The Pandemic Might Have Changed Indie Films Forever
As Sundance's virtual festival gets underway, the question hanging in the air is whether any indie film can succeed in traditional theatres. Older audiences...
Booker Prizewinner Says Look To Older Women For Richer Fiction
Bernadine Evaristo: "I’m always amused when my young students create frail, old characters hunched over walking sticks, only for them to tell me that...
A South Korean Museum Is Auctioning Off The Country’s Heritage
The reason isn't clear, but "in 2014, the Kansong fell into debt and has remained closed ever since. The museum has pushed its reopening...
Almodovar Wants People To Remember Spain’s Past
Early on, "when Almodóvar started making films, he promised himself one thing: his movies would give the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco the ultimate two-fingered...
Twenty-Two Composers And Performers To Watch in 2022
"The trope of the cloistered composer is a tried and true archetype — the solitary soul flanked by stacks of scores in the dark...
Netflix Won Big During The Early Pandemic, But Now It’s 2022
The streaming giant is facing big competition - and price hikes. - BBC
How The FBI’s Art Theft Team Works
Despite the United States’ status as an art market leader with a 42% share of the global pie today, the FBI Art Crime Team...
Theatre Lies: The Liberating Feeling Of Making S***t Up
The most fun part about writing is that every writer I know is a fucking liar. Some think this is radical political work. Some...
Introducing “The Society For The Preservation Of Western Music” Let The Piling On Begin
The letter alludes that the new publication is in response to “…the virulent spread of identity-based concert programming.” It goes on to state they...
Why Amanda Gorman Almost Didn’t Read Her Inaugural Poem
"I’m a firm believer that often terror is trying to tell us of a force far greater than despair. In this way, I look...
Above All, Literature Teaches Empathy
Writers and artists are not primarily trying to reform the world; their mission is to imagine it, to deliver it. Yes, there can be...
Reconsidering Classic Literature?
The old classics still have the power to move and transform young people in ways that no technical education can. We don’t have to...
How Do We Know For Sure About The Gender Imbalance In Ballet? It’s Thanks...
Dance Data Project founder Elizabeth Yntema: "The lack of artistic and leadership opportunities for women in ballet has been talked about for years. But...
Next COVID Hazard: Audience Insecurity
The past few months have been exceptionally tough for arts events because audiences ‘are prioritising seeing family and friends, or wanting to reduce the...
She’s A Painter, A Writer, And The Only Woman Ever To Dump Pablo Picasso....
"It has been unsettling, if not entirely unwelcome, to find herself courted in recent months by art world pundits and curiosity seekers. … 'I...
Aussie Arts Desperately Need An Insurance Scheme During COVID Uncertainty
The CEO of Live Performance Australia says the Omicron variant has dashed hopes of a live arts sector bounce back in 2022, and that...
Getting Duke Ellington Into The Orchestral Canon
Thomas Wilkins has been conducting Ellington with leading orchestras for some years now, including this weekend and next with the LA Philharmonic. He says...
Deborah Cullinan Is Leaving Yerba Buena To Be Stanford University’s First VP Of Arts
She explained that her job will be less about individual programming decisions, which will remain the prerogative of those programs’ leaders, and more about...
Was Terry Teachout The Last Of The Conservative Arts Critics?
"For him, conservatism signaled a commitment to tradition, to persevering and building on past achievement. It was a conservatism of memory, not of grievance...
The Myths Of A Common Language
If the confusion of tongues is not the primary source of human conflict, might the corollary be true: that resolving conflict doesn’t require a common language? -...
How Many Composers Ever Get To Have Two Operas Premiere In New York At...
"One new opera demands an enormous amount of attention, but two is downright invasive," says Ricky Ian Gordon. His Intimate Apparel (adapted by Lynn...
A Lot Of Broadway Shows Have Closed Temporarily. Could That Become A Standard Business...
The highly contagious omicron variant has given productions a reason to shut down for what happen to be the slowest two months of the...
The Newbery Award Has Been Honoring Children’s Books For 100 Years. Not All Of...
People tend to give books that win classic or canonic status, presuming that a Newbery medalist from decades ago will always be good for...
The Abuse Lawsuit Against UNCSA Is Even Bigger Than You Thought
Most of the reporting about the case has focused on sexual abuse of students in the dance division, but the allegations (and the defendants)...
Large Limestone Sphinxes Unearthed In Luxor
"A German-Egyptian team of researchers, led by archaeologist Hourig Sourouzian, discovered the artifacts half-submerged in water during their restoration of the funerary temple of...
