Why The Best Animated Feature Oscar Irks And Depresses Animators
"Independent films, movies aimed at adults, or those created in different art styles rarely get nominated, let alone win. The 17 animators interviewed for...
The History Of Scientific Progress: Where Did It Advance?
For how long has science occurred outside the West? Is it fundamentally a Western export, a product of distinctly Western attitudes and values? - Boston Review
An Inside Look At Incubator, ABT’s Annual Winter Residency For Choreographers
"This year's cohort spanned five artists at different career stages ... whose movement styles encompass contemporary dance, classical ballet, tango and hip-hop. ... (The...
The Cost (And Rewards) Of Building The Great Cathedrals
We think of these buildings as expressions of faith, but they were more than that. They were ways of conceptualising faith in stone and glass — what the...
Bert I. Gordon, Sci-Fi B-Movie Schlockmeister Turned Cult “Auteur”, Is Dead At 100
"Critics called his storylines ludicrous and his special effects schlocky, … but many of his films turned a profit and gained a cult following,...
Balanchine’s Waltz
The world that Balanchine created for himself—one that moved from woman to woman, muse to muse—was itself a form of ronde. Come June 23, 1977,...
One Of Japan’s Most Honored Architects Calls For Building Fewer Buildings
"There has been an inextricable link between new buildings and economic growth in the 20th century, but that relationship must change because the climate...
NPR’s Michel Martin Is The Latest Host To Join “Morning Edition”
"Martin, who currently serves as a host of All Things Considered Weekends, will join Morning Edition on March 27. Martin joined NPR in 2006...
Well, Here’s What Apple Has Done With Primephonic, The Classical Streaming Service It Bought...
Classical fans have long complained about how poorly iTunes and Apple Music fit the genre. So, in 2021, Apple purchased Primephonic — which designed...
Architect A. Eugene Kohn, Specialist In Iconic And Very Tall Skyscrapers, Is Dead At...
Kohn Pedersen Fox, the firm which he co-founded and served as president and number-one salesman, designed such celebrated buildings as the World Bank headquarters...
Atlanta’s Leading Musical Theatre Company Shuts Down After Four Decades
"The Atlanta Lyric Theatre has closed its doors after 42 years under the weight of financial strain … (due to) 'a significant drop in...
Lincoln Center Has A New Board Chair
Katherine Farley, who became board chair in 2010 and led the arts complex through the complete renovation of David Geffen Hall, decided that the...
Robert Blake, 1970s Hollywood Star Tried For The Murder Of His Wife, Is Dead...
"Once hailed as among the finest actors of his generation, Blake became better known as the center of a real-life murder trial, a story...
Massachusetts Proposes Theatre Tax To Help Send Shows To Broadway
Gov. Healey’s proposal describes the live theater tax credit as a “pilot program” designed to support productions costing at least $100,000 that are headed...
France And The Theatre Of Demonstrations
Demonstrations are frequent enough in the country that they have taken on a ritualistic dimension, and often feature overtly theatrical elements designed to grab...
Why Student Debt Makes People So Angry
Gorsuch’s fairness question resonates right away. Why these debts and not others? Why them and not me? These are rhetorical questions, and they have a rhetorical...
Parents Are Challenging High School Theatre Productions For Content
In Florida, Indiana, Kansas and Pennsylvania plays and musicals have been challenged or canceled recently. Parents or school officials have complained that the content isn't family friendly. - NPR
Have The Oscars Really Become More Diverse?
While the Inclusion List shows that over the years the nominees have grown more diverse, the proportion of nominees who are part of an...
The Challenges Of Shaking Off Museums’ Colonial Legacies
The essential difficulty is that the vast majority of art museum professionals have limited training in how to identify and address contemporary manifestations of...
Demand For Indigenous Composers Is Rising
While technology is making composing more accessible to more artists, there's another important shift going on: scoring Indigenous stories with Indigenous music — rather...
So Many Of Our “Experiences” Are Abstract. What Happens When We Lose Our Connections...
One of the most consequential developments of our moment is that the experiences that create sensory memories are disappearing even faster than temperatures are...
What’s Worse For A Theater’s Artistic Director Than Managing Big Cutbacks? Managing Cutbacks And...
Nataki Garrett went from artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to interim executive artistic director — because the executive director position was eliminated,...
An Attempt To Fix The Oscars Broadcast?
To reinvigorate the red carpet preshow, Oscars organizers hired members of the Met Gala creative team. Expect much more star power, specialized lighting (to...
This Program Uses Dance To Teach Girls Of Color To Code And Ready Them...
"Launched in 2018, danceLogic blends the two to introduce girls to coding and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). The Philadelphia-based program is...
A Writing Apocalypse?
Think of it as an ongoing planetary spam event, but unlike spam—for which we have more or less effective safeguards—there may prove to be no...
