How The Pandemic Has Changed Audio Quality On Public Radio
Producers and engineers have come to rely on specialized apps, and they’ve developed workarounds for the shortcomings of Zoom’s recording functions, among other solutions....
Author Larry McMurtry Dead At 84
"Over more than five decades, Mr. McMurtry wrote more than 30 novels and many books of essays, memoir and history. He also wrote ...
LA’s Music Center Is First Arts Center To Get “Healthy Building” Designation
The Music Center in downtown Los Angeles says that it is the first performing arts organization in the country to receive a UL “healthy...
Those Unknown Sappho Poems Discovered Back In 2014? There’s A Problem
Don't worry: so far, there's no evidence that they're forgeries. But "the editors of a scholarly volume in which the circumstances of the discovery...
‘It Was Bloody Cheek Of Me To Even Try’: The Musicologist Who Dared To...
Timothy Jones's completion of several fragmentary violin-piano sonatas by Mozart "is unusual, though, in its choose-your-own-adventure approach. Jones, testing different aspects of Mozartian style,...
San Francisco Starts Program Providing Guaranteed Basic Income To Artists
"More than 100 San Francisco artists will be guaranteed $1,000 a month for six months under a pilot program set to launch in May,...
Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, 79
"The filmmaker, cineaste and critic who emerged in the wake of the French New Wave with such classics as The Clockmaker of St. Paul,...
After Three Decades As Artistic Director, Kevin McKenzie To Retire From ABT
"The company announced on Thursday that McKenzie, 68, will continue to oversee programming and performances through 2022 while a search for a successor begins...
Germany Tries To Figure Out How To Go About Returning Benin Bronzes
"On the heels of a German state visit to Benin City, … the culture ministry and museums are now playing catch-up. … Culture minister...
Actor Jessica Walter Dead At 80
"Walter's six-decade acting career spanned across film and television, from Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, Play Misty for Me, to the voice of Malory Archer...
Connecting Dance And Nursing
Devynn Emory, 40, sees nursing as “not so far away from dancing,” they said in a video interview. “It’s really just another understanding of...
NYC Mayor Orders Vaccinations For Theatre Workers
At a news conference, Mr. de Blasio said that in addition to the Broadway vaccination site, there would be a mobile vaccination unit to...
Debates Are Roiling The Translation World — Who Gets To Translate?
Debates ensued about whether the choice of a translator should be only merit-based or whether identity should play a part. Another thread was about...
UK Arts Organizations Have Bled Memberships During COVID. What To Do?
The decline in cultural memberships has undoubtedly been accelerated by Covid-19. Just this month, the Royal Academy (RA) reported a loss of 18,000 members...
Can We Preserve Brains? Can We Preserve You?
The implications surrounding a human brain-preservation technique that can keep the entire connectome intact are profound. If indeed, you are your connectome, defined by...
How The Meanings Of Words Flip From Negative To Positive
"Today innovation is one of the most hallowed words in the contemporary lexicon. That onetime pariah term is now revered. Linguists call this process...
Literature Of Contagion: When Writers Tell Stories Of Plagues, How Do They End?
Edgar Allan Poe ended his short story with "Darkness and Decay and the Red Death illimitable dominion over all." Others, from Daniel Defoe...
The STEEP Road Back
The many threats and threads around reopening social spaces for live performance can easily blur together. Focused problem-solving and readiness require that we tease...
Michigan Opera Theatre Charts A Bold New Course
"This is a moment for change. Casting singers of color is really easy, but my focus has been on composers, librettists, conductors. I’m thinking...
China’s Architects Turn Attention To Ailing Villages
After a couple of decades of enormous urban growth led to thousands of emptied-out villages, both Chinese government policy and the mood of ordinary...
The Metropolitan Opera Crashes Into Social Media
Either way, the Met’s tweet (sent out to an audience of over 243,500 followers, roughly 304 times Wu’s audience) drew more attention to Jennifer...
Modernist Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen Dead At 91
"His residences had signature touches like 45-degree pitched roofs, clean lines, minimal ornamentation, masterful use of lighting and windows, and décor that included his...
How Architecture Reinforces Racism
“The logic of the ghetto is to limit you. It says you cannot go here, or do this. If freedom is about that ability...
She Took Over A Ballet Company In The Middle Of The Pandemic
Susan Jaffe was announced as the new artistic director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre last April, near COVID's first peak in the U.S., and she...
Berlin Philharmonic Sells Out Tickets In Three Minutes For First Concert Back
At the Philharmonic’s concert, strict rules were in place to reduce the risk of contagion. Spectators were required to give their names when purchasing...
