A comprehensive study spearheaded by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics provides evidence that people tend to show a predisposition towards rhythms formed by simple integer ratios regardless of cultural background. - PsyPost
There's a lot of overlap between acting and dance, and while it's standard for student actors to take dance classes, it's less common for those training in ballet or contemporary dance to get acting instruction. Juilliard dance students do, and here's one teacher there explaining what gets taught. - Dance Magazine
For several years, during The Speakeasy, the audience participation which immersive theater invites would regularly get out of hand. But there were no bouncers or others to help, and management did little to help the actors. Said one, "Strippers have more protection than we do out there." - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
Millions of books, including self-published titles, are issued every year. But, according to an Economist/YouGov poll, 46 percent of Americans did not read a book last year. There are any number of explanations for this statistic, but one in particular stands out based on my experience. - Washington Post
To have such solicitous faculty on hand to advocate for students’ interests is, depending on how you look at it, either wonderfully supportive or repulsively infantilizing. - Hedgehog Review
"Nashville’s Finance Director, Kevin Crumbo, … has not given a timeline for the payments. ... Until the 2023 grants are paid, Metro Arts (says it's) putting the upcoming grant review cycle on hold. … Moreover, Crumbo is hesitant to fund the next round of grants, saying he lacks confidence in Metro Arts leadership." - WPLN (Nashville)
"Moving against the stream of rational, functional modernism in the 1960s and early 70s, Pesce experimented with materials and production methods to create furniture pieces imbued with political or religious meaning for brands from Cassina to B&B Italia. Many would go on to become icons of Italian design." - Dezeen
"When the pandemic hit and office workers stopped tuning in on their commutes, that accelerated a worrisome trend: a downturn in radio listeners, which preceded a decline in advertiser dollars. Now, (GBH and WBUR) are confronting rising costs and the fact that their traditional business models have transformed." - The Boston Globe (MSN)
"A 55-year-old American attorney named Bradley J. Gordon and three Cambodian women working for him are at the helm of a broadening expedition to recover thousands of artifacts that disappeared from the country’s temples during a civil war, genocide and decades of turmoil that followed." - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
"Ministers will cut funding for performing and creative arts courses at English universities next year, which sector leaders say will further damage the country’s cultural industries. The cuts (were) outlined by the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, in guidance to the universities regulator." - The Guardian
"In August, after Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 ends the summer at Tanglewood, Rowe, 49, will take her final bow with the orchestra, which will probably also be her final bow as a professional flutist. Then, she’ll devote her days to her newly chosen career: leadership coaching." - The Boston Globe (MSN)
“We turn a blind eye to the consequences of this extreme ‘biennialization’ of the city. Functions for citizens disappear and consequently citizens disappear. And the city disappears.” - Hyperallergic
The contemporary fixation on extolling “freedom” as a cornerstone of artistic expression stems from a flattened understanding of history. Those for whom this is the jam and butter often reveal a particular obsession with power dynamics. - The Critic
Something in his brain shifted; later, he would tell people that it was as if someone had turned over a deck of cards to reveal the hidden faces behind the plain backs. Over the next several years, he would come to believe he had discovered Beethoven’s secret code. - The Atlantic
