Old People Are Turning To TikTok To Redefine Aging
Many older people are turning to TikTok – best known as a playground for Gen Z – to reframe the experience of ageing and...
Deep Inside Erotic Cookbooks: A Brief History
No, they aren't just gag gifts. From their (modern) beginnings in Playboy magazine's food and drinks column, and then Mimi Sheraton's Seducer's Cookbook (somewhat...
The Surprising Musical Inspiration That Led To Invention Of The Post-It Note
On April 6 1980, Post-it Notes as we know them hit the shelves, and a year later they were also launched in Canada and...
The “Scorched Earth” Option: San Antonio Symphony Board Goes For Broke (Literally)
In comments to TPR, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, the symphony's former music director, blasted the board's move as a scorched-earth solution. The maestro has led a behind-the-scenes...
Struggling With Creativity In A Time When Everyone Thinks Everything’s Creative
When I hear people in the corporate world talking about creativity and storytelling — how what they’re really doing is ‘telling a story,’ how everything is...
Royal Shakespeare Co. Casts Its First Disabled Richard III
Arthur Hughes, who opens in the role at Stratford-upon-Avon later this month, lives with radial dysplasia and describes himself as "limb-different." "I've always wanted...
Acclaimed French Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91
Trintignant received a number of accolades throughout his 60-plus-year career, including the best actor prize from Cannes in 1969 for Costa-Gavras’ political thriller Z and a...
Dumb Thieves Steal Million-Dollar Sculpture To Sell For Scrap Metal
Two suspects were apprehended on June 9 after investigators determined that the oblivious pair had peddled the art objects—weighing in at around 2,200 pounds...
Thieves Stole Metal Gates By An Iconic Northwest Sculptor To Melt Them Down. Now...
The Seattle Police Department, savvy to metal theft, one of the fastest-growing crimes in our region, quickly recovered the cut-up pieces of gate through...
Dark Mofo, Tasmania’s Wild Winter Arts Festival, Learns From Last Year’s Disastrous Mistakes
"For those who know Dark Mofo for its gothic bombast, weird surprises and controversial headlines, this year's festival ... may feel a little different....
Why It’s So Difficult To Repeat Productions Of New Operas
Most works of art don’t yield their secrets all at once. It takes time, and repeated exposure, before listeners have a good sense of...
Italy Opens A New Museum Just For Stolen Antiquities It Has Recovered
The Museum of Rescued Art opened this week in part of the ancient Baths of Diocletian in Rome. Its exhibits will rotate every month,...
New York Philharmonic Names Successor To CEO Deborah Borda
Gary Ginstling, currently executive director of the National Symphony at DC's Kennedy Center, will assume the title of executive director this fall and move...
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Is Back To (Almost) Normal
"Almost" because the Pillow's second theatre, the Doris Duke, burned down in 2020; rebuilding won't be complete until 2024. But the flagship Ted Shawn...
Checking In At La MaMa, A Cradle Of Off-Off Broadway, A Decade After Its...
Mia Yoo took over La MaMa after the death of the formidable Ellen Stewart. (Yoo's father is Stewart's adopted son.) While Yoo has kept...
YouTube Shorts Now Has 1.5 Billion-With-a-B Logged-In Viewers Each Month
"Related to its new milestone, YouTube also promoted Shorts' ability to drive viewers to creators' long-form video channels as a byproduct of its investments...
Is It Time For NPR’s “All Things Considered” To Be Rethought?
"Its format and clock have remained basically the same for a generation. Meanwhile, there's been considerable swirl and change in media consumption and audio...
San Antonio Symphony’s Board Unanimously Votes To Dissolve The Orchestra
After almost nine months of no labor contract and a musicians' strike over wage cuts, the board decided on Thursday to file for Chapter...
There’s Going To Be A Big Immersive Theatre Under Waterloo Station In London
The venue, called Labyrinth, was conceived by the creative directors of the immersive theatre company Les Enfants Terribles and will open in November with...
There’s “A Deal To Be Done” On The Return Of The Parthenon Marbles, Says...
"Speaking to the radio station LBC this week, (George) Osborne seemed to suggest that he alone, if not all of the other British Museum...
Why Singers And Actors Often Don’t Get Treatment For Injured Voices
Voice disorders carry a stigma among performing artists. This has made performers hesitate to seek proper and timely medical help. - The Conversation
Stewart Brand, The Super Salesman
Brand, 83, is a huckster—one of the great hucksters in a time and place full of them. Over the course of his long life,...
Stradivarius Violin Sells For $15 Million
The violin, made in 1714 by master craftsman Antonio Stradivari, belonged to virtuoso Toscha Seidel, who not only used it on the score for...
Did Yoko Ono’s Celebrity Doom Her Art?
Like any artist, Ono wanted recognition, but she was never driven by a desire for wealth and fame. Whether she sought them or not,...
Is Spotify Just Not That Good A Business?
Questions about its profitability outlook often have been seen as keeping a lid on its stock. - The Hollywood Reporter
