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...
San Antonio Symphony Is On Strike
Two weeks ago, orchestra management made a "last, best and final" contract offer which would cut the number of full-time musicians by 40%; Sunday...
Another Dancer Accuses Former Boston Ballet Star And Her Husband Of Rape
"The dancer, identified only as Jane Doe 100, is one of five female dancers who say Mitchell Taylor Button and his wife, former Boston...
Fraud, Theft, And Breach Of Contract As Conceptual Art (This Is Not Theoretical)
"A Danish artist was given tens of thousands of dollars by a museum to reproduce an old sculpture. Instead, he pocketed the money and...
Four Billion Euros. That’s France’s 2022 Budget For Arts And Culture.
"This historic progression", said culture minister Roselyne Bachelot, "will bring to +15% the lasting increase in the means which have been allocated to culture...
This Year’s MacArthur Fellows
"As we emerge from the shadows of the past two years, this class of 25 Fellows helps us reimagine what's possible," said MacArthur Fellows...
Why Remote Work Is The Future
“A remote-first company can access the best talent in the world. An office-first company can only access those who live within a certain radius...
Is Literature “Technology”?
Angus Fletcher claims that fairy tales, free indirect discourse, autobiography, and such are “technology,” and that their primary purpose is medicinal, so that neuroscience...
Why We Need To Get Comfortable With Ambiguity
If freedom-minded people are to rid ourselves of “the habits of paranoia, despair, and policing” that Maggie Nelson believes to be menacing the left...
Facebook Isn’t A Platform, It’s A Country
Facebook is not merely a website, or a platform, or a publisher, or a social network, or an online directory, or a corporation, or...
Melting Glaciers In Mongolia Reveal And Imperil Ancient Artifacts
Frozen heritage is melting from mountain ice in every hemisphere. As it does so, small groups of archaeologists are scrambling to cobble together the funding...
Alums Of University Of Utah School Of Dance Recount Mistreatment, Seek Changes
"(Two recent almunae) gathered 13 written testimonials from students and faculty members about what they see as the harmful culture at the U's ballet...
What Graffiti From Venetian Quarantine Facilities Of The 1400’s Tell Us
In their free time, some of the porters wrote on the large walls of the tezon grande, a room over 105 yards long that was...
Inmates Who Produced A Podcast In San Quentin Now Get Paid To Do It...
Ear Hustle is produced by the folks at San Quentin Radio, working with San Francisco public radio station KALW. Here, co-host and co-producer Rahsaan...
Why Is This Noted Antiquities Scholar Being Accused Of Theft Of Artifacts?
It is an understatement to say that the dispute over Dirk Obbink and the papyrus has shaken a scholarly world where ancient texts are...
Wole Soyinka On Publishing His First Novel In 48 Years
"It is meant to indict us also, the governed, as a people who have jettisoned the humane values that that same society impressed on...
Some Worrying Trends In Fundraising For Public Radio
Since FY16, median new donor counts have fallen 8%. During that time, median sustaining donors have dropped nearly 18%. - Current
An Afghan Artist Recounts Her Desperate, Failed Attempt To Escape The Taliban
"The Taliban are being pressured on many issues like women's rights and journalists' safety, but there are no discussions about the rights and safety...
