For Over A Century, Black American Composers Have Gotten Attention In Europe That They...
From William Grant Still, William Dawson, and Florence Price to expatriates working there today, African-American composers whose music has been quickly forgotten here have...
Following In García Lorca’s Footsteps, Bringing Cinema To Remote Spanish Villages
In the 1930s, the poet and playwright co-founded La Barraca, a touring company that performed classical Spanish theatre in isolated hamlets. Now a project...
Bo Spassoff, Director Of The Rock School: The Exit Interview
"As he prepares to close this chapter of his career, Bo shares the lessons — for both teachers and students — that he's gleaned...
Broadway League Turns To Oprah To Convince Theatergoers To Come Back
Winfrey is narrator for the audio and video components of a multi-million-dollar campaign across print, broadcast, and social media to convince COVID-wary audience members...
Details Of Venice’s Planned Day-Tripper Tax Are Set
Regional lawmakers have approved a "contributo di accesso" ranging from €3 to €10 based on the time of year, and day visitors will have...
Actors Stranded In Sydney With No Work Or Money By Lockdown And Border Closures
With the Delta variant on the rise in the city, many Melbourne-based actors who had been performing in Sydney were contractually obligated to their...
Famous Writers Writing Books That Won’t Be Read For 100 Years
The works will be kept in a room lined with wood from the forest in the Deichman library in Oslo. One hundred years after...
A New Canon Of Climate Change Literature
It's part of a growing trend in publishing for books focused on the climate, whether from big hitters such as David Attenborough or Bill...
In Australia: Thousands Of Newly Canceled Gigs And Musicians Calling It Quits
With Australia reeling from the Delta strain, major festivals including Splendour and Bluesfest have been cancelled for the second year running, with an estimated 7,000...
COVID Has Changed How People Will Work For Non-Profits
No longer will many nonprofit (or for-profit, for that matter) employees be cowed into the belief that 60-, 80-, 100-, or 168-hour weeks are...
Dance Competitions – A Change Of Culture?
Dance competitions first emerged in the 1970s. Since then, they have spawned a distinctive, seductive subculture, mixing the hard-driving athleticism of organized sports with...
Origins Of The Term “Woke”
"A quarter of people think of it as a compliment, a quarter of people think it's an insult and the rest either don't know...
The AI Program That Wrote A Guardian Essay Is Now Writing A Play
"The GPT-3 system argued (in the article) that humans had nothing to fear from robots. Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of the Young Vic, read...
OnlyFans Reverses Ban On Sex Workers. Creators Are Still Worried…
What remains is an uncertain future for both creators and OnlyFans, which has plans to go public later this year. The site has more...
Why Does English Have No Equivalent Of The Académie Française? Pestilence
The Royal Society of London actually did attempt to start one in the winter of 1665, with a committee that included poets Abraham Cowley...
Algorithms Are Directing How I Grieve For My Dead Mother
I can hide my mom’s photos or block her zombie Facebook account. But I’ve become accustomed to grieving this way. Technology has dictated what...
What’s The Torture In Today’s Russian Prison Camps? Eight Hours A Day Of State...
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny says the prison he's in isn't like the old Soviet gulag, with inmates doing hard labor in subzero weather. Instead,...
Smithsonian Kicks Off Multi-Year Project To Reckon With America’s Racial History
“Giving people the reality — here’s the information, here’s a way to contextualize the moment we are in — you can’t build optimism unless you face the...
Desperate Venezuelans Turn To An Old Video Game To Earn Hard Currency
A large community has grown up around a now-outdated version of the online game RuneScape — and many players in rich countries don't want...
The Psychology Of Movie Trailer Music
“It’s called ‘trailerizing’ a song. That means changing every aspect of the song but leaving the lyrics. People know the lyrics. The goal is...
Emerson String Quartet Announces Retirement
The group, which for decades has been one of the world's most admired of its kind, said in a statement that it will close...
Who That Album Cover’s Naked Baby Is Today, And The Real Reason He’s Suing...
Spencer Elden claims that the band exploited him with what he now calls child pornography — but he's been exploiting that image of his...
L.A. Opera Builds All Scenery For New Production In Ten Days
The company's return to live performance, Verdi's Il trovatore, was to use sets from the Opéra de Monte-Carlo — but they're on a container...
Dealer Charged With Larceny And Fraud For Manufacturing Fake Antiquities
"Prosecutors say Mehrdad Sadigh, a New York antiquities dealer whose Sadigh Gallery has operated for decades in the shadow of the Empire State Building,...
Bramwell Tovey Named Music Director Of Sarasota Orchestra
The 68-year-old chief conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, formerly music director of the Vancouver and Winnipeg Symphonies and Calgary Opera, begins a five-year...
