Curtis Institute Lets Go Its Longtime Star Oboe Teacher
Richard Woodhams, who retired after 40 years as the Philadelphia Orchestra's principal oboist in 2018, was told by the music school that his teaching...
Theatre’s Employment Problems
The harsh reality of layoffs and rehiring has sparked much confusion and pain among theatre workers, especially the technicians whose shops have sat empty...
Another Glass Ceiling Breaks As Black Female Leaders Arrive At Dance Companies
Sarah Kaufman talks with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago artistic director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell; Dionne Figgins, Eliot Feld's successor at Ballet Tech; UNC School of the...
Deepfakes Are Now Being Used In Business Presentations
Some bigwigs at EY (formerly Ernst & Young) have started using AI-assisted videos of themselves to impress customers. One partner, for instance, used the...
Robber Steals A Monet, Then Drops It As He Tries To Escape
The thief grabbed Monet's The Voorzaan and Westerhem Island (1871) from the Zaans Museum, just north of Amsterdam, on Sunday morning. When a passerby...
R. Murray Schafer, Canada’s Leading 20th-Century Composer, Dead At 88
"(He) composed a large body of music in all genres — symphonic, chamber, opera, choral and oratorio — and was best known for his...
Hachette Will Pay $240 Million To Buy Leading Indie Publisher
No, they're not spending that kind of money for a literary press. Workman Publishing is the company behind the Page-a-Day calendars and the Brain...
New Zealand Goes Into Full Lockdown
After months with no restrictions and no locally transmitted cases of COVID, the appearance of one new patient has prompted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...
How Napoleon Systematically Plundered Europe’s Art
These were not smash-and-grab operations. He sought out experts to advise him on which cultural treasures to ship back to Paris. Napoleon wanted to...
Where Dancers Go To Rehab As Performances Resume
Dr. David Weiss, an orthopedic physician with the NYU Langone facility in Kips Bay, compared the runup to Broadway’s comeback to a training camp...
Social Media Has Redefined Gen Z Elite Athletes
Through social media, they have opened up conversations about performance, mental health and the impact of the media. Sports stars are making their voices heard...
Why Intellectuals Have Such Lowly Public Status
The general public in the United States sees intellectuals as disconnected from their everyday struggles and concerns. From this perspective, intellectuals don’t actually work...
All The Reasons Book Reviewing Is Lacking
If there is a problem with book reviewing the problem is that those of us who are good at it aren’t good enough, there...
The Case Against Beach Reading
Reading is not a beachy activity. Reading is for armchairs and bay windows and loverless beds. Bring a book to the beach and you’re...
Marc Ribot: Why I Have To Play My Music Super-Loud
Audiologists say this could make one’s ears howl, create an uncomfortable sensation of density in one’s head, and eventually make it impossible to hear...
In Praise of The Lowly Lullaby
Individuals who heard them as babies relied on them, decades later, as parents and grandparents. Not even the symphony or fugue or sonata can...
How Universities Get To Define The Universe
Universities, more than any other institution, shape our conception of what constitutes worthwhile knowledge. Therefore, if we want philosophy to thrive in the contemporary...
Behold The Manifesto!
This is a form that asks readers to suspend their disbelief, and so like any piece of theater, it trades on its own vulnerability,...
Riccardo Muti at 80: Tired Of Life
"I’m tired of life, because this is a world that I no longer recognise and since I can’t expect the world to adapt to...
What The Pandemic Did For Arts Organizations
Yes, it was devastating - and it also opened up the arts to many who couldn't access them before. How do we keep shows...
Artworks Mark The Anniversary Of Emancipation In Canada
But many artists and other Canadians wonder where the info is about what came before emancipation - slavery in Canada. - CBC
Teens Cash In On The NFT Art Boom
Inevitable in the TikTok-driven universe? "NFT markets like Atomic Hub, Nefty Blocks and OpenSea are filled with creators barely old enough to drive. They promote their work not...
What Should Be The Next Big Fantasy Adaptation After Game Of Thrones?
And considering that series' success - though a very rapid fall-off after the ... let's call it disappointing ... final season - why aren't...
Pat Hitchcock O’Connell, Who Brought Her Mother To The Forefront As A Co-Creator Of...
McConnell acted in a few of Alfred Hitchcock's movies, and had an acting career of her own separate from him. But "while her acting...
The Fine, Poetic Art Of Literary Name-Calling
Consider "Tricky Dick," "Slick Willy," and, of course, the recent president, that "short-fingered vulgarian." - LitHub
