Oregon Shakespeare Festival Selects An Alum As Artistic Director
As of Sept. 1, Tim Bond, who was the festival's associate artistic director from 1996-2007 and is currently AD at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, succeeds...
How Photography Has Changed The Ways We See The World
The photograph is deeply entangled in our contemporary experience, playing a crucial role in recording and informing our understanding of the world. Which means...
Special New Camera Revolutionizes Restoration Of Old Paintings
The King’s College team developed a 25,000-pixel photon sensitive camera that uses a technique called macroscopic fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) to harness the natural...
UK Immigration Minister Tells Immigrant Detention Centers To Remove Welcoming Artwork. Leading Artists Rally...
Robert Jenrick told staff to paint over artistic depictions of animals etched onto the walls of Tug Haven, an asylum intake unit in Dover,...
How The New Director Of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum Wants To Make It More Accessible
His two years in Vienna—plus a Ph.D. in art history that involved study of the Habsburg collections—have given him insight into the institution he...
Las Vegas Lights Up $2.3 Billion Video Screen — World’s Largest
The MSG Sphere’s 580,000 sq ft fully programmable LED screen, named the Exosphere, was illuminated for pre-launch testing overnight to celebrate the Fourth of July. The...
Social Media Platforms Now Seem Up For Grabs
In a flurry of unexpected strategic decisions, holiday news dumps and pure opportunism, the social landscape suddenly looks up for grabs (at least for...
William Byrd: The Remarkable Life And Music Of Elizabeth I’s Favorite Composer
For years he managed the tricky business of remaining a committed Catholic at Elizabeth's Protestant court before settling in a rural haven. He wrote...
Four Leading Composers On How William Byrd’s 400-Year-Old Music Influences Their Work
Comments from Caroline Shaw, James MacMillan ("Classical music audiences tend to forget about the pre-Baroque, and it's a pity because William Byrd is one...
San Francisco Arts Funder Attack For Change Of Criteria
Change in the leadership, direction, and procedures of the SF Grants for the Arts reduced or eliminated support for dozens of organization, big and...
Wayne Sleep At 75: How The Little Firecracker Of British Ballet Became A Major...
He was a virtuoso, able to match any jump by Nureyev or Baryshnikov (and he worked with both). But, at 5'2", he'd never dance...
Why The French Idea Of The “Good Life” Is Irrational
France has long been associated with a specific version of the good life, from haute cuisine to haute couture. In the global imagination, the...
Another Casualty Of The Shrinking Of Dance Criticism: US Work Visas For International Dancers
Part of the stack of paperwork required for an O-1 visa is evidence that the dancer or ensemble applying possesses "extraordinary ability." Reviews from...
John McWhorter: My Experience With Affirmative Action
It may have been a necessary compromise for a time, but it was never truly proper in terms of justice, stability or general social...
Here’s Stable Work That Will Use Your Studio Art MFA: Custom-Designing Corporate Artworks
"In the firms that cater to mid-market developments, art-school graduates spend their days pumping out huge volumes of the kind of innocuous work a...
How Dancing Helps Rewire The Brain
“Dancers are better able to connect that incoming sensory information, whether it’s visually through the eyes, or through touch, and then connect that to...
Satire? Or Sunday School? Lily Janiak On The San Francisco Mime Troupe
"When I watch the shows each year, I feel like I'm at a church pageant for a religion I don't belong to. It's as...
Asian-American Actors Are Finally Getting To Move Beyond Model-Minority Characters. Way Beyond.
"For decades after The Joy Luck Club, the handful of movies with Asian-American casts mostly offered family-centric stories filled with generational hardship, sacrifice and...
Regional Theater In The US Is In A Dire State, And It’s Not All...
"The crisis is a perfect storm of bad economic and demographic trends, exacerbated by a change in cultural habits during the pandemic. … The...
Dallas Adopted A Cultural Plan In 2018. Where Does It Stand Post-Pandemic?
"By the spring of 2023, the promise of the Cultural Plan" — equity — "had gotten shoved to the side, as the so-called 'Big...
Director Of Smithsonian’s Planned Women’s History Museum Has “Withdrawn”
"Nancy Yao, who had been criticized for her handling of sexual harassment allegations at a New York museum, has withdrawn from a prestige post...
Threads, Mark Zuckerberg’s New Twitter Competitor, Makes Its Debut
"Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta's photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides 'a new, separate space for real-time updates...
One Of The World’s Oldest Newspapers Ends Its Print Edition After 320 Years
"The Wiener Zeitung, which is owned by the Austrian government but editorially independent, suffered a sharp decrease in revenue after a recent law dropped...
Study: Drumming Helps Those With Autism
"What we see is children who learn how to play the drums aren't afraid of making mistakes. When they stop and make a mistake...
Grammys: Music Created With AI Is Eligible For Awards
“Here’s the super easy, headline statement: AI, or music that contains AI-created elements is absolutely eligible for entry and for consideration for Grammy nomination....
