Edinburgh International Festival Will Go On This Summer — Outdoors (Yes, In Scotland)
Last summer, COVID forced the cancellation of the flagship of the Festival City's summer events; this year, with new cases falling in Scotland and...
One Of Australia’s Most Popular Soap Operas Roiled By Accusations Of On-Set Racism
Neighbours, which has been running in Australia since 1985 and is one of the country's most successful TV shows internationally, has had two indigenous...
Firsts: Chicago Art Institute Appoints New Board Chair
A 15-year trustee of the museum, Denise Gardner will be the first African-American and first woman leader of the governing body for the museum...
How Big Tech Has “Weaponized” Design Patents
Introduced in 1842, the US design patent law saw just 14 designs registered in its first year, including a typeface, a bathtub and a...
What The Closing Of The Arclight Theatres Means For Movie Theatres
The truth is, the cinema experience as we know it, is likely doomed. While it isn’t going to disappear entirely, it will become a...
Awards Shows Used To Be Ratings Gold. Now They Struggle
The Emmy Awards — already in a ratings tailspin in recent years as it no longer celebrates mass-appeal hits — showed how far audience...
What TikTok Has Taught Us About Learning
A recent Harvard study showed that students actually learn more when education is built on “active learning,” which promotes working collaboratively on projects. And now,...
How Did A Cranky Old Scholar Come To Own An Indigenous Language?
Frank Siebert’s writing system was an obstacle for people who were eager to learn the language. “It was a giant pain for everyone,” he...
How NFTs Fit Into The Performance Art Tradition
"As a scholar of communication and performance studies, what interests me is how NFTs are redrawing parts of the art world in radical ways...
‘I’m Just Free, Now That I Don’t Have To Worry About Fees’: Frank Gehry...
"Buzzing through his sprawling work space, the architect said he has now reached a point in his career where he has the luxury of...
Filtered
As I hear my student playing the piano through Zoom, just for a moment, I think I am hearing Paderewski in 1912. The sound...
Raising the flag
As it happens, I don’t care at all for Childe Hassam’s better-known etchings — I find them fussy — but lithography brought out a...
How Social Media Has Collapsed Our Expression Of Thoughtful Ideas
"Without the distance between self and thought, self and utterance, we are unable to entertain, probe, or debate ideas. We are unable to change...
A Year Into The Pandemic, Dancers Talk About How They’ve Adjusted Their Movement And...
"How are dancers developing performance energy? How can artistry best be communicated through the camera? What is the best angle to present technique? Dance...
New Director Of Pompeii Talks Culture Of Archaeology
"I would like to reiterate the concept I have of archaeology not only as a study of beautiful objects or monuments but also of...
A Lawsuit About AI And Intellectual Property Law Now Involves R2D2 And WALL-E
An American company is suing a Chinese company in U.S. federal court for copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property violations. The goods in question?...
Two Beloved California Movie Theatre Chains To Close
ArcLight's stable includes the prized Cinerama Dome Hollywood. The Dome, built in 1963 by Pacific Theatres' parent company the Decurion Corp., is the crown...
Singing By Hand: How To Translate Songs Into American Sign Language
"A good A.S.L. performance prioritizes dynamics, phrasing and flow. The parameters of sign language — hand shape, movement, location, palm orientation and facial expression...
When 1970s Boston Was A Hotbed Of Contemporary Music
In its own buttoned-up New England way, it was a modernist hotbed. Each of those institutions was like a little fief, with eminent composers...
The Saga Of The Jefferson Davis Chair Comes To An End (And No, It...
A shadowy art/activist collective calling itself White Lies Matter made a bit of a stir earlier this month when it stole a chair dedicated...
Nature Documentaries Are A Lot More Like Porn Than You’d Like To Think
It's not just that they're wildly popular and can be addictive. It's because nature documentaries have at least as much artifice as any studio-produced...
The Surrealists Would Have Loved TikTok
In fact, reporter Angela Watercutter compares the 15-second-video service old Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse: "The platform, thanks to its duetting and stitching functions, automates...
Where Second City’s New Chief Means To Lead The Improv Institution
Says Jon Carr, who came to the company's Chicago headquarters from Dad's Garage in Atlanta four months ago, "It's a little strange, because there’s...
Is The CEO Who Saved Waterstones Turning Around Barnes & Noble, Too? Well, He...
To be fair, James Daunt was not at all as self-aggrandizing as that headline suggests when he spoke to the Independent Book Publishers Association...
New Turn In Saudi Arabia-vs.-Louvre ‘Salvator Mundi’ Drama (It’s Still About Spite, Though)
Last week several news outlets reported, based on a French TV documentary, that the world's most expensive artwork wasn't in the Louvre's big 2019...
