Here’s What A British Musician Now Has To Go Through To Work In Europe
While the UK was in the EU, a British musician could pretty much just accept a gig and go. Now she has to apply...
Italy’s Art Museums Emerge From Lockdown, And They Have Lessons For The Rest Of...
"'We are now where you will be in a few days,' wrote novelist Francesca Melandri in a piece for the Guardian newspaper in late...
How A Young Pianist Learns About The Liszt Sonata From Historic Recordings
“I almost feel like you should know the notable recordings of a work like this,” Benjamin Grosvenor said of the sonata in a recent...
The Line Between Audiobook And Theatrical Play
"When different narrators take on chapters devoted to different characters’ points of view, the listener’s engagement with the book can be heightened. On the...
Was Some Of Ravel’s Best Music The Product Of A Brain Disorder?
“Think of it like traffic. There’s the language road, there’s the music road, there’s the seeing road, there’s the images road. Language is like...
The Problem With Museums
"If the postmodernism of the 1980s considered the museum to be in crisis and contemplated its “ruins,” today many see these same institutions as...
Are American Progressive Ideas A Threat To France’s Identity?
French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s...
Liz Lerman Talks Movement & Discord
The choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker shares her creative process and the connection between movement and discord. - Aaron Dworkin
The Latest Dance Craze Sweeping The World
Jerusalema is a song by South African house musician Master KG. Friends in Angola filmed themselves dancing to the hit - the moves have...
The Five-Second Error In The “Nutcracker” Score
He suspects the engraver made the mistake while copying the score, and it didn’t get caught during proofreading. If Tchaikovsky noticed, there’s no indication...
The Agents Behind Hollywood’s Book-To-Movie Boom
“The entire structure of the traditional book-to-film deal has changed. Our authors are now at the cutting edge of those deals, in the selling...
Rauschenberg, Twombly And Johns – A Great Art Love Triangle
Rauschenberg and Twombly were both southerners. Rauschenberg, who was quarter Cherokee, came from Texas, Twombly from the heart of the old Confederacy in Lexington,...
The Chamber Music Series Getting Ten Times Its Usual Audience (And Making Money)
There’s one metric, however, that stands out as a marker of success. Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s virtual concerts are technically free of charge, but...
We Worried About Children On The Internet And Completely Forgot About Adults
Honestly, will we never learn? "Americans have expressed their concerns about each new form of media through fears about children and youth. Younger Americans...
Rupert Neve, ‘The Man Who Made The Recording Console,’ 94
The Grammy-winning architect of modern music "is best known for designing and producing microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and mixing consoles that are sought after...
How Can ‘Our Town’ Still Feel Utterly Contemporary, 80 Years After Its Opening?
Howard Sherman, author of a new book about the play: "It's a play that people think they know. People want to paint it as...
In Britain, A Dig Reveals A Lot Of Detail About Home Life In The...
Archaeologists "were hopeful of unearthing something of interest because the area has been occupied for more than 3,000 years. But nothing prepared them for...
Playing The Man Who Betrayed Fred Hampton Sent Lakeith Stanfield Into Therapy
Stanfield says it's not only therapy that has made the last year bearable. "The one good thing about this pandemic is being able to...
So, No Spring Openings For Broadway, But You Can Find Some Gems, Safely, Online
All of this is true: "An effort to keep the industry alive has major stars taking to the virtual stage and much-lauded past productions...
The New Mexico Museum Of Art Is Planning To Destroy A Historic Chicano Mural
Not for nothing - for a new museum of contemporary art. But ... really? "'We invited the Department of Cultural Affairs,' Carrie Wood, a...
London’s Bridges Truly Are Falling Down
Or they might, soon. London needs "infrastructure week," but for real, and for much longer than a week. Take Hammersmith. "It’s obvious whom to...
Disneyland Artist And ‘Master Illustrator’ Charles Boyer, 86
Boyer signed on with Disney as a sketch artist in 1960 - and never left. "Boyer was made a Disney Legend in 2005, the...
One Idea For What To Do With Unused And Deconsecrated Churches
Artists need studios, and usually studios with light ... and churches often have that. "Places of worship are typically built to outlast their parishioners....
Why ‘Nadiya Bakes’ Is Such A Big Deal In Foodie Shows
The new show demonstrates just how drastically far food shows have come - but reminds us of how far that had to be, especially...
Teresa Burga, Groundbreaking Peruvian Conceptual Artist, 85
Burga's best-known work, 1981's Perfil de la mujer Peruana, confused many people in its day. She and a psychotherapist friend "interviewed 290 middle-class women...
