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How The Geffen Sounds, From Every Seat In The House
The hall "seems to have achieved a rare distinction in its engineering for sound: consistency. No seat in the hall ... is appreciably better...
Dungeons And Dragons, But Make It Mental Health
Because so many people are used to using tabletop role-playing games, some therapists have decided to adapt the tools of the games. - Wired
Singer Carly Simon’s Sisters, Both Musicians, Died This Week
Lucy Simon, 82, was a Tony-nominated Broadway composer; Joanna Simon, 85, was a mezzo-soprano who (according to The New York Times) "stood out for...
More Money Means More Museums
Check out a certain state in particular: "Collectors across the country are choosing to start their own museums, and perhaps nowhere has this trend...
On Anniversary Of On-Set Shooting, Prosecutor Warns Of Potential Indictment
A year after Alec Baldwin fired the gun whose bullet killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a New Mexico prosecutor said in a statement, "No one...
The Ursula Le Guin Fiction Prize Names Its First Winner
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, author of The House of Rust, won the prize, named for the legendary Portland author and activist - but "Le Guin...
Why We Still Need Physical Archives
For one thing, it's nearly impossible to digitize everything in an archive, or to connect it in context. "Physical documents can help us understand...
British Arts Venues Feel Desperate In The Deepening Cost Of Living Crisis
"Those institutions which made it – sometimes barely – through the pandemic are now contending with huge leaps in fuel prices, increased staffing costs,...
New Yorker Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl Has Died At 80
Schjeldahl was a poet, art lover and sometime artist before he became an art critic. The Fourth of July parties he and wife Brooke...
The Joys Of Hunting For Fossils In DC
No, not the human kind. "The District was, all jokes aside, a lush swamp back in the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs, muck-dwelling mollusks and megalodons...
Earning Disparities Persist For ‘Non-Professional’ Artists
A new study shows that artists who are women and/or BIPOC earn about 23 percent less than white men, even in the non-professional creative...
Goodnight Moon At 75
Jacqueline Woodson: "The ‘goodnight nobody’ always caught me by surprise and made me think ... I thought in including that ‘Goodnight nobody’ spread, Hurd...
Paul Newman, In His Own Words
Why a new biography now, 14 years after the star actor died? "The book is assembled from five years’ worth of interviews that the...
A Timeline Of When Artist Ben Sakoguchi Was Excluded From The California Biennial
It's not a simple tale. The Orange County Museum of Art asked him what to say to viewers who were made uncomfortable. He responded,...
How Director Park Chan-Wook Channels Hitchcock
"The mystery genre, Park’s chosen conduit this time around, scratches an existential itch in the human condition, he thinks. Since our lives overflow with...
Artistic Communes Aren’t A Gen-Z Invention
Just ask the writers of the 18th century like Coleridge and Shelley (perhaps not Mary Shelley, whose experience was, well, different). - The Guardian...
The Incredible Lightness Of Becoming A Ballet Star
Unity Phelan, who made three debuts in one week this seasons, says, "I always try to keep it light even when I’m just stressed...
Italian TV And Movies Are On An Export High
Those exports are still relatively rare, but the increase is notable. "Significantly, half of the 48 titles exported by Italy around the world over...
How Poet Jorie Graham Is Dealing With The Long Climate Emergency
Graham gives her readers the possibility of "adaptation and radical witness. Her language and poetic structure adapt to her changing world and reality, and...
Oh No, John Cleese, What Happened To You?
John Cleese told the BBC, on the BBC, that the BBC probably wouldn't let him speak. "In a previous appearance, also on the BBC,...
Go Ahead, Buy That Piano
"Some things in life are meant to be heavy and indebting and antiquated; they are meant to demand regular and highly specialized maintenance; they...
Is The Royal Society Of Arts Forcing Out Unionizing Workers?
A staffer who spoke to The Observer last week was fired, and others were told not to say anything about the union in public....
Why A Horror Film’s Number One Opening Weekend Has Renewed The Streaming Debate
Would Halloween Ends have opened bigger if it weren't also streaming on Peacock? Maybe. - Seattle Times (AP)
Los Angeles City Councilors’ Leaked Racist Audio Turns Oaxaquena Bands Into Stars
Las Cafeteras, a band, composed a love song to Oaxaca in response. One band member: "It’s now our responsibility, I think, as people of...
Russian Troops Murder Conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko, Who Refused To Perform For Them
"Conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko declined to take part in a concert 'intended by the occupiers to demonstrate the so-called ‘improvement of peaceful life’ in Kherson,'"...
