Jasper Johns – Where Is The Love?
Almost everything you want from art is present: cogent ideas, flawless execution, a sweeping sense of history and a personal stamp that identifies every...
Universities Are Screwing Over The Working Dancers Who Teach As Adjunct Professors
“Despite teaching seven classes a week, I was ineligible for health benefits. I had no job security and no time to look for other...
Burying Art, Hiding Books, Smuggling Movies: Afghans Fearfully Prepare For The Taliban’s Cultural Police
The Islamists now in control in Kabul have not yet stated any cultural policies other than that any art, music, publishing, film, and the...
The Little-Known Cave Art Of The American Southeast
Outdoor rock art made by ancient Native Americans in the Southwest is familiar to many; not so with the underground pictographs in the southern...
Drama League’s Directors Project To Get Multimillion-Dollar Overhaul
"The broadened Directors Project will offer fellowships for early-stage directors, programs to help mid-career theater directors transition into film and television, and assistantships for...
Chicago Public Radio Station WBEZ To Acquire Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Public Media, WBEZ's parent organization, will take on the newspaper as a new division, according to a letter of intent approved by the...
To Make Its Concert Halls COVID-Safe, Singapore Goes High-Tech
State-of-the-art filterless air purifiers and an "ionisation curtain" (a row of snake plants with ionisers attached to draw in aerosols) at the front of...
Violinist James Buswell Dead At 74
After debuting with the New York Philharmonic at seven and studying at Juilliard, he became one of the key members of the Chamber Music...
How The Smithsonian Crowdsourced Weather Reports In The 1800s
The Institution handed out weather monitoring equipment to 150 volunteer observers across the country. Each day their reports arrived by telegraph, and the Smithsonian...
Hong Kong’s Art Market Is Flourishing. But New Security Laws Threaten
Never before has the vitality of the market felt so disconnected from the everyday lives of Hong Kong people. - Artnet
Assessing The Pause On Broadway
"I always say the pandemic was the universe telling everyone to go to their room and think about what they’ve done. And while we’ve...
Amazon Wants To Robotize Your Home. Do You Want It?
Science fiction is clearly a leaping-off point for Amazon's next wave of product ideas. Suri Maddhula, director of software for Amazon's Astro, even said as much:...
Netflix Reveals Its Most-Watched Shows
Shonda Rhimes’ “Bridgerton” Season 1 scored as the No. 1 series based on both number of Netflix households and time spent viewing (in the...
TikTok Passes One Billion Users
TikTok’s popularity soared during the pandemic, becoming the most-downloaded app in the world in the first quarter of 2020, with some 315 million downloads in that...
“Nothing Else Like It On TV, Before Or Since”: Soul Train, 50 Years On
"It was the iconic Black music and dance show, a party every weekend that anyone could join from their living room. (On It's Been...
The Case For The Greatness Of “Singin’ In The Rain”
In Singin’ in the Rain, the late Clive James felt he encountered “the absolute concentration of an entire popular culture at its most powerful.” As...
Despite The Uncertain Times, One Ballet Company Has Increased Its Size By 21%
Western Australia has had only one new COVID case in 30 days, and, at least when resource prices are high, the state has money...
Meet The Boston Symphony’s New Leader
The orchestra has a deep pool of artistic talent, a fiercely devoted following, and Gail Samuel’s predecessor, Mark Volpe, grew the BSO’s endowment to roughly...
Preserving The Cree And Ojibwe Languages — With TikTok
"Combining humor, everyday language use, and relatable situations, these videos" — from the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre in Winnipeg — "are contributing to...
Ten Rules For How To Deal With Critics
Here are ten rules I try to live by in my own experiences with harsh feedback. - Ted Gioia
The New Hotness In Theater Set Design? Glass Boxes
"Even before COVID-19, many ambitious productions had been taking place … in elaborately engineered glass cubes that evoke high Modernism. … There wouldn't seem...
San Francisco, St. Paul, Pilot Minimum Guaranteed Incomes For Artists
Both pilots have received private funding. In San Francisco, after initial city funding, the team raised an additional $3.4 million from #startsmall, a pandemic-relief fund...
Bob Moore, Bassist Who Helped Establish The “Nashville Sound”
"As a mainstay of the loose aggregation of Nashville session professionals known as the A-Team, (he) played on many of the landmark country hits...
“Fire Shut Up In My Bones” At The Met Isn’t Just A Landmark For...
Justin Davidson: "Librettist Kasi Lemmons and composer Terence Blanchard … haven't blown up the genre or bent it to new purpose or smuggled anything...
Kenya Bans Documentary About Young Gay Man’s Struggle For Acceptance
The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) announced a prohibition on the exhibition, distribution, possession or broadcast of I Am Samuel on Thursday, … saying...
