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The US Has Lost 360 Newspapers Since 2019
"That is on top of the 2,500 closures since 2004 documented in earlier reports. The result is even more 'news deserts' in poorer and...
Can New York City Public Schools Have Both Smaller Class Sizes And Music And...
Probably not, says Education Through Music executive director Janice Weinman, and especially not this year. The state legislature just passed a law requiring the...
The Poetry Of Marilyn Monroe
She wrote poetry regularly, though she never published any of it. Sure, she was no Marianne Moore, but there's real thought and feeling in...
Who Was St. Sebastian, And How Did He Become A Major Element In Gay...
He was a Roman soldier martyred in the 3rd century CE, traditionally depicted tied to a tree, wearing only a loincloth, his bare torso...
The Bells Of Notre-Dame And The Sounds You Never Knew They’ve Been Making
Large cast-metal bells like the ten at the Paris cathedral (they survived the 2019 fire) emit sounds all the time: when they're not actively...
Queering Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Yes, Serge Diaghilev was what we might call today queer, but he certainly couldn't be open about it — and neither could the pathbreaking...
Foley Artists And The Secrets Of Movie Sounds
"The bulk of the sound in film is typically added in postproduction. ... Foley effects are custom to a film, and are synchronized to...
The Oberammergau Passion Play, An Almost 400-Year-Old Tradition, Is Not Just Back, It’s Better
"Thanks to steady work since 1990 to maximize the play's ecumenicism via ever bolder changes in characterizations and design" — in particular, altering anti-Semitic...
The One American City Where Contemporary Classical Music Has Become The Norm
Mark Swed: "New York, London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam happen to be historically vibrant centers of new music. ... But new music hasn't in...
Orlando Museum Of Art’s Board Fires Director In Wake Of Basquiat Fiasco
"Aaron De Groft ... was removed from his post Tuesday night, just days after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the museum and seized...
Met Museum President Daniel Weiss Will Step Down Next June
"During his tenure, Weiss steered the Met through a major restructuring of its finances, a shakeup of its leadership, and economic and moral crises...
Staffers At France’s Entire National Broadcasting System Go On Strike To Protest Elimination Of...
"Thousands of staffers and freelancers working for France's public broadcasting groups, spanning France Télévisions, France 24, Arte and Radio France, went on strike on...
Warm-Up Vocal Exercises From Three Very Different Classical Singing Disciplines
Singers of Western opera (Anthony Roth Costanzo), Cantonese opera (Pui Yan Li), and Carnatic (South Indian classical) music (Ganavya Doraiswamy) demonstrate what they do...
A Love Story Created By Artificial Intelligence (And What It Does And Doen’t Mean...
Stephen Marche: "The love story below is my attempt to develop an idealized love story out of all the love stories that I have...
Saudi Arabia’s New Cultural Destination Will Have Five Major Works Of Earth Art, Including...
"Five permanent artworks are planned for Wadi AlFann" — a "valley of the arts," part of the $15 billion AlUla complex which will be...
Ken Knowlton, A Father Of Computer Graphics And Animation, Dead At 91
"(He) helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies." - The New...
So Just Who Was E.T.A. Hoffmann?
"Known today primarily for his literary works, it is often forgotten that ETA Hoffmann, a multi-faceted artist and universal genius, also practised as a...
The Dark E.T.A. Hoffmann Stories At The Heart Of Two Of The World’s Favorite...
The Nutcracker and Coppélia were not originally the gentle, nervous-parent-friendly tales you might expect from the ballets. Indeed, Hoffman's original Coppélia story gets downright...
Visiting Museums Really Is Good For Mental Health: U.S. Study
"New research from the University of Pennsylvania found reductions in anxiety and depression and increases in cognitive function and empathy, among a number of...
Can The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Save The Golden Globes (Or Itself)? Should It?
There was a boycott of the Globes last year when it became public that the HFPA had zero black members. "But now that the...
Broadway’s Cleaning Workers Get A Much-Improved New Contract
Most of those workers haven't gotten a raise since before the arrival of the pandemic, which gave them lots of extra work and potential...
San Diego Opera’s Ticket Sales This Season Were $1 Million Below Projections, But The...
Thank heaven for COVID relief grants. And advance ticket sales for the coming season look promising. - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Antonio Banderas And Andrew Lloyd Webber Are Forming A Production Company For Live Performance...
Amigos Para Siempre ("friends forever"), as the firm is called, will produce musicals, plays, and other live events for Spanish-speaking markets throughout the world,...
Can We Cut Poor Old Polonius A Break?
"Polonius isn't a good father. Good fathers don't make good drama. But he's a good character, more complex than critics usually recognize. Polonius is...
How A Phantasmagorical Poem By Charles Darwin’s Grandfather First Set Down In Words The...
In 1789, Erasmus Darwin — physician, pathologist, abolitionist, and botanist as well as poet — published a strange set of cantos under the title...
