The Community Mythologies We Convince Ourselves Of
Whereas historians aim to create a relatively objective account of the past using rigorous professional standards of what counts as evidence, when members of...
A Language Is A Dialect With An Army And Navy? Not So!
A controversy over Spain's entry to this year's Eurovision Song Contest — the Spanish jurors rejected the audience's and international jurors' choice, which was...
Boise Art Museum At Odds With City Over Lease For Land It Sits On
For 84 years the museum, built with private funds, paid $1 annual rent for land in a city park. But a new law calls...
Courtauld Institute Will Stop Selling Severed-Ear-Shaped Erasers At Its Online Van Gogh Gift Shop
After an outcry from those who thought the Courtauld was mocking mental illness and psychosis for fun and profit, the museum removed the erasers...
Dance Data Project’s Latest Report Looks At College Dance Faculty
Among the major findings are that roughly two-thirds of dance professors (both full-time and part-time) and four-fifths of program coordinators are women, but two-thirds...
P.J. O’Rourke, Conservative Writer And Humorist, Dead At 74
"O'Rourke was one of the most quoted writers in America, dissecting US politics and culture with a withering disdain and a powerful line in...
Edinburgh Fringe Needs More Regulation And An End To Open Access, Says New Study
A research report titled "Future Fringe" says that the world's biggest theatre and arts festival suffers from a lack of clear lines of authority...
Family Of Cinematographer Shot On Set Of “Rust” Sues Alec Baldwin
"The family of Halyna Hutchins … has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Alec Baldwin, the film's production companies, its producers, and other members...
America To Get Its Own Song Competition Based On The Long-running Eurovision Model
The extravaganza, prosaically titled American Song Contest, will see musicians from all 50 states, five US territories and Washington DC compete against each other,...
Should The Kennedy Center Be Creating More New Work?
The Kennedy Center’s mission statement says that one of its three pillars is “presenting, producing, and curating world-class art.” In theater, it’s relying these days...
What Can Be Learned From A Hollywood Union’s Attempts To Diversify?
The story of what happened when costumers tried to instigate reform is a tale of the frustrations and barriers to progress that exist in...
When You Talk To Yourself, What’s Going On?
From the perspective of psychology, there have also been many studies on the role of outer and inner speech in our thinking processes. An...
Calgary Arts Commons To Get Major $450 Million Addition
Arts Commons sees the new project as a means of engaging a larger set of Calgarians and providing space for everyday gatherings and informal...
Ballet Dancer-Turned-Economist Has Suggestions For Fixing Ballet’s Job Market
Olivia Hartzell, who spent nearly a decade at Pennsylvania Ballet and the Royal Ballet of Flanders and is now a PhD student at Harvard,...
Chicago Dance Community Aims To Take A Broader View Of Dance In The City
The city of Chicago has designated 2022 the Year of Chicago Dance in recognition of an art form that is ubiquitous, burgeoning, diverse—and precarious. - Chicago Reader
TCG To Make 200 Plays Available Online
The scripts, 110 already uploaded and the rest coming later this year, "join Drama Online's award-winning digital library, an online research tool for drama...
Court Says Failed Italian Bank Must Sell Its Caravaggio. But there’s A Big But…
But there’s a hitch: The valuable paintings, including a Caravaggio said to be worth millions, cannot physically be moved from their location due to national...
There’s A Famous Award For Bad Sex In Fiction. But What Makes For Good...
Niamh Campbell: "In all the best erotic writing I've read – not a lot really, but the most accurate and enviably sexy examples have...
Why Everyone’s Talking About Defining Consciousness
For much of history, the nature of consciousness was the purview almost exclusively of philosophers and poets. It was not taken seriously as a...
2,700-Year-Old Bronze Figurine Found At Europe’s Oldest Battlefield — What Was It?
The six-inch statuette of an oddly-shaped nude woman dates from about 600 years after the battle at the site, near the Baltic coast of...
Workers Aren’t Returning To The Office, But They’re Slowly Going Back To Movie Theatres
The return rate to movie theaters in the first week of February was 58% of what it was before the pandemic. Restaurants were nearly three-quarters as...
After 80 Years, An Opera Composed By A Holocaust Victim Takes The Stage
"Grete Minde, a late-Romantic opera of 1920s jazz-inspired melodies and large orchestral sounds, was the work of Eugen Engel, a Berlin-based Jewish textile tradesman...
Peter Oundjian Named Principal Conductor Of Colorado Symphony
The former music director of the Toronto Symphony and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (and, before that, longtime first violinist of the Tokyo String...
What Does The Data Tell Us About Where Arts Attendance Will Be By This...
The researchers at SMU Data Arts have updated their numbers, incorporating information about ticket sales, prices, COVID case rates, vaccination rates, etc.; they have...
At Slate, Money Worries And An Identity Crisis
"Navigating the fast-changing digital media landscape has left Slate struggling to define its identity. … Slate once stood out as a home for contrarian...
