Dudamel’s Conducting Fellowship Program Is Paying Off Big Time
The main thing these former fellows may take home from L.A. is indoctrination. New music here is part of the daily diet. Dudamel’s curiosity...
See The Six Architecture Finalists for This Year’s Stirling Prize
A bridge, a museum, a mosque... Here's where the best of UK architecture is in 2021. - BBC
Report: Hollywood Streaming Companies Hire More Women Than Traditional Studios
The long-running industry report card finds that in the 2020-21 television season, women accounted for 52% of major characters on streaming programs were women,...
Our Notions Of Privacy Are Ancient. Do They Fit In Our Modern World?
The evolutionary biologist E O Wilson once said of the source of human challenges in the 21st century that ‘we have palaeolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology’. - Psyche
Minoru Yamasaki – The Architect Weighed Down By The World Trade Center
His long career has become, for many, a caricature or outright failure, the stuffing wedged between the two disasters of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex...
‘Learned Behaviour’ At The Royal Ballet: How A Case Like Liam Scarlett’s Could Happen
Luke Jennings: "His behaviour (was) egregious and exploitative, but his is not an isolated case. It is symptomatic of a culture I have seen...
How A Jazz Musician Found 30,000 Facebook Followers During COVID
Since shortly after the pandemic effectively closed the world down in March 2020, Jim Clayton’s Danforth area home — more specifically his dining room...
Liv Ullman And Jessica Chastain On Playing The Same Role In ‘Scenes From A...
"Forty-eight years after the original aired, Ullmann is still aghast at her character's decision to have a later-in-life affair with her ex-husband — 'In...
Baryshnikov The Dancer Becomes Baryshnikov The Photographer
“I can see the almost spiritual obsession with dance that I myself have felt, but now observe it from the outside,” Baryshnikov says by...
Playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie Dead At 85
" was a mainstay of the experimental theater world, … especially known for America Hurrah, a form-bending trio of one-acts that opened in 1966...
Reframing Disinformation
“It turns a huge question about the nature of democracy in the digital age – what if the people believe crazy things, and now...
Missing For Two Years Now, Where Is Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet?
The fully functional 18-carat commode, titled America, became world-famous while on exhibit at the Guggenheim. (The Trump White House wanted to borrow a van...
Are We Looking In The Wrong Places For The Sources Of Disinformation?
The Commission on Information Disorder is the latest (and most creepily named) addition to a new field of knowledge production that emerged during the...
Soprano Carmen Balthrop Dead At 73
Part of the third generation of Black opera singers to become international stars, she performed throughout Europe and the US, achieving wide fame in...
Unknown Tennessee Williams Story Sees Print At Last
"Honored worldwide as a playwright, Williams also wrote dozens of short stories. A rarely seen piece, 'The Summer Woman,' set in Italy, appears...
Scaffolding At Stonehenge As First Repairs In 63 Years Get Underway
Workers will stabilize cracks and holes in the stones of the 4,500-year-old monument and will replace concrete mortar used in the 1958 repairs with...
San Antonio Symphony Management Demands To Slash Orchestra’s Size By 40%
In renegotiations for the final year (2021-22) of the current contract, management had proposed cutting salaries in half, down to $17,710 per year. Their...
After 35 Years, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls To Depart
" decision, which he said was not made under any kind of internal or outside pressure, brings the exit of Chicago theater's premier auteurist...
Jaap van Zweden To Leave New York Philharmonic In 2024
" announced that he would leave his post at the end of the 2023-24 season, saying that the pandemic had made him rethink his...
Britain Has A New Culture Secretary (And It Looks Like She’s A Doozy)
"Boris Johnson has appointed Nadine Dorries as culture secretary, giving a first Cabinet post to an outspoken MP who has previously accused the BBC...
The Developing World Is Collapsing Under COVID And Its A Danger To All
Unless the Western world wakes up, and helps out the developing world with vaccines and treatments, we may be facing a situation in which...
An “Epochal” Decline For NYC?
New York City, the financial and business capital of the world, and until very recently a hub for tourists, may well be the canary...
Why Are Cities Still Building Super-tall Buildings?
"I'm almost insulted by the reminder that the high-rise virus continues to spread. Waste of energy, waste of resources, almost impossible to protect indefinitely....
No, Not All Judgments Or Opinions Are Equal
Popular dogmas such as “judgments of artistic value are subjective” and “all judgments of artistic value are equal”, university literature departments have undercut aesthetic...
How Things Change When Your Dance Video Becomes A Viral Sensation
She’s earned a following of more than 250,000 on Instagram and 460,000 on TikTok — as well as amassing 15.3 million likes on TikTok....
