United States Artists Announces Its 2022 Class Of Fellows
The 63 recipients of unrestricted $50,000 grants are spread across ten disciplines: architecture and design, craft, dance, film, media, music, theater and performance, traditional...
Washington State School District Takes Aim At “To Kill A Mockingbird”
The teachers’ objections to the book included criticism that Black characters are not fully realized and that the book romanticizes the idea of a...
Dance School Retools Around Wellness, Mental Health
Students are taught mindfulness, yoga, talking therapy - and coping techniques, such as breathwork. "The aim is to counterbalance everything else they do, not...
Broadway Shrank Last Week
Broadway continued its winter freeze last week, with box office dropping 11% to a slim $16,494,289 for its meager 21-show roster. Attendance for the...
Charlie Brown’s Voice Is Dead
Born in Los Angeles on Aug. 10, 1956, Peter Robbins got his start as a child performer and, beginning at age 9, brought to...
Can “Anarchist Architecture” Make Us More Resilient?
"Architecture and anarchy may not seem like the most obvious pairing. But since anarchism emerged as a distinct kind of politics in the second half of...
The Shortcoming Of Immersive Art
The “immersive entertainment” industry, which includes nondigital experiences such as escape rooms and other content in which the participant feels a sense of presence...
Radical Change As Threat? It Wasn’t Always So…
When we do imagine radical change, it is usually dystopian, and often, at least implicitly, predicated on ecological catastrophe. Seen from this vantage point,...
Why American Conservatory Theater Is Shutting Down Its Admired MFA Program
"The school had been working tirelessly to find a university partner in order to stay open. … But, as ACT artistic director Pam MacKinnon...
Pivot To Video Is Changing The Performing Arts
“You get something different from film. We want to be specific in our storytelling: we want it to be close-up and we want to...
How Shirley Jackson Took Apart The Pieces Of Postwar American Womanhood
"(Her) career endeavor (was) to explore the fragmentary internal landscape of her generation of women, often through themes of madness, fracturing, and disorientation." -...
Ireland Launches Universal Income Plan For Artists
The program will cover two thousand arts and culture workers for a span of three years. The government has earmarked €25 million ($28.3 million)...
The Long, Odd History Of American Comic Books
After starting as kids’ entertainment, they were used as World War II propaganda and even a vehicle for public education about the atomic bomb....
Africa’s Cultural Institutions Leading The Way On New Ways Of Presenting Culture
These visionary entrepreneurs, who represent some of the continent’s best talent in professions ranging from architecture to finance, are creating new models of preserving...
The Whirling Dervishes Of Konya Are Torn
The ritual of sema (as it's called) is meant to be a sacred meditative practice, and its practitioners are devout Sufis uncomfortable with commercialization....
The Brave, Skilled, And Versatile “Swings” Who Keep “The Lion King” Running Through The...
Jacqueline René, for instance, can do, and has done, everything from Nala the lioness and Shenzi the zebra to the bird lady, a patch...
Badal Roy, Who Brought Indian Tabla Drumming To Cutting-Edge Jazz, Dead At 82
He had only the rudiments of Indian classical training and played in an unorthodox manner, using up to seven drums instead of the conventional...
Checking In On San Francisco’s Pilot Program Of Guaranteed Income For Artists
The program, launched by the city government and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last March, provides $1,000 a month, no strings attached,...
The Entire Marcel Duchamp Archive Is Now Available For Free Online
"It is a vast online trove of Duchampiana" assembled by the Association Marcel Duchamp, the Pompidou Center, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, "a...
“Fight Club” Gets A Whole New Ending For Streaming In China
In execution, it's sort of lame: instead of explosions, a title card is slipped in to say that the authorities foiled Project Mayhem and...
Little Brick Hospital In Regional Bangladesh Wins RIBA’s Best New Building Award
In the city of Satkhira, near the giant Sundarban mangrove swamp on the Indian border, the Friendship Hospital, designed by the Dhaka-based firm Urbana,...
This Orchestra Somehow Kept Going Through Lockdowns, Floods, Power Outages, And The Madness Of...
The Orquesta Sinfónica Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho in Caracas is already the country's least conventional symphonic ensemble: they frequently perform in the barrios and...
Indie Movies Are Quite Odd Right Now
Let’s call them “bizart-house movies,” for lack of a better term — unapologetically odd and original creations, led by a gifted group of rebel...
What Canadian Orchestras Are Doing Online
A majority (69%) of orchestras are planning a hybrid (digital and in-person) season for 2021-22. Once halls return to full capacity audiences, 45.9% of...
Social Media Is Flooding Us With Addictive Junk News
A digital drug for anyone with a phone, and especially young people, the TikTok app uses random reinforcement — similar to a slot machine...
