What Artists Say Versus What They Do (Climate Change, For Example…)
Renee Fleming’s comment that, as a singer, she doesn’t travel as much as instrumental soloists came just a few minutes after mentioning that she...
The Music, And Music Criticism, Of The Terezín Concentration Camp
David Patrick Stearns looks at "a monumental new collection of artifacts by Jewish artists and musicians" titled Our Will to Live: The Terezín Music...
New Shakespeare Theatre Based On 1629 Design To Open
Prescot is believed to have been the site of the only purpose-built Elizabethan theatre outside London, built in 1593. No plans of the original...
The Splendiferous Din Of Italian Futurist Music
"What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi Russolo's intonarumori — lever-operated machines designed to...
Why Did Two “Civilians” Steal A $160M de Kooning?
For all intents and purposes, Rita and Jerry Alter were a totally normal couple living in the New Mexico suburbs—except for one thing. They...
Can Fairy Tales Explain The (Lack Of) Progress In Russia’s War On Ukraine?
"Several weeks in, it's clear many overestimated the Russian army's will and capability to fight and the Ukrainian army's will to resist an opponent...
The Importance Of Skepticism For Democracy
The sceptical way of life, on Sextus’ presentation, follows a certain rhythm. You feel puzzlement about something. You search for knowledge about it. You...
It’s Not Easy To Make A Story Ballet About Evita Perón
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the Colombian-Belgian choreographer of Doña Perón for Ballet Hispánico, talks about such challenges as making the central character compelling when she...
EU Passes Sweeping New Rules For Big Tech
With these actions, Europe is cementing its leadership as the most assertive regulator of tech companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft....
Some Folks Want To Do Away With The Woman-In-Danger Subgenre Of Thriller Fiction. Bad...
Nancy Allen: "I write legal thrillers. Most of the books I've written center around a woman whose life or safety is in jeopardy, generally...
Bowen Yang’s Immigrant Parents Could Not Comprehend His Making A Career In Comedy
No, it's not that they thought show business was too risky: they literally could not conceive of such a thing as earning a living...
This Couple Helps COVID-Clobbered Arts Workers Transition Into Tech
"About a week after Broadway shut down, Scott and Catherine Ricafort McCreary launched a support group for artists interested in making a career switch....
COVID Has Cost Us A Generation Of Theatermakers
"The collective pause spurred an unprecedented reflection on what they weren't getting from their prepandemic jobs and what precarious elements they had tolerated. ......
After Decades Of Misuse And War Damage, The Ruins Of Ancient Babylon Are Being...
Funded by the US Embassy as part of the World Monuments Fund's 15-year Future of Babylon project, the current work includes stabilization and conservation...
Krista Tippett’s “On Being” Is Leaving Public Radio To Go Podcast-Only
"Alongside its sister show, Poetry Unbound, On Being will move from a weekly radio production to a seasonal podcast model. The show plans a...
Julian Schnabel’s Big Show In Spain Is Postponed Because All The Truckers Are On...
"Schnabel's 23-painting show at the Centro de Arte Comporaneo (in Málaga) was expected to open on Friday, but it will no longer kick off...
What Spotify Paid Musicians Last Year
The streaming giant said 52,600 artists earned more than $10,000 (£7,500) from Spotify in 2021. Of those, 130 were paid more than $5m (£3.8m)...
Quote Mill: Do These References Actually Mean Anything?
Think of all the speeches peppered with statements attributed to revered predecessors. Listeners are supposed to infer that the speaker has drawn upon a...
Today’s Slang Versus Yesterday’s Cool Words
Whenever I see people in old movies say “Swell!” or the like, I always wonder what other kinds of things they said when we...
Is Our Ability To Distinguish Geometry What Distinguishes Humans?
What was the simplest task in the geometric domain — independent of natural language, culture, education — that might reveal a signature difference between...
When Bad News Strikes Your Small Arts Organization (Can You Recover?)
Growth under these conditions is incredibly difficult, and of course the pandemic has thrown a giant monkey wrench in operations for nonprofits around the...
Using VR To Study Pompeii’s Design Choices
The paper argues that eye-catching elements in a Pompeiian home would have been important status symbols, with buildings designed to highlight some features while...
On Artists, Addiction, And The End Of The Myth That The Two Go Together
"It's incredible to consider the lengths we used to go to in forgiving artists for being bad people. ... The myth of the high-functioning...
The Internet’s Powerful Currency: Shame
What’s curious about the brutality that fuels Internet shaming frenzies is that in real life—that is, IRL, in the usual online parlance—most of us...
The Author Of The Graphic Memoir “Gender Queer” On Having Her Life Story Caught...
Maia Kobabe: "I'm learning that a book being challenged or banned does not hurt the book and does not hurt the author. The book...
