Boycotting Joe Rogan Is Probably Futile
"If the protest succeeds in getting him booted, he can go back to making his podcast available on other platforms or launch his own....
Literature’s Greatest Year: 1922
The response of artists and writers was to remake their work: a way of seeking either to control the strange and uncontrollable, or simply...
Where Method Acting Was Born
In an excerpt from his new history of Method acting, Isaac Butler looks at the American Laboratory Theatre, where, in the 1920s, two of...
How Your Culture Determines How You Hear Music
While commonalities certainly exist the differences were astounding. How could it be that Rossini’s humorous comic operas, which have been bringing laughter and joy...
The Black Fiddlers Of Monticello, Led By The Sons Of Sally Hemings
Beverly, Madison, and Eston Hemings seem to have inherited musical talent from both their mother and their enslaver/father, Thomas Jefferson, a lifelong violinist. The...
Teachers Are Quitting And In High Demand In Other Industries
Teachers’ ability to absorb and transmit information quickly, manage stress and multitask are high-demand skills, recruiters and careers coaches say. - The Wall Street Journal
Viktor Orbán Is Building A New Museum District In Budapest. Of Course It’s Controversial
The right-wing prime minister's plan is to build five museums in the capital's long-neglected City Park; the first of them, the House of Music,...
Making A Ballet Out Of “The Graduate” (?!)
That's the challenge choreographer Cathy Marston took on for San Francisco Ballet, where her new work, Mrs. Robinson, is now premiering. In a Q&A,...
David Gordon, Patriarch Of Postmodern Dance, Dead At 85
"A leading postmodern choreographer who crossed over into playwriting territory, he was massively prolific for about 60 years. He combined movement and words in...
The New York Times Crossword Is A Culture War Minefield
Says one puzzle constructor, "It becomes an endless series of judgment calls. Is this slang term offensive? Is that world leader merely unpleasant, or...
2,200-Year-Old Buddhist Temple Found In Pakistan
"An ancient Buddhist temple dating from the 2nd or 3rd century BCE has been uncovered during an Italian-led archaeological excavation in the city of...
Monica Vitti, Icon Of Italian Cinema, Dead At 90
"Once a symbol of Italian mystique, ever-present on-screen and on fashion magazine covers, … (she) secured an enduring place in art house drama as...
Now Even Theresa May Is Pleading Against Massive Arts Funding Cuts
The former prime minister, under whose austerity regime many local governments were forced to slash their arts budgets, now sees the authorities in the...
The Coolest Architecture You’ll See At The Beijing Olympics
Here are the most architecturally significant venues, including a new stadium by Populous and the world's first permanent structure for big air extreme snow jumping. -...
The Objects That Have Gone Away
What if these objects had survived? What might that alternative world be like? This idea of a parallel material universe, in which some of...
How Ailey Director Robert Battle Got His Creative Chops Back
The pandemic smothered everything, wiping Battle’s calendar clean, and crazy as it sounds, it helped him. The shutdown provided space, and the racial reckoning,...
New NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson Talks About The NEA’s Future
“We’re striving for people to have artful lives, and artful lives are about participation as audiences and they are also about making, doing, teaching,...
How NFT’s Can Preserve Street Art
“By scanning a mural and turning it into an NFT, we forever immortalize the art.” - Wired
Eight-Year-Old Writes Book, Hides It In Library — It’s A Hit!
The book, “The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis” by the author “Dillon His Self,” had drawn so much attention by the end of January...
The Guy Who Conned All Those Manuscripts Out Of Publishers — What Did He...
It wasn't hard to identify Filippo Bernardini once the FBI got involved; he didn't cover his email tracks very well. But none of the...
First International Orchestras In Two Years Return To Tour US
With their own instruments and evening clothes in hand, the Royal Philharmonic completed a 14-concert, nine-city U.S. tour on Monday night, the first international...
The Most Important School Subject For Future Tech Workers? Would You Believe It’s Drama?
So argues one business-oriented demographer. Why drama? Because you learn how to work closely in groups and to fill a variety of roles, onstage...
Crisis? More Than Half Of America’s Teachers Say They Want To Quit
The survey shows that 55% of teachers now say that because of the pandemic, they’re going to leave the profession sooner than they’d planned....
Someone Paid $30 For This Drawing Five Years Ago. Now It’s Worth About $10...
The sketch, titled The Virgin and Child with a Flower on a Grassy Bank and dating from around 1503, was purchased by a Massachusetts...
Time For Moliere To Ascend The Pantheon
Last year, the actor Francis Huster passionately made the case for the reinterment of Molière within the Panthéon, Molière’s remains having had a long...
