Tourist Jumps Fence, Damages Terracotta Warriors In Xian
The tourist was visiting the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Xi’an, a city in western China that was the capital during several ancient dynasties, when...
What Henry James Knew About The Act Of Criticism
Criticism, done well, is performance. Criticism done best opens the lives of writers, as well as their literature. Henry James’ speech on Balzac (which...
Dana Gioia’s Memoir: Critique Or Pining For A Time That Has Passed?
Old men are entitled to a little nostalgia, and Gioia isn’t the only postwar culture hero looking to escape, to some extent, into the past....
Study: Americans Increasingly Get Their News From Sources They Don’t Trust
While Americans get news from social media, they often don’t see those sources as trustworthy. And while Democrats see most traditional news sources as...
Canadian Museums Facing Storage Crisis
Museums in Canada face several challenges to housing and preserving their collections, let alone displaying those items. And overcrowding is becoming a bigger issue, experts say,...
The Creative Industries’ “Napster Moment”?
If copyright protections were to be stripped away, then so begins the unraveling of the entire value proposition that union members past and present...
500 Broadway Artists Versus Patti LuPone
More than 500 Broadway artists are calling for "accountability, justice, and respect" after theater legend Patti LuPone received widespread pushback over recent comments she made about fellow...
Is AI Coming For Backstage Jobs?
Or, excuse us, we mean, is it bringing a “revolution” to theatre? - The Stage (UK)
The Effort In Indonesia To Install Beautiful Microlibraries Everywhere
“The structures are built using a range of materials and passive cooling principles. The facade of the Bima microlibrary in Bandung was built in...
The Newest Hint That There’s Strong Interest In Off-Broadway Shows
“There are a lot of really beautiful shows that just are never going to attract the audience, and/or support the budget, that you increasingly...
Reality TV, You May Not Be Surprised To Know, Distorts Our View Of Who...
A professor of political science writes that there's “extensive research finding correlations between one’s tendency to believe in the bootstraps version of the American...
Los Angeles Opera Names Its New Music Director
"When Domingo Hindoyan, the Venezuelan chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, made his debut with L.A. Opera last November with Roméo et Juliette, Times...
Renee Victor, Voice Of Abuelita In Coco, Has Died At 88
“Victor appeared in a number of television series through her decades-long career, including as Lupita on the comedy Weeds” - but most people younger...
Playing A Regal, Demanding Musician Doesn’t Make One Regal Or Demanding
Natalie Venitia Belcon "insists that in her downtime, offstage, away from journalists, she is an everyday sort of woman who prefers oversize T-shirts and...
What’s Going To Happen When We Can Translate Animal Languages?
“Speaking whale would expand our sense of space and time into a planetary song. I imagine we’d think very differently about polluting the ocean...
How The National Poet For Wales Got From Public Housing To The Big Stage
Hanan Issa: “Growing up, she said she never saw writing as a viable career: ‘I'm working class, raised in a council house and to...
A New Book Aims To Help Drag Performers When They’re Under Attack
The - sadly necessary - new handbook “contains best practices for dealing with everything from online doxing to bomb attacks.” - NPR
The Man Who Brings Celebs To Broadway
Director Jamie Lloyd, who’s brought Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, and Nicole Scherzinger to Broadway, says, “It’s about creating an event rather than just a theater...
After Years Of Work, California Was Ready To Fund The Performing Arts
“The Equitable Payroll Fund is designed to support arts programs in dozens of small nonprofit organizations, from live theatre to orchestras, operas, chorus, and...
What Taylor Swift’s Latest Victory For Musicians And The Whole Industry
Swift knows why: "Every time a new artist tells me they negotiated to own their master recordings in their record contract because of this...
The Billion Ways Fans Love The Pride And Prejudice Soundtrack
At the 20th anniversary party’s live soundtrack piano performance, “a hush swept through the room, and people held up their phones to record. Two...
What Makes For A Good Summer Movie?
“A great summer movie is really like going on vacation.” - NPR
The Artists Keeping Burned-Out Altadena’s Black Arts Community Alive
“Six months after the blaze, more people have returned to their homes, or to the land where their homes once stood, and are assessing...
Recipe Writers May Be Frustrating The Life Out Of Home Cooks Purely For The...
“In the cutthroat world of food social media, recipe photos need to look not just good but incredible. People eat with their eyes, and that...
As Joann Closes, A Lament For Real Life Craft Shops
Chains, including Joann, killed many a small local craft shop. What about online? “Crafting is an intensely tactile experience, and when you can’t see...
