Carlos Acosta Is Building A Dance Center In A Multiethnic London Neighborhood
"His arts education charity, the Acosta Dance Foundation, has set up its global headquarters in Woolwich. Housing five dance studios, it aims to teach...
How GoodReads Messes With Authors’ Psyches
The world-ending devastation of the first scathing review. The righteous indignation at the first three-star review. No one understands me. Are these people even literate? Am I even literate? It’s...
The GoodReads Review Revenge
A Goodreads blitzkrieg can derail an entire publication schedule, freak out commercial book clubs that planned to discuss the release, or even prompt nervous...
Musicians Have The Same Issues As Actors, Writers. So Why Aren’t They Also On...
All the fears and complaints that Hollywood actors and writers have are a reality for musicians and songwriters, too. Yet the rockers, pop singers...
At This Point In Our Culture, What Is History For?
Ironically, the education of more and more people in the United States has led to an expansion of potential audiences for quality, and progressive,...
Two Art Vandals Who Glued Themselves To A Raphael Painting Fined $1,600 Each
The Dresden prosecutor’s office announced on July 21 that the two activists, Jakob Beyer and Maike Grunst, would be fined €1,500 ($1,600) each for...
One Of South Asia’s Great Architects Helps Victims Of Pakistan’s Floods Rebuild With Their...
Yasmeen Lari, who's spent nearly two decades creating and promoting architecture for the poor using inexpensive traditional materials and techniques, has designed improved, flood-resistant...
New Ways To Use Old Instruments
New music for old instruments is, of course, nothing new. Nor is the engagement by composers with varying degrees of historically informed performance. But...
“Here Lies Love”: Inside The 20-Year Journey Of David Byrne’s Imelda Marcos Disco Musical...
"Democracy, it's been said, isn't easy. Neither is examining its terrible fragility through the form of a deeply fun, fairly avant-garde song-and-dance show. …...
Bay Area Musicians Fight Back Against The Gig Economy For A Living Wage
With each musician guaranteed $200 for an hour-long set, “we’ve presented about 400 concerts featuring 500 musicians, reaching about 18,000 listeners." - San Francisco...
“Barbie”, Greta Gerwig’s Hot Pink Philosophical Experiment
"Barbie combines the rules of the movie musical ... with the investments of a Beckett or a Ionesco play. … (It's) a highly symbolic...
What Was Remarkable About Conductor Carlos Kleiber
Like Kleiber, Klaus Tennstedt and Leonard Bernstein seemed to harness everything they knew in the heat of the moment. But Kleiber also had structural...
Spotify’s Stock Is Tanking This Week. Why?
Spotify said recent price increases are expected to have “minimal impact” on the company’s total revenue in the third quarter. - CNBC
The First Lady Of Brazilian Jazz, Leny Andrade, Is Dead At 80
"(She) was a percussive, samba-driven improviser, an interpreter as worldly-wise as Edith Piaf and a consummate nightclub artist. With a thick, husky voice seasoned...
Construction Of Philadelphia’s Long-Awaited Calder Museum Has Finally Begun
"Calder Gardens, the long-awaited showcase for the art of native son Alexander Calder, is finally moving toward reality. The new museum will be located...
Ezra Klein’s New York Times Podcast Is Coming To Public Radio
"The New York Times … has signed a deal with the public media organization PRX to repurpose (The Ezra Klein Show) into a weekly...
Booksellers And Authors Sue To Block Texas Law Requiring Sexual-Content Ratings For Books
"A group of booksellers, publishers and authors filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop a new law in Texas that would require stores to...
A New(ish) Artistic Director At Smuin Contemporary Ballet
"Celia Fushille … is stepping down next year at the conclusion of the company's 30th season to hand her job to nationally acclaimed choreographer...
World’s Largest Audiobook Publisher Is Being Sold For $1 Billion
Private equity firm KKR is selling RBaudio, which it bought for a reported $500 million in 2018, to Miami investment firm H.I.G. Capital at...
English National Opera Gets An Extra £24 Million And More Time To Leave London
"The ENO will move to a base outside the capital by March 2029 – three years after originally envisaged. Before then, it will develop...
The Mindfulness Industrial Complex Can’t Do For You What Art Does
Modern mental wellness tools, like mindfulness apps and cognitive behavioral therapy, vary in approach but share a self-help strategy centered on self-surveillance. But encouraging...
What AI Writing Reveals About Good Writing
As we explore new applications for large language models and consider how well they can optimize our communication, AI challenges us to reflect on...
Is Today’s Pop Music Getting Too Simplistic?
"I think the average listeners ears are becoming more attuned to ever-greater simplicity and every-greater economy in music." - Music Radar
Hollywood Needs To Reinvent Or It Will Die
How do you decide that the content you’re producing is actually generating value? That goes back to the question that we have about how...
America’s Theatre Crisis – Why Now?
So why has our theatre field contracted so precipitously in the past few months, with casualties recorded at every kind of theatre while at...
