O’Keeffe to Stieglitz: "Having told you so much of me — more than anyone else I know — could anything else follow but that I should want you?" Stieglitz to O'Keeffe: "You are so much to me that you must not come near me — Coming may bring you darkness instead of light." - Artnet
Despite these odds and obstacles, classical music — an art form best known for constantly dying and losing its grip on popular culture — has become part of the cultural fabric of TikTok, even as it’s shredded to bits. - Washington Post (MSN)
According to a 2022 study from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, people under 35 are actually more likely to listen to classical music than their parents. In early 2024, they reported interest in attending orchestral concerts peaked the previous year. They also found that orchestral music itself had a bigger increase in popularity than any other. - CBC
It wasn’t just because those films were artistically accomplished — it’s because inventive ad campaigns helped make them feel like events you needed to experience on the big screen. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
Here's a look at 12 exciting architecture projects expected to open in 2025, including a giant domed skyspace and an earth-covered sports complex. - Dezeen
"Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has crafted two rubabs a month for decades, and he refuses to set down his tools." - AFP (Yahoo!)
Even though there’s still $2B-$3B missing in the post-Covid annual domestic box office, there was plenty to be thankful for in 2024 which is coming in at an estimated $8.72B, -3% from 2023’s $9B. - Deadline
2024 was peppered with lawsuits, auction records, and disappointing performances, more than a few gallery closings, and a lot of hot air forecasting that the art market was near the end. The art market, perhaps even more than, say, the stock market, is a fragile mechanism. - ARTnews
The year 2025 begins with some short-term questions about theater – the fate of “Warriors,” the effect of “Wicked”?– and more long-term ones – what new leadership will mean to Off-Broadway. - New York Theatre
To help us recap the highlights we're joined now by two familiar faces, Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's "Fresh Air," and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review. - PBS News Hour
Wagner described his ideal opera as a “total work of art”, meaning an artwork that brings together all the arts into a single masterwork": music, dance, drama, literature, and visual art. An artwork that uses all the arts, especially in lush Romantic operas like Puccini’s, can be like a circus of sensation. - Current Affairs
Aura matters, and for good reason. The presence of a historical object focuses the mind on it, its maker, and its context in ways that replicas, reproductions, and photographs of it cannot. - Boston Globe
"Ghetto Classics provides lessons to about 1,000 students, who feed three orchestras, a choir and a dance group. … (The organization) works in schools and community centers in Nairobi and Mombasa, but its headquarters is in the St. John compound in Korogocho." - The Washington Post (MSN)
