The New York Times Names Its Next Top Editor
Joseph F. Kahn, currently managing editor (the number-two position in the newsroom), and previously Beijing bureau chief and then international editor, will succeed Dean...
Ballet Companies All Do “Swan Lake”. What Makes One Version Different From Another?
"The story is old, the steps are old, and that's all part of Swan Lake's endurance – it's a classical ballet. So how does...
American Conductor Quits Post At Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre
“There’s no way I could ever be in denial of what is happening in Ukraine,” he said during a series of interviews over the...
“Spain Is Ugly”, Says An Editor At The Country’s Largest Newspaper
Andrés Rubio, travel editor at El País, has just published a book arguing that Spain's natural beauty and historic cities and towns have been...
At Most American Universities, The Struggle Over Ideas Is Not Free-Speech-Versus-Woke Censorship. Not At...
Lucas Mann, an English professor at a UMass branch campus: "For a professor at a school like mine, ... the trick isn't convincing students...
Hundreds Of Italy’s Historic Theatres Are Closed And Becoming Derelict
"428 in all are closed, half of which are publicly owned. ... The (Ministry of Culture) has financed €420 million for performances in 2022,...
Really Bad Look: San Antonio Symphony Fires Music Director Emeritus For Conducting His Orchestra
The orchestra's board made the surprise decision — the stated cause being breach of contract — after Lang-Lessing announced that he will conduct the...
Culture-War Censorship Bleeds From School Libraries Into Public Libraries
"Conservative activists in several states, including Texas, Montana and Louisiana have joined forces with like-minded officials to dissolve libraries' governing bodies, rewrite or delete...
The New York Times Appoints A Classical Music Editor
Rachel Saltz, who joined the newspaper in 2003 and became dance editor in 2015, will now supervise classical music coverage as well. Her predecessor,...
A Painting Languishing On A Rural Australian School’s Wall Turns Out To Be A...
The artwork spent 150 years at a school in the Blue Mountains that's now owned by the National Trust of Australia, which sent the...
Composer Harrison Birtwistle, 87
Birtwistle's work was widely championed by many notable conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Christoph von Dohnányi and Oliver Knussen, as well as soloists...
Pianist Radu Lupu, 76
Lupu had retired from public performances in 2019, after several years of canceling many engagements due to poor health, and had not recorded since the mid-1990s....
What’s The Point Of Canceling Russian Artists?
"Cultural boycotting as an acceptable collateral consequence of war is egregious. There’s no reason to discriminate against individuals. Thousands in Russia, as well as...
Ann Hutchinson Guest, 103, Specialist In Dance Notation
Hutchinson Guest was knowledgeable about a number of dance notation systems, which seek to preserve choreography as its creators intended rather than relying on...
Artists, Musicians Seek To Overturn California Law On Binding Contracts
The Free Artists from Industry Restrictions Act would overhaul California’s Seven Year Statute, removing a damages provision that discourages artists from leaving record deals...
AI Is Getting Awfully Good At Writing. This Has Big Implications
It turns out that with enough training data and sufficiently deep neural nets, large language models can display remarkable skill if you ask them...
Great Bookstores: The 130-Year-Old Pasadena Icon
By 1915, Vroman’s could count traveling dignitaries, engineers, scientists, men of finance and New York book editors as customers. Anticipating their requests, the store...
Here We Go Again — Is The Shroud Of Turin Real?
This week sees the release of a new film, Who Can He Be?, in which David Rolfe argues that, far from the shroud being a definite...
We Praise Creativity. But We Shy Away From It
Research has found that we actually harbor an aversion to creators and creativity; subconsciously, we see creativity as noxious and disruptive, and as a recent...
The Netflix Of Theatre? An NYC Theatre Gives It A Try
The pitch is to build something like Netflix or Spotify, where members pay an affordable monthly subscription fee in exchange for access to all...
Why Long Wharf Theatre Had To Change Its Business model
If Long Wharf remained, fundraising would be necessary for capital needs for a complex it did not own and that was not easily accessible...
Be Careful Of Pump-Up Jams
No, truly. Just look at Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos infamy. No, we can't do anything and be anyone and go anywhere etc. Not even...
Ballerinas Are Athletes
And so experts are helping them, along with athletes from other arenas entirely, learn to avoid injury. Aside from the art, the biggest difference:...
How A Movie Is Helping Heal Generational Trauma
The writers of Everything Everywhere All at Once wrote that the movie "was a dream about reconciling all of the contradictions, making sense of...
A Thirty Year Old Dispute About A Centuries Old Fresco Shows No Signs Of...
An Italian court says the Piero della Francesca work must be returned to the hilltop church where it was painted in 1460. The mayor...
