Five Books To Help You Get Past Your Creative Block
Blocks tend to crop up when we put undue pressure on ourselves to perform or to attempt lofty tasks. These books dispense practical advice...
Exit Interview: Longtime Dallas Arts Reporter Jerome Weeks Retires
The Dallas Arts District is just a microcosm of the growth and expansion that's happened after the Dallas Museum of Art and the Meyerson...
Opera As A Network Of Collaboration
Presented in Los Angeles by MOCA and the director Yuval Sharon’s company of operatic experimenters, the Industry, “The Comet/Poppea” was commissioned by the American Modern Opera...
Roger Wright Graduates From Aldeburgh
Concert planning and programming are still what he likes doing most of all, he says, but nonetheless he has found himself running an operation...
If Your Mind’s Eye Can’t Form Pictures As You Think…
If you ask me to describe someone I cannot see at that moment, or something, I have no idea how to do it since...
Consider The Physics Of Breakdancing
The dancers competing at the Olympics in Paris this summer may not know the theoretical physics or mathematics on which their moves depend, but...
Report: Huge Disparities In Gender, Race, In Programming Among 111 Orchestras
The recent analysis of 16,327 compositions scheduled for performances revealed that 7.5% of works were composed by women (down from 7.7% in the 2021/22 report...
USC Makes Its Acting And Playwriting MFA Programs Tuition-Free
"Starting with the 2024-25 academic year, incoming graduate students, as well as continuing MFA students studying acting and dramatic writing, will shoulder no tuition...
Giant Publisher Wiley Shuts 19 Scientific Journals — They Were Paper Mills
The journals that were withdrawn were all owned by Hindawi, a company Wiley bought in January 2021, that was later discovered to have a paper mill problem at...
“Reading Dies In Complexity” — Research Shows Online News Consumers Want Headlines To Be...
"Over 30,000 field experiments with The Washington Post and Upworthy showed that readers prefer simpler headlines (e.g., more common words and more readable writing)...
In The Absence Of Support By Publishers, UK Authors Are Doing Their Own PR
According to independent events planners, publicists and marketers, more and more authors are seeking out their services to augment the efforts of their publishers’...
Florida School Board Bans Book About Banning Books
In a 3-2 vote, the Indian River County School Board in Vero Beach overruled its own book-review committee to remove "Ban This Book" by...
Vandals Deface King Charles’ Official Portrait
Members of the public have been free to visit the portrait of the monarch, which is on display at the Philip Mould gallery in...
Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect Fumihiko Maki Has Died At 95
"The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto is considered one of his classic designs, with floating forms of glass, metal and concrete. ......
A City Audit Identifies The Problems Plaguing Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency
"Metro Arts violated multiple government policies in the last two years, according to (the) report. … The agency struggled for months to pay artists...
Why Shari Redstone Backed Out Of The Paramount-Skydance Merger
"Redstone's change of heart, after months of drama and tensions spilling into the public, was the culmination of several forces that had been playing...
Now Edgar Bronfman Jr. And Bain Capital Might Buy Paramount Global
While they haven't made a formal offer yet, sources say that Bronfman, former CEO of Warner Music Group (and, before that, Seagram's, his family's...
Actor Tony Lo Bianco, 87
"(He) brought a gritty realism to his portrayal of cops, boxers and all manner of tough guys, memorably playing a mobster in The French...
Anti-Israel Protestors Vandalize Brooklyn Museum Director’s Home
"Red paint was splashed across the front door and windows of Anne Pasternak’s home. Unfurled between two columns was a banner that read: 'Anne...
Canadian Opera Co. General Director Resigns, Effective Immediately
Perryn Leech succeeded Alexander Neef as the company's CEO only three years ago and had two years remaining on his contract. The statement announcing...
What We Lost When Art And Science Split
Today, it is generally assumed that the arts and humanities are more feminine than the sciences. Comparing the two eras shows that our 21st-century...
Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Theatre Reopens After Restoration
In Wright’s days, the venue would host weekly public movie screenings for 50 cents a ticket as well as concerts and other cultural events....
Can Art Save The World? A Conference Debates
“We actually can be the place where discourse happens, where the dialogue about these issues surfaces,” she said. Museums are “safer places to do...
Survey: Most Canadians Got Their Audiobooks For Free In 2023
A recent survey about the reading habits of Canadians conducted by BookNet Canada, which collects and analyzes data about the Canadian book industry, found that a...
Puerto Rico Considers A Law Regulating Professional Dancing, And Some Dancers Are Very Worried
"PC2170 would make dancers pay a fee to receive a certification and be able to practice professionally. Its purpose is to make dance a...
