Flemish Modern Architecture Used To Be Notoriously Ugly. New Buildings There Now Are Really...
"It is an astonishing output for a region of six million people, featuring elegant libraries and special educational needs schools, as well as dramatic...
The Hugely Successful Musical Created On/Through TikTok
Over the course of creating The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, Barlow and Bear played to other fans of the show via TikTok: They rehearsed their songs, interacted...
Is It True That Doris Lessing Blithely Abandoned Her Children To Live The Creative...
Julie Phillips: "When I actually looked at Lessing's life, I didn’t find either heartless abandonment or a bold dash for freedom. Unsurprisingly, the author...
Leonard Bernstein Wrote A String Quartet? Who Knew?
"Music for String Quartet was composed by an 18-year-old Bernstein in 1936 while he was at Harvard. You can tell, authenticators agree, from the...
Wheelchair Aerial Dance — With Barbed Wire (Oh, Yes, There’s Such A Thing)
Alice Sheppard of the disability dance company Kinetic Light: "It kind of made sense. If you're making a work about barbed wire, of course...
Britain, At Last, Gets A National LGBTQ Museum
The opening of Queer Britain at king's Cross in London, "is an important milestone for a minority that has only enjoyed widespread public acceptance...
Will Fort Worth End Public Arts Funding Altogether?
"People who work in the arts in (the Texas city) say City Manager David Cooke is seeking to gut funding for Arts Fort Worth...
Can An Old Industrial City In England’s Northeast Produce A Rival To The Edinburgh...
Culture officials in Newcastle envision an event with "the same spirit, vibe and inclusivity as the Edinburgh Fringe" but including art shows, concerts, and...
English National Opera’s Online Breathing Lessons Help Long-COVID Sufferers: Study
"The programme, developed with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, is led by professional singers from the ENO and focuses on breathing retraining through singing...
What Happened To Method Acting
In 2022, in our heyday of superhero blockbusters and bingeable story lines, the Method seems to be fading away. - The New York Times
Burying Robert Moses For Good
Invoking Moses is easy shorthand for a legacy of racist urban planning—a shameful history but, like legal residential segregation, one many view as consigned...
That Time In The 80s The Egyptian Government Tried To Ban Music Cassette Tapes
Courtesy of the president’s executive actions, audiocassettes, enjoyed loudly by many Egyptians in public spaces, were no longer simply a nuisance. Noisy cassette recordings...
The Case For The Intrinsic Value Of Art
The question of the intrinsic value of art is one he never expected to need to address. For him, it is a given. For...
Study: Four Times More Male Characters Than Female In Literature
Mayank Kejriwal and fellow researcher Akarsh Nagaraj used data from 3,000 books that are part of the Gutenberg Project, across genres including adventure, science...
Russia Threatens To Imprison Artist For Work He Showed At Moscow Art Fair
The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a “rehabilitation of Nazism” case against Kulik. If he’s found guilty, the artist reportedly faces a fine of up to...
Collapsing In Discord, The Children’s Chorus Of Greater Dallas Will Be Taken Over By...
"The announcement, made Tuesday, comes after several rancorous months at the 25-year-old children's chorus that saw hiring disputes with the chorus board, staff resignations...
Who Should Next Run The Royal Shakespeare Company?
If I were to have an absolute dream nomination, it would be a director who has conquered the fields of theatre, television and film,...
Henry Winkler On What Acting Takes Out Of Him And Puts Back In
"All that stuff you squash, all that frustration, eventually you have to spoon it out, but then you're left with holes inside you. ......
Lebrecht: Upside Down Orchestra Marketing
What we are witnessing is a pandemic of reformist box-ticking that places policy above pulling power. Forget about a box office that is running...
A Paris Curator Is Auctioning Off Lalanne Sculptures To Help Pay For An Expansion...
"A trove of sculptures and objects by the design duo Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne are hitting the auction block at Sotheby's to help fund...
How To Make A More Creative, Profitable Netflix
When the financial incentives of the people paying for the movies and TV shows are aligned with those of the creators, the overall system...
The Addictive Glory (Or Glorious Addictiveness) Of Word Puzzles
Oh, it goes way beyond Wordle (which, luckily, only lets us play once a day) and crosswords. A.J. Jacobs looks at the New York...
What Netflix’s Fail Says About Streaming
While Netflix’s competitors still have room to grow — and Disney in particular has committed to growing a lot — agents and creators believe...
Scottish Ballet Develops A New Therapy Program For MS Patients
"The Orkney Islands has the highest prevalence of multiple sclerosis in the world – with one in 170 Orcadian women living with MS –...
Beyond The-Scottish-Play-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named: Theatre Superstitions Continue To Thrive
Never wish an actor "Good luck." (That's why they say "Break a leg.") Never bring mirrors onstage. Don't wear green. (We didn't know about...
