Detroit Opera, Facing Big Budget Shortfall, Cancels Next Season’s First Production
Following steep drops in donations and especially government funding, the company has called off all performances of Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West this...
Why Liberal Arts Education Is Really In Decline At American Universities
The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in...
Canada’s Giller Prize Will Close Down This Year Without New Sponsor Or Government Funding
“The annual $100,000 prize for fiction ended its 20-year partnership with lead sponsor Scotiabank earlier this year. At that time, Giller Foundation executive director Elana...
Meet The New Champion Of The Left-Hand Piano Repertoire
Nicholas McCarthy, a 35-year-old Briton who was born without a right hand, has not only conquered the well-known works such as the Ravel concerto,...
Making The Gisèle Pelicot Trial Into Theatre
“The three-hour performance (at the Avignon Festival) has been created by Milo Rau, the Swiss director and playwright acclaimed for his theatre interpretations of...
Steve Benson, Provocative, Pulitzer-Winning Editorial Cartoonist, Is Dead At 71
“(He) evolved from a conservative, high-profile member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into an outspoken atheist and liberal, all while...
Woody Allen Is Now A Novelist
Since the 1970s, Allen has written several books of short stories and essays, as well as a memoir, Apropos of Nothing, published in 2020, but...
Congress Approves Trump’s Clawback Of All Public Radio And TV Funding
The bill reclaims the entire $1.1 billion previously appropriated for the next two years for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB distributes two-thirds...
CBS Cancels “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” In A “Purely Financial Decision”
The cancellation, effective next May, of US late-night TV’s highest-rated program comes as CBS’s corporate parent, Paramount Global, seeks FCC approval of an $8.4...
Rediscovering Harry Burleigh — via Sidney Outlaw
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7YH7ctxiUac&feature=oembed When my wife and I heard Sidney Outlaw sing Harry Burleigh’s “Till I Wake” a few years ago,
Wisconsin Has A New Professional Ballet Company
Wisconsin Dance Theatre, based in the southern part of the state between Milwaukee and Madison, just opened its debut production — A Hero’s Homecoming,...
The School Teacher Who Was Selling “Creepy” Art Made By His Students
The page was entitled “Creepy Portrait Art,” and the pictures were, as promised, incredibly creepy. Dozens of student portraits, mostly in crayon, depicted a...
Editors Used To be The Gatekeepers. Now That They’re Largely Gone, Should We Bring...
We still live in the world Condé Nast and its intimidating editors created. We just don’t know how to make sense of it, because...
Folk Rock Band Hits Big On The Music Charts. Trouble Is, The Band Is...
As the project rises on global charts and dominates Viral 50 playlists, artists and industry professionals are asking urgent questions about authenticity, consent and...
India’s Nationalist Government Is Pushing Hindi To Replace English. Non-Hindi-Speaking States Are Pushing Back...
It’s the latest outbreak of a recurring argument: the central government in Delhi (in Hindi-speaking north-central India) pushes for Hindi in place of the...
How Misinformation Infects A Community
Social connections establish pathways of influence that can facilitate the spread of germs, mental illness and even behaviors. We can be profoundly influenced by...
Republicans Propose Big Cuts To NEA, NEH, Kennedy Center Budgets
House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee recommended 35 percent cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)...
Jacob’s Pillow Gets A New Modern Addition
It is unmistakably a work of contemporary architecture, a radical departure for Jacob’s Pillow. As such, it must be judged not only on how...
US Senate Votes To Kill Funding For Public Broadcasting
The measure, known formally as a “rescission package,” is a request from President Donald Trump to take back $9 billion in funds that Congress...
Russia’s Private Art Museums Are Targets In Putin’s Crackdown On Dissent
“Many cultural workers and some billionaire museum founders have chosen to leave Russia; others have felt compelled to do so after warnings that they...
What The UK’s Redesigned Money Will Say About Its People
The invitation to contribute to the redesign will therefore show two things. It will tell us how the country sees itself. It will also...
Why The Nazis Stole A Piece Of The Bayeux Tapestry
Nazi interest in the Bayeux tapestry may seem surprising to British people, where the tapestry is considered a symbol of a singularly significant moment...
How TikTok Is Changing The Ways We Communicate
Because we’re social creatures, your recommendation page will pressure you to watch or participate in these trends, so you can feel caught up on...
Two Orchestras In Southwest Florida Have Recently Closed, While Two Others Are Thriving. Why...
In the past 18 months, the Punta Gorda Symphony and the Fort Myers-based Southwest Florida Symphony have gone under. Meanwhile, the Sarasota Orchestra and...
Leonard Slatkin Returns To Nashville Symphony As Music Advisor
Slatkin held the post — in this particular case, a sort of interim music director position — twenty years ago, from 2006 to 2009,...
