Growing Concerns About The Environmental Impact Of New Zealand’s Movie Business
“If people knew how destructive the whole business is, they would think twice.” - The Guardian
A Look Inside The CIA Museum (Yes, There Is One)
The museum, whose collection documents CIA history from circa World War II to the present, is at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia and...
A Hula Dance Renaissance
Some hula masters are experimenting with the form itself, choreographing dances to nontraditional music, say, or creating longer dramas that address contemporary issues, like...
Dance And Incarceration — Both Inside And Outside The Prison
"(There's) a growing array of artists using dance to shed light on issues surrounding incarceration, the school-to-prison pipeline and the justice system as a...
Remembering The Groundbreaking Lincoln Center Directors Lab
In its 25 years, the Lab welcomed more than 1,600 directors through its doors. It was an enormously popular, productive, and competitive program, and...
Unknown Translation Of Molière By “Clockwork Orange” Author Anthony Burgess Is Discovered
"Miser! Miser! is a complete translation of L'Avare (The Miser) of 1668 ... that Burgess wrote in the early 1990s, yet it has never...
Surge In Humanities Enrollment? Berkeley Reports 121 Percent Increase In New Humanities Students
It’s unclear whether this upward shift is unique to UC Berkeley or an indication of a national trend. Arizona State University (ASU) reported a...
This Standup Comic Specializes In A Very Niche Audience: Nurses. And He’s A Huge...
Nurse Blake, "(a) 31-year-old standup whose real name is Blake Lynch, is a genuine phenomenon, a social media star with millions of followers, which...
End Of An Era: Ninth Moscow Biennale Canceled
This decision does not come as a surprise—ministry officials have prohibited dozens of exhibitions of contemporary art since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February....
How Do You Get A Rock Music Scene Started In An Isolated Town In...
"(A new) report looks into the hurdles faced by the buzzing-but-fragile music scenes of Nuuk, Greenland and two other far-northern cities: Torshavn in the...
Are NFTs The Way To Help Choreographers Keep Control Of Their Own Intellectual Property?
"Even if centralized platforms like TikTok and YouTube have issues, they also help people build brands, increase their audiences and distribute their content. Likewise,...
Is “The Music Man”, And Is Broadway, Really #SoWhite? Not These Days, Writes John...
"(The current Broadway revival has) many Black cast members, such that Blackness becomes more than any cartoonish notion of African-esque masculinity. We have moved...
Two Dozen Ancient Roman Bronzes Discovered In Tuscany
"Italian archaeologists have unearthed 24 beautifully preserved bronze statues in Tuscany believed to date back to ancient Roman times. The statues were discovered under...
At Disney+, Subscribers Pour In And Cash Pours Out
"Disney's direct-to-consumer division, which also includes Hulu and ESPN+, on Tuesday reported an operating loss of nearly $1.5 billion, more than doubling its loss...
Architect Jack Diamond, Who Designed Innovative Yet Understated Arts Venues, Is Dead At 89
Co-founder of Toronto firm Diamond Schmitt Architects, he was lead designer for that city's Four Seasons Centre, the Maison Symphonique in Montreal, the Mariinsky...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Strike Warhol Campbell’s Soup Cans
At the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, two activists scrawled across several of the Warhol prints (which were protected by glass) with blue...
Uffizi Closes Because Of Staff Shortages
“It does not escape your intelligence that a closure of this kind, in addition to constituting a loss of income, represents damage to the...
A Conversation With Mikhail Baryshnikov @74
Q: How is your body feeling these days? A: Every day is a new encounter, and they are not always pleasant. - The Guardian
How Early Failure Is Useful For Some Creative People
While yes, there are the Picassos and Portmans of the world, there are also a few famous creatives who had to overcome failure early...
More On Consciousness: Is It Really A System/Network Of Memories?
In a nutshell: at its core, consciousness evolved as a memory system. It helps us remember the events of our lives—the whens, wheres, whats,...
Research: People Dance More When The Bass Is Turned Up
Results from 43 attenders who agreed to wear a headband revealed they moved 11.8% more, on average, when the VLF speakers were turned on....
How Liverpool’s Cultural Organizations Stepped Up During COVID
As government health and welfare services shut down or struggled to adapt to the crisis, cultural organisations stepped in to provide vital support –...
As Breakdancing Becomes An Olympic Sport, The Rest Of The Dance World Gets Serious...
"There's increasing professionalisation of the form: in 2024 Sadler's Wells is opening a hip-hop academy at their new theatre in Stratford to train 16-...
Emma Thompson Explains How Nanny McPhee Explains Emma Thompson
"She knows exactly what to do, loves without reservation, then must go. So she sacrifices. She always has to leave those that she loves....
Creating DeepFakes For Good?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab have been brainstorming ways of putting deepfakes to good use. Some of these are in healthcare and...
