The Switch To Virtual Concerts Has Changed These Musicians’ Work Permanently
"It seems like a good time, as the pandemic continues to block live performances in all but a few socially distanced, outdoor shows, to...
Yahoo News Is On TikTok? Yes, And It Has Over A Million Followers
Yahoo may be seen by much of the minivideo app's Gen Z core audience as a dinosaur, but Yahoo News has been on TikTok...
How The Arts Can Be A Tool In Community Wealth-Building
"Too often, arts-based approaches undermine rather than support equity, as Richard Florida … now acknowledges. … How does one ensure arts-based development avoids this...
Touring Broadway Shows Are Gearing Up To Restart In The Fall
"Subscription packages for some of Broadway's biggest hits are being sold at a handful of the nation's performing arts centers, while a host of...
These Fragments Were Dismissed As Fake 140 Years Ago. Were They Actually The Oldest...
An antiquities dealer in Jerusalem came forward in 1883 with what he claimed were fragments of the original book of Deuteronomy. After scholars at...
Netherlands Is Creating Master Blueprint For Returning Artworks Looted From Colonies
" On 29 January, the government of prime minister Mark Rutte became the first in Europe to approve a central mechanism for repatriating colonial...
Angry French Arts Workers Occupy Theatres, Demanding Reopening
"Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and … thousands marched in cities across...
Hollywood Made Out Big Time In The Stock Market
A month before "meme stocks" like GameStop and AMC Entertainment took flight and captured the public imagination, many of the world’s entertainment giants were...
Using Lockdown Boredom For Good
"During this period of soul-crushing boredom, it would be valuable to pay more attention to what people are feeling and thinking, rather than trying...
The Artistic Power Of AI
"AI as scientist conception runs the risk of missing out on a — the — characteristic feature of AI, particularly machine learning. Once this...
The Constant Crises Of British Theatre
The UK’s theatrical culture is obsessed with the idea of theatre as storytelling, both as a discourse and as a conditioning of what the...
Research: The Intricacies Of Detecting Bullshit
Recently, researchers have begun to treat bullshitting as having two separate dimensions. “Persuasive bullshitting” is motivated by a desire to impress or persuade. “Evasive...
How To Fix Our Online Dystopia? It’s A Design Problem
In this new wilderness, democracy is becoming impossible. If one half of the country can’t hear the other, then Americans can no longer have...
What Has An Entire Year Lost To The Pandemic Done To Top Ballet Pros?
"In ballet when you lose a year, you lose a lot. It takes years of sacrifice and training to become a professional, and the...
Dance Among The Irradiated Ruins Of Fukushima
Eiko’s performative gestures are captured in opulent compositional detail as she defiantly inserts her body amidst crumbled buildings, vine-encrusted train tracks, large bags of...
There’s Nothing New About Cutting Offensive Stuff From Children’s Books, So Calm Down About...
For instance, ugly ethnic stereotypes from the 1920s and '30s were removed from the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books all the way back...
$158 Million Restoration Of Air Force Academy Chapel Is Biggest Modernist Preservation Project Ever
Listed as a National Historic Landmark District, the Air Force Academy campus is still one of the most advanced fusions of technology, education, art,...
Hollywood Stars, The Theater Needs Your Help!
"In one of the more surprising revelations of the shutdown, it turns out that the American theater has no towering figure even attempting to...
Milwaukee’s Danceworks Changes Collective Leadership Model Amid Protests
A recent leadership change at Danceworks has led to the longtime artistic director's resignation and a letter from a co-founder criticizing the board of...
Warner Bros. Has Dropped Pepe Le Pew From Looney Tunes
The amorous/borderline-rapey skunk was cut from Space Jam 2 and is not included in any future projects, though studio sources say that this is...
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre Will Pay Its Employees To Get Vaccinated
"We are incentivizing each one of our employees with a payment of $200 to get vaccinated," Chad Bauman said. "We believe it's incredibly important...
What It Was Like At The Movies The First Weekend New York’s Cinemas Reopened
Capacity Limits: "Not really an issue for Chaos Walking, a poorly-reviewed mess of a sci-fi adventure." Distancing: "Fortunately, AMC's ordering system handles this well,...
What’s A Conductor Good For? Let A Veteran Orchestral Player Tell You.
"A great maestro, through the sheer force of his or her spiritual presence, can inspire musicians to play not with our hands but with...
Charleston Symphony Eliminates Music Director Position
To cope with the huge income shortfall caused by the pandemic, South Carolina's largest performing arts organization will let go of conductor Ken Lam...
TV Newsman Roger Mudd, 93
" Peabody Award-winning journalist who spent a quarter-century at CBS News and NBC News and came close to becoming a No. 1 network anchorman...
