Why American Conservatory Theater Is Shutting Down Its Admired MFA Program
"The school had been working tirelessly to find a university partner in order to stay open. … But, as ACT artistic director Pam MacKinnon...
Pivot To Video Is Changing The Performing Arts
“You get something different from film. We want to be specific in our storytelling: we want it to be close-up and we want to...
How Shirley Jackson Took Apart The Pieces Of Postwar American Womanhood
"(Her) career endeavor (was) to explore the fragmentary internal landscape of her generation of women, often through themes of madness, fracturing, and disorientation." -...
Ireland Launches Universal Income Plan For Artists
The program will cover two thousand arts and culture workers for a span of three years. The government has earmarked €25 million ($28.3 million)...
The Long, Odd History Of American Comic Books
After starting as kids’ entertainment, they were used as World War II propaganda and even a vehicle for public education about the atomic bomb....
Africa’s Cultural Institutions Leading The Way On New Ways Of Presenting Culture
These visionary entrepreneurs, who represent some of the continent’s best talent in professions ranging from architecture to finance, are creating new models of preserving...
The Whirling Dervishes Of Konya Are Torn
The ritual of sema (as it's called) is meant to be a sacred meditative practice, and its practitioners are devout Sufis uncomfortable with commercialization....
The Brave, Skilled, And Versatile “Swings” Who Keep “The Lion King” Running Through The...
Jacqueline René, for instance, can do, and has done, everything from Nala the lioness and Shenzi the zebra to the bird lady, a patch...
Badal Roy, Who Brought Indian Tabla Drumming To Cutting-Edge Jazz, Dead At 82
He had only the rudiments of Indian classical training and played in an unorthodox manner, using up to seven drums instead of the conventional...
Checking In On San Francisco’s Pilot Program Of Guaranteed Income For Artists
The program, launched by the city government and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last March, provides $1,000 a month, no strings attached,...
The Entire Marcel Duchamp Archive Is Now Available For Free Online
"It is a vast online trove of Duchampiana" assembled by the Association Marcel Duchamp, the Pompidou Center, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, "a...
“Fight Club” Gets A Whole New Ending For Streaming In China
In execution, it's sort of lame: instead of explosions, a title card is slipped in to say that the authorities foiled Project Mayhem and...
Little Brick Hospital In Regional Bangladesh Wins RIBA’s Best New Building Award
In the city of Satkhira, near the giant Sundarban mangrove swamp on the Indian border, the Friendship Hospital, designed by the Dhaka-based firm Urbana,...
This Orchestra Somehow Kept Going Through Lockdowns, Floods, Power Outages, And The Madness Of...
The Orquesta Sinfónica Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho in Caracas is already the country's least conventional symphonic ensemble: they frequently perform in the barrios and...
Indie Movies Are Quite Odd Right Now
Let’s call them “bizart-house movies,” for lack of a better term — unapologetically odd and original creations, led by a gifted group of rebel...
What Canadian Orchestras Are Doing Online
A majority (69%) of orchestras are planning a hybrid (digital and in-person) season for 2021-22. Once halls return to full capacity audiences, 45.9% of...
Social Media Is Flooding Us With Addictive Junk News
A digital drug for anyone with a phone, and especially young people, the TikTok app uses random reinforcement — similar to a slot machine...
The Weird Spat Over A Star NPR Reporter’s Report On The Supreme Court
In her own telephone conversation with The Daily Beast, Nina Totenberg—a towering presence at NPR who has been there since 1975—responded to NPR's public...
Why Spats In Academia Are So Nasty
Reviewers are faced with essays that are additions to their already heavy workloads that could have used more time. And the inclination to take...
Artists To “Meta”: We Don’t Trust You
Many have begun fleeing Instagram... They expressed skepticism that Meta, a social-media behemoth, could develop, launch and manage a marketplace where they weren’t looking...
Meet The Organist Whose Concerts Get Protested By Conservative Catholics As Satanic
Anna von Hausswolff can joke about it, but enraged demonstrators have actually shut down concerts of hers. All because a music blogger called her...
Medical Humanities — Using Art To Build Better Doctors
“Things like disease, disability, death, the processes of scientific experimentation and discovery, they don’t happen in a vacuum. They take place in the context...
Why Do Certain Sentences Become Famous Independently Of The Works They’re Part Of?
"You can't handle the truth!" or "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." "Celebrity sentences," Nicola Sayers dubs them. "There are countless brilliant...
Report: Why Did The Glasgow School Of Art Burn Down In 2018?
Following an investigation lasting more than three years, the final report concluded that the cause of the second blaze remained "undetermined". It said this was due...
Getting Copyright, And Compensation, For The Choreographers Of Hit Music Videos — Including TikTok
Says dancer/choreographer JaQuel Knight, who founded Knight Choreography and Music Publishing Inc. to address the issue, "Over the past year and a half, so...
