Albania’s Capital Has Become A Hotbed Of Offbeat New Architecture
"The boom is being spearheaded by Tirana's mayor, Erion Veliaj ... and Albanian prime minister and fellow Socialist Edi Rama. They have made architecture...
When Obsession With The Great Book Makes Writing One Impossible
The bibliophobia of the title, Chihaya assures us, only “occasionally manifests as an acute, literal fear of books.” More often, it “develops as a...
School Censors Play, Students Write Anti-Censorship Play And Win State Award
School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write , their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and...
The Lengths Claude Lanzmann Had To Go To In Order To Make “Shoah”
The 9½-hour length of the finished documentary is daunting enough, but Lanzmann culled it from 220 hours of footage. His grant from one government...
Multi-Generation Musicians. What Accounts For Them?
If genes and grit are not entirely responsible for the persistence of professional musical families across generations, what else matters? There are several possibilities....
Report: America’s Choruses Are Doing Well
Organizations across disciplines operated at a small deficit for the first time in five years in 2023. Choruses, by contrast, were still operating at...
Opera America’s State Of Opera Report
The key findings of the Annual Field Report are drawn from the fiscal year 2023 data submitted by OPERA America’s Professional Company Members (PCMs) in the...
Mel Bochner, Conceptual Artist Who Played With Language And Imagery, Is Dead At 84
"Bochner was one of the key artists associated with the Conceptualist movement during the 1960s and ’70s. In legendary pieces that hardly looked much...
Behold The Evolution of “Extreme” Marching Band
Marching band is more than a pastime. It’s an extreme sport. The real reason the students rehearse so hard isn’t to play well at...
What Eventbrite User Data Say About Audience Behavior Trends
Eight in 10 event-goers are planning to attend either the same number of events, or more, compared to last year.
Gen Zs, in particular, are...
Contemplating The Mortality Of All Things
Only recently has the human collective begun accepting the fact it is itself mortal. We now appreciate that events unfolded for aeons before us...
Midcentury Modern: There’s A Group Of Audience-Friendly American Opera The Met Should Be Producing
Joshua Barone makes the case for such works as Samuel Barber's Vanessa, Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes’s Street Scene, Marc Blitzstein’s Regina, Carlisle Floyd’s...
Parents Jailed For Starving 17-Year-Old Child For Ballet Lessons
She weighed just 60 pounds (27.3 kilograms) – about the same size as a 9-year-old. Last month her parents, an Australian couple in their...
Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Indigenous Advisors Quit En Masse
The advisory circle, formed in 2018, was intended to make Canada's oldest ballet company "a more equitable, diverse and inclusive organization," the ballet's website...
After Six Weeks In London’s West End, “The Years” Is Still Seeing Audience Members...
"While fainting theatergoers are nothing new — several passed out over the onstage torture in Sarah Kane’s Cleansed at the National Theater almost a...
Abortion Play “The Years” May Be An Example Of Trigger Warnings Making Things Worse
The Anne Ernaux adaptation currently running in London's West End has been making headlines for the fact that audience members keep fainting during a...
One Of Britain’s Top Indie Publishers Expands Into U.S.
"Faber, the storied U.K. independent publisher, has launched a new division, Faber US, in the United States. The move comes a decade after Faber...
Conductor Edward Gardner Apologizes For Describing Naples Opera Chorus As “Mafia Families”
"The principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra was threatened with a defamation action for his comments about chorus members at the Teatro San...
Why Does It Matter That Trump Fired The Kennedy Center’s Board And Made Himself...
An explainer covering why the Federal government is involved with the Kennedy Center in the first place, how its board differs from other nonprofit...
La Scala Ballet Has A New Director. It’s His Third Time In The Job.
Frédéric Olivieri will begin his latest term as Director of La Scala’s ballet company on March 1. He first led the company 2002-2007, after...
Sudan’s Heritage In Danger As Civil War Rages On
"The war itself has been under-reported as other conflicts have taken the global centre stage; even less attention has been paid to its devastating...
The Meaning Of Red
Red is the color we wear when we want to be noticed, the one that appears in the most national flags, the one that...
Why Theatre Is Devolving Into Uselessness
Does anyone actually read theatre reviews? National newspapers continue to slim down arts sections. Theatre coverage, with confined geography, is lucky to survive with...
How To Save Movie Theatres: Be A Non-Profit?
Certainly not all nonprofit theaters are doing well, but the model has worked, at least so far, in places like the Berkshires, where a...
Finding That Line Between Copyright Protection And AI: A First Copyright Is Granted
Invoke has been trying to find that thin line to offer a product that would help artists create works that may be eligible for...
