No Pressure: Finishing Sondheim’s Last Musical
"You have to consider the fact that he was in his 80s working on a musical about going into a room that you can't...
How Much Does It Matter Whether Fiction Is Written By A Human Or A...
"In moments of doubt, I think of Gertrude Stein’s infamous line, “A rose is a rose is a rose.” Isn’t a word a word...
A Crisis Of Art Criticism
The reasons for the stepchild status of criticism are as manifold as are their concatenations, not the least of which is the problem of...
Dutch Architecture Has Been Getting Greener. But Also More Boring?
Without getting overly nostalgic, it is almost impossible not to notice that the country, which for a good two decades on either side of...
Where Did The Looted Sculptures Recently Returned To Nepal Go? This 11th-Century Monastery
Itumbaha, one of the oldest monasteries in Kathmandu, has not only received statues returned from the Rubin Museum and the Met. The Rubin is...
If Thinking Is Good, What Is Over-Thinking?
Is there really such a thing as ‘thinking too much’? After all, thinking a lot seems like what one has to do in order...
To Solve Social Media’s Content Moderation Crisis, Go Back To The Old 1990s Way...
"Decisions about the spaces people gathered in online were often made by members of the community. Our examination of the early history of online...
Spotify CEO Talks About New Audiobook Service And AI Creation
Premium subscribers get 15 hours free a month and can top that off with discrete credit card payments if they want more. “We are...
One Of England’s Leading Regional Theatres Is Giving Up The Artistic Director Model
At the Royal Exchange in Manchester, "the new creative director will not be expected to direct shows but will take on a more strategic...
The Frankfurt Book Fair Has A Long History Of Political Calculation
A commercial book fair might not immediately seem a site of position-taking, but as we discovered when researching our book, The Frankfurt Book Fair...
Alessandra Ferri Will Be The Next Director Of The Vienna State Ballet
The former prima ballerina at La Scala and international star will succeed Martin Schläpfer (who decided not to renew his three-year contract) at the...
Staff At 92nd Street Y Quit After Cancellation Of Author Event
Staff from The 92nd Street Y, New York are resigning, after the storied cultural hub abruptly halted a scheduled reading by author Viet Thanh...
Dayton Ballet’s New Artistic Director At Work
"It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and 18 dancers are leaping, jumping and twirling in the Dayton Ballet studio. … 'Reach, reach, good!'...
State Of Florida Turns To U.S. Supreme Court To Protect Anti-Drag Law
"Florida officials filed an application with the nation’s highest court on Friday asking that the prohibition against enforcing the anti-drag show law only be...
Dallas Museum Of Art Lays Off 20 Employees And Reduces Opening Hours
The redundancies, along with closing the museum to the public on Tuesdays as well as Mondays, come as the DMA plans over $200 million...
Chicago Opera Theater Music Director Lidiya Yankovskaya Is Stepping Down
She will complete her seven-year term at the end of this season, though she will remain director of the company's Vanguard Initiative for emerging...
Intimacy Coordination Comes To Spain For The First Time, At Barcelona’s Opera House
Ita O'Brien, who helped launch the profession in Great Britain, is at the Gran Teatre del Liceu working on the European premiere of John...
Richard Roundtree, Star Of “Shaft”, “Man Friday”, And “Roots”, Is Dead At 81
"Dubbed the first Black action hero, Roundtree became one of the faces of the 1970s blaxploitation movement when he starred as the street-smart New...
The Evolving Notion Of Fame For Artists
Unlike El Greco or Van Gogh, very few artists are household names these days. Fame in the art world is about having currency in...
When Musicians’ Bodies Turn On Them
The term dystonia is rooted in the Latin prefix dys, or difficulty, and tonus, meaning tone or tension. It refers to involuntary disruptions in muscle tone...
The Top Classical Music Radio Station In America? It’s In Portland Oregon
“We’ve received our ratings from Nielsen, and they said it is not even close,” said All Classical’s President and CEO Suzanne Nance. “We’ve been...
A Northern Ireland Orchestra: Peace Through Music
The key aim was to use music to connect young people from Catholic and Protestant backgrounds on both sides of the Irish border. Almost...
Study: Why Art Seems Better When You See Something Of Yourself In It
A recent set of studies in the journal Psychological Science suggests that a more personal factor – specifically, how much a piece of art seems to relate, in...
CBC Ditched ExTwitter. Didn’t Make Much Difference
"The audience and engagement that we get from X is small. Among our social media platforms, X is among the smallest sources of traffic,"...
Why Does The California Arts Council Keep Changing Its Funding Guidelines Without Warning?
Since 2021, the agency has given general operations funding only to organizations with budgets under $250,000. In March, the CAC lifted that cap —...
