Right After His First Post-Lockdown Concerts, Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s Music Director Announces Departure
Josep Caballé Domenech, who succeeded Lawrence Leighton Smith in 2011, said that he'll step down after next season (May 2023), when his current contract...
Music Streaming Subscriptions Grew Spectacularly In 2021
Worldwide streaming subscriptions grew by a healthy 26.4% in the second quarter of 2021, standing at 521.3 million subscribers at the end of that...
How A Small British Columbia Community Theatre Erupted In Controversy
So how did a quaint, 175-seat theatre at the end of a quiet, dead-end street in the Rockland area find itself at the centre...
Why The Art World Needs To Do More About Climate Change
It’s not just that we could use more art and exhibitions about climate change. The art world and its institutions need to lead the...
Report: Americans Are Reading Fewer Books
“US adults are reading roughly two or three fewer books per year than they did between 2001 and 2016,” according to the report. -...
King Of Clowns (But Geez Is He Tough)
Phillippe Gaulier has been teaching clowns for about half a century, but his stature has grown in recent years, becoming an influential and divisive...
There’s Been An Explosion in “Public” Philosophy
There are, of course, books on philosophy, but also numerous popular live events, courses, podcasts, television and radio programmes, and newspaper columns. Philosophy today...
How Joss Whedon Went From Television Deity And Feminist Hero To Pariah
It's a long tale, and not a simple one, but it makes sense — even, in some ways (but not others), to Whedon himself....
How Writers Create Fictional Maps For Their Narratives
As different novelistic styles, genres and methods of production have risen to prominence, they have enabled their own particular way of creating fictional terrain....
French Actor Gaspard Ulliel Dead At 37 Following Ski Accident
Best known in the anglophone world for the title roles in Hannibal Rising and Saint-Laurent, and one of the stars of the upcoming Marvel...
Why I Left The CBC
Those of us on the inside know just how swiftly — and how dramatically — the politics of the public broadcaster have shifted." -...
Molière Is Refused Reburial In The Panthéon, And Une Grande Querelle Breaks Out
Actor-director Francis Huster has campaigned for years for the "father of the French language" to be admitted to the ranks of les immortels. Yet...
How The Ratings Hit “Yellowstone” Is Bucking Cultural Trends
Streaming was supposed to be the great equalizer, for either access to content or its segmentation into competitive platforms warring for their niche and...
Venice Tries The Tulsa Tactic: Luring Remote Tech Workers To Live There
The project, called Venywhere, aims "to convince people who can do their jobs from anywhere to do so in Venice — and its founders...
Why Is The LA County Museum Of Art Renting Out Its Reputation To Corporations?
Strip away the diverting celebrity names, and what’s left is just a museum show of a corporate collection. Corporate art collections are not a...
The Roman Villa With Caravaggio’s Only Ceiling Fresco Did Not Get A Single Bid...
"The estate, known as Villa Aurora, had a price tag of €471 million ($546 million) and could have become the most expensive residential property...
There’s Now A Whole Sub-Genre Of Movies About North American School Shootings
"There has been a range of films" — Zero Day (2002), Elephant (2003), Polytechnique (2009), Beautiful Boy (2010), We Need to Talk About Kevin...
Battles Over School District Book Bans Are Metastasizing
"A pivotal midterm election year, COVID frustrations and a backlash against efforts to call out systemic racism — driven disproportionately by white, suburban and...
Inside The FBI’s Art Crime Team
Italy formed its Carabinieri Art Squad back in 1969, but the US didn't create a dedicated equivalent until 2004. Yet since then, the unit...
Cincinnati Ballet Has A New Artistic Director
Jodie Gates —founding director of USC's Kaufman School of Dance, former assistant to William Forsythe as well as admired choreographer in her own right,...
The UK Government’s Plan To Use Culture To Revive The North Of England
Both Tory ministers and ther Labour counterparts in opposition agree on "a ten-point action plan includ(ing) devolving funding decisions to a regional level from...
Birju Maharaj, India’s Great Master Of Kathak Dance, Dead At 83
Revered as both performer and teacher, "Maharaj was known for his animated facial expressions and light-footed movements, accompanied by the sound of bells he...
New Research Tracking Down Art Looted By The Nazis
The topic of the Nazi role in antiquities looting is increasingly drawing attention, in part through the work of scholars who are peeling back...
When NFTs Came To Marfa
The painter Christopher Wool was equally skeptical: “It sounds like you’re talking about art without aesthetics.” - The New Yorker
Just How Do You Decolonize Shakespeare?
Decolonising Shakespeare, with its historic links to English national identity, language and culture is a particularly knotty challenge. Shakespeare was writing in a country...
