An Alvin Ailey Star Choreographs His First Piece For A Big Ballet Company (New...
Jamar Roberts, who only stopped dancing for the Ailey company last month and who remains its resident choreographer, says that the new work is...
Remember When Damien Hirst Sold That Diamond-Covered Skull For $100 Million? Turns Out That...
The artist has now admitted that the very widely reported sale of the piece (titled For the Love of God) in 2007 never actually...
Even In A Scary Time Like This, The Head Of One State Arts Funder...
Massachusetts Cultural Council executive director Michael Bobbitt is "convinced the crisis presents an opportunity to restructure arts funding, transforming the sector into one that...
Meet The Publisher Who Picks Up The Books Big Houses Have Just Cancelled
Skyhorse Publishing acquired the books by Woody Allen, Blake Bailey, Norman Mailer and others that were dropped when controversy hit. Says Skyhorse chief Lyons,...
Tennessee School Board Bans “Maus”, Art Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel About The Holocaust
The board governing the McMinn County school district in southeastern Tennessee deemed the Pulitzer-winning book inappropriate for eighth-graders because of a drawing of a...
Minnesota Orchestra Posts Third Consecutive Multimillion-Dollar Deficit
Damn you, COVID-19! yet the good news is that 2020-21 season's shortfall, $6.3 million, is down by almost half from the previous season. And...
Lucy Rowan Mann, Who Ran The Naumburg Foundation And Its Classical Music Competition, Dead...
She started working at the foundation in 1972 and continued until this year, and the prestigious competition and awards she administered helped launch many...
Why Art Ought To Be A Daily Habit
Arthur Brooks: Engaging with art after worrying over the minutiae of your routine is like looking at the horizon after you’ve spent too long...
Did Marshall McLuhan Lead Us To Fake News?
McLuhan's doctrine was attractive to the Boomers because it explained that everything the older generation knew, or thought they knew, was an illusion. Everything...
You Think AI Ought To Make Moral Judgments For Us? (Psst! It’s Already Happening)
Recently, some scientists taught an artificial intelligence software, called Delphi (after the ancient Greek religious sanctuary), to make moral pronouncements. Type any action into it, even...
Oops: Nielsen Admits It Undercounted Viewership And Cost Ad Dollars
Between April and the end of the 2021, the VAB says, Nielsen did not count “one and a half billion impressions” in 20 top...
Why Is It Taking So Long To Develop More Female Conductors?
“If you don’t have role models, it’s much harder to see yourself as a conductor – and there were male musicians who wouldn’t see...
Kennicott: Why It’s Difficult To Know What To Make Of The Academy Movie Museum
The Academy Museum, like the Newseum before it, does an imperfect job of balancing two basic identities and purposes, one essentially self-promotional, the other...
I Was At The Auditions For “Shortbus”, John Cameron Mitchell’s Sex Movie
Back in 2003, journalist Mark Harris had been going to write a book about the film and its process; now, as Shortbus is being...
How Alternative Art Spaces Changed LA
Despite the chorus of mainstream voices that had written off Los Angeles as essentially devoid of noteworthy cultural activity, the 1970s gave rise to...
On Transitioning From Porn To Standup Comedy (Yes, This Is A Thing)
"Despite being seemingly worlds apart, comedy and porn have always been linked in some form or another. From the goofy humor of X-rated spoofs...
The Taylor Swift Debacle — Why Questioning Her Authorship Is A Dumb Idea
Calling out fellow songwriters for not writing their own material is bad form for musicians, particularly so given that the definition of songwriting has...
Two Of This Year’s Most Eagerly Awaited Cookbooks Are Now At The Bottom Of...
Turkey and the Wolf, from the much-heralded New Orleans sandwich shop, was due to drop next month; New York Times columnist Melissa Clark's Dinner...
Does Passing Down Ballet Tradition Hinder Advancement Of The Art Form?
“We’ve been told forever that what you receive from your teachers, you are then passing on to your students. And I think in that...
English Teachers In Britain Say They Need More Diverse Books In The Curriculum
"Asked which changes to the English syllabus they felt would most help their students, 80% of secondary school teachers, and 69% of primary school...
Data Scientists Set About Completing Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony. In The Process…
"I have spent the past two years immersed in writing a book about the man and his music. Beethoven’s most appealing feature is his...
At Daniel Barenboim’s Berlin State Opera, Things Are More Strained Than Ever
"For decades, Barenboim and the Staatskapelle shared common interests. Now, 'til death do us part' has become a burden. Complicating the dynamics of this...
Justin Peck Got His New Dance Piece From His Baby Daughter
"We came up with the structural pattern that starts the ballet!" said the choreographer, who had been moving around building blocks with his toddler...
What’s Going To Happen To Chicago’s Amazing Theater Scene As COVID Stretches Into A...
"Has one of the great theater cities on the planet just suffered the kind of blow that may require a recovery time of years?"...
Jad Abumrad Is Leaving “Radiolab”
"It's a momentous occasion, but for close observers, this development doesn't entirely come out of nowhere. … Radiolab isn't going anywhere, and Abumrad has...
