Toronto Symphony MD Gustavo Gimeno Accepts Music Director Job At Madrid’s Teatro Real
"The new role is slated to begin in the 2025/2026 season. Assuming (he) isn't renewing his contract with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, he is...
Netflix Lost Almost A Million Subscribers Last Quarter. This Is Actually Good News.
Even though the tally, 970,000, is the largest such loss in the company's history, executives and analysts had expected the number to be more...
Did This British Dance School Really Eliminate Ballet From Its Curriculum Because It’s “Elitist”?
Not exactly, no (certain headlines notwithstanding). What the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds (Britain's only dance conservatory that's not in London) has...
How Quality TV Is Changing Writing
“There’s so much love from the film and television industry for books, Whether it’s scouts or producers or buyers, there’s a huge passion for...
The Cure For Free Speech On Campus
Some of the most easily offended university students in America have become adept at characterizing any speech they dislike as if it creates an...
In Praise Of Hotel Culture
Hotels—grand ones, modest ones, inns, motels, and single-room occupancies—once filled a crucial niche in the American housing ecosystem. And now they should again. -...
Art Made With Artificial Intelligence Challenges The Act Of Curation
Like any novel tool, generative models introduce significant changes in the process of art-making. In particular, AI art expands the multifaceted notion of curation...
Vandalism! Critics Slam Library Of Congress Over Proposed Architectural Changes
A proposed change to the ornate Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress that critics say would remove the symbolic and functional heart...
Richard III, Shakespeare’s Most Fraught, Most Contested Villain
Not only is there the longstanding question of whether or not the actual English monarch was as evil as depicted, only a decade ago...
Forget Genius. Participatory Creativity Is More Powerful
The notion of participatory creativity has major implications for any person or organization concerned with the creation of innovative ideas or artistic expression. It...
South Africa’s Arts Minister Announced A New National Orchestra. People There Are Very Angry...
Last week, when minister Nathi Mthethwa presented plans for the Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra, with an annual budget of 30 million rand (about $17.6...
The Emmy Nominations Prove No One Knows How To Watch TV Anymore
"Folks just watch things in weird chunks now, sneaking in bits and pieces of viewing where they can." - Wired
In Medieval Europe, Cities Used Musicians As First Responders
Indeed, they were often required to keep watch at city gates and were sometimes required to show skill at swordsmanship. This isn't just because...
How Conspiracy Theories Take Hold
Many people draw lines in the sand when it comes to what they believe. If a narrative doesn’t fit their worldview, it’s deemed untrue,...
“He Is France Incarnate, In All Its Glory And Awfulness” — On Gérard Depardieu...
"(He) is firmly woven into the fabric of French cultural identity. As such, to condemn Depardieu amounts to a kind of self-harm. ... 'He...
Disney-As-Religion
More than ever before, people are identifying less and less with a religious tradition. This leads some people to look for meaning and identity in...
A Symphony Of Ships’ Horns In A Newfoundland Harbour
Every other summer since 2004, composer Delf Maria Hohmann has been visiting the vessels docked in the harbor at St. John's to learn about...
If Theatres Phase Out Unpaid Internships, There Will Be A Tradeoff
"In conversation with (several) artistic directors, one trend seems abundantly clear: more equitable access to better opportunities for fewer people. ... Is that a...
The Heatwave In China Has Melted The Roof Right Off Of A Museum
The Forbidden City Cultural Relics Museum, which opened in 2020 in a restored Yangtze River-front warehouse complex in Chongqing, had a large number of...
Unpublished Poems By Ted Hughes About His Lover’s Suicide Have Been Discovered
No, these aren't about Sylvia Plath (who was Hughes's first wife): they're about Assia Wevill, who took up with Hughes (her landlord at the...
Award-Winning Documentary About Yazidi Women Enslaved By ISIS Is In Big Trouble
Among the issues surrounding the film, titled Sebaya: a key scene doesn't show the rescue it purports to show, whether the women onscreen legitimately...
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founder of Dance Troupe Urban Bush Women, Wins $250,000 Gish...
"Revolutionary at the time – and still cutting edge — Zollar's choreography synthesizes movement from modern dance and traditional folk African dance styles with...
Rescue Deal Falls Apart And San Francisco Art Institute Closes For Good
Twice the financially beleaguered school had secured a merger deal with the University of San Francisco, and both times USF backed out due to...
Claes Oldenburg, 93
Mr. Oldenburg entered the New York art scene in earnest in the late 1950s, embracing the audience-participation “Happenings” then in vogue and expanding the...
We Miscalculated. The World Is Not A Game
As the scope of algorithm-based applications in social reality has expanded over the past decades, we have by the same measure been conditioned to...
