After 33 Years, Carl St. Clair To Step Down From Pacific Symphony
St.Clair, who turned 70 in June, requested that the symphony’s board begin plans for succession that assured continuity of leadership. - Voice of Orange...
How To Teach Controversial Literature Without Causing Students Harm
Remember, it's not only the right that sometimes wants to eliminate certain books from the curriculum. (Think of Huckleberry Finn, frequently condemned for its...
World’s Longest Book (21,000 Pages) Is For Sale (But You Can’t Read It)
Manouach printed out the Japanese digital edition of One Piece and bound it together, treating the comic not as a book but as “sculptural...
Sydney Now Has An Answer To Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall In London — An...
The Sydney Modern Project, the new contemporary art wing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, has two big old oil storage tanks...
Surprise! Brad Pitt Is A Terrific Visual Artist
Pinch me – I must be dreaming. Brad Pitt is an extremely impressive artist. I certainly didn’t expect to be saying that when I got up...
Psychiatrists In Brussels Are Legally Prescribing Museum Visits
"From this month, psychiatrists in one of the city's largest hospitals have been able to offer patients 'museum prescriptions', a free visit with a...
The Hollywood Sign Is Being Repaired (You Can Watch Online)
Freshening up the 45ft-tall letters will require about 250 gallons of paints and primer, and anyone who wants to watch the paint dry can...
What Do We Do With All The Broken-Down, Unrepairable Musical Instruments If We Don’t...
"What should we be doing with those pummelled remnants of a drum kit? The electric guitar with a broken neck? The leaky Chinese saxophone...
Some Arts Organizations Are Turning To Real Estate Development, Building Mixed-Use Complexes
The Newark Museum of Art, National Black Theater in Harlem, Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx, EastSide Arts Alliance in Oakland, and Arte...
The Dance Data Project On Its Upcoming Gender Equity Index
This introduction to the project and invitation for dance companies to participate explains the questions to be asked on the survey, how the rankings...
The Streaming Companies Are Turning Documentaries Into Big Business
"While the streamers' appetite for documentary content has created a new golden age for nonfiction filmmaking, it's come with transformations that many find worrying:...
The Most Interesting Opera In America Right Now, Says The New York Times, Is...
Joshua Barone pays a visit to, and is thrilled by, Barrie Kosky's production of Fiddler on the Roof at Lyric Opera of Chicago and...
The Royal Shakespeare Company Names Two Artistic Co-Directors
Daniel Evans, artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre, and Tamara Harvey, artistic director of Theatr Clwyd in North Wales, submitted a joint application...
Dance Magazine Awards For 2022: Here Are The Winners
This year's honorees are choreographers Lucinda Childs, Kyle Abraham, and Dianne McIntyre; dancer Herman Cornejo, a principal at ABT; and historian of African-American dance...
Dying? Bay Area Artists Reject Idea Their Gallery Scene Is Ailing
“I’ve been here almost 32 years. Literally, the story never changes. We have an incredibly rich and vibrant arts scene here, and I...
AI Image Generators Have Already Changed The Visual Art World
Deepfakes graduated from a looming threat to something an enterprising teenager can put together for a TikTok, and chatbots are occasionally sending their creators into crisis....
Study: YouTube’s “Dislike” Button Doesn’t Stop Unwanted Recommendations
Pressing Don’t Recommend Channel would stop only 43 percent of unwanted video recommendations while the Dislike button stopped only 12 percent of recommendations users...
Magic And Illusion Are Doorways To Neuroscience
Arts of illusion are often taken for granted, explained away as a series of clever tricks, but in the sharp and magical transition from...
The World’s Largest Collection Of Totem Poles
The totem poles in Ketchikan represent the ancestral traditions of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people. The Ketchikan Museum’s collection at the Totem Heritage...
The Long Lonely Road To Proving A Lucien Freud Is Real
Owning a disputed, possibly wildly valuable, art work is a cruel test of any person’s aesthetic values, basic reason, and innate (often well-disguised) capacity...
Painting Stage Scenery The 17th-Century Way
Historical stagecraft expert Wendy Waszut-Barrett paints backdrops and wing pieces with the same material that European craftsmen used four centuries ago: distemper paint, made...
What Does Innovation In Music Really Mean?
These groups may indeed be performing the most innovative composers. But what is also emerging is a much more heightened gravitational pull of music...
Filmmaker Alain Tanner, A Leader Of Switzerland’s New Wave, Is Dead At 91
"(He was) a founder of the so-called Group of 5, norm-shattering Swiss directors who helped drive a new form of national cinema. His best-known...
This Year’s Van Cliburn Competition Got Monster-Size YouTube Views
Using Yunchan’s Rach 3 video for comparison, these numbers put the Van Cliburn competition viewership well above some of the biggest television show premieres in history....
Spotify Makes A 300,000-Title Bet On Audiobooks
"After spending the past few years teasing its literary ambitions and acquiring the audiobook platform Findaway for $119 million, Spotify has formally launched its...
