How Music Shapes Our Future Perceptions
“Sound directs our passage through time. It shapes our orientation to the future moment and also to the moment when the future stops.” -...
Ballet Genius/Putin Superfan/Notorious Train Wreck Sergei Polunin Says He’s Leaving Russia
The Ukrainian-born dancer, who has three tattoos of Putin (despite the Russian military's near-obliteration of his hometown, Kherson), now says "My time in Russia...
Rousseau’s Philosophical Diagnosis Of What Ails Us (Still Relevant Today)
Rousseau was, in effect, the diagnostician of despair who captured the affliction of alienation in all of its dimensions. The source of our affliction...
How Did A Publishing Startup Land 25 Books On The Bestseller List In A...
So far this year, Bloom has landed 23 books and two series on the New York Times best-seller list. Last year, it surpassed $100...
Nearly 15,000 Media Jobs In The US Were Eliminated In 2024
"While the 14,909 jobs lost by mid-December this year offered an improvement on the 21,417 jobs cut in 2023, it would be unwise to...
Charlotte Symphony Is Making Big Investments In Immersive Performances
“It is going to be a space you can choose where to be and how to listen,” Fisk said. “We want people to lose...
Why Some Non-Christian Composers Are Attracted To Christmas Material: David Lang
"Every Christmas, I ask myself this question, because accidentally I — a Jewish composer — have also written something of a Christmas classic: the...
Movie Producers Sue National Parks System Over Permits In Parks
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Wyoming federal court, Alexander Rienzie and Connor Burkesmith challenge the constitutionality of federal permit and fee requirements on First Amendment...
Can A Musical Be A Better Way Of Focusing Politics On An Issue?
Like the drama series about the Post Office scandal aired a year ago, “Mr Bates vs The Post Office,” dramatizations of the news can often...
The Top 10 Bookselling Stories Of 2024
"We saw booksellers, publishers, and others in the industry step up to aid stores that sustained extensive hurricane damage, call for greater rights and...
What Nonprofit Theater Leaders Told The NEA
"(A) series of listening sessions, held this past summer, helped the (NEA theater) team to learn more about evolving challenges, successful strategies, and potential...
Will This Be The First Broadway Musical Whose Title Role Is A Dead Body?
"Dead Outlaw, a rambunctious musical that tells the hard-to-believe-it’s-true story of a bandit’s corpse that became a spectacle in early-20th-century America, will open on...
Is The World’s Largest Fully-Functioning Musical Instrument In Jeopardy?
The organ in the old Wanamaker's department store, right across from City Hall, is a Philadelphia icon. Yet the store, currently a Macy's, is...
Use Our Copyrighted Material To Train AI? Oh Hell No, Huge Coalition Tells UK...
"Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies...
This Upstart Publisher Got 25 Books On The Bestseller List In A Single Year
Three years ago, the only author on Bloom Books' list was E.L. James (the Fifty Shades of Grey series). Now it publishes over 40...
SF-MOMA Fires One Of Its Top Curators
"Eungie Joo, who served as head curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for seven years, was fired after...
Remember, “A Christmas Carol” Is Not Dickens’s Only Christmas Story
It's not even Dickens's only Christmas ghost story. And some of them are much weirder and more unsettling than the famous one. - Literary...
Canadian Movie And TV Production Sinks
Volume was down 18.5% to C$9.58B ($6.68B) in the 12 months between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024, according to the Canadian Media Producers...
This Completely Legal Musical Is Totally Not About Raygun The Olympic Breakdancer
Two weeks ago, comedian Steph Broadbridge cancelled Raygun: The Musical just before its Sydney premiere after notorious-Olympic-breaker-and-viral-sensation Dr. Rachael Gunn's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist...
Jennifer Homans Remembers Arlene Croce
She had always insisted that what she was reviewing was not a dance itself but an “afterimage” imprinted in her mind, something personal and...
How America Redefined Old Age
Contemporary America segregates debility and death, and it’s costing us, body and soul, writes Duke University historian James Chappel. - The American Scholar
How The Politics Of Smell In Prose Broke The Internet
I wanted to share with my academic network, so I posted a photo of myself holding a physical copy of my PhD thesis on X. The...
Did Shakespeare Commit Suicide? A Scholar Makes The Case
Larry Lockridge, professor emeritus at NYU: "I’ll air my conviction that death by suicide is more probable than the notion that Edward de Vere,...
Facing Funding Stress, Sydney’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Scraps Its Free Admission
Free general admission was introduced in 2000 under the directorship of Elizabeth Ann MacGregor with the aid of a Telstra sponsorship. But stagnant government...
On The Front Lines Of Art Therapy
“We work a lot with trauma and survivors who maybe are struggling to find the words to be able to describe what they’ve endured....
