Despite Years Of House Arrest, Exile, And A Horrendous War, Kirill Serebrennikov Will Keep...
"Russian culture is about the fragility of life," says the award-winning stage and film director. "It's about people who are under oppression. Who are...
As War Drags On And Censorship Grows More Strict, Russian Filmmakers Choose Between Flight...
Says one who is leaving, "I can't see how I can be part of a community that will be charged with ideological tasks and...
If Russian State TV Suddenly Starts Playing “Swan Lake”, Look Out
With rumors flying of Vladimir Putin's deteriorating health, it could happen: going back to the earliest days of Soviet television, the unscheduled appearance of...
BIG/Bjarke Ingels Will Design Prague’s New Riverside Concert Hall Complex
The Vltava Philharmonic Hall, which will be the home of the Czech Philharmonic and the FOK Prague Symphony, will have auditoriums of 1,800, 700...
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Buys The Record Label Pentatone
A year and a half after the school acquired the management agency Opus 3 Artists, it has done the same with Pentatone Music, an...
An Art Consultant Talks About The Chaotic State Of The Art Market
Today, it’s quite confusing. Certain auction houses are mimicking the collectibles market. Everything is a tchotchke to flip. You have sneakers, dinosaur bones, some...
Scientists Want To Know Which Problems Are Too Difficult
Computer scientists want to know whether all the problems we hope to solve can be solved efficiently, in a reasonable amount of time —...
What Music And Physics Have In Common
Just like with classical music, physics has been populated by architects and dreamers, careful workmen and inspired explorers, bursts of geniuses and sustained acts...
A New Generations Of Deaf Artists (And Arts)
While the level of deaf visibility may feel new to most, we need to understand that scores of talented deaf writers and creatives have...
An LA Studio Collective That’s Something Different
“It’s something way beyond a conventional studio, where it’s just an artist working on paintings. They’re walking through each other’s studios, they’re promoting each...
The Atlantic To Launch A New Book Imprint
Atlantic Editions will publish between six and 12 nonfiction titles per year, all trade paperbacks, sold for $12.85. Each book will be “a single-author...
Choreomania: The Great Strasbourg Dance Plague Of 1518
That summer, dozens of Strasbourgeois found themselves dancing and hopping uncontrollably for days on end, and more than a few died of exhaustion and...
When Ukrainian Music Thrived
“This is an excellent moment to think about why we attach the term ‘greatness’ to Russian, but not Ukrainian, culture. So why do we...
Peter Greenaway, Cinema’s Most Playful Post-Structuralist
"Right off the bat, Peter Greenaway wants to make clear that he's never really taken himself seriously as a filmmaker — although like so...
Why a Heightened Concern For Cultural Appropriation Now?
"It's easier than ever to steal a motif or a craft technique and transfer it on to a piece of clothing that is either...
As An Election Approaches, Australia’s Main Opposition Party Announces A More Expansive Arts Policy
The Australian Labor Party "has pledged more transparent funding to arts and cultural institutions, an examination of a national insurance scheme to protect the...
Wondering About The Orchestra Canon…
Simon Woods: “Redefining the canon” strikes me as a fundamentally pointless endeavor, as it still allows that there is some kind of objective set of...
DeafBlind People Are Adapting ASL Into A Language Of Touch
Protactile, as the new language is called, started with people (usually sighted) signing ASL into the hands of DeafBlind folks. But many of ASL's...
Alex Ross: Why The South Dakota Symphony Is One Of America’s Most Interesting Orchestras
"I’ve experienced very few concerts at which a classical-music organization seemed so integral to its community." - The New Yorker
Ukrainian Soldiers Make Archaeological Find While Digging Defenses In Odesa
While digging ditches in anticipation of a potential Russian attack, Ukrainian military men discovered several amphorae (bottle-necked ceramic containers) estimated to be up to...
The 389-Year-Old Oberammergau Passion Play Has Recovered From COVID
"Depicting the life, persecution, death and resurrection of Jesus, ... the oldest continuous running amateur theatre production in the world will open on Saturday...
A New Museum In Senegal For Repatriated African Art
Funded by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the museum and community center called Bët-bi (Wolof for "the eye"), to open in 2025 in...
Rescued From The Clutches Of The Sex Toy Collective, “The Believer” Magazine Will Go...
"After a journey even the creative minds at The Believer could not have imagined, the celebrated literary magazine is back in business and again...
Saved: Dallas’s Classical Radio Station Will (Probably) Be Taken Over By The Region’s NPR/PBS...
WRR — at 101, the oldest radio station in Texas — is owned by the City of Dallas, which wants out of the radio...
With A Billion Downloads, The Economist Has Become A Podcasting Powerhouse
The magazine's flagship audio property, a daily news podcast called The Intelligence, averages 3.9 million downloads each week and 2.5 million unique listeners a...
