Summer UK Music Festivals Beginning To Cancel For Lack Of Insurance
A government-backed insurance scheme, or a lack of it, has become a make-or-break factor for festival organisers who are deciding whether to continue with...
AI Used To Restore Rembrandt’s “Night Watchman”
"It is wonderful to be able to now see with our own eyes The Night Watch as Rembrandt intended it to be seen." -...
After 25 Years Victoria Morgan Steps Down As Director Of Cincinnati Ballet
To right the organization's financial ship she had to make tough choices early on—the first task the company's executive committee gave her was to...
A History Of America As Told Through Its Self-Help Books
These “secular bibles” (the Bible is not one of them) are “books for daily life that ostensibly taught readers one subject, all while subtly...
Battle Of The Book Blurbs
The hyperbole on book jackets—both the plot summaries and the lists of adulatory adjectives that go with them—have long frustrated authors, but no one...
Can LA Design Its Way Out Of A Housing Crisis?
During the second half of the last century and the beginning of this one, Los Angeles County fell a million homes behind, relative to...
When ‘Rent’ Came To Cuba
Andy Señor, Jr., a Cuban-American actor and director who played the role of Angel on Broadway and helmed productions of the musical around the...
What’s So Difficult About The Color Violet?
"Over the past 20 years, I visited 193 museums in 42 different countries. Equipped with 1,500 Munsell colour chips – the world-standard samples for...
Robert Quackenbush, Who Wrote Stories Of Detectives With Feathers Or Fur, Dead At 91
"His stories about Miss Mallard, an inquisitive duck who solves crimes around the world in plots that resemble Agatha Christie capers, were adapted into...
Reconciling With Cezanne
You don’t look at a Cézanne, some ravishing late works excepted. You study it, registering how it’s done—in the drawings, with tangles of line...
How Did This Pair Of 17th-Century Paintings End Up In The Dumpster At A...
A 64-year-old man spotted the artworks — a 1665 self-portrait by Pietro Bellotti and a painting of a youth by the 17th-century Dutch artist...
How To Repurpose Those Office Skyscrapers?
Instead of designing buildings for specific purposes that may fade or disappear, architects and developers should create buildings that can accommodate a variety of...
Another Thing Brexit Could Be Messing Up: Hit British TV Series
"Last year, EU countries agreed that 30% of offerings on streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime should be European-made. The concern among...
How Ancient Jungle Cities Kept Reinventing
Not only did societies such as the Classic Maya and the Khmer empire of Cambodia flourish, but pre-colonial tropical cities were actually some of...
Kazuo Ishiguro On Whether Literature Really Deserves To Have A Nobel Prize
"I want to say, of course literature is just as important , but this is something in the dead of night I kind of...
As Viewers Flock To Streaming Video, One Cable Channel Keeps A Devoted Audience: Turner...
"The Atlanta-based TCM has long been the sanctuary of classic film on TV, presenting mostly pre-1980 movies commercial-free with a deep respect for moviemaking...
Here’s What It Takes To Move A 60,000-Pound Fresco By Diego Rivera
"After a four-year, multimillion-dollar undertaking involving mechanical engineers, architects, art historians, fresco experts, art handlers and riggers from the United States and Mexico, the...
Pennsylvania Ballet Changes Its Name To Philadelphia Ballet
"I by no means want anyone to think we're abandoning Pennsylvania," said executive director Shelly Power. "but it's about our identity as one of...
Soprano Pretty Yende Says She Was Strip-Searched By French Customs Agents
The South African coloratura, who is currently starring in Bellini's La Sonnambula at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, says she was detained by...
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui To Direct Geneva’s Ballet Company
Since 2015, the Moroccan-Belgian choreographer, one of Europe's most prominent contemporary dancemakers, has been artistic director of Ballet Vlaanderen in his hometown, Antwerp. At...
Australia’s Largest State Pours Money Into Culture
"A funding bonanza of more than $1.3 billion" — roughly $980 million US — "will create jobs and will place New South Wales as...
Lessons About Learning From Failure
Many workplaces now lionise (whether sincerely or not is another matter) the importance of learning through failure, and of creating environments that encourage this....
What If You Were Unable To Form Any Mental Images?
Aphantasia is a recently-identified variation of human experience affecting 2-5% of the population, in which a person is unable to generate mental imagery. Can...
Leaked Letter: Artists And Former Directors Lobbied To Close Kneehigh Theatre This Year
“Without its creative leadership in place, we believe that Kneehigh’s chapter in history has come to an end. - The Stage
Made Up Places For Real Interactions
What if cultural endeavors, particularly the public and the performative, are themselves a form of political action? - 3 Quarks Daily
