Staffers At Mass MoCA Call A One-Day Strike For This Friday
"(A union official) said the museum 'has a very lowball offer on the table in terms of wages.' Two-thirds of the nearly 100 unionized...
Can You Actually Hypnotize Audience Members Into Doing Improv Theater Themselves? These Two Guys...
In fact, Asad Mecci and Colin Mochrie say that (as long as the scene isn't complex) amateur audience members can do as well as...
Sending An American Orchestra To Tour Europe Is Expensive. Why Do It?
In particular, why does an orchestra from a mid-sized city such as Pittsburgh do such expensive tours, and what good does it do for...
Pittsburgh Symphony Musicians Agree To One-Year Contract Extension
"It's a way of kicking a can down the road after a couple of seasons amid a global pandemic. Several other orchestras around the...
Online Arts Events Have Benefits For Isolated Elder People: Researchers
Subjects in the study reported improved quality of life, feelings of wellbeing, and even physical condition — as long as they had necessary technical...
MGM Parts Ways With Universal And Chooses Warner Instead
"During the pandemic, Universal had helped MGM steer Ridley Scott’s starry crime drama House of Gucci to $100 million overseas, Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age...
A Salzburg Festival That Portends The State Of The World
It is a telling bit of weakness as Salzburg faces renewed competition, especially from the growing Aix-en-Provence Festival in France — and even from the likes...
McWhorter: Cancel? Let’s Just Acknowledge Missteps And Move On
We should be able to evaluate various figures, past and present, by noting their indecorous or hateful views and continuing to appreciate, even celebrate,...
What It Takes To Be A Conductor
“I didn’t know this when I started down this path, but leadership, charisma, group psychology and the ability to motivate people and manage egos...
Edinburgh Fringe Cancels Comedian After He Made Audience “Uncomfortable”
Jerry Sadowitz, 61, an American-born Scot, is a veteran of the Fringe and known for his provocative stand-up shows. The venue said it received...
How “Gangnam Style” Opened Korean Culture To The World
This goes some way to explaining the surprising Western enthusiasm, in the decade since “Gangnam Style,” for not just Korean popular culture but Korean...
Study: We Make More Virtuous Decisions When We Read On Paper
For example, participants who read their options and made a selection on paper were significantly more likely to give money to charity, choose a...
Salman Rushie, The Man, The Words
What makes the story so tragic, and the comic-television moment so illustrative of his nature, is that Salman, to those who knew him—no, know him—as a...
The Attack On Rushdie Is An Attack On Freedom Of Speech
The fatwa threatened not only Rushdie and those associated with The Satanic Verses, but freedom of expression more broadly. If Khomeini and the government of...
The Purpose Of Learning, The Links To Creativity
We accumulate what the philosopher Ruth Garrett Millikan calls “dead facts” — knowledge about the world that is useless for daily living, like the...
Movie Theatres: We’re Back!
The enthusiasm for movies adds to the list of prepandemic experiences people are embracing, such as going to concerts, gambling in casinos and traveling aboard...
Zofia Posmysz, Who Survived A Concentration Camp And Wrote About Them For Decades, 98
Posmysz, who as a student worked with others in the Polish resistance to the Nazis, later "gained acclaim for her works on the Holocaust...
Apparently, Some Brits Are Having Trouble With Pronouns
There's so much backlash to Joan of Arc using they/them in a new production at the Globe that the artistic director had to release...
How An AI Codes What It Sees In An Art Museum
It's "mostly strange, often comedic readings that both simplify and expand upon the artworks’ meanings." - Aeon
Director Gurinder Chadha On Her Unconventional Life And Career
"People might tell you that you’re the odd one out. Remember you’re not, you too are the mainstream. The world might try to make differences...
Canada Gets Its Own Romance-Only Bookstore
Why? "Having a romance-only bookstore, says, has helped fans feel a little better about their passion for these stories. Readers tell Pool how...
The Venue Where Rushdie Was Stabbed Usually Reflects Calmly On A Century Plus Of...
"Documentarian Ken Burns has called the institution an embodiment of the 'pursuit of happiness.' 'Happiness with a capital ‘H’ is about lifelong learning and...
Denzel Washington Honors Playwright August Wilson At The Opening Of The Wilson House
"The August Wilson House is not a museum. Instead, the restored space is a community center that will offer artist residencies, gathering spaces, fellowships...
An Edinburgh Fringe Venue Canceled A Comedian For What It Calls Extreme Racism And...
The venue said that on the first night of Jerry Sadowitz's performance, many walked out and the venue "became immediately aware of content that...
Poet And Novelist Elana Dykewomon Has Died At 75
Her career started with a book that was originally aimed as pornography for bored housewives. But "when ultimately published, Riverfinger Women 'was the first...
