Your Next Playlist: Music Of The Street In San Francisco’s Mission District
The Bop Spotter project uses a microphone to surreptitiously and constantly record a street in the historically Latino neighborhood. Making use of a public...
The Arts Helped Power Asheville’s Economy. Can It All Be Rebuilt?
Renewed interest in Appalachian art, music and culture has been drawing tourists to western North Carolina in recent years. Visitors to Asheville’s Buncombe County spent...
The Black List Has an Amazing Track Record For Spotting Hollywood Writing Talent. Now...
Fifty-four Academy Awards and 267 nominations. That’s the sort of concrete impact the Black List has had since launching in 2005 as Hollywood insiders’ go-to...
“Thankless And Difficult”: What It’s Like Running One Of L.A.’s 99-Seat Theaters
"'Part and parcel of running a theater in Los Angeles is waking up two to four times a year and not knowing if you're...
Has Music Software Made Music Worse?
"Pro Tools, as a sort of way of making music, on some level, has levelled the playing field that allowed people who can’t sing...
All That Promise Of AI: And What We Get Is The New CliffsNotes?
Just feed the raw material into a large language model and in an instant you’ll have a summary to scan. With OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and...
Oregon Ballet Theatre Is Shopping For A New HQ
The company is looking to more-than-triple its space, to 40,000 square feet from its current 13,000. … If it were a matter of accommodating...
For The First Time, And After A Decade Of Work, Scientists Unveil Stunning Map...
Hundreds of scientists mapped out those connections in stunning detail in a series of papers published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. - The New York Times
Kansas City’s Public Radio Stations Cut Jobs, Local Classical Programming
NPR news outlet KCUR and its sister station, KWJC/Classical KC, are eliminating several positions and leaving others unfilled. The most noticeable change to listeners...
Problematic: Just How Do You Measure Participation In The Arts?
Pre-internet, the lines were pretty clear about the binary relationship between artist and audience. Artists created and audience consumed. In today’s digital world, the...
Well, At Least One Endeavor Has Been Reborn From The Ashes Of The University...
The Lightbox Film Center, a repertory cinema, had been operating for the past five years in one of the UArts buildings on Broad Street...
Paul Simon, Despite Hearing Loss, Hopes To Return To Live Performance
The singer, now 82, gave up touring in 2018, and he lost most hearing in his let ear while recording last year's album Seven...
Scotland’s Arts Funder Can’t Announce Any Funding For The Arts
Creative Scotland has postponed announcing its next round of funding grants, which were due this month. The agency says it still can't confirm for...
Seeing Art In Person Stimulates Much More Brain Activity Than Looking At Reproductions Does
"Commissioned by the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, … the independent study used eye-tracking technology and MRI scans to record the brain activity of...
San Antonio Philharmonic Postpones Its October Concerts, Citing Administrative Turmoil
"In a letter to musicians … signed by Executive Director Roberto Treviño and Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, no alternate date for the concerts was...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Once Pressured Brooklyn Museum To Mount Chinese Exhibition: Report
In 2016, when Adams was Brooklyn borough president, two of his top aides reportedly pushed the museum to mount a show about Sun Yat-Sen,...
Federal Court Orders Arkansas Library To Stop Segregating Books
"In yet another major win for freedom to read advocates, a federal judge has ordered the Crawford County Public Library in Arkansas to stop...
Less Than Half Of American Adults Read a Book Last Year. And Yet A...
In 2022, fewer than half of adults reported reading a book in the past 12 months. Furthermore, only 38 percent reported reading fiction or...
Star Cast Of Classical Musicians Convene At Beloved Dying Producer’s Home To Say Goodbye
Over the course of the concert, nearly a dozen musicians played for Adam Abeshouse. Each one embraced him after performing. At least for one...
Dance Data: Here’s What The 50 Largest Dance Companies Look Like
Within the Largest 50, the number of dancers within these companies ranges from 9 to 104, with the median number of dancers at 40.5. Within...
No Doubt About It Now: Music Is Therapy And Science Should Take It Seriously
During experiential fusion with music, you temporarily lose awareness of yourself as an individual entity separate from the music; you and the music have...
The Art And Craft Of The New York Post Headline
An oral history: current and former Post staffers, along with people involved with the incidents in question, talk about how they come up with...
Can Anyone Really Know You? (And Would You Really Want Them To?)
Perhaps we’re wearing a mask that others are too inattentive to peer behind; or maybe we’re just too deep to know. There are many...
How Syntax Changes Meaning — The Context Of Adjacent Words
Often, their authors are all too clearly estranged from the full resources of the English language: What should be putty in their hands is...
How British Words Invaded American English
The chattering classes – another useful Britishism – have a persistent desire for ostensibly clever ways to say stuff. They have borrowed from Wall...
