Research confirms that arts education contributes significantly to social-emotional well-being as well as college, career and citizenship readiness. - San Diego Union-Tribune
The ex-Arizona representative was shot ten years ago. She's rebuilt her life with constant therapy, including playing the French Horn, which helps with her ability to speak. - PBS News Hour
Whiteread won the Turner Prize when she was 30, the first woman, and youngest artist, ever to win - and she id it for casting an entire house in London. She's been casting objects and the spaces around objects for three decades. But now? Now, she's building new things. - The Guardian (UK)
Afro-Brazilian musician Luedji Luna: "It’s been a sad year for artists and for the three of us: What we love doing most is performing with each other." But it hasn't been all terrible. "When the pandemic started, we all reacted differently. Xenia is more of a meditative person, so she wasn’t online much. Larissa started to produce beats. And...
"For readers still thawing from a year in isolation, two questions in poem are especially prescient: 'How to start again? How to wake up?'" - Los Angeles Times
And she has the duet series to prove it. Lin, who commissioned duets before adding interviews to her presentation of new work: "In the beginning I just wanted to have these duos written. Then I decided, you know, part of the reason people are afraid of new music is they don’t understand it. What happens if people get to...
As a matter of fact, there were so many complaints about the bump in programming for special coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's death that the BBC had to set up an whole new temporary complaint page. And it wasn't just the main channel. "BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live also aired special programming charting Prince Philip's life,...
In 1992, television wasn't all about the latest competition or race or humiliation reported to the camera. So when The Real World started, it was a shock. Perhaps not as much of a shock - but a choice that has echoed for nearly three decades - is the way the show framed Black cast members. "The show often sacrificed...
We're all looking for something - solitude, connection to nature, an escape from our houses and apartments - and so, publishing is providing us with many (many) nature memoirs. But where to start? Check out this heavily annotated list. - LitHub
He (and Theo) had three. From reading a book that includes some newly translated letters, we can learn that "Lies was frustrated that women didn’t have more professional options that were socially acceptable. We learn about how Wil often copied Vincent’s drawings and was his favorite model, and that the two wrote to each other about art and...
Raphan's "genius" films - about people with unusual minds and talents - weren't quite documentary; they were that, but more. "Up From Astonishment (2020), her most recent film, is about Emily Dickinson. In it, ink blooms on a page; butterflies pinwheel; there are empty bird nests, an abacus and various inscrutable shapes. Susan Howe, a poet, and Marta Werner, a Dickinson scholar,...
They might sound like yet another fun thing for young people to have done back in the day, but no. They were even deadly, with reports of at least two dancers dying near the dance floor as others simply passed out. "Dance marathons, also called walkathons to avoid legal and moral scrutiny, were essentially the Netflix dating show of...
Though the bowl will be limited to 4,000 in a venue that seats 17,500, the excitement is real. "The organization is still ramping up to tackle the complexities of reopening, but Smith said the L.A. Phil is planning 45 to 60 concerts." - Los Angeles Times
In the 1980s, Colalucci led the team that restored the Sistine Chapel. "To paint the Sistine ceiling, Michelangelo labored atop a towering scaffolding, his neck craned skyward and paint dripping onto his face. In an enterprise that captivated the international art world, Mr. Colalucci assumed the same position for the delicate task of cleansing the chapel of the layers...
The 1991 project was believed to be lost. "But after Tolkien fan clubs urged the broadcaster to scour the archives of its Soviet predecessor, Leningrad Television, workers for Channel Five managed to find the footage last year" - and to put it online for all of us to enjoy in late March. - The New York Times
