Paul Taylor Dance Company Announces Major Expansion
"(The company will) more than triple its footprint, moving its headquarters to a Midtown Manhattan office tower next year from its current home on...
The Musical Mind Of George Lewis
George Lewis is one of the most formidable figures in modern music: a composer of international renown, a legendary improvising trombonist, a computer-music pioneer,...
Just How Classical Are India’s Classical Dance Traditions?
Although Indian classical dance is commonly assumed to be ancient and reverential—and there is a documented history of devotional dancing extending back more than...
Can ‘The Nicest Guy In Show Biz” Make Lower Manhattan’s New Arts Center Work?
“Amazing work happens at the grassroots level, but how can an organization and people with positional sway and a multimillion-dollar budget do that without...
Sam Altman: The Unexpected Leaps AI Will Make In 2024
Chatbots will expand well beyond digital text by handling photos, videos, diagrams, charts and other media. They will exhibit behavior that looks more like...
The First “Influencer” And The Quest For Reality
Beau Brummell’s a really interesting figure. He’s often called the first influencer, the inventor of sponcon (sponsored content). He was a Regency-era (early nineteenth...
Star And Understudy Sick, Actor Drives 150 Miles To Save “Evita” Performance
An actor travelled more than 150 miles to ensure a performance of the musical Evita could go ahead after the lead and understudy became...
Stats: Trends Across Ten Years In The Classical Music World
One notable finding over the past ten years has been the steady rise in programming of music by living composers. Worldwide, since 2013, contemporary music has...
In Taiwan’s Election Campaign, The Arts Sector Tries To Get Some Attention
"'Art has never been a priority' for the government, says (one gallerist), and response to pressure from the arts is 'slow, but we can’t...
America’s Oldest Choral Festival Adopts A New Artistic Model
A different festival director from a variety of artistic disciplines will be engaged each year. It is a new concept for the oldest choral...
On Watching George Santos’s Post-Congress Cameo Videos
"There was once a transgressive appeal to the Santos persona. … It was the inappropriateness of his high status that made him amusing. Now...
Composer Phil Niblock, 80
Niblock made music from drones, microtones, and instruments such as cellos, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies, and more. He remains best-known for the spare sounds he produced,...
A Report On Working Conditions For Literary Translators
"Just under 300 people responded to the survey, which was intended to collect data about copyright, payment, royalties, and other labor issues. … Only...
Europe’s New Libraries Are Winning Fans As Community Connectors Of The Mind
For all its newfound task as “knowledge navigator and facilitator” in an increasingly complex and connected world, the library’s traditional role has also benefited...
Philadelphia Orchestra Appoints Marin Alsop As Principal Guest Conductor
"Alsop, 67, was music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2007-08 through 2020-21, the first woman to lead a top-level American orchestra. She...
Unfinished Video Games Can Become Big Hits
“If you want to know your game is not good, you prefer to know it as early as possible, so that you can still...
In Rehearsal With The N.Y.P.D. Dance Team
"The seven-officer team has mastered hip-hop and salsa and is playing around with bachata and bhangra. … But what they really need is recruits...
UK Theatres Fear A Cascade Of Closures Due To Local Government Funding Cuts
"Loss of local support for the arts is a symptom of the increasing number of councils facing bankruptcy after more than a decade of...
Radio Giant Audacy, In Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Plans To Discharge $1.6 Billion In Debt
"Radio’s second largest ownership group says it has reached an agreement with a 'supermajority' of its debtholders on a deleveraging transaction that will erase...
Joseph Lelyveld, 86, Former Executive Editor Of The New York Times
"He presided over the newsroom as executive editor from 1994 to 2001, a period that coincided with the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and...
Student At Art Institute Of Chicago Sues School For Anti-Semitic Discrimination
"Master’s degree student Shiran Canel — an Israeli-American Jew in her 30s who lives in the Chicago area — alleges the school discriminated against...
Martin Scorsese Is About To Shoot A Film About Jesus Of Nazareth
The screenplay, which is finished, is based on A Life of Jesus by Shūsaku Endō, who also wrote the book on which Scorsese's Silence...
So Were The Book Of Kells Illuminator Monks On Mushrooms Or What?
"All the monks who worked on it shared a sense of revelation liberated from verbal meaning." - The Guardian (UK)
And Now: The AI Elvis Experience
"The AI generates an authentic version of Elvis, born of original material, but it allows you to do new things with him." -...
Why Is Plundered Art Still In Western Museums?
Museum professionals publish scathing books that indict the very institutions that pay their salaries. The ethics of exhibiting plundered art are called into question...
