Twyla Tharp Talks Dance With Terry Gross
"This last year, with the pandemic and its disruptions in terms of routine, discipline, just ordinary day-to-day activities, the body doesn't know itself at...
The Art Of Doing Nothing Architecturally. It’s A Revolution
In a world in which flamboyance and style have long determined how an architect becomes a star, this approach – doing nothing – is an...
Guilty Pleasure? What’s So Guilty About It? “Low” Culture Has Triumphed
"Everything that was once considered lowbrow is now triumphant. It is still common for people to talk of “guilty” cultural pleasures—TV, dance music—about which...
Dana Gioia On Being An “Information Billionaire”
"I think poetry has a social function but it’s a relatively complicated and subtle one, which is to say, the reason that we have...
Workers Start Cutting 1000 150-Year-Old Oaks To Rebuild Notre Dame’s Timbers
Experts have felled 59 of the trees at the Villefermoy forest in the Seine-et-Marne region, and a further 26 oaks will be donated by...
Yes, There Really Was An Eleanor Rigby
Paul McCartney invented the details of her life as recounted in the famous Beatles song, but he found her name on a gravestone in...
How To Draw More People Into Cities Again? Build More Culture Spaces
"Culture has been a potent driver of Chicago for decades, of course, but this still is a unique moment, especially with the new availability...
Even Japanese Poetry Is Getting Messed Up By Climate Change
The natural world has always been a key subject of Japanese verse, and there's even an established body of words — kigo — that...
This Gainsborough Portrait Of An Obscure Composer Sold For £2,500 (Could Be Worth £1...
“Gainsborough had a great deal of interest in musicians and likened a picture to a piece of music, once writing: ‘One part of a...
Preserving Websites With User-Generated Content When Corporate Owners Want To Pull The Plug
"After seeing yet another situation where a longstanding Yahoo-owned website is shutting down, I'm left to wonder if the problem is that the...
Netflix Makes Deal With Sony To Stream Its Movies (And Preclude Sony From Starting...
Sony and Netflix also inked a first-look deal for movies made exclusively for streaming, boosting the slate of Netflix originals. Sony said those films...
Dive Bars That Are Backbone Of Spain’s Flamenco Scene Are Getting Wiped Out By...
"These small clubs, called tablaos, have acted as a springboard for generations of flamenco artists in Spain to launch professional careers. … But that...
Back In The Theatre: “Necessity Is The Mother Of Devotion”
I can report that once the rest of us were inside — 25 or so socially distanced in a black box theater that normally...
Granta’s New List Of The Best Young Writers Working In Spanish
"Eleven years after publishing its first collection of the finest up-and-coming authors in Spanish, Granta magazine is releasing a second volume that brings together...
Impromptu Arts Relief Funds That Sprang Up In Pandemic’s Early Days May Be Around...
As lockdowns arrived and spread, many mutual aid networks, mostly small-scale, were put together on the fly to help the many thousands of suddenly...
An Entire 3,000-Year-Old City Has Been Uncovered In Egypt
Excavating in an area between large temples at Luxor, a team led by famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass found the ruins of an entire working...
There’s Still A Tyranny Of Thinness In Ballet. It Just Gets Worded Differently.
"Today's ballet teachers and company directors know that they can no longer simply instruct their dancers to lose weight. But that doesn't mean they've...
First Day For Performance Venues To Apply For Federal Pandemic Relief Was A Disaster
"As the government prepared on Thursday to start taking applications for a $16 billion relief fund for music clubs, theaters and other live event...
One Of Philadelphia’s Leading Pianists Held For Trial On Sexual Assault Charge
" now-21-year-old Temple student said that Mikhail Yanovitsky, 56, hugged, kissed, and fondled her while she practiced piano in a classroom at Temple's...
This $1,780 Painting May Actually Be A Caravaggio
The 44"-by-34" depiction of Christ with the crown of thorns was thought to be by José de Ribera, a minor 17th-century Spanish artist, and...
Study Science, Fine. But Arts And Humanities Are The Future Of Work
With the rise of artificial intelligence, machine programming, and the ever more rapid automation of technical skills, many companies are seeking just the creative...
Canada’s New Opera Champion Bob McPhee, 65
As head of Calgary Opera he was one of the most innovative champions of the art form. “I think he truly changed opera in...
Diversity Lessons From The 1990s Culture Wars
"What David Lang wrote in 1989 was not wrong: no senators took to the floor to tear up scores by Philip Glass or John...
How American Theatre Marginalizes Asians
"Just as Asian shows are seen as exotic oddities rather than universal, Asian American theatres aren’t considered national theatres by funders, even though it...
George W. Bush, Painter (What Does His Art Say About Him? About Us?)
"Bush’s painting style is inelegant: his subjects’ eyes are often misaligned, his colors are sometimes muddied, and even though he attempts to create depth...
