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As I hear my student playing the piano through Zoom, just for a moment, I think I am hearing Paderewski in 1912. The sound...
Raising the flag
As it happens, I don’t care at all for Childe Hassam’s better-known etchings — I find them fussy — but lithography brought out a...
A Year Into The Pandemic, Dancers Talk About How They’ve Adjusted Their Movement And...
"How are dancers developing performance energy? How can artistry best be communicated through the camera? What is the best angle to present technique? Dance...
A Lawsuit About AI And Intellectual Property Law Now Involves R2D2 And WALL-E
An American company is suing a Chinese company in U.S. federal court for copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property violations. The goods in question?...
Singing By Hand: How To Translate Songs Into American Sign Language
"A good A.S.L. performance prioritizes dynamics, phrasing and flow. The parameters of sign language — hand shape, movement, location, palm orientation and facial expression...
The Saga Of The Jefferson Davis Chair Comes To An End (And No, It...
A shadowy art/activist collective calling itself White Lies Matter made a bit of a stir earlier this month when it stole a chair dedicated...
Nature Documentaries Are A Lot More Like Porn Than You’d Like To Think
It's not just that they're wildly popular and can be addictive. It's because nature documentaries have at least as much artifice as any studio-produced...
The Surrealists Would Have Loved TikTok
In fact, reporter Angela Watercutter compares the 15-second-video service old Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse: "The platform, thanks to its duetting and stitching functions, automates...
Where Second City’s New Chief Means To Lead The Improv Institution
Says Jon Carr, who came to the company's Chicago headquarters from Dad's Garage in Atlanta four months ago, "It's a little strange, because there’s...
Is The CEO Who Saved Waterstones Turning Around Barnes & Noble, Too? Well, He...
To be fair, James Daunt was not at all as self-aggrandizing as that headline suggests when he spoke to the Independent Book Publishers Association...
New Turn In Saudi Arabia-vs.-Louvre ‘Salvator Mundi’ Drama (It’s Still About Spite, Though)
Last week several news outlets reported, based on a French TV documentary, that the world's most expensive artwork wasn't in the Louvre's big 2019...
Fabio Luisi, Dallas Symphony Music Director, Takes A Third Orchestra
The Italian maestro, who is also chief conductor of the Danish National Symphony and is now winding up his term as music director of...
Doubting Thomas: Greenville County Museum Sells “Alma’s Flower Garden” in a Non-Transparent Transaction
Taking a page from the problematic playbooks of the Berkshire, Everson and Baltimore museums, the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, has become...
Marshall Marcus Talks the UN and Arts Organizations
The Secretary General of the European Union Youth Orchestra shares about the connection between the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the mission of arts...
Yes, There Really Was An Eleanor Rigby
Paul McCartney invented the details of her life as recounted in the famous Beatles song, but he found her name on a gravestone in...
Even Japanese Poetry Is Getting Messed Up By Climate Change
The natural world has always been a key subject of Japanese verse, and there's even an established body of words — kigo — that...
Preserving Websites With User-Generated Content When Corporate Owners Want To Pull The Plug
"After seeing yet another situation where a longstanding Yahoo-owned website is shutting down, I'm left to wonder if the problem is that the...
Dive Bars That Are Backbone Of Spain’s Flamenco Scene Are Getting Wiped Out By...
"These small clubs, called tablaos, have acted as a springboard for generations of flamenco artists in Spain to launch professional careers. … But that...
Granta’s New List Of The Best Young Writers Working In Spanish
"Eleven years after publishing its first collection of the finest up-and-coming authors in Spanish, Granta magazine is releasing a second volume that brings together...
Impromptu Arts Relief Funds That Sprang Up In Pandemic’s Early Days May Be Around...
As lockdowns arrived and spread, many mutual aid networks, mostly small-scale, were put together on the fly to help the many thousands of suddenly...
An Entire 3,000-Year-Old City Has Been Uncovered In Egypt
Excavating in an area between large temples at Luxor, a team led by famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass found the ruins of an entire working...
There’s Still A Tyranny Of Thinness In Ballet. It Just Gets Worded Differently.
"Today's ballet teachers and company directors know that they can no longer simply instruct their dancers to lose weight. But that doesn't mean they've...
First Day For Performance Venues To Apply For Federal Pandemic Relief Was A Disaster
"As the government prepared on Thursday to start taking applications for a $16 billion relief fund for music clubs, theaters and other live event...
One Of Philadelphia’s Leading Pianists Held For Trial On Sexual Assault Charge
" now-21-year-old Temple student said that Mikhail Yanovitsky, 56, hugged, kissed, and fondled her while she practiced piano in a classroom at Temple's...
This $1,780 Painting May Actually Be A Caravaggio
The 44"-by-34" depiction of Christ with the crown of thorns was thought to be by José de Ribera, a minor 17th-century Spanish artist, and...
