It’s Never Too Late To Learn Ballet
Or so this ballerina tells the adults taking her classes. - CBC
The Deaf Artist Who Loves Working With Sound
Christine Sun Kim "has become the very rare artist with a public platform that transcends the often insular art world." - The New York...
Capitalizing On Meme Culture, But Very Carefully
How to handle, or how not to handle, memes about your movie: "The difference between the Morbius flop memes and the GentleMinions trend is that Sony...
Harvey Dinnerstein, Who Sketched The Civil Rights Movement, Has Died At 94
When Dinnerstein was 27, "he traveled to Alabama with fellow artist Burton Silverman, a high school classmate, to chronicle the bus boycott in Montgomery."...
A New Study Says Literary Snobs Are Right
In short, reading literary fiction seems to give readers a more complex worldview. - LitHub
Those Who No Longer Want To Teach, Do
Thomas Woodruff traded his career as an art professor for a full-time career as an artist. Like others who experienced the Great Resignation, he's...
Back To The Future: Canadian Internet Goes Down — Fans Urged To Print Tickets...
Rogers posted a notice on its website Friday saying the outage was impacting both its wireless and home service customers and is also affecting...
Libraries Are Digitizing And Something’s Being Lost
Many institutions have moved, or are on the verge of moving, significant portions of their collections off-site. Some are embarking on large-scale book de-accessioning...
America’s First Luthier And (Probably) First Composer Of Chamber Music
"Though the exaggerated myths of early America often don't reflect reality, there are obscure lives whose remarkable stories go untold. From chases on the...
Hong Kong’s Huge New Palace Museum Opens
While it might share a name with the historic Forbidden City institution, the $450 million Hong Kong museum is far from being a mere...
Why Do Writers Write?
There is often something compulsive about the act of writing, as if to cast out invasive thoughts. - The Paris Review
Are Museums Investing Their Money In Positive Ways?
hat about the ways the museums are using the money they already have: Are they using it to effect positive change in the world—or...
Using Dance To Teach Girls Of Color To Code
The idea behind DanceLogic is that "both coding and dance use repetition and combination, so using dance as a hook to attract girls to...
Who’s Running The Ship? San Francisco Makes More Major Changes In Its Leadership
For nearly a year now, SF Symphony has operated without a CEO and has been without a chief financial officer since January — not a time for making...
For The Age Of #MeToo, There’s Still A Lot Of Old-Fashioned Misogyny Being Put...
Arifa Akbar: "It is hard to tell if the industry is merely casting an appraising glance back at the gender politics of the past...
The Future Of Opera: Detroit?
It’s hard to overstate the unlikelihood of a director as innovative and internationally celebrated as Sharon taking the reins of a decidedly regional (and...
Richard Armstrong To Step Down As Guggenheim Director
He took the helm of the Guggenheim in 2008, following the resignation of firebrand director Tom Krens. Only the fifth leader in the institution’s...
And You Think You Have A Spam Problem (Twitter Removes A Million Accounts Each...
Human reviewers manually examine thousands of Twitter accounts at random and use a combination of public and private data in order to calculate and...
Hollywood’s Answer To The World’s Problems: Only Superheroes. So Ordinary Humans Are Powerless?
There’s a preponderance of copaganda and superheroes saving the day and a category of narrative best described as wealth-aganda — stories focused on the interior lives...
The Most Unlikely Literary Rediscovery Ever? “Don Quixote” In Sanskrit
The 1937 translation was commissioned two years previously by wealthy American accounting executive Carl Tilden Keller, who already had versions of Cervantes's novel in...
Romanticism Was Once A Challenging Dynamic Force. What Happened To Defang It?
It’s an irony that arguably the most radical movement in European thought should have been appropriated by the conservative forces of the market, but...
Black Mountain College — The Underfunded, Never-Accredited, Long-Defunct Rural School That Transformed American Arts...
It only operated from 1933-1957 in North Carolina's Swannanoa Valley, and its great impact was through its summer program. But to see how important...
Roy Moore Loses His Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen Over The “Pedophile Detector” In...
Moore, the notorious judge and Senate candidate from Alabama, sued Cohen for $95 million, alleging he was deceived and defamed in the latter's 2018...
What Was (Or What Is) The Chitlin Circuit?
It was a network of theaters, nightclubs, and church halls throughout the US where Black entertainers performed during the segregation era, and where many...
Why Not Just Have A Robot Make Copies Of The Elgin Marbles To Replace...
Oxford's Institute for Digital Archaeology has lidar-scanned some of the sculptures at the British Museum; its robot is now chiseling copies of them from...
