More Dance Companies Are Moving To A Shared-Leadership Model
"Though complicated and sometimes fraught, these transformations can feel organic: They apply the ideals of creative practice to administrative practice. ... Not all dancers...
John Mauceri: “Tar” And The Culture Of Conducting
Fiction or not, the sort of backstage backstabbing depicted in “Tár” is, alas, very real. We conductors do not generally like our colleagues, and...
How Bosnians Used Underground Culture To Survive The Four-Year Bombardment Of Sarajevo
"A new documentary ... brought together musicians, artists and journalists who used music and art to rebel against their imprisonment and to assert their...
Wall Street Billionaire Commits Suicide, Leaving Hole In The Art World
“He brought the attitude of a businessman and an entrepreneur to a sector that, as you well know, is much less focused on that...
The Academy Should Make An Oscar Category For Best Stunt Work
"It seems particularly odd that the Academy would give an award for Best Visual Effects but not for Best Stunts. Visual effects could be...
New York Mag’s Vulture Confers Its First Annual Stunt Awards (Because If The Academy...
"(These honors have been) created from a desire to not only highlight great stunt work over the past year (and there was great stunt...
Bookmobiles Bearing Banned Books
"(In Florida and) along other fronts of the culture war, bookmobiles are motoring around the country to bring banned books to all, especially in...
After Ten Years, The Light Installation On The San Francisco Bay Bridge Goes Dark
Artist Leo Villareal's "Bay Lights" was supposed to be up for two years, and it wasn't designed to withstand the elements for a decade....
Alan Alda Prompted ChatGPT To Write A New Scene For “M*A*S*H”
"Alda, who hosts a podcast called Clear+Vivid, had decided to ask the tool to write a scene for M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye accuses B.J.,...
The BBC Will Close Down Its Professional Choir And Shrink Three Of Its Orchestras...
The BBC Singers, the UK's only full-time professional vocal ensemble, will cease operations this summer, and the Corporation is offering voluntary buyouts to reduce...
David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize For Architecture
"Organizers called Chipperfield's work — more than 100 projects over four decades ranging from cultural, civic and academic buildings to urban planning to residences,...
At Heart, Revising Roald Dahl And Other Childrens Books Is About Copyright
At its core updating Roald Dahl’s children’s books is really about the rights and control copyright grants to authors and copyright holders. Those rights...
Librarians Organize To Fight Book Bans
The conference in New Orleans was equal parts group therapy and war room, as nearly 2,000 librarians from throughout the country strategized on how...
Big Orchestras Are Back In The Pits Of Broadway Theatres
Enormous is right; with more than 80 percent of the show consisting either of musical numbers or underscoring, Sweeney Todd’s 26-person orchestra rivals the 30-person...
The Scourge Of Book Blurbs
Blurbing has always had discontents. In 1936, George Orwell decried the use of blurbs in his essay “In Defense of the Novel.” He feared for the...
Do Slight Regional Variations In Orchestral Tuning Matter?
Reputedly the grand pedagogue Dorothy DeLay had her piano tuned to 443Hz, maintaining that it would make her pupils’ violins sound more brilliant; there...
The Myths (And Problems) With Meritocracy
There is little hope for meritocracy as a theory of distributive justice. The “playing field” isn’t level, there is an oversupply of talent and...
Has Morris Dancing Actually Become … Cool?
"From all-female sides to youth teams and an appearance at the Brit awards, photographer Rachel Adams has been chronicling England's oldest surviving rural tradition,...
How Is “Lived Experience” Different From Experience?
The idea of ‘truth’ as something subjective may seem odd, but nevertheless it is clear how the notion of lived experience leads in this...
The Badass Women Who Rescued Hildegard Of Bingen’s Collected Works From The Red Army
Late in her life, virtually everything Hildegard had written was copied into a 33-pound illuminated manuscript — too heavy for Soviet soldiers to loot...
Why Many Musicians Don’t Like “Tar”
While nobody expects Tár to be a documentary, it gets so much wrong that either it’s deliberately distorting reality for the sake of the plot or...
Scott Adams – How The Creator Of “Dilbert” Fell So Far So Fast
"For close observers, the story of Adams, 65, has taken a stunning turn — though in a manner that had been foreshadowed in recent...
Building A Canon Of Black Writers Of The Past
This re-engagement with Black authors of the past is being led by a fresh cohort of literary tastemakers: younger authors in search of ancestors;...
Tom Sizemore Was A Drug-Addicted Basket Case — And One Of Hollywood’s Most Compelling...
"He was one of a long line of screen performers whose brilliance was shadowed by shocking offenses that employers were willing to factor into...
Why Are Movie Theatres So Bad At Showing Movies?
Now that multiplexes use automated projection, problems fall to house managers, who, in this age of austerity, may be the same overworked employees ripping...
