ArtsJournal1
Construction Of New Cultural Facilities Has Come Roaring Back: Study
The sixth annual Cultural Infrastructure Index, produced by AEA Consulting, has found that "after a predictable dip in 2020, due to broader pandemic lockdowns,...
The Problem With Remote And Hybrid Work, And How To Solve It
Remote work may be good for efficiency but it's deadly for team-building. So, just as the development of multi-location businesses led to the creation...
Surprising Good News: New Indie Bookstores Are Opening, Doing Good Business, And Serving Diverse...
Many of them opened during the pandemic shutdown, such as The Salt Eaters Bookshop in L.A. County and Socialight Society in Lansing, Mich., oriented...
Australia’s Beloved Skywhale Balloon Gets Torn In High Winds
Skywhale and her companion, Skywhalepapa, were to appear at an event in Ballarat, a historic town 72 miles WNW of Melbourne that's notorious for...
All Those TikTok Viral Dance Challenges? This Is Not The First Time America Has...
"A century later, the animal dance craze — and the issues it raises around body autonomy and regulation — is part of the legacy...
Here’s Who’s Replacing Beanie Feldstein And Jane Lynch In “Funny Girl” On Broadway
After Labor Day, Lea Michele, who has famously wanted the role for years, will play Fanny Brice, and Tovah Feldshuh will play her mother,...
Edouard Louis, His Mother, And The “Archaeology Of The Destruction Of A Smile”
Not long ago, the 29-year-old French memoirist (The End of Eddy) found an old snapshot of his mother at age 20 with a bright,...
This Couple Bought Their Small Newspaper Back From Gannett
Amy Duncan was editor and publisher, and her husband, Mark Davitt, managing editor, of The Record-Tribune in Indianola, Iowa, and when they heard that...
Old Redlined Neighborhoods In New Haven Have Become Havens For Black Artists
"A community of artists — many of color — has blossomed in unassuming districts with names like East Rock, Newhallville and Fair Haven. Most...
What Gives Some Peoples The Strength To Fight And Overcome Far Stronger Adversaries?
"Throughout history, those willing to sacrifice for cause and comrades ... have often prevailed against more powerful forces that mainly rely on material incentives...
Beanie Feldstein Is Leaving Broadway’s “Funny Girl” Two Months Early
"Playing Fanny Brice on Broadway has been a lifelong dream of mine, and doing so ... has been a great joy and true honor. ...
America’s First Luthier And (Probably) First Composer Of Chamber Music
"Though the exaggerated myths of early America often don't reflect reality, there are obscure lives whose remarkable stories go untold. From chases on the...
Using Dance To Teach Girls Of Color To Code
The idea behind DanceLogic is that "both coding and dance use repetition and combination, so using dance as a hook to attract girls to...
For The Age Of #MeToo, There’s Still A Lot Of Old-Fashioned Misogyny Being Put...
Arifa Akbar: "It is hard to tell if the industry is merely casting an appraising glance back at the gender politics of the past...
The Most Unlikely Literary Rediscovery Ever? “Don Quixote” In Sanskrit
The 1937 translation was commissioned two years previously by wealthy American accounting executive Carl Tilden Keller, who already had versions of Cervantes's novel in...
Black Mountain College — The Underfunded, Never-Accredited, Long-Defunct Rural School That Transformed American Arts...
It only operated from 1933-1957 in North Carolina's Swannanoa Valley, and its great impact was through its summer program. But to see how important...
Roy Moore Loses His Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen Over The “Pedophile Detector” In...
Moore, the notorious judge and Senate candidate from Alabama, sued Cohen for $95 million, alleging he was deceived and defamed in the latter's 2018...
What Was (Or What Is) The Chitlin Circuit?
It was a network of theaters, nightclubs, and church halls throughout the US where Black entertainers performed during the segregation era, and where many...
Why Not Just Have A Robot Make Copies Of The Elgin Marbles To Replace...
Oxford's Institute for Digital Archaeology has lidar-scanned some of the sculptures at the British Museum; its robot is now chiseling copies of them from...
A Battle Breaks Out Over Who Gets To Design And Make Philadelphia’s Harriet Tubman...
When Wesley Wofford's touring sculpture of Tubman stopped there this winter, it was wildly popular, and the city commissioned him to make a permanent...
As Boris Johnson’s Prime Ministership Collapsed, British TV News Got Very, Very Weird
Featured on the commercial networks' coverage this week: a "Government Resignations Ticker", an anti-Brexit campaigner belting "Bye Bye Boris", a discussion of the Tories'...
Actor James Caan Dead At 82
"(He) memorably displayed his tough-guy screen presence as the trigger-happy Mafioso Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (among many other roles) but also proved, beyond...
Clint Eastwood Wins $2 Million In Lawsuit Against Defendants Who Used His Name And...
"The verdict is the second in favor of the actor in a pair of suits against CBD manufacturers and marketers that fabricated news articles...
Twitter Sues Indian Government Over Orders To Remove Tweets
"Twitter's suit, filed in the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore, challenges a recent order from the Indian government for the company to remove content...
CBC News Is Launching A New Streaming Service. But Aren’t They Providing Us Enough...
There are the main TV and radio networks, a cable channel (CBCNN), streaming service CBC Gem, the app, the YouTube channel, the "documentary Channel"...
