Artists’ Studios Are Less Refuges As They Are Places Of Tumult
The Artist’s Studio describes how a noisome cockpit of lust, crime and virtuosity produced innovations in how art gets made, and by whom. - The...
Are We So Addicted To Narratives That We’re Corrupted By Them?
Peter Brooks’s fear is that we are so over-saturated with story that we have become undiscerning consumers, slipping too willingly into the familiar rhythms...
A Short History Of Art Hung Upside Down
Those museums don't always get it right. - The Art Newspaper
By Design: Why There Are No Seats In New York City’s New Train Station
One of the animating principles of modern civic life is to make public resources increasingly inaccessible in order to prevent public resources from being...
The Icelandic Language Is Full Of Scots And Irish Gaelic, Argues Researcher
"A book by Thorvaldur Fridriksson, an Icelandic archaeologist and journalist, argues that Gaelic-speaking Celtic settlers from Ireland and western Scotland had a profound impact...
Study: A Third Of Theatre Directors Are Considering Quitting Over Working Conditions
When asked why, participants’ responses included how "theatre direction just doesn’t pay a living wage", with another claiming "the pay and hours are terrible"....
Ukrainian National Ballet’s New Artistic Director Is Japanese
A Japanese, that is, who has lived and worked in Kyiv ever since he arrived there as an 11-year-old dance student. Nobuhiro Terada went...
Redesigning Los Angeles To Make It Cooler
In a city where tree shade is unequally distributed and half the surfaces are dark asphalt or concrete, the solution to increasing temperatures could lie...
The Swinging Sixties London Writer Who Tried To Eliminate Every Trace Of Her Career
Rosemary Tonks was suceessful critically, commercially, and socially. Then a series of life crises in the 1970s led her to convert to fundamentalist Christianity,...
Poetry Is Dead Now. We Can Place The Time Of Death
Modest as the festivities have been, I am certain that in 100 years there will be no poem whose centenary is the object of...
Why Audiences And Actors Remain Enthralled With That Sordid, Squalid “Streetcar Named Desire”
Sordid? Squalid? That's pretty much how a lot of critics reacted to the play when it was new. Yet for decades it has been...
Mercedes Bass’ Plan For The Fort Worth Symphony
Relying on her own keen sense of how classical music should sound, she developed a plan that would bring together the finest musicians, outstanding...
Arts Organizations Are Hiring Women Of Color As Leaders, Then Losing Them. Here Are...
"Arts groups need to make institutional changes to support these new leaders, according to women leaders of color at these groups. They say solutions...
Britain’s National Gallery Has Spent £3 Million To Buy An Abandoned Public Lavatory
"The lavatory on Charing Cross Road closed in the Seventies and later became a West End ticket kiosk before falling into disuse. There may...
Cineworld/Regal Says No, It Is Not Selling Itself To AMC
"Regal-owner Cineworld, the world's second largest movie theater operator, has denied reports that it has been in talks with AMC, the world's largest movie...
The Mysterious Manuscript Thief Is Expected To Plead Guilty
"For years, someone impersonated authors and agents, editors and publishers, trying to steal unpublished book manuscripts from high profile authors … and writers of...
The British Museum And Acropolis Museum Are Nearing A Deal For The Return Of...
"An agreement would see a proportion of the marbles sent to Athens on rotation over several years. … In exchange, other objects would effectively...
Frank Galati, A Beloved Pillar Of Chicago Theater, Is Dead At 79
A double Tony winner, a mainstay of the Steppenwolf and Goodman Theaters, Galati was admired as an adapter of literature for the stage, an...
The Stars Of Zeffirelli’s “Romeo And Juliet” Are Suing Over Their Nude Scene, Alleging...
Leonard Whiting, who was 16 when the film was made in 1968, and Olivia Hussey, who was 15, are seeking damages from Paramount reported...
How The Culture Wars Are Tearing Apart Museums
The saga of the Philip Guston exhibition, “Philip Guston Now,” that was postponed in late 2020 demonstrates how museums now suffer from an identity...
Listening Plan: A January To Understand Today’s Classical Music
The boundaries of classical music are ever more porous and open, spilling into other forms and all to the good. Give up prejudice or...
Why Sondheim Resonates With The Younger Generation
My students could appreciate his skill as a musical dramatist, his innovations as a craftsman, his inventive wit and longing harmonic lines. But what...
Understanding The Genius Of Thelonius Monk
Neither a cult reputation as a pioneer of bebop nor American canonization quite does justice to Monk, who was simply one of the most...
A Rookie Orchestra Recording By A Youth Orchestra, Finalist For A Grammy
The album, which is untitled, came together after six weeks of remote instruction followed by in person socially distant rehearsals and four days of recording sessions...
Does AI Make Plagiarism Undetectable? We College Professors Are Smarter Than That!
"For me, this new AI bot is not scarey, or even revolutionary. It’s just the latest con for those who would seek to dupe...
