Hollywood Flocks To Eastern Europe
Attracted to places like Vilnius, where Moscow and Paris collide at a fraction of the cost — and tens of millions of dollars in...
A Visit To Beeple’s New $10 Million Studios
Having gotten $69 million for the digital artwork that started NFT madness (which he predicted would be a bubble), the artist formally named Mike...
The Writers Using AI To Help Them Create
Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break...
London’s West End Has Its First New Theatre In 50 Years
Inside the 602-seat venue, called @sohoplace, "sophisticated acoustic design means there is no need for mics or bellowing onstage – and most impressively, no...
Kaija Saariaho On Life As A Composer
Today it's different: The culture of personalities has taken over in all fields, with social media and all this. So I feel that today,...
Playwright Christopher Durang Diagnosed With Progressive Aphasia
Specifically, logopenic primary progressive aphasia, a form of Alzheimer's disease described thus by one of Durang's medical specialists: "instead of starting in the memory...
Why Is Adapting Jane Austen For The Screen So Tricky?
"The answer lies in the expectations that Austen fans, a particularly passionate and opinionated crowd, bring to her work. The problem isn't that (the...
How Evelyn Glennie’s Brain Works: The Neuroscience Of Deaf People’s Experience Of Music
"Because every hard-of-hearing person has a different history with music, and because every brain is different, how an individual's vibrotactile sense may fill in...
Want A Career In Classical Music? You Need To Be Either Rich Or Very,...
"It is a game you can train for, one you can become tremendously skilled at, but that skill and work is such a basic...
Cal Shakes Director Eric Ting Resigns
"Eric Ting is leaving his position as artistic director of California Shakespeare Theater, the company announced Wednesday, July 20, bringing to an end a...
HarperCollins Staffers Stage One-Day Strike, Demanding Less-Appallingly-Low Pay
"Around 100 employees and additional supporters (were) marching in front of the company's corporate headquarters in Manhattan in the sticky heat for higher wages,...
Record Number Of New Cultural Buildings In 2021
211 large-scale cultural infrastructure projects were completed in 2021 - $11.2 billion – the highest annual volume and value of completed projects since 2016...
The African Artist Collective Turning Colonialism On Its Head
Plantation workers there earn twenty or thirty dollars a month; as artists, they make much more. The collective has brought in more than a...
What, Actually, Is A Paragraph? Punctuation? Idea?
The tension reflects the paragraph’s curious history as a punctuation mark and unit of thought. In fact, what is a paragraph? only gets more complicated as...
How Corporations Became Art Patrons
After 1945 a new form of artistic patronage arose, reflecting the rise of that icon of midcentury capitalism, the American corporation, and creating a...
Chicago Art Institute’s Lions Return After Vacation
The lions were removed for their spa treatment on June 14, having been outside for 128 years, Art Institute objects conservator Rachel Sabino told the...
Time To Give Duke Ellington The Pulitzer He Was Denied
In 1965 the Pulitzer board rejected a unanimous recommendation from the music jury to award Duke Ellington a special citation for long-term achievement.” It...
Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Names New Director
The position has been vacant since April of 2021, which Tom Loughman resigned, but the search for a new director really began in November...
Science: How We Learn Emotional Response
Parents constantly provide their children with emotion concepts to disambiguate what is going on. Especially towards the second year, when children start using emotion...
Russian Feminist-Queer Artist-Activist Acquitted Of Pornography Charges
"Yulia Tsvetkova, 29, spent months under house arrest after authorities in the remote city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur launched a criminal case into the 'spread of...
Ethics And What Art Gets Shown
The Wollongong Art Gallery needed to make some big calls after it was discovered that one of its prominent donors, who passed away 30...
Bollywood’s Latest Blockbusters Are Not Doing Big Box-Office
"Expectations that pent-up demand from movie-hungry audiences would lead to packed cinema halls have been belied by millions of dollars in lost revenue, as...
Ukraine’s Historic Churches Are Being Ravaged By Russia’s War — And There’s Too Much...
"Ukraine's churches are the hardest hit of all heritage sites in the war-torn country, new data suggests. But a coalition of priests and religious...
Today’s Library Censorship Looks Different
Although the challenging of books and curriculum is hardly new in the United States, what we’re facing now is somewhat different. It is not...
Fired Artistic Director Of Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Says He Won’t Return If Invited...
In a statement released this week, Ken-Matt Martin writes, "I have decided that I need to take a break from nonprofit theatre administration and...
