The Rwandan Women’s Percussion Group Bringing Hutu And Tutsi Together
"Ingoma Nshya, … founded by Odile Gakire Katese in 2004, … arose to heal divisions after the 1994 genocide, which left around 800,000 people...
The End Of Mass Market Products
Mobility, consumer expectations, and technology are evolving exponentially, and there is huge appetite for low-friction user experiences, on-demand delivery, and personalized manufacturing. These are...
Will Dance Companies Keep Experimenting With Film And Video After They’re Performing Live Again?
"Screendance provided an attractive platform to explore new directions for choreographic works. … The challenge now, is how to keep going." - Dance Magazine
Peter Jackson Tops Highest-Paid Entertainer List
Last year he sold his fx company. Forbes estimates Jackson personally made about $600m in cash and $375m in stock from the deal, making...
Defining Afrofuturism (Can It Be Done?)
With a festival this month and next, Carnegie Hall is taking a crack at defining, or at least surveying, the genre (if that's even...
MoviePass Is Back
“We’re looking at this from another point of view,” Stacy Spikes said of the company’s relaunch, adding that he now plans to run the...
“What If John Lennon Was A World-Class Intellectual With An Insatiable Curiosity For Third...
A long, loving profile of Caetano Veloso, who has transformed Brazilian music more than once, was a famous exile during the dictatorship, and has...
An Oral History Of One Of The Best, And Most Meta, “Simpsons” Episodes Ever
"Stars Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Hank Azaria and writer David X. Cohen, among others, share new insights and secrets about the 'ballsy' episode that...
Remember Ski Ballet?
"On social media, it's easy to get lost in videos of this bygone athletic art. Clips from its Olympic appearances as a demonstration sport...
Are Small Literary Magazines Going Extinct?
"Across the country, universities are slowly, quietly, cutting funding and shutting their literary publications down. Even magazines not connected to universities are closing their...
Attempted Book Bans Are Soaring In The U.S., Thanks To The “Outrage Ecosystem”
"The books are kind of incidental. What we're really arguing about is, what does it mean to be a citizen of the United States?...
Harper Lee Estate Loses $2.5 Million Case Over “To Kill A Mockingbird” Stage Adaptations
The arbitration case was brought by Dramatic Publishing, which licenses the decades-old Mockingbird play by Christopher Sergel, long popular with schools and community theaters....
Marin Alsop Extends Contract At Ravinia, Where She Will Launch A New Mini-Festival
Her tenure as the Ravinia Festival's chief conductor began (in theory) in 2020 and will now run at least through 2025. This summer, she'll...
What Happens When You Teach School Kids About Racism
We are in a cultural moment in which teaching about racism and the world it has made is both essential and controversial. Critics rallying under...
How Three Canadian Museums Are Dealing With Having Mishandled Indigenous History
The Royal BC Museum’s troubles go beyond outdated exhibits. Allegations of a toxic, racist work environment were on display for all to see, after...
Immersive Art Experiences Are Taking Over
Operated by artist studios, collectives, and production companies, these projects range in finesse from sophisticated new-media installations to animated retrospectives of Impressionist painters. -...
National Gallery of Canada Establishes New Decolonization Department
The National Gallery of Canada has committed to reimagining its collections and programs from a decolonial perspective. Today the museum announced the creation of the Department...
I Used To Sing Opera (It Didn’t Go Well)
Every time I have an audition, I get sick. I spend hours steaming my vocal cords over a bowl at the kitchen table, gargling...
UK Library Use Plummeted Last Year
Physical library visits fell from 214.6m to 59.7m in the year to March 2021, a drop of 72%, as Covid-19 restrictions shut branches for...
New York State Is Dropping Mask Requirements, But Broadway Is Not
"Broadway's mask and vaccination policy will remain in place through at least April 30, the most recent extension date for the policy announced last...
Six Big Magazines — Including Entertainment Weekly — To Quit Print Publication
“It is not news to anyone that there has been a pronounced shift in readership and advertising from print to digital, and as a...
Native Hawaiians Are Traveling Europe, Retrieving Their Ancestors’ Bones From Museums
"Edward Halealoha Ayau … and representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state agency for native Hawaiians, are receiving the artifacts in four...
Disney+ Adds Huge Number Of Subscribers, Now Growing Faster Than Netflix
Disney added 11.8 million Disney+ subscribers globally in the fiscal first quarter, topping the average analyst estimate of around 7 million, according to StreetAccount. -...
King Tut Was Not A Significant Pharaoh, Yet The Modern World Remains Fascinated By...
"Tutankhamun represents an extremely narrow slice of Egyptian history; imagine if, in the year 4850, the world understood the United States largely through the...
Artificial Intelligence Is Being Misused… Now
While much of the current critique of AI is still framed by science fiction dystopias, the way it is being used now is increasingly...
