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Have We Run Out Of Useful Lessons From History?
It sure feels like that sometimes. But "if nothing ever changes, then we are all locked inside the iron cage of the present tense....
Barry Koskie’s Dream Place At The Komische Oper Berlin
"Success for me isn’t that we can sell out 92 percent of the house, it’s that we can sell out a run of Schoenberg’s...
How Did Two Caravaggio Masterworks Get Lost At Sea?
It's a history of Caravaggio's wild escapades and violent temper, a tale of armed knights bursting in to a cardinal's palace, and then a...
Spotify Claims It’s Making Millions From Podcasts
Of course, it's also paying out millions (and there are the people who left the service over its podcasting contracts with right-wing figures). But...
The Radical Indonesian Art Group Taking Over Documenta
The pitch from ruangrupa: "The lumbung, the common rice store traditionally found in Indonesian villages, built and shared by everyone. They wanted Documenta to...
How An American Saxophonist Tricked The KGB
Merryl Goldberg hand-encoded names, addresses, and other details of the Phantom Orchestra, a group of Jewish refuseniks and Christian activists trying to help Jews...
Creating A Space For Ballet Where Black Dancers’ Identity Is Welcome, Not A Problem...
Theresa Ruth Howard, guest curating at the Kennedy Center, "envisioned gathering an international lineup of dancers for something that’s rare in the traditional ballet...
Public Broadcasters Found New Space During The Pandemic
As offices relocated to, well, every employee's home, a lot of new and relatively inexpensive space opened up across the country. Public media took...
Artists And Arts Organizations Should Consider Therapy
That is, they should consider the benefits of becoming creative therapists. After all, art, performance, and (especially) music-based therapies have a lot of research-based...
Find A Surprise Renaissance Masterwork, Pay Nursing Home Bills
"A major lost painting by a follower of the Italian Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi hidden in plain sight in a London bungalow" of a 90+-year-old woman...
Will Spotify Become A Major Amazon Competitor With Audiobooks?
That sure seems like the plan. "It’s all part of a new strategy that we’re calling 'the Spotify machine'," said Spotify CEO Daniel Ek....
The Parrish Art Museum Names A New Director
The previous director left less than one year into the role. But Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, who is currently the director of the Broad Art Museum...
What The Original Jurassic Park Did For Women In Science
Laura Dern: "I’ve had the luxury of spending these 20-some odd years with young women coming up to me and talking about how they...
Solving At Least One Stradivarius Mystery Via The Science Of Tree Rings
Did Antonio Stradivari apprentice with Nicola Amati? Science says maybe! - The New York Times
Former Museum Director Opens Up About The Deep Vein Of Australian Misogyny
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, the Scot who took Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art from expensive also-ran to "trail-blazing cultural attraction," is finished being quiet about...
The Zine That Launched RuPaul Turns 35, And Gets Back Into The Spotlight
"My Comrade was a drag scene zine that documented the East Village demimonde from 1987 to 1994. In its sporadic 13 issues, drag royalty rubbed...
It’s Time To Cut Loose The Tyrants Of American Theatre
Method Acting went very, very wrong in the U.S. "What the educators did verbally, the directors who took the Method from the periphery to...
Is Reality TV Degrading Dance Costumes?
Australians claim American reality TV is ruining kids' costumes. "They’re wearing less and less and less, and they’re getting shinier and shinier and shinier...
The Museum Of Natural History’s First Woman President Is Stepping Down
In 1993, Ellen Futter she became the first woman to run a major museum based in New York - and she's had a long...
Anonymity Can Be A Real Gift To Playwrights
Sure, "the argument could be made that this is a canny marketing strategy, a way of drumming up publicity for a play, but it...
Rewatching Frances Ha, Ten Years On
Picture Frances "as she whips out her phone and bursts, 'I just got a tax rebate! Want to go to dinner?' (I did not...
The Return Of Kate Bush
How did Running Up That Hill finally hit number one on the pop charts? Well ... Stranger Things, actually. - The Wrap
What It’s Like Creating An Opera About A Collapsing World, During A Pandemic
Composer Tom Coult: "There’s a lot in Violet about just how quickly society can break down. It was very odd to see that happening...
The Architect Making Slag Livable
Landscape architect Julie Bargmann's work "to revitalize toxic sites and reconnect them to their communities has earned her the nicknames 'Toxic Avenger' and 'Queen...
The Generations Recovering, And Playing, Music The Nazis Suppressed
James Conlon wants to pass the torch to a new generation so he doesn't hear, "'I never heard of this person. How good could...
