Peter Yarrow, Of Peter, Paul And Mary, Has Died At 86
"During an incredible run of success spanning the 1960s, Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six Billboard Top 10 singles, two No....
Report: Getty Villa Museum Gardens in Palisades Are On Fire
An unidentified official on LAFD radio said that the Getty Villa Museum was “catching on fire” shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday. - Los Angeles...
Dive-In Movies: Summer In Rural Australia Features Film Showings At Local Swimming Pools
"Dive-ins are a time-honoured tradition in (inland) Australia, where residents can’t easily access what much of the nation takes for granted on a hot...
Human Use Of Alphabets May Be Much Older Than We Thought
“The longer the sequence of symbols, the more likely that writing is involved,” Schwartz said, distinguishing alphabetic writing from semasiography, which refers to “signs...
Why Do Some Right-Wingers Get Fixated On Epic Poems?
Elon Musk. Jordan Peterson, Peter Thiel. All three have been repeatedly talking about and referring to — and misconstruing — The Iliad, The Odyssey,...
Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Reopens After Hiatus And Reorganization
Following an 18-month hiatus, Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre plans to reopen on January 30 with new leadership, a new business model, and a newly renovated lobby. The 36-year-old company,...
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Why Audiences Struggle With Contemporary Music
He has an explanation: “People feel trapped. If you go to an art gallery and there is a picture you don’t like, you can...
Edinburgh Festival Warns That Funding Cuts Puts Festival At Risk
Nicola Benedetti, a Grammy-winning classical violinist who became the festival’s director in 2022, said in an interview with the Guardian she feared the creative arts...
Cynthia Ozick’s Ode To, And Lament For, The Written Letter
She considers the letter as game, as plot device, as plot vehicle (epistolary novels), historical source, moral statement, advice column fodder, greeting card, and...
Study: No, Monkeys Couldn’t Randomly Manage To Type Shakespeare
It concludes that there is simply not enough time until the universe expires for a defined number of hypothetical primates to produce a faithful...
What Fan Culture Reaction To Celebrity Deaths Teaches Us About Dealing With Grief
Fan communities coping with a celebrity loss do several things that help their members feel supported and connected to one another, which often also...
How The Reviled Nietzsche Was Rehabilitated
After the war, Nietzsche was practically radioactive. In the newfound German Democratic Republic (GDR), where he was officially declared a “pioneer of fascism,” his...
“Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera” (Yes, Really)
Certainly the story is operatic: two people with traumatic childhoods meet on a cruise ship, fall in love, develop a successful magic act, and...
An Alternative History Of The 20th Century Literary Canon
The unexpectedness of some of Frank’s choices is just what makes the book entertaining. He tackles some 32 novels, in a series of case...
AI Suggests Iconic Painting Wasn’t By Raphael
The team used pictures of verified Raphael paintings to "train the computer to recognize his style to a very detailed degree, from the brushstrokes, the color...
Berkeley Arts Organizations Are In Distress
These are desperate times for art organizations and music venues in Berkeley, pummeled by rising labor and production costs and lower theater attendances. -...
Friedrich St. Florian, Who Designed DC’s World War II Memorial, Has Died At 91
"A dapper, soft-spoken architect who spent much of his career in academia, (he) was in some ways an unlikely architect of the World War...
One Of Britain’s Best Drama Schools Is Closing Down Its Entire Undergraduate Program
The Bristol Old Vic — which counts among its alumni Patrick Stewart, Olivia Colman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons, Miranda Richardson, and Gene Wilder —...
Dance Is “At An Inflection Point” In Minnesota’s Twin Cities
Just in the past year, two of the metro's major companies closed, as did the area's keystone performance space for dance. The dance scene...
Women Are Losing Ground As U.S. Dance Companies Hire New Artistic Directors
"The data shows that from 2023 to 2024, overall artistic director appointments decreased. However, female artistic director appointments decreased by 36%, compared to a...
Nick Cave’s $1 Million Artwork At Kansas City Airport Taken Down And Might Not...
"Cave’s kinetic sculpture The Air Up There … consists of 2,800 colorful spinners that dangled from the ceiling of the check-in hall at Kansas...
Novelist David Lodge Dead At 89
"(He was) best known for his Booker Prize-nominated comic campus novels Small World and Nice Work. … His other celebrated works included Changing Places...
Ushers Vote To Authorize Strike At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center
"The attendants working in the Academy of Music, Kimmel Center (Marian Anderson Hall, Perelman Theater, and other venues in the complex), and the Miller...
A Star NYCB Dancer Gets Her Hearing Back
Sara Mearns, who dances with startling presence and in-the-moment authority, has been open about her struggles with mental health, but her public posts about...
Is This The Year AI Enters The Physical World?
Expanding AI beyond its digital boundary demands reworking how machines think, fusing the digital intelligence of AI with the mechanical prowess of robotics. This...
