The Ancient Egyptian Discoveries At Saqqara Just Keep Coming
"This week, archaeologists from Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the recovery of more than 250 sarcophagi, 150 bronze statues and a variety...
Behold The Modern Literary Festival — What An Uncreative Place!
The growth of British literary festivals over the past few decades has been an exponential development. It has also changed the idea of what...
Inside Harvey Weinstein’s Disastrous Criminal Defense
"Weinstein had proved his skill at storytelling in the movie business. But trials are not movies, shot under controlled conditions and revised in the...
Orchestra League President: There Are Three Issues Going Forward
Simon Woods: "I keep coming back to three defining issues that I believe will fuel our artistic creativity and our financial success." - Medium
Australia’s New Arts Minister Promises That The Government Will Stop Attacking The Arts
That this should be considered news says something about the state of things in Australia after years of rule by the conservative Coalition. Declared...
This Week In Art Restoration Mishaps, A Historic Clock Tower In Prague
"The 600-year-old Orloj, ... one of Prague's most famous landmarks, is at the centre of an embarrassing row amid claims that an artist endowed...
After 22 Years, The International African American Museum Has An Official Opening Date
Built on a Charleston waterfront wharf where more than 100,000 enslaved Africans were brought ashore after the Middle Passage, will officially open the weekend...
San Diego Rep Cancels The Marquee Production Of Its Current Festival
Ali Viterbi's multi-award-winning In Every Generation was to be the centerpiece of this year's JFest (officially, the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival)....
A Guy Who Was “Mad At His Girl” Smashed Up Ancient Greek Artifacts Worth...
On Wednesday night, 21-year-old Brian Hernandez broke into the museum, went up to display cases and started smashing. He told the guard who intercepted...
Legislature Defunds Iowa Public Radio, Which Expects No Major Changes As A Result
"The good news is that the public broadcast group has been operating without much help from the state or its Board of Regents for...
National Symphony In DC Extends Gianandrea Noseda’s Contract As Music Director
The Italian conductor, who became music director in 2017, has extended his term through the 2026-27 season. (As of last September, he is also...
What Corrupts The Visual Art World
Institutional bureaucrats, not billionaires, have the power to constrain the possibilities for aesthetic development in the present. The figure of the contemporary artist we...
A Children’s Mental Health Crisis: One Thing We Could Do
We are well past the point of believing that casual or inferred approaches meet the need. With summer programs right around the corner, there...
A New Theatre Festival That Doesn’t Look Like Anything Else
“When communities are allowed to craft their own narrative, that narrative is more complex. We are not imposing on or colonizing them with a...
David Cronenberg On Our Bodies And The Future Of Movies
One of the things that brought me back to moviemaking was Netflix and the idea of streaming and a streaming series. I think theaters...
Africa Is Inventing Its Own Streaming Music Model
With 60 million active users, Boomplay is the most popular music streaming service in Africa. Leading the pack, it is one of a bevy of...
The Culture Behind Paint Color Names
Paint names developed their own poetic style and, like a certain tradition of lyric poetry they make reference to nature to express mood or...
In Kyrgyzstan, Using Traditional Dance To Treat Lung Disease
"Every day on the respiratory ward at one of (Bishkek's) biggest hospitals, nurse Aidai Temiraly kyzy puts on the music and leads her patients...
Osmo Vanska Reflects On 20 Years At The Minnesota Orchestra
"I disagree that any orchestra has a maximum quality level that can’t be exceeded... It’s a never-ending task, but if we look at it...
This Streaming Video Service Relies On An Army Of Unpaid, And Extremely Diligent, Subtitlers
Viki (meaning "video wiki"), which specializes in programming from East Asia, has an estimated 100,000 volunteers subtitling in 150 languages for 53 million subscribers....
Your Brain Is Begging You: Please Slow Down!
A third of all Americans clock 45 hours or more of work per week, with 8 million reporting 60-plus hours. Compared with 1940, individuals now consume almost 90 times more screen-fed information....
In Georgia, Many Arts Workers Are Being Fired, Allegedly For Political Reasons
Since taking office last year, the country's culture minister has had people (including top executives) dismissed from the Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi,...
Are Orchestras A Good Model For The Larger World?
In many ways, the orchestra can reflect the society we live in and the teams we inhabit at work or at home. Several parallels...
The Matriarch Of Lesbian Hollywood, Who Was Once The Best-Paid Actress In The World
Alla Nazimova, a Jewish-born native of Crimea, was raised in Switzerland, studied at the Moscow Art Theater, became a renowned stage actress in New...
The “Everything’s Going To Hell But I’m Doing Great” Phenomenon
Though the number of Americans who said that they personally were “doing at least okay” actually rose slightly from 2019 to 2021, their evaluation...
