Chicago Dance Community Aims To Take A Broader View Of Dance In The City
The city of Chicago has designated 2022 the Year of Chicago Dance in recognition of an art form that is ubiquitous, burgeoning, diverse—and precarious. - Chicago Reader
TCG To Make 200 Plays Available Online
The scripts, 110 already uploaded and the rest coming later this year, "join Drama Online's award-winning digital library, an online research tool for drama...
Court Says Failed Italian Bank Must Sell Its Caravaggio. But there’s A Big But…
But there’s a hitch: The valuable paintings, including a Caravaggio said to be worth millions, cannot physically be moved from their location due to national...
There’s A Famous Award For Bad Sex In Fiction. But What Makes For Good...
Niamh Campbell: "In all the best erotic writing I've read – not a lot really, but the most accurate and enviably sexy examples have...
Why Everyone’s Talking About Defining Consciousness
For much of history, the nature of consciousness was the purview almost exclusively of philosophers and poets. It was not taken seriously as a...
2,700-Year-Old Bronze Figurine Found At Europe’s Oldest Battlefield — What Was It?
The six-inch statuette of an oddly-shaped nude woman dates from about 600 years after the battle at the site, near the Baltic coast of...
Workers Aren’t Returning To The Office, But They’re Slowly Going Back To Movie Theatres
The return rate to movie theaters in the first week of February was 58% of what it was before the pandemic. Restaurants were nearly three-quarters as...
After 80 Years, An Opera Composed By A Holocaust Victim Takes The Stage
"Grete Minde, a late-Romantic opera of 1920s jazz-inspired melodies and large orchestral sounds, was the work of Eugen Engel, a Berlin-based Jewish textile tradesman...
Peter Oundjian Named Principal Conductor Of Colorado Symphony
The former music director of the Toronto Symphony and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (and, before that, longtime first violinist of the Tokyo String...
What Does The Data Tell Us About Where Arts Attendance Will Be By This...
The researchers at SMU Data Arts have updated their numbers, incorporating information about ticket sales, prices, COVID case rates, vaccination rates, etc.; they have...
At Slate, Money Worries And An Identity Crisis
"Navigating the fast-changing digital media landscape has left Slate struggling to define its identity. … Slate once stood out as a home for contrarian...
The Final Christo/Jeanne-Claude Project Is Happening! Isn’t It?
Earlier this month, there were reports that Mastaba, a 500-foot-tall quasi-pyramid made of 410,000 brightly colored steel barrels and planned for a desert site...
Artist Carmen Herrera, Whose Big Break Came When She Was 89, Is Dead At...
"Critics and collectors, once made aware that Ms. Herrera existed, were rapt by the intensity of her work, which she achieved by juxtaposing geometric...
After Three Years With No Hosts, This Year’s Oscars Will Have Three Of Them
Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes — "an all-female team with broad appeal and comedic chops" — are in final talks to serve...
The Theatre Wisdom Of Stephen Sondheim
I learned all of these compositional principles from Babbitt. What it amounts to is, music exists in time, so how do you make...
Nothing But Guests: A Lineup Of Potential Music Directors For The NY Philharmonic
For the next six weeks, the Philharmonic’s calendar is filled with nothing but guests. - The New York Times
What Does Your Musical Taste Say About You?
Most half-serious music fans would consider their tastes eclectic. Which seems more feasible than a distinct personality type exclusively cleaving to one genre, and...
Why Is Canada’s CBC Moving Away From Classical Music?
The orchestras and concerts have disappeared and so has most of the critical commentary associated with them. To be blunt about it, from a...
How “Infodemics” Of Conspiracies Spread
The current infodemic isn’t just familiar because of this history. Culture constantly recycles materials: stories are re-told, revised and re-told again. - The Conversation
Ghostbusters Director Ivan Reitman, 75
Born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Canada (where he first met such young comics as his later stars Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis), Reitman...
Mexico Passed A Cultural Appropriation Law. It Doesn’t Seem To Be Working
To fight back against the plagiarism and dispossession of Indigenous art, Mexico has approved a law meant to protect and safeguard the cultural heritage...
St. Valentine Had Nothing To Do With Romance. So Why A Day?
The name was so popular that over 30 Valentines, not to mention “a few Valentinas,” ultimately achieved sainthood. However, no matter which Valentine you...
When The Olympics Had Arts Competitions
Between the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and the 1948 London Olympics, artistic competition was a vibrant part of the summer Olympic games. There were five categories in...
The Spotify Backlash Offers A Rare Glimpse Into The Struggles Of Working Musicians
When the Joe Rogan controversy broke with Neil Young removing his music from Spotify, other musicians decided that enough was enough: They didn't want...
Romance Isn’t Only For Twenty-Somethings
Let filmmaker Nancy Myers show Hollywood the way: "Rom-coms typically suggest that thrilling courtship is for people in their 20s and 30s." They fall...
