Pop Culture Is Mired In Stucktopia
“Our new fictional nightmares are all about being trapped: mice running in an endless maze, too cowed by the complexity of the system to...
Portland Is Suggesting A Plan To Shutter Its Big Performing Arts Stage For Two...
The front of house folks and stagehands would like to have a word - perhaps a few words. So far, no one has even...
Could We Stop Catastrophizing The Film Industry?
“This country has endured quite a bit of trauma in recent years, but we are not doing ourselves any favors by continually leaping from...
How Artists Get By In New York Isn’t Actually Romantic
Let’s not pretend it’s easy to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world, no matter what Patti Smith’s memoir says....
Good News For Vancouver’s Ballet BC And Dancers’ Paychecks
A big donation means dancers will get paid for the entire year. The board chair: "We are extremely proud to be able to set...
We May Be Witnessing The Renaissance Of Blu-Rays
That’s right, physical media. DVD sales are down, true - but Blu-Ray sales are climbing, and after Paramount axed the entire Comedy Central website,...
Backstage At The National Theatre During A Reset
The reset “is the time before a show when the theatre becomes a hive of backstage buzz, as cast and crew ensure everything is...
A Glimpse Into The Mind, And Process, Of A Famously Creative And Prolific Songwriters
Leslie Bruicusse wrote “Pure Imagination,” “Talk to the Animals,” “Goldfinger,” and so many more - and now that his papers are at the Library...
Nancy Azara, Who Helped Create A Haven For Feminist Sculptors, Has Died At 84
Azara was “a sculptor who evoked ancient feminine imagery in her carved and painted wood pieces, ... who in 1979 was a founder of...
What’s Saving The Summer Box Office?
Kids’ movies, of course. Well … of course, except last year it was Barbie and (in deep, deep second place) Oppenheimer. And in years...
A ‘Festival Of Resistance’ Against France’s Far-Right
In Avignon, “what will ‘resistance’ mean if the far-right party wins big in France on Sunday? Time will tell.” - The New York Times
Has The Internet Ruined Comedy?
“When it comes to crowd work, I’m the one who came to work. The audience didn’t come to work. They came to laugh. I...
Depressed About Contemporary Life?
Well, time to write a satire. Or so says Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the author of Chain Gang All-Stars. - The Guardian (UK)
Our Online Actions Are Far From Carbon-Neutral
The real energy suck right now is AI. Still, our individual actions online have consequences. Therefore, “to help save the planet, should we be...
Publishing Books In Ukrainian Is Now An Act Of Resistance
“Natalie Miroshnyk was at the Warsaw Book Fair for Ukrainian publisher Vivat when she heard that a Russian missile had hit her country’s biggest printing house, killing seven...
The Composer Who Changed Opera Forever
No, not Wagner, but the man who paved the way for him: Christoph Willibald Gluck. - The New York Times
Australia’s Biggest Online Bookseller Files For Protection
Australia’s largest online bookseller announced the move on Wednesday, two weeks after it went into a voluntary suspension of share trading. - The Guardian
Improbably, A Brilliant Park Rises In Brooklyn
Finally, a long stretch of nothing happening, of innumerable plans, tradeoffs, controversies, objections, and delays — that whole impasto of New York–style dithering —...
First Ever: Dancers Competing In The Olympics This Summer
Thirty-two dancers total—16 b-boys and 16 b-girls—will compete battle-style in Paris’ Place de la Concorde to sold-out crowds on August 9 and 10. Qualifying competitions have...
Bay Area Arts Institutions Finding Their Ways Back
Although attendance at the city’s arts institutions remains down from prepandemic levels — with tourism, hotel occupancy and office attendance yet to fully recover...
That Was Quick: Starmer Appoints New UK Culture Minister
Prior to yesterday’s UK general election, she was shadow cabinet minister for international development and has previously held shadow cabinet roles in housing, foreign...
Are Protests Against Corporations Funding The Arts Killing Corporate Arts Funding?
Increasing protests around elements of corporate sponsorship of the arts – most notably last month, when support from investment firm Baillie Gifford for the Hay, Edinburgh...
Mollywood, The Thinking Person’s Bollywood
The Malayalam-language film industry, based in the state of Kerala in India's far southwest, never went in for the mythological films or song-dance-melodrama extravaganzas...
How Words Shape The Future
We make something more likely, more widely believed, by saying and repeating it. Our rhetoric encourages or discourages. Which is why sports teams chant...
The Occupational Injuries Of Ancient Egyptian Scribes
"Just as modern-day government workers suffer neck and spinal injuries from sitting at desks and arching forward to stare at screens, ancient Egyptian scribes...
