How Vijay Iyer’s Musical Taste Was Built
When you’re writing orchestral music, you’re often asked: “What kind of forces will you need?” It’s both militaristic and kind of Jedi. I think...
An Ancient Roman Home, Complete With Frescoes, Has Been Excavated From Under The Baths...
"The frescoes pre-date the baths themselves, and adorned a house that was part of a neighborhood destroyed to accommodate the baths, which were inaugurated...
Meet Some Of The Workers Making Theatre Accessible To Disabled People
Ben Glover is a creative captioner, integrating captions for the hearing-impaired into set and lighting design. Nadine Beasley provides live audio description for the...
SXSW Expands Beyond Austin For The First Time —And It’s Going A Very Long...
The Aspen-Festival-for-hipsters is crossing both the Pacific and the Equator: SXSW Sydney will run October 15-22 this year, focusing primarily on creative industries in...
“Copying Is Not Satire, It Is Theft. And Lying To Consumers Is Not Conceptual...
That declaration comes from the federal lawsuit that Yuga Labs, which created the Bored Ape Yacht Club, against artist Ryder Ripps for alleged "trademark...
Anti-Oil Protestors Are Gluing Themselves To Paintings In British Museums
Asking "What's more important? This painting? Or a future?" (as if they were mutually exclusive), members of the group Just Stop Oil glued their...
San Diego’s Theaters Are Back. Half Of Their Audience Is Not.
"For some, the drop has been small, but for most, the average decline is about 50 percent of 2019 sales. Local theater leaders say...
Amazon Is Spending Big Money To Become A Player In Live Sports Media
The retailing-giant-turned-streaming-giant already has a $1 billion-per-year deal for NFL games and a similar deal for the UK's Premiere League soccer. Now Amazon has...
TV Takes TikTok To Create A Dance Show
… a TikTok-style dance challenge. The kind that creators on the app are known for filming in their bedrooms, pajamas optional. - The New...
Jacob’s Pillow Rebuilds And Recreates
The Ted Shawn Theater is now open again for business, half of its exterior wood weathered and historical-looking, the other half clean and new....
The Next Generation Of Gig-Share Is Worker Co-ops
“Platform co-ops offer a more democratic and equitable alternative to traditional companies, and they have the potential to create good jobs, boost local economies,...
Love Wordle? Here’s The Art World Version
One of the latest “Wordle” copycats challenges players not with letters, but with images plucked from the National Gallery of Art. - Washington Post
We Live In The Golden Age Of Scams
If COVID-19 has been an X-ray of society’s fracture points, scammers have not only looked at the film but pressed on the wounds. Since...
Giant Immersive Art Comes To The Vegas Strip
The 17,000-square-foot space features “The Gallery: Mona Lisa’s Perception,” featuring six digital versions of the “Mona Lisa,” hanging in one room. At first, they...
YouTube Has Spawned A Crop Of Media Critics
"They almost certainly see themselves as comedians, not media critics, but they haven't hesitated to judge the content they discuss. They cover an arena...
Over-55 Americans Will Soon Outnumber Those Under 18. New Study Explores Their Engagement With...
The survey compared responses by older adults to those under 55, and while there were definitely differences, the interests of the two groups often...
How Dishes Became A Canvas For Propaganda
Stocks of unpainted, snow-white china became a tantalising canvas for avant-garde artists keen to express their utopian ideologies and rouse enthusiasm for the new...
Is Taika Waititi Maybe A Little Bit, Er, Workaholic?
"His runaway résumé is also a sign of how difficult Waititi finds it to say no. And if you wonder how anyone can possibly...
Does Junk Media Rot Your Brain?
The underlying logic of brain-rot, a messy mutual entanglement between brain and culture, endures. In particular, the idea that lower, popular forms of culture...
Is There About To Be A Labor Dispute At The Alvin Ailey Company?
The contract between Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and its dancers' union expires this week, and there's no new agreement in sight. The union...
Peter Gelb On Reinventing The Met Opera
"I’m sure the Met is thought of as a conservative institution in some quarters, I believe this is no time to be conservative....
A Little Dust-Up Over Opera And Classism In Britain’s Parliament
Boris's deputy, Dominic Raab, took a potshot at Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner (a longtime union rep proud of her working-class roots) for going...
How Technology Is Rediscovering Lost Art
Much as AI, or machine learning, has been woven into the rest of our daily lives, it's now taking a shot at resurrecting precious cultural artefacts...
San Francisco Expands Its Guaranteed Income Pilot For Artists
"Thanks to funding from Jack Dorsey's #StartSmall foundation and a donation from billionaire McKenzie Scott, which supplemented the city's initial investment with $3.5 million,...
“It’s A Mysterious Thing, The Dynamic Between A Puppet Onstage And The Audience, Even...
Take, for instance, the puppet playing Milky White the cow in the upcoming Broadway revival of Sondheim's Into the Woods. - The New York...
