A Tumultuous Year For Washington DC Classical Music
More and more, the political noise around the Kennedy Center threatens to overwhelm the music within, and it’s unclear what, if anything, is being...
Frank Lloyd Wright Also Designed Typeface Fonts
What’s more, those fonts have been adapted for digital use. - Artnet
If You Quit Social Media. Will Your Time Really Be Better Spent On…?
One of the more common doomsday scenarios about social media goes something like this: an internet-addicted public, hooked on the dopamine hits of engagement...
A Historic Turner Prize Winner
The judges praised Nnena Kalu's brightly coloured sculptures - which are haphazardly wrapped in layers of ribbon, string, card and shiny VHS tape -...
And Now… The Trump Administration’s War On “Woke” Fonts
US diplomats have been ordered to return to using the Times New Roman typeface in official communications, with secretary of state Marco Rubio calling the Biden...
Historic Movie Palace Is Remade Into Palm Springs’ New Performing Arts Center
The Plaza Theatre had a star-studded opening in 1936, with the premiere of the Greta Garbo vehicle Camille. But it fell on hard times...
Of Sports Betting And Music Competitions
I acknowledge that it is important to be able to honor great musicians in a very public way but I believe there is a...
Philly Fringe Returns To Regular-Season Programming
“The legendary festival, known for experimental and boundary-pushing theater, previously offered year-round programming before the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. In recent years, it has...
Emily Nussbaum Named The New Yorker’s Theatre Critic
“Nussbaum, a highly respected culture writer who received a Pulitzer Prize for her television criticism, has been a member of the New Yorker writing...
As Benin Bronzes Are Being Returned To Nigeria, There’s Nowhere Suitable Which Can Display...
When 100 of the restituted sculptures were exhibited last month in Benin City, there was no high-tech security and the labels were on paper...
People Over 70 Who Listen To Music Daily Face Significantly Lower Risk Of Dementia,...
“A major new study led by researchers at Monash University (in Melbourne) … found that daily musical engagement correlates with a marked reduction in...
A New Solti Conducting Competition Is Starting Up In Budapest
This one, which takes place next October, will involve the Hungarian Radio Symphony and Hungarian National Philharmonic and is being organized by Müpa, Budapest’s...
Baritone Jubilant Sykes, 71, Stabbed To Death
A Grammy-nominee (for Leonard Bernstein’s Mass conducted by Marin Alsop) who moved smoothly between classical, musical theater, and gospel, Sykes was found dead in...
2025 Turner Prize Goes To Nigerian-Scottish Artist Nnena Kalu
“Kalu, an autistic artist with learning disabilities and limited verbal communication, … (won) for her colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming...
Paul Taylor’s “Esplanade” At 50
How the landmark modern dance was created, whom it influenced, and why it’s still magical today. - The New York Times
Why Are We Curious About Some Things And Not Others?
All this infophilia raises an important question: if we like information so much, why don’t we seek out more of it? - Psyche
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Makes Its Interim Artistic Director Permanent
Richard A. Freeman Jr. served on an interim basis for two seasons, including holding the company together through the turmoil following the firing of...
Pew Arts And Culture Names A New Leader
Christina Vassallo, 45, follows Paula Marincola, who retired in October after serving as the center’s first director, since 2008. After leaving the Fabric Workshop in 2023,...
How Streaming Made Documentaries Popular (And Wrecked The Form)
Presently, non-fiction filmmaking (in the form of docuseries) stands as a cornerstone of streaming economics, a format bolstered and degraded by an ever-growing demand...
How Netflix Upended The Movie Business
Netflix’s movies don’t have to abide by any of the norms established over the history of cinema: they don’t have to be profitable, pretty,...
How A Crazy Musician Spent Six Months Teaching An Octopus To Play Piano
Did Mattias Krantz pull it off? Sort of. Here’s what he did, how well it worked, and why it didn’t work better. - ZME...
Princeton’s New Museum Is An Important Building
This extraordinarily rich design is certainly assertive throughout, but it is completely in synch with the nature of an institution that has been collecting...
Playwrights Are Breaking Theatre’s Fourth Wall
These writers create an environment in which characters can enter or exit the main storyline as if from a magic door. Audiences are cognizant...
The Golden Globes Are Back (And Still Problematic)
So, yes, for all intents and purposes, the Golden Globes are back. But regarding ethical practices, today’s for-profit Globes may well be worse than...
Gertrude Stein Knew She Was A Genius — And That The World Would Only...
“‘Those who are creating the modern composition authentically are naturally only of importance when they are dead,’ Stein once wrote. Accordingly, she spent a good...
