Choreographer Sean Dorsey’s Work Takes A Major Turn
"His four previous works, each two or three years in the making, have combined dance, music and storytelling to preserve LGBTQ history and illuminate...
A New Giacometti Museum Is Coming To Paris
"The Giacometti Foundation will take up residence in the former Gare des Invalides, better known in postwar years as the former headquarters of Air...
Boston’s Handel And Haydn Society, America’s Oldest Musical Group, Names New Artistic Director
Jonathan Cohen, a 44-year-old cellist, harpsichordist and conductor from Great Britain, begins his term next season. He currently leads his own London-based ensemble, called...
Roberta Flack, Stricken With ALS, Can No Longer Sing
The 85-year Grammy winner, whose biggest hits were "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song," has...
Jay Leno Hospitalized With “Serious Burns”
The former longtime host of NBC's The Tonight Show, who is now 72, reportedly suffered burns to his face in a gasoline fire which...
Leveling Up? Who Are You Kidding? Say Tory MPs About England’s Arts Funding
"A Tory revolt has emerged over 'patronising' claims that funding for established cultural institutions contributes to the government's levelling up pledge, amid concerns from...
Louisville Orchestra Names Graham Parker Chief Executive
Parker brings more than 25 years of experience in leadership roles at a range of arts organizations. Most recently, he was the president of Decca...
Jeff Bezos Says He’ll Give Away Most Of His Money. So How?
“The hard part is figuring out how to do it in a levered way,” he said. “It’s not easy. Building Amazon was not easy. It...
Science Defines The Modern Age, Right? So How Did We Get It So Wrong?
How is it that the dawning of the age of reason, which saw science and technology become preeminent in western culture, coincided with the industrial...
Maurice Sendak’s Dance Between Art And Music
Music was an essential ingredient in Sendak’s creative process. “The work can’t happen without music,” he said in 1994. “I think everything I’ve done...
Fresno Voters Approved A Measure To Spend Millions On The Arts. Now The City...
Measure P went before Fresno voters in November 2018 to add a 3/8th-cent increase to the sales tax for 30 years to benefit parks...
Historically We Have Been Defined By Our Geographies. That May Be Changing
Geopoliticians’ reluctance to reckon with the climate crisis comes from their sense that there are only two options: transcend the landscape or live with...
480,000 University Of California Academic Workers Walk Off The Job Over Pay
About 48,000 unionized academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses — who perform the majority of teaching and research at the state’s...
Why Do So Many New Movies Look Like Crap On The Big Screen?
As a practical matter, turning out movies that look worse in a theater than they might on a TV screen is a real problem...
The Science Of Violins’ “Phantom Notes”
The team found that all violins produced combination tones, but the oldest instruments produced the strongest ones. The magnitude of the most prominent combination...
Study: Rats Move In Time To Music
Researchers in Japan played Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448) for 10 rats, and tiny wireless accelerometers affixed to the...
A Guide To All 25 National Book Award Finalists
Which debut novel might hear its name called? Will nonfiction about viruses or chronic illness defeat Imani Perry's sweeping take on the history of...
Inside The Fight To Save The Unauthorized Trans Joker Movie
The director "was certain that viewers would never mistake her absurdist, autobiographical ... queer coming-of-age film, in which the titular heroine battles gender dysphoria...
Amazon Enables The Shady, Lucrative Book Rip-Off Business
Summary Culture gone wild: "I was flattered that these folks, whoever they are, had bothered to rip off my book. But I was also...
Harvard Says It Has Hair Samples From 700 Native American Students
The hair samples were taken from children at residential schools between 1930 and 1933. The Peabody Museum "apologized to Indigenous tribal nations and descendants...
How Tech Like Spotify, Facebook, And Google Lock Us In
And how they rip us, and artists, off as well. "Large firms can corner audiences and put them into a sort of corral. And...
Restoring, And Unveiling, A Long Censored Nude By Artemisia Gentileschi
And by long, we're talking centuries. "Swirling veils and drapery were added to Allegory of Inclination about 70 years after Gentileschi painted the lifesize...
How Did Harper Bliss Write Nearly 40 Novels In Eleven Years?
Well, first of all, the romance author doesn't think that's quite enough: "I’m now writing my third book this year. I always aim for...
Turning Margaret Atwood’s ‘MaddAdam’ Into Dance
Imagine making a ballet of this: "The novels that constitute the MaddAddam trilogy are set in a world where genetic engineering has produced a variety of...
Alan Rubin, Co-Founder Of Washington’s Biograph Theater, Has Died At 85
Rubin was a geologist before he discovered the joys of art films in San Francisco. "For nearly three decades before it went dark in...
