Artists And Arts Organizations Should Consider Therapy
That is, they should consider the benefits of becoming creative therapists. After all, art, performance, and (especially) music-based therapies have a lot of research-based...
Australia’s National Broadcaster Is Sacking Almost All Of Its Archivists
"Archivists and librarians at the ABC are in shock after management unveiled plans to abolish 58 positions and make journalists research and archive their...
Find A Surprise Renaissance Masterwork, Pay Nursing Home Bills
"A major lost painting by a follower of the Italian Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi hidden in plain sight in a London bungalow" of a 90+-year-old woman...
Tourists Have Just Been Wrecking The Spanish Steps In Rome Lately
Last month a Saudi man took a wrong turn and drove his rented Maserati down the steps — then he tried to reverse the...
Will Spotify Become A Major Amazon Competitor With Audiobooks?
That sure seems like the plan. "It’s all part of a new strategy that we’re calling 'the Spotify machine'," said Spotify CEO Daniel Ek....
Broadway To Rename A Theater After Lena Horne
The Nederland Organization, owner of what's now called the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (where the musical Six is currently playing), will officially rename the venue...
UK’s Costa Book Awards Are Abruptly Shut Down
"The coffee shop chain has said the 2021 awards, which were announced in February this year, were the last. ... The awards were established...
Two Unpublished Stories By Shirley Jackson Are Now In Print
"'Charlie Roberts' and 'Only Stand and Wait' were both published on 9 June in Strand magazine, a US-based print magazine that publishes short fiction...
Ranan Lurie, Once The World’s Most Widely Syndicated Political Cartoonist, Dead At 90
"At his peak, Mr. Lurie's evocative caricatures appeared in about 1,000 publications with more than 100 million readers in 100 countries. ... He welded...
Minnesota Public Radio Gets $56 Million To Expand Classical Music Programming
The largest donation in MPR's history, the anonymous gift, to be placed in a separate endowment, will be divided between new media technology and...
Ben Stevenson To Retire As Artistic Director Of Texas Ballet Theater
Or, as the announcement puts it, he will become "artistic director laureate" in July after 19 years at the Fort Worth company's helm. Associate...
26-Year-Old Klaus Mäkelä Named Chief Conductor Of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The young Finn won't have the full job title until 2027, though he'll be "artistic partner" of the orchestra — widely considered one of...
The Parrish Art Museum Names A New Director
The previous director left less than one year into the role. But Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, who is currently the director of the Broad Art Museum...
What The Original Jurassic Park Did For Women In Science
Laura Dern: "I’ve had the luxury of spending these 20-some odd years with young women coming up to me and talking about how they...
Solving At Least One Stradivarius Mystery Via The Science Of Tree Rings
Did Antonio Stradivari apprentice with Nicola Amati? Science says maybe! - The New York Times
Former Museum Director Opens Up About The Deep Vein Of Australian Misogyny
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, the Scot who took Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art from expensive also-ran to "trail-blazing cultural attraction," is finished being quiet about...
The Zine That Launched RuPaul Turns 35, And Gets Back Into The Spotlight
"My Comrade was a drag scene zine that documented the East Village demimonde from 1987 to 1994. In its sporadic 13 issues, drag royalty rubbed...
How Evolutionary Psychology Got All Tied Up In The Culture Wars
"As its perspective has spread out into popular culture, pop EvoPsych has inflected highly charged debates about gender, race, violence, and social class. It...
It’s Time To Cut Loose The Tyrants Of American Theatre
Method Acting went very, very wrong in the U.S. "What the educators did verbally, the directors who took the Method from the periphery to...
A Wave Of State Legislation Is Trying To Forbid Teaching Critical Race Theory At...
"So far, 70 bills — which PEN America calls 'educational gag orders' — have been introduced in 28 states, with 56 more coming in...
Is Reality TV Degrading Dance Costumes?
Australians claim American reality TV is ruining kids' costumes. "They’re wearing less and less and less, and they’re getting shinier and shinier and shinier...
NPR Fills Audie Cornish’s Host Chair At “All Things Considered”
"Juana Summers, a veteran political correspondent whose peripatetic career has taken her to news media start-ups including Mashable and traditional news organizations such as...
The Museum Of Natural History’s First Woman President Is Stepping Down
In 1993, Ellen Futter she became the first woman to run a major museum based in New York - and she's had a long...
Werner Herzog Says He’s Found His True Medium, And It’s Prose
The director/author/entrepreneur, who turns 80 on Labor Day, "thinks of himself primarily as a writer — he has written poetry and kept journals throughout...
Anonymity Can Be A Real Gift To Playwrights
Sure, "the argument could be made that this is a canny marketing strategy, a way of drumming up publicity for a play, but it...
