Tyshawn Sorey On How His Jazz Drumming And His Classical Compositions Inform Each Other
"Whenever I'm playing drums, I'm always thinking compositionally about how things develop. … Why do certain harmonies accompany the musicians in a particular way?...
Pondering Masks As Theaters Reopen And Theater Workers Meet Their Colleagues Again
Playwright Sarah Ruhl: "To ask 'How are you?' no longer felt like small talk. We relied on our eyes above our masks to make...
The Disappearance Of America’s Midsized Indie Book Publishers
Following Hachette's purchase this past summer of Workman Publishing, "there is a dearth of what can be called midsize publishers that fall between the...
IATSE Members Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Hollywood Strike
The vote by the affected members — cinematographers, electricians, video editors, costumers, and the like — was 98.7% in favor of greenlighting what would...
Revival Of Vinyl Records Hobbled By Shortages Of Vinyl
Worldwide sales of the old-style black discs are up 700% in a decade, so the supply chain has no slack to absorb problems caused...
Flash Floods Cause Closure Of Slovenia’s National Theater And Modern Art Museum
A total of nearly five inches of rain fell on Ljubljana on the evening of September 25, and among the many buildings to suffer...
Art Market Soars To Record £2.7 Billion, Driven By Online, NFT Sales
Having seen sales collapse by a third in the previous year because of the initial crisis caused by the pandemic, sales soared between June...
The Strange Saga Of Ozy Media Continues: We’re Not Shutting Down
“Last week was dramatic, it was difficult. At the end of the week we did suspend operations with a plan to wind down,” Carlos...
Is Email The Worst Form Of Communication Ever?
Let’s start with what should be obvious: email is a bad way to communicate. There’s the way it gives license to verbiage, turning simple...
The Novel In A Time Of On-Demand Everything
If what fiction most essentially is for us is a volume of commodified time, one of the most notorious facts of contemporary literary life...
Orchestra Conductors: Old Guys Rule
Orchestra conductors appear to live longer than people in any other profession. Famous conductors of the past, then in an era when life expectancy...
The Privilege Of Making Mediocre Art
It’s a common topic of conversation among creatives of color: Can we afford to make mediocre art? Black, brown, Indigenous, East Asian and South...
The Moms Selling Creepy Pictures Of Teen Ballerinas
She tried to defend herself by saying that she was “creating art,” and insisting that her daughter was “simply taking beautiful sporty poses in...
Afghan Art Is Going Underground
Now the Islamists are back in power, and Afghan artists and filmmakers — many who flourished during the past two decades — are scrambling to...
Philadelphia Public Orchestra: Reinventing How Orchestras Work
Ari Benjamin Meyers explains that part of his inspiration for the public orchestra came from the lesser-known Fellini film Orchestra Rehearsal, in which the orchestra...
How Do We Justify Touring Orchestras When It Worsens Climate Change?
I'm increasingly uncomfortable with attending concerts "interpreted by these internationally-touring orchestras when I realize that at least 80 people took a plane for a...
The New Book Shortage Is Starting To Snowball
Print books are in trouble: "Trucks are more expensive, containers are more expensive, labor is more expensive. ... It used to be that you...
The Metaverse: All Hype, Or The Next Big Thing?
A science fiction trope becoming real, "It doesn’t necessarily exist . It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a...
A Request: Please Don’t Let Amazon Eat The Film Industry
"There are eerie similarities between pre-1948 Hollywood and today’s streaming market. ... The top five streaming companies dominate." And Amazon would like to be...
A Fire In London Means The UK Is Missing Subtitles And Transcriptions
The interconnected world can be a real pain when TV subtitles and audio transcriptions just disappear into the smoke - and Deaf and blind...
As Six Reopens On Broadway, Who’s It For?
The hip, fannish crowd is almost the same as it was at shutdown, with a large fillip of relief joining the giddy thrills. "The...
Artists Are Questioning The Motives And Funding Of Their Own Galleries – And Countries
"Welcome to the life of a 21st-century activist artist, whose work is as likely to be exhibited at an international human rights tribunal as...
How Munch Created His Madonna
The sketches below the surface show all the ways it could have gone wrong. - The Observer (UK)
The Choreographers Who Ended Up On A Cruise Ship
Serious choreographers, pandemic, cruise ship? Yes: "The creative team has plunged into the challenges of making a work at sea as part of a...
Congress Is Looking At A Bill Designed To Help Arts Workers
And cultural workers need the money, and purpose: "Creative jobs dropped 53% between late 2019 and mid 2020, recovering only halfway since then, and...
