Brooklyn Academy Of Music Gets A New Leader
Gina Duncan, who previously served as BAM’s first vice president of film and strategic programming, has been selected as the organization’s new president, the...
The Former President Of The Brooklyn Academy Of Music Remembers 36 Years In The...
Karen Brooks Hopkins came to BAM in 1979, became its president 20 years later, and retired in 2015, having more than doubled the artistic...
Captive Audience: Why Mazdas In The Pacific Northwest Only Tune This NPR Station
It was as if the infotainment center had decided to team up with the ghost of HAL. You remember that malfunctioning, soft-spoken and ultimately...
The Real Story Behind The Famous Bust Of Nefertiti (It’s Not What You Probably...
It was not an object of veneration, it was not meant for public display, and it wasn't considered valuable in its day except to...
One Of Ukraine’s Strongest Defenses Against Russian Aggression Is The Ukrainian Language
For much of the past century in Ukraine, Russian has taken precedence over Ukrainian, even in the post-Soviet period. These days one hears more...
There’s A Whole Body Of Women’s Novels In Yiddish That Are Finally Reaching English-Speakers
The originals were mostly published as serials in Yiddish newspapers and never made it into bound volumes in any language until now. Says one...
Well, The Super Bowl “Volunteer” Halftime Dancers Won’t Be Working For Free This Year...
"Four hundred volunteers working for up to 72 hours as 'field cast participants' during this weekend's Super Bowl LVI halftime show will be paid...
Did This Year’s Oscar Nominations Show The Usual Art-Versus-Popularity Divide? It’s Not That Simple...
"The definition of success (is) more slippery than ever. Gone are the days when box office is the only metric; streamers calculate their investments...
Maybe Ridicule Works: The Original Ending Of “Fight Club” Has Been Restored For Streaming...
The Chinese streaming giant Tencent had — to much criticism and mockery — removed the final scene, in which buildings explode as an anarchist...
The Kirov Academy Ballet School Is Closing (Note: This Is Not In Russia)
Don't panic: this school isn't connected with the St. Petersburg company now known as the Mariinsky, although its first directors came from there and...
Why Some Of Us Seek Out Painful Experiences
Under the right circumstances and in the right doses, physical pain and emotional pain, difficulty and failure and loss, are exactly what we are...
Restitution Of Cultural Artifacts Is Gaining Momentum
International co-operation and resolve is growing firmer, as seen most recently in December, when Greece’s resolution, “Return or restitution of cultural property to the...
NBC Uses Olympics To Test New Way Of Measuring Audience
To boost its efforts to offer an alternate means of counting the video-watching masses, NBCU is working with more than 30 different advertisers to...
Unesco: A Worldwide Cultural Crisis Because Of The Pandemic – 10 Million Culture Jobs...
“What was already a precarious situation for many artists has become unsustainable, threatening creative diversity.” - The Guardian
Why Joe Rogan Matters
He channels his audience into extended conversations with famously smart people who are willing to give them hours of attention. Through him, they feel...
Why It’s Important To Listen To Old Recordings
Today, of course, technical perfection is an overriding concern. But there are other aspects of performance practice today, some of which are wonderful but...
Oh, Great — Even More Damage To What’s Left Of The Bamiyan Buddhas
The new Taliban governor of Bamiyan province somehow heard a rumor that there's buried treasure under what used to be the large 6th-century statues...
That Line Between Work And Play
Adults taking hobbies too seriously can be a pathetic spectacle, but it is also a staple of comedy. - 3 Quarks Daily
21st-Century London Is Developing A New Dialect Of English
Linguists have dubbed it Multicultural London English (MLE); it has developed organically among young people in a city where hundreds of languages are spoken,...
What Makes The Architecture Of LA’s New Stadium (and Home Of This Week’s Superbowl)...
“Thinking about the Getty Villa, the Getty , Dodger Stadium, the cliffs in Malibu or Laguna,” shaped the way the team thought about...
The Most Dancerly Skater At The 2022 Winter Olympics
Jason Brown, a 27-year-old American, probably won't get an individual medal at these games because he doesn't have a consistent quadruple jump. Yet, writes...
Why Netflix Is Going To Fail
Netflix’s proprietary approach— based on sole control of intellectual property and intense hostility to all other players—is destined for long term failure. - Ted...
One Of The Most Recorded Singers In History Has Died Of COVID At Age...
No voice was so completely associated with the music of Bollywood movies as that of Lata Mangeshkar: she sang on the soundtracks of more...
Inside The Brutal World Of Testing Video Games
QA testing doesn’t involve leisurely trying out different video games, but is instead an intense and often tedious process of making sure that every...
Did COVID-19 Change American Opera? It Was Changing Already.
"For years now, opera has been in a sort of cocoon-like transition period as it explores new works and ways to move beyond its...
