Rock Musicians Are Getting Into NFTs. It’s Going To Be Messy.
"At the end of February, Grimes sold 10 pieces of digital artwork as NFTs for $6m, while Deadmau5 has offered bundles including music and...
Science: Turns Out Musical Taste Corresponds To Personality
It turns out that there is more to the question than appears on the surface, and multiple psychological studies have supported the idea that...
Choreography With Water And Fire (This Is Not A Metaphor, This Is Actual Fluids...
Billy Bell, who is a visual spectacle designer and computer engineer as well as a dancer and choreographer, combines movement, architecture and computer code...
Prices For NFTs Swoon (Collapse?)
Perhaps, according to recent figures published by Nonfungible.com, which show that the average price of NFTs plummeted almost 70% from a peak of around...
Why Wouldn’t Saudi Arabia Lend ‘Salvator Mundi’ To The Louvre? Spite, Basically
History's most expensive artwork, purchased by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2017 for $450 million, was supposed to be part of the...
Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Anounces A Fifty Percent Expansion
The expansion would add nearly 100,000 sq. ft to the museum's current 200,000 sq. ft pavilion complex, which features concrete walls, bands of red...
Wisconsin School Works To Save Ojibwe Languages Before Native-Speaker Elders Disappear
On the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation, near Lake Superior in the northwestern corner of the state, is a K-8 school called Waadookodaading ("a place...
Valery Gergiev, Politics and Putin
By arranging himself with the powers that be, Gergiev has maneuvered his way to a singular position in Russian cultural politics. On January 30,...
The Black Violinist Who Premiered Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata
"Born in 1778, in Biała Podlaska, Poland, Bridgetower started playing the violin at an early age. His father John Frederick Bridgetower (probably of...
Hong Kong’s New M+ Wants To Be One Of The World’s Great Contemporary Art...
"The has set M+ the target of being the first museum of its kind in Asia and to be ranked among the top...
Lois Kirschenbaum, New York’s Most Beloved Opera Superfan, Dead At 88
Night after night, through multiple performances of a production's run at the Met or New York City Opera, Lois (the city's entire opera community...
What Killed L.A. Stage Alliance? It Wasn’t That One Dumb Mistake
Los Angeles sound designer and playwright Howard Ho — the boyfriend of actress Jully Lee, who was the subject of the dumb mistake at...
Enormous Golden Modernist Mobile Removed From Lincoln Center Will Be Installed At LaGuardia Airport
There was a minor uproar in December when Lincoln Center announced that Richard Lippold's Orpheus and Apollo, which had dangled in the multi-story upper...
It’s 2021, And Italy Is Finally Abolishing Film Censorship
"It will now no longer be possible to block the release of a new film or demand edits for moral or religious reasons. Filmmakers...
Protestors Occupying French Theatres Carefully Dance Through A Minefield
"After trade union representatives in Paris entered the shuttered Odéon Theater, a movement to occupy playhouses spread rapidly. … Yet with the infection rate...
Survey: How Students Attitudes About Arts Education Are Changing In The COVID Era
Student responses show that their biggest concerns are the high cost of tuition for remote classes and the changes to their social lives on...
Kennedy Center Turns 50 (And Unveils Celebrations)
The 50th anniversary celebration is part of 1,110 dance, theater, jazz, comedy and musical concerts and events in the 2021-2022 season. The total represents...
A Computer Code Written In Cree
My desired output for this language is graphical based. I originally envisioned it as a kind of “Processing for Indigenous Languages”. Where the output...
Live Theatre Returns To Live Theatre In NY — And It’s… Different
The line of people he came to greet waiting to see the first performance of Blindness at the Daryl Roth Theatre off Union Square...
The Transitory Influence Of Hemingway
So what can Hemingway tell us about what American writers owe to Hemingway? Whatever that debt is, it’s a lot, according to the various...
Art At Scale: Putting All Of The UK’s National Collections Online
Art UK brings together over 3,000 public collections on one shared, economically efficient platform, allowing them all to reap the benefits of scale and...
Behold The World’s Largest Collection Of Magazines
" Hyman's collection now stands at around 150,000 editions of roughly 5,000 titles. They form the bulk of HYMAG, a dedicated magazine library housed...
Join the Conversation
I have said before here that the time for talk is long past and that figuring out a way to prod real action on...
How Reporters Are Fighting To Save The Storied Tribune Newspapers From A Hedge Fund
The worried reporters would need to recruit community allies. Hire a public relations firm to sway public opinion. And most crucially: Figure out how...
Video Game Technology Helps Recreate Sound Of 16th-Century Scotland’s Chapel Royal
"Researchers have captured how they believe choral music would have sounded when played and sung in the now-ruined chapel at Linlithgow Palace, west Lothian,...
