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,...
Are Virtues Of The Past Casualties Of Progress?
If we cannot slow down and grow cautiously, evenly, gradually into our new technological and political possibilities and responsibilities—even the potentially liberating ones—the last...
As Performances In Italy Remain Banned, Competitive Ballroom Dancing Waltzes On
" are preparing for the Italian Championships in Rimini in July and as such are allowed to keep practicing, given that the government considers...
Producer Scott Rudin, “Monster” Boss
Even as others have been canceled or have dialed back their aggression, Rudin's behavior has continued unabated, leaving a trail of splintered objects and...
Recreating A 2,000-Year-Old South Indian Lyre
The yazh is a seven- or 14-stringed harp, built over a wooden bowl resonator covered with hide like a drum, that's referenced in Tamil...
The Tensions Between Meritocracy And Equity
"Between those who see meritocratic admissions as giving fair rewards to hard work and ability, and those who demand that schools focus on students’...
‘What If Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare, But Someone Else Wrote Him First?’
That's how one scholar summarizes the theory that the plays of William Shakespeare were written, yes, by the glover's son from Stratford-upon-Avon — but...
Manfred Fischbeck, Who Built Audience For Avant-Garde Dance In Philadelphia, Dead At 80
"For more than 50 years, was an indefatigable contributor to the contemporary experimental dance scene in Philadelphia and around the world. … Mr....
Right-Wing Populists In Europe Are Going After Public Broadcasters
"In some countries, such as Hungary and Poland, illiberal governments are turning them into mouthpieces for the ruling party. In others, such as Germany...
Bayeux Tapestry May Be Too Damaged To Travel To UK
There was quite some excitement in January of 2018 when President Emmanuel Macron announced that the 950-year-old, 2,300-foot-long needlework depicting the Norman Conquest would...
California’s Arts Institutions Will Reopen June 15 (Won’t They?)
"California officials shocked the performing arts community Tuesday when they announced plans to fully reopen the economy June 15 if certain vaccination and hospitalization...
Suspect Arrested For Theft Of Van Gogh And Hals Paintings In Netherlands
"The police announced on Tuesday morning that they had arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of stealing both Vincent Van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden...
India Eliminates Appeals Of Film Censorship Board’s Decisions
"The Indian federal government has passed an order that scraps the Information and Broadcasting ministry's Film Certification Appellate Tribunal, the first avenue of appeal...
Entertainment Venues Fear Problems With A Vaccine Passport
Out of 700 businesses surveyed by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), which represents businesses like nightclubs, bars and festivals, 70% felt that vaccine...
How We Make Language
Today, our world has over 7,000 languages, each with its own words and particular grammar. These languages are so mindbogglingly different that you might...
“Godzilla” Is A Hit — And It Could Change How Movies Are Distributed
It’s the kind of hybrid release that would have seemed impossible to pull off prior to the pandemic. Today, it’s the clearest indication yet...
