Pittsburgh Arts Audiences – How They’ve Changed Since Before COVID
For some arts organizations subscriptions have slipped, but single-ticket demand has offset the drop. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Iceland’s Prime Minister Is Writing Crime Novels
She made her mark on the global cultural map this year when she published her first thriller novel, entitled 'Reykjavík', which she co-wrote with...
Defining The Idea Of Beauty
Beauty is what we find, create, and propagate, either through imitation – creating a copy, another iteration – or through distribution of the thing...
The Art And Skill Of A Master Audiobook Narrator
"(Robin Miles) has been the voice of the Antiguan American novelist Jamaica Kincaid, the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Russian journalist Yelena Khanga,...
The Golden Age Of Streaming Is Sputtering
The never-ending supply of new programming that helped define the streaming era — spawning shows at a breakneck pace but also overwhelming viewers with...
The “Berlin Snout”: The Dialect, And Attitude, That Make Berliners The Philadelphians Of Germany
"On paper, Berliner Schnauze is simply a dialect of German spoken in and around Berlin. In reality, it's a visceral dialect merged with working-class...
Why Artists Are Upset About AI-Generated Images
The fact that art styles and techniques are now transferable in this way is immensely disruptive and extremely upsetting for artists. As technologies like...
Going Totally Retro: An English Teenager Sets Up A Celluloid-Only Movie Theatre
"While studying for his A-levels (in 2019), Joe Cornick undertook a project close to his heart. He wanted to recreate a retro cinema utilising...
A Very Difficult Year For Literary Magazines
Mark Krotov, the co-editor and publisher of the eighteen-year-old literary journal n+1, noted that the publishing industry relies on literary magazines but fails to invest...
Alex Ross: The Future Of Orchestra Music Directors
We don’t need more itinerant maestros who draw big salaries in multiple cities. We need more directorships along the lines of ones in which...
Opera Australia’s New Artistic Director Breaks Another Glass Ceiling
"Welsh-born Jo Davies, 52, an award-winning director of opera, theatre and musical theatre in the UK, Europe and North America, will join Opera Australia...
So Who Were The Two Mysterious Men Whose Coffins Were Discovered Under Notre-Dame De...
Earlier this year, in the course of the post-fire reconstruction, researchers found two unfamiliar sarcophagi under the cathedral's floor. Now researchers have partly identified...
Here Are Half A Dozen Dance Companies Who Are Thriving Despite The Field’s Post-Pandemic...
"Now expenses are high, earned income from ticket sales is limited, touring remains complicated and budget deficits loom large. Against these odds, a few...
A Tally Of Cultural Sites In Ukraine Destroyed Or Damaged By Russian Attacks
"Since the invasion in February, The New York Times's Visual Investigations team has been tracking evidence of cultural destruction across Ukraine. ... These documented...
Garth Drabinsky Adds Antitrust Claims To His Countersuit Against Actos’ Equity Over “Paradise Square”
"This summer, Actors' Equity Association filed lawsuits against a Paradise Square producing entity in both state and federal court. ... After those lawsuits were...
Did Britain’s National Gallery Just Completely Botch A Painting Restoration?
Oh, no, not another Beast Jesus! Piero della Francesca's The Nativity (ca. 1470-75) is back on display after three years with the conservators. There's...
What’s In The New Actors’ Equity Broadway Contract
"(The just-ratified agreement) provides pay increases for those working on Broadway and, in a move prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, allows producers to make...
When A Portuguese Island Tried To Create A Village For Digital Nomads
A small coastal town "was selected as the location for an experiment that looked a little bit like tourism, a little bit like a...
Flood Of Books Seek To Explain Sondheim’s Influence On Theatre
Many of the current crop of works can be classified as either “I worked with Steve” books or “I had an ongoing professional and...
Scholars Solve 2,500-Year-Old Grammar Puzzle
The discovery makes it possible to "derive" any Sanskrit word—to construct millions of grammatically correct words including "mantra" and "guru"—using Pāṇini's revered "language machine,"...
How Storytelling Will Drive Our Response To Climate Change
The environmental crisis is one of overconsumption, carbon emissions, and corporate greed. But it’s also a crisis of miscommunication. In 2023, storytelling will finally...
University Of California Settles Strike With Academic Workers
The deal promises to substantially increase pay for some 36,000 unionized workers, including teaching assistants, researchers and tutors, many of whom are graduate students....
How Frank Gehry Brings His Projects In On Time And On Budget
In the quarter-century since the Guggenheim Bilbao, Frank Gehry’s projects have repeatedly come close to or met the same demanding standard. - Harvard Business Review
Hundreds Of Musicians Sign Petition Asking Juilliard To Suspend Composer From Faculty
By late Friday, after an initial 120 people had signed the letter, Beaser, 68, a former chair of the prestigious Manhattan music school’s composition...
Pope Francis Will Return Parthenon Marble Fragments To Greece
Although the Vatican fragments will belong to the church rather than the state, a museum spokeswoman said they would be “reunited in their positions,”...
