The Bells Of Notre-Dame And The Sounds You Never Knew They’ve Been Making
Large cast-metal bells like the ten at the Paris cathedral (they survived the 2019 fire) emit sounds all the time: when they're not actively...
The Benefits Of A Long Career In One Orchestra
In this respect, the orchestral world is like a throwback to the postwar employment landscape, when it was not uncommon to spend your entire...
Queering Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Yes, Serge Diaghilev was what we might call today queer, but he certainly couldn't be open about it — and neither could the pathbreaking...
Foley Artists And The Secrets Of Movie Sounds
"The bulk of the sound in film is typically added in postproduction. ... Foley effects are custom to a film, and are synchronized to...
The Oberammergau Passion Play, An Almost 400-Year-Old Tradition, Is Not Just Back, It’s Better
"Thanks to steady work since 1990 to maximize the play's ecumenicism via ever bolder changes in characterizations and design" — in particular, altering anti-Semitic...
The One American City Where Contemporary Classical Music Has Become The Norm
Mark Swed: "New York, London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam happen to be historically vibrant centers of new music. ... But new music hasn't in...
Orlando Museum Of Art’s Board Fires Director In Wake Of Basquiat Fiasco
"Aaron De Groft ... was removed from his post Tuesday night, just days after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the museum and seized...
Met Museum President Daniel Weiss Will Step Down Next June
"During his tenure, Weiss steered the Met through a major restructuring of its finances, a shakeup of its leadership, and economic and moral crises...
Staffers At France’s Entire National Broadcasting System Go On Strike To Protest Elimination Of...
"Thousands of staffers and freelancers working for France's public broadcasting groups, spanning France Télévisions, France 24, Arte and Radio France, went on strike on...
Iconic Daytime Shows Have Called It Quits This Year
A sea of change has hit the daytime format this year as a slew of veteran hosts call it a day. As audiences flock...
Stunning Daylight Attack On TEFAF Fair
In a brazen raid on the Tefaf art fair, one of the men was filmed smashing cases with a sledgehammer while accomplices kept visitors...
What Print Books Are In A Time Of Digital Dominance
Perhaps the term “antiquarian,” which traditionally referred to old, valuable books, often first editions and manuscripts, now seems to me to apply to all...
What The Ancients Knew That Seems So Familiar Today
"It’s really quite strange that people from so long ago seem to have understood so much. And, if you’re looking at things like sexual...
The Value Of Thought Experiments
There are – allegedly – occasions when we come to understand something about the world via a peculiar kind of experiment that takes place...
Just Whom Did The Industrial Revolution Benefit?
When we talk about labor-saving devices, whose labor is saved, exactly? It’s women’s labor. But during the industrial era, the household work traditionally performed by men...
Warm-Up Vocal Exercises From Three Very Different Classical Singing Disciplines
Singers of Western opera (Anthony Roth Costanzo), Cantonese opera (Pui Yan Li), and Carnatic (South Indian classical) music (Ganavya Doraiswamy) demonstrate what they do...
Is Smell The Next Frontier In Theatre?
Away from theatre, the retail sector regularly uses smell to help drive sales (though they give it a nicer name – scent), in a...
A Love Story Created By Artificial Intelligence (And What It Does And Doen’t Mean...
Stephen Marche: "The love story below is my attempt to develop an idealized love story out of all the love stories that I have...
Artist Sam Gilliam, 88
Gilliam’s abstractions are unusual in that they are often sculptural, in essence suggesting that painting need not be two-dimensional. Working by methods in which...
Saudi Arabia’s New Cultural Destination Will Have Five Major Works Of Earth Art, Including...
"Five permanent artworks are planned for Wadi AlFann" — a "valley of the arts," part of the $15 billion AlUla complex which will be...
Canadian Parliament Ponders New Streaming Law To Require Canadian Content
"The CRTC chair has acknowledged that the law will allow the government to do indirectly what it says it can't do directly, by pressuring...
Ken Knowlton, A Father Of Computer Graphics And Animation, Dead At 91
"(He) helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies." - The New...
Vinyl Is Having Supply Chain Issues
But it's not directly because of COVID - it's more that "dozens of record-pressing factories have been built to try to meet demand in...
So Just Who Was E.T.A. Hoffmann?
"Known today primarily for his literary works, it is often forgotten that ETA Hoffmann, a multi-faceted artist and universal genius, also practised as a...
The Dark E.T.A. Hoffmann Stories At The Heart Of Two Of The World’s Favorite...
The Nutcracker and Coppélia were not originally the gentle, nervous-parent-friendly tales you might expect from the ballets. Indeed, Hoffman's original Coppélia story gets downright...
