The Debilitating Cost Of Writing
There were stretches when I made so little money writing or editing that I couldn’t blame my parents for assuming they were hobbies. They...
What Cheryl Strayed Puts Into Her Autofiction, And What She Keeps Out
"How about this woman we create isn't me, but she had that same stuff happen to her in the past and she took a...
Met Museum Returns More Stolen Antiquities
The $25 million sculpture dates to 225 C.E., and is believed to have been looted in the 1960s from a shine at Bubon, an...
Remember Damien Hirst’s Spin Paintings? Now You And AI Can Make One Of Your...
Hirst did the originals, back in the 1990s, by dripping paint onto a rotating canvas. Now he and his partners have set up an...
The State Of American Orchestras
The League of American Orchestras reports on the state of the industry. - League of American Orchestras
How Dance Changes When It’s Viewed In A Museum Or Gallery Rather Than A...
It's not just a matter of coming off a proscenium or thrust stage: everything from audience expectations and behavior to documentation practices is different...
Where In Our Brains Does Imagination Come From?
Though there are many theories about the place of imagination in cognitive architecture, two are worth mentioning here, not least because all others can...
$33 Million Rescue By New Government Saves National Library Of Australia’s Digital Archives From...
"Trove, the expansive archival database that holds billions of images, newspapers, documents, manuscripts and myriad other resources that are freely accessible to the public,...
How Pasadena Playhouse Became LA’s Best Theatre
Feldman’s mission is to remind local audiences what they’ve been missing. He wants theatergoers to demand more from the menu than a selection of...
How The Panama Papers Percolated Through Pop Culture
It's not just books, movies, SNL sketches and New Yorker cartoons about to the investigation and resulting scandal. There are at least five bands...
Steve Reich Gets Grouchy About The Term “Minimalism” (Again)
"Michael Nyman had a lot to do with it, and he was probably thinking of minimalist art like Frank Stella. ... What disturbs me...
How Did Tiny Iceland Become A Hotbed Of Orchestral Music?
"In the third decade of the 21st century, no country on Earth has reinvented the language of the symphony orchestra on such distinctive and...
John Kander, At Age 96, Has A New Show Opening On Broadway
Titled New York, New York — yes, after what he calls "that song," which he and Fred Ebb wrote but he's never liked —...
Is The Philadelphia Museum Of Art Sitting On A Vermeer We Didn’t Know About?
"Arie Wallert, a former Rijksmuseum scientific specialist, … is convinced that there are two versions of the young woman playing a guitar: the long-accepted...
Hollywood Is One Step Closer To A Writers’ Strike
"The Writers Guild of America has set a strike authorization vote to begin on April 11. While this marks the first step toward a...
Australia’s National Cultural Institutions Get Big Funding Boost After A Decade Of Neglect And...
"The arts minister, Tony Burke, and the finance minister, Katy Gallagher, will make the $535m pre-budget announcement on Wednesday, throwing a financial lifeline to...
Ontario’s Stratford Festival Reports Modest Surplus
Stratford "reported total revenues of $66.2 million for the year, with a surplus of $638,711 after expenses. The results, credited to strong ticket sales,...
How Architecture Has Become A “Hollowed-Out” Profession
Greater specialisation had become necessary and appropriate as construction grew in complexity, and they felt this compartmentalisation of roles would allow all aspects of...
Reimagining Rave Culture
There’s no strict definition for what constitutes a rave, but in the past the word connoted an underground gathering, usually at some kind of...
The Privilege of Anger
Arguments for anger tend to frame themselves in terms of empowerment: in the face of oppression, we should not feel grief, sadness, or fear—we...
Cory Doctorow: Why I Don’t Produce My Audiobooks On Audible
None of my audiobooks are. Audible, the Amazon division that controls about 90% of the audiobook market, won't carry them because, if you want...
Why Remote Work Won’t Kill Cities
There’s this long history of certain people seeing urban life through the lens of decline. If you look at contemporary usages of this idea...
Bill Zehme, Dead At 64, Was The Absolute Master Of The Celebrity Profile
"(His gift was) to elevate the formulaic celebrity profile with humor, a literary voice and the polish of a short story. That was the...
Fifty Years After He Died, This Is What Picasso Has Become
It’s no longer necessary that he connect in people’s minds with any actual art. It’s enough that he stands for that bigger thing: unfettered...
A New Program To Get More Literature From The Indian Subcontinent Onto English-Language Bookshelves
Almost all of the South Asian books known internationally were written in English, but there's an extremely vibrant literary scene in the subcontinent's own...
