Former NY City Ballet Dancer Starts New Career As Surgeon
Likolani Brown Arthurs, 36, spent 15 years dancing with the New York City Ballet. Now, she’s moving to a new stage: NYU Langone’s operating theater,...
This Brave And Skillful Actor Is On Standby For Every Male Role In “Hamilton”
"Jimmie 'JJ' Jeter ... is halfway down the Australian Hamilton cast list, described merely as 'standby'. But he's played every single male role in...
Pianist Boris Berezovsky Dropped By Management After Pro-Putin War Comments
At one point he said: ‘There are important political analysts in the West who claim that it is their part of the world that...
These Days, Being A Public Librarian In America Can Be Dangerous
Amanda Oliver, author of Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library, recounts some incidents from her years working in the DC library system, cautioning against...
Louisville Orchestra Creates A Creators Corps
The Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps will employ and house multiple full-time composers, called "creators," to represent all musical genres. In return, the creators will regularly present new...
With Hollywood Cutting Them Off, Russian Movie Theaters Are Turning To Bollywood
Without access to big American blockbusters that reliably put butts in their seats, cinema chains in Russia will turn to domestically-made films as well...
At Nearly 80, Meredith Monk Is Finally Creating Music Other Performers Can Do Without...
"It's difficult music to score. The performer has to truly feel my music, physically, before they can perform it. ... When other people want...
A Dance Company Finds Its Way After The Sudden Death Of Its Founder
When Nai-Ni Chen died in a swimming accident in Hawaii last December, her company's executive director — also her widower, Andrew Chiang — was...
The Oscar-Nominated Film “CODA” Will Be Adapted As A Stage Musical
The adaptation will be done by the film's producers and Deaf West Theatre, the Los Angeles company known for its hit Broadway productions of...
Another Ukrainian Museum Destroyed By Russian Artillery
"A museum in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol dedicated to the 19th-century artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, whom both Russians and Ukrainians embrace as...
Art Basel Reveals Plans For Its Paris Version (Just Don’t Call It Art Basel...
The annual October fair will be called Paris+, by Art Basel. (But will it be pronounced "Parris Pluss" or "Paree Pluice"?) - Artnet
We’ve Been Calling Machu Picchu By The Wrong Name All This Time
"A Peruvian historian and a leading US archaeologist argue that the UNESCO World Heritage Site was known by its Inca inhabitants as Huayna Picchu...
Forlorn MLA Conference Demonstrates The Decline Of The Humanities In America
In theory, the conference was still happening, but it wasn’t clear whether anyone would be in attendance, or what they’d be doing while there....
McKenzie Bezos’ Philosophy Of Philanthropy
The leadership of people directly experiencing inequities is essential, both because it is informed by insights no one else can contribute, and because it...
Are The Oscars Done As A Cultural Phenomenon?
There’s no shortage of theories: The shrinking of movie actors as cultural icons (as TikTok and Instagram stars become the ascendant media gods); the...
Pianist Lara Downes Brings A New Vision To Classical Music Radio
"I think a radio show, like an album, needs to create a sound world. Each show is an emotional journey with dips and swells....
An Innovative And Important New Model For Touring Theatre?
It binds far-flung companies looking for new models for joint offerings. And it brings to theatergoers across the country a play with an inclusive...
What We Can Learn About Fighting Misinformation From Arnold’s Video For The Russian People
Contrary to what you might think, it’s not about simply giving them more info. It’s about reaching them on an emotional level. - Politifact
John Waters On Today’s Climate Of Political Correctness And Incorrectness
"I'm happy at the social change, the craziness of it. The main difference, though, is when I was young … we used political incorrectness...
NEA: Arts Economy Shrank At Twice The Rate Of Overall Economy
New data released last week by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) quantifies the extent of the damage: Between 2019 and 2020, the arts economy...
As Tech Marches On And Formats Fade Away, Preserving Old Audio Becomes Ever More...
"Modern digital storage is still expensive and data and audio/video can be lost when older websites are no longer technologically supported, when links become...
Teheran Museum Director Fired After Performance Art Mishap
The dismissal came in the wake of a performance art mishap at the museum that saw Yaser Khaseb accidentally fall into a large, artist-designed pool of...
NK-Pop: The Kitschy, Catchy Music Of Kim Jong-Un’s Workers’ Paradise
"Try to imagine a mashup between a communist Kraftwerk and an authoritarian Abba." Classic "hits" include "Let's Defend Socialism", "Peace Is On Our Bayonet",...
Top Editors Quit Buzzfeed News, Big Cuts On The Way
The high-profile departures come on the same day that BuzzFeed released its fourth-quarter earnings report, which showed a 12% drop in earnings before interest,...
Listeners Using Smart Watches May Be Added To Radio Ratings
In Australia, "measurement provider GfK began rolling out its MediaWatch, a wristwatch that uses audio matching technology to identify what stations participants are listening...
