Dancers Perform Protest Outside Kennedy Center
Thirty-four dancers performed The Nelken Line, a piece by choreographer Pina Bausch that pays homage to the seasons. It's been performed widely since Bausch created it...
How The Synthesizer Went From Oversized, Clumsy, Expensive Novelty To Tool For Genuine Creativity
"(Starting in) the late twentieth century, a family of technologies moved from the fringes of novelty attraction and the avant-garde to the heart of...
We Need To Define What Smart Is
If we could stop bickering about which creatures do or don’t deserve to be called smart, an emerging movement of scientists and philosophers argue...
How Research Publishing Has Devolved Into A Citation Game
Gone are the days when academics simply conducted research and published their findings. Now their papers are less valued for their content than for...
An Arts Advocacy Summit: Will It Have Any Impact?
The call to action was to develop a blueprint for the TCC to take to Capitol Hill to advocate for arts funding, with the $207...
Early On, Robert Frost Wrote Some Really Wretched Verse
"Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, … had written a poem called 'My Butterfly.' … It is what it is,...
Kharkiv’s Puppetry Tradition Thrives During War
But Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 dealt Kharkiv’s puppetry a heavy blow, as much of the city’s population of 1.4 million...
Trump’s Kennedy Center Cancels Performance By Gay Chorus
This is the latest event to be canceled by the Kennedy Center since the Trump takeover. The show “Finn,” which could be read as...
When Messiaen Zigged And Other Composers Zagged
As Messiaen saw it, the real revolution in 20th-century music had been launched not by an Austrian Jew but by a Frenchman, Claude Debussy,...
High Society Art Adviser, Convicted Of Felony Embezzlement, Explains Herself
"'You become the lie,' (Lisa) Schiff said. … By the time it all came crashing down in 2023, she had stolen some $6.4 million....
England’s Arts Funder Shelves Change Which Organizations Called “Worst Idea In The World”
The change proposed by Arts Council England was that any organization which had a grant from National Lottery proceeds had to wait until that...
For The First Time In A Century, An Egyptian Pharaoh’s Tomb Has Been Discovered
"Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II. … It's the first royal Egyptian tomb to be discovered since...
Many Looted Statues Are Being Returned To Cambodia, Which Is Running Out Of Places...
"The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the...
Now That Trump Has Taken Over The Kennedy Center, What Might He Do With...
"The question now is what a thin-skinned showman will do with an institution of music, theater and dance ... central to Washington’s cultural life...
Harvey Weinstein (From Prison) Sues His Brother/Former Business Partner
The producer/convicted rapist filed suit against Bob Weinstein and two other formers executives of the Weinstein Company his brother last week in New York...
US Indie Publishers Form Co-Operative
"A group of independent publishers has formally incorporated as the Publishers Cooperative, a new organization aimed at leveraging collective buying power and sharing resources....
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...
