discovered in...
“Here Lies Love”, The Imelda Marcos Disco Musical? Filipino-Americans Have Feelings About It
For immigrants, it's seeing their own history on a Broadway stage; for their children, it's a major lesson. ("Growing up, the only thing I...
Does The Karaoke Disco Musical About Imelda Marcos “Trivialize The Suffering Of Millions Of...
"Here's what to know about Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos, the People Power Revolution of 1986 and the controversies the show" — Here Lies Love,...
ABT’s Gabe Stone Shayer Publicly Calls Out The Company For Seeing Him As Black...
"Nothing bothered me more than being cast in Lifted, a 'groundbreaking' show designed to feature only ABT's Black dancers. … I trained to be...
Cultural Centers Are Burned, Bombed, And Looted In Sudan’s Savage Civil War
Museums and archives have lost their collections to bombing, at least one performing arts center has been burned down, and some places whose buildings...
On The First Day Of Threads, 30 Million Users Signed Up. Could The New...
"Threads, the latest of Meta's copycat innovations, faces a long slog in its bid to topple Twitter as the microblogging platform of choice. …...
Mario Vargas Llosa Is In The Hospital With COVID (Again)
The 87-year-old Nobel-winning novelist was hospitalized on July 1 in Madrid. This is his second bout of the respiratory illness. - CNN
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Selects An Alum As Artistic Director
As of Sept. 1, Tim Bond, who was the festival's associate artistic director from 1996-2007 and is currently AD at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, succeeds...
William Byrd: The Remarkable Life And Music Of Elizabeth I’s Favorite Composer
For years he managed the tricky business of remaining a committed Catholic at Elizabeth's Protestant court before settling in a rural haven. He wrote...
Four Leading Composers On How William Byrd’s 400-Year-Old Music Influences Their Work
Comments from Caroline Shaw, James MacMillan ("Classical music audiences tend to forget about the pre-Baroque, and it's a pity because William Byrd is one...
Wayne Sleep At 75: How The Little Firecracker Of British Ballet Became A Major...
He was a virtuoso, able to match any jump by Nureyev or Baryshnikov (and he worked with both). But, at 5'2", he'd never dance...
Another Casualty Of The Shrinking Of Dance Criticism: US Work Visas For International Dancers
Part of the stack of paperwork required for an O-1 visa is evidence that the dancer or ensemble applying possesses "extraordinary ability." Reviews from...
Here’s Stable Work That Will Use Your Studio Art MFA: Custom-Designing Corporate Artworks
"In the firms that cater to mid-market developments, art-school graduates spend their days pumping out huge volumes of the kind of innocuous work a...
Satire? Or Sunday School? Lily Janiak On The San Francisco Mime Troupe
"When I watch the shows each year, I feel like I'm at a church pageant for a religion I don't belong to. It's as...
Asian-American Actors Are Finally Getting To Move Beyond Model-Minority Characters. Way Beyond.
"For decades after The Joy Luck Club, the handful of movies with Asian-American casts mostly offered family-centric stories filled with generational hardship, sacrifice and...
Regional Theater In The US Is In A Dire State, And It’s Not All...
"The crisis is a perfect storm of bad economic and demographic trends, exacerbated by a change in cultural habits during the pandemic. … The...
Dallas Adopted A Cultural Plan In 2018. Where Does It Stand Post-Pandemic?
"By the spring of 2023, the promise of the Cultural Plan" — equity — "had gotten shoved to the side, as the so-called 'Big...
Director Of Smithsonian’s Planned Women’s History Museum Has “Withdrawn”
"Nancy Yao, who had been criticized for her handling of sexual harassment allegations at a New York museum, has withdrawn from a prestige post...
Threads, Mark Zuckerberg’s New Twitter Competitor, Makes Its Debut
"Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta's photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides 'a new, separate space for real-time updates...
One Of The World’s Oldest Newspapers Ends Its Print Edition After 320 Years
"The Wiener Zeitung, which is owned by the Austrian government but editorially independent, suffered a sharp decrease in revenue after a recent law dropped...
About Two Million Muslims Make The Pilgrimage To Mecca Every Year. What About The...
About two million people call Mecca home, and while there are concessions to the city's sacredness — no movie theaters, no loud music at...
The Jackass Who Carved Graffiti On Rome’s Colosseum Says He Had No Idea How...
"Ivan Dimitrov, a 27-year-old fitness instructor living in Bristol, wrote a letter of apology to the Rome mayor after allegedly engraving his and his...
