FCC Investigating Public Radio Sponsorships
The request is a next step in FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s investigation into whether public TV and radio stations are airing advertisements in violation of federal...
The Weird And Wonderful Noises That Choreographers Make
“Dance artists often spout rhythmic medleys of noises and counts during classes and rehearsals. In a wordless art that lacks a widely used form...
The Power Of Nothing (It’s A Mental Construct)
Our mental worlds are lively with such experiences of absence, yet it’s a mystery how the mind performs the trick of seeing nothing. How...
Who’s Choreographing What Where (A Leadership Thing)
Women choreographed 17.8% of the 891 total programs identified in the study, and 35.9% of these programs included choreographers of mixed genders. A breakdown...
How Satellite Radio Predicted The Streaming Subscription Model
Well before subscriptions became the norm for streaming media, satellite radio companies Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Radio convinced radio listeners to become radio...
We’ve Been Missing The Point Of “The Great Gatsby” For A Century
“Gatsby is a more complicated book than its pop-culture footprint suggests. It’s big enough to survive all those turgid high school essays about color symbolism...
The Enduring Allure Of Greece In Literature
For hundreds of years, we—broadly speaking, these books’ Anglophone-ish audience—have been reading too much into Greece. There were the philhellenes, like Nietzsche, who believed the ancients...
Bill Bryson: There Are Too Many Books (Blame Self-Publishing)
It is thought that about 90 per cent of self-published books sell fewer than 100 copies, although some self-publishing writers have become successful, notably Colleen Hoover....
What Does An Editor Of Contemporary Classical Music Do? Quite A Lot
“Like a page-turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of...
Stage Crews Reach Union Agreement With Atlantic Theatre
The agreement will be closely scrutinized by New York’s other Off Broadway theaters because the union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, has...
Why So Many Musicians Don’t Have Health Insurance
Unlike in the film and television industry, where workers who jump from set to set on major projects tend to flock to health plans...
Remembering Playwright Athol Fugard
Citizenship had supplied Fugard with his mission as a writer. But he understood the difference between art and politics and resisted anyone dictating his...
New LACMA Building To Get New Works Of Outdoor Art
“Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled...
South Carolina Public Radio To Sever Ties With NPR
“Leaders for S.C. Public Radio and S.C. Educational Television said they are beginning the process of unwinding their membership from NPR to focus more...
Jury Rules That Disney Did Not Steal Story For “Moana”
“The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2½ hours before deciding that the creators of Moana never had access to writer and...
NEA Backs Down — A Bit — Over “No Gender Ideology” Pledge Demand
In response to a lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU, the National Endowment for the Arts dropped its requirement that applicants pledge on...
Lincoln Center Gets $50 Million For Contemporary Dance
“The donation, from the philanthropists Lynne and Richard Pasculano, is the largest Lincoln Center has ever received for programming initiatives. Lincoln Center hopes the...
US Supreme Court Revives Lawsuit Over Nazi-Looted Pissarro
The justices ordered a Federal appeals court to reexamine its ruling in favor of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, currently in possession of Camille...
Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Co. Reaches Agreement With Striking Stage Workers
“(The) much-honored Atlantic Theater Company and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees have reached a tentative agreement that could see the Atlantic become the first-ever...
The Underrated Role Of Intuition In Accomplishment
One day I was perfectly fine, and now, after just a few weeks away, confidence and sureness were gone. Simply put, I had lost...
The Tiresome Literalism Plaguing Today’s Movies
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or...
David Sellars, 86, Father Of The Design-Build Movement
In 1965, Mr. Sellers and William Reineke, graduates of the Yale School of Architecture, had the radical idea that structures turned out better if...
Orange County’s South Coast Rep Theatre On Meeting Challenges
“People are much more selective now. In general, they see fewer productions each year and are more picky about what they’re seeing. And that’s...
The Aesthetics Of Art In A Fascist Mindset
In her landmark 1975 essay in The New York Review of Books, Susan Sontag explains how fascism isn’t just an ideology, but an aestheticized politics that emphasizes...
Two Projects Aim To Check Academic Papers With AI for Mistakes
“I thought, why don’t we go through, like, all of the papers?” The AI tool has analysed more than 37,000 papers in two months....
