The Rise And Fall Of A Worldwide Dance Phenomenon
The year is 1995. And, well. "Every part of that song is a hook. That song broke every conceivable barrier in pop music. You...
Tilda Swinton Says She Never Wanted To Be An Actor
The star of many films says that she's ashamed she didn't go into poetry, and that she's thinking about retraining to be a caretaker...
One Potential Future For Giving Art Back
That is, the future of restitution. "Each object is a symbol of countless others lost to systemic cultural devastation." - Hyperallergic
You Can’t Change Your Self
So don't try. Instead, "figuring out how to do something a little less or a little more is likely to yield the best results...
Portland Loses One Of Its Brightest And Best Behind-The-Scenes Cultural Workers
Una Loughran had a strong guiding hand for decades with Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Portland, its successor Portland Center Stage, and BodyVox Dance. One artistic director...
Sidney Poitier Changed Hollywood, But Also Broadway
"When he returned to Broadway in 1959 for the premiere of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, he was already famous" - and the...
What It’s Like To Be A Chicago Software Engineer Dropped Into An Emergency Role...
File this under Covid stories: A woman who performed with Wicked's national tour and Broadway ensemble as Elphaba's understudy but left theatre in 2015...
Feels Like 2020 And 2021 All Over Again As A Pixar Film Skips...
Of course, the Mouse - Pixar's parent company - is putting a good spin on it: "Subscribers around the world enthusiastically embraced Pixar’s Academy...
Why A 2004 Two-Muppet-And-A-Rock Clip Went Absolutely Viral In Early 2021
Perhaps it's obvious, but just to be clear: "The rock is a metaphor for pandemic denialism, and Elmo represents the vaccinated — those who,...
In Britain, Indie Bookstores Had Another Fantastic Year
Can this last? "For the first time in almost a decade, more than 1,000 indies are open for business: it is a sector thriving...
The Non-Disney Version Of Winnie-the-Pooh Is In The Public Domain
What does that mean for artists who love the OG Pooh Bear? - Washington Post
Los Angeles Arts Groups Are Trying To Figure Out How To Go On Through...
Center Theatre Group and the LA Phil aren't canceling - and aren't planning to cancel - shows, at least not at the moment. CTG's...
Bookcore Is A New (Old) Look For A Weary New Year
"Bookcore is an amalgamation of the last five years of trends: normcore, gorpcore, dadcore, vintage, 1990s sportswear, American trad, Westernwear, Native American jewelry, pleats,...
Understanding The Role Of Emotions
Being in the throes of an emotion influences a great many things: your memory, what you see, the inferences you draw about the world,...
For A Long Time The Purpose Of Art Was To Shock Against Norms. But...
Somewhere in the 19th century the notion develops that a work of art can be most effective when it’s ugly, when it deeply mirrors certain social realities...
Want To Be A Successful Artist? Find A Rival
A study of composers during from 1750-1899 discovered that they were significantly more productive when they lived in close proximity to other composers. The most...
The “Change” Binary Of Music
The urge to be static rose concurrently with the urge to change. And so, in the twenty-first century, we’re presented with a choice: to...
Music Critic Richard Freed, 93
Mr. Freed was active for six decades, contributing regularly to The Washington Post, the New York Times and the old Washington Star, among many other publications. He...
IMAX: Time To Rethink What Movies Are
For the right kind of movie, people really want a cultural, theatrical experience. Period. And they want to see the right kind of movie...
Martin Luther’s German Bible Is Now 500 Years Old
Some colorful facts surrounding one of history's most consequential translations: Luther wrote it while a fugitive; some first editions included woodcuts by Lucas Cranach;...
Anger As Motivating Force
As almost anyone can confirm, manifest anger is by its nature felt and received with an intense immediacy, bringing to life the bodily and...
A Rusty Old Water Tank In The Australian Outback Becomes A Chapel Of Music...
Deep in the red-dirt semidesert of interior New South Wales, composer Georges Lentz and architect Glenn Murcutt created the Cobar Sound Chapel, visually a...
We’re Drowning In Data. And We’re Not Much Good At Accessing It. Maybe AI...
Some 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last 2 years alone. In total, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day,...
Why Lynn Nottage Looks On The Bright Side
"The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat, Clyde's) breaks down her remarkable career and shares how, as an optimist at heart, she finds the...
“Don’t Look Up” Smashes Netflix Viewing Records
In its second week on the streaming platform, the disaster movie has recorded 152,290,000 hours streamed between Dec. 27 and Jan 2, putting it...
