How Jazz Grew And Flourished In Japan
American troops brought jazz records with them; Japanese musicians picked up work entertaining the troops. There was a proliferation of jazz kissa (cafes), a distinctly Japanese...
Arkansas Symphony Announces Plans For New HQ (At A Surprising Price)
While the orchestra isn't changing performance venues, the 20,000-square-foot Stella Boyle Smith Music Center will include a 300-seat auditorium for rehearsals and student and...
UK Book Sales Set Records In 2021
Driven by booming appetites for crime novels, sci-fi, fantasy, romance and personal development titles, sales last year showed an increase of 5% on 2020....
This Troupe Of Performers With Learning Disabilities Goes Far Beyond Workshops In Schools And...
The London-based company Corali does, in fact, do programs in those places, but they've also worked with Sadler's Wells theatre and the Tate galleries...
Image Of Maya Angelou To Be Featured On US Quarter
The quarter features an image of Angelou with her arms uplifted, a bird in flight and a rising sun behind her, with a portrait...
Would Paul Gauguin Care About The Moral Condemnation He Gets Today? Just Read His...
As writer Laura Gascoigne puts it here, "Is Gauguin redeemable? By today's standards, no. Would he want to be redeemed? Almost certainly not." -...
Shaping The Noises Of Animals Into A Grand Symphonic Sound Installation
Composer-performer and "soundscape ecologist" Bernie Krause has used 5,000 hours of field recordings, made over 50 years and featuring 15,000 species, to create The...
Medieval Runes Discovered In Oslo For First Time In Three Decades
Researchers found two objects, a rune stick with text in both Latin and Norse and a piece of bone with a Norse inscription, in...
NPR Does Its Own Report On How It Is “Hemorrhaging Hosts From Marginalized Backgrounds”
The job went to media reporter David Folkenflik, by now quite experienced in, and respected for, stories about his employer — and he finds...
Netscape Founder James Clark Surrenders Millions Worth Of Cambodian Antiquities Now Thought To Be...
Clark, who gave up 35 items he bought between 2003 and 2008, is "the latest in a line of people taken in by Douglas...
Even The Louvre Is Creating An Immersive Art Show — And With The Mona...
The world's most visited museum is teaming up with another Paris institution, the Grand Palais, to crate the light show, which will debut in...
Royal Shakespeare Co. To Perform On Cunard Cruises
The RSC has signed a three-year contract with Cunard that will see a group of actors from the company performing two programs and offering...
Eighty Factcheck Groups Worldwide Protest YouTube Policies
The letter lists worldwide examples which have the potential to cause real-life harm, which went under the radar of YouTube's content policies. It says...
Gideon Arthurs Chosen As New Director Of Soulpepper Theatre
Arthurs joins Soulpepper after eight years as the chief executive officer of the National Theatre School of Canada. - Toronto Star
Inside The Healing Art Of Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy is premised on the idea that books can be healing tools. The main distinction is between clinical bibliotherapy, where texts, including fiction and...
Do Our Digital Lives Need An Intervention?
It’s clear that the internet needs design innovations—and brake mechanisms—to reduce its noxious impact. Our suffering arises, in part, from the speed and volume of...
NPR Responds To Loss Of Hosts
NPR's senior vice president for news, Nancy Barnes, wrote in a letter to staff on Tuesday that, taken together, the resignations have "created a...
LA’s Bold New Event Space Is… Well, I Need A New Word For It
The history and location are why I wanted to love — love — the new Audrey Irmas Pavilion (which bears the name of the patron who...
It Seems Dogs Can Distinguish Between Different Human Languages
Researchers in Budapest using fMRI machines found very different activity in different parts of the brain when dogs heard Spanish, Hungarian, and nonsense words....
The Screen Actors Guild Nominations Are Out. Here’s What They Portend For Oscars
OK, let’s just says awards season actually starts now. The SAG Awards nominations, voted on by two panels of 2,500 randomly selected SAG-AFTRA members...
Rescuing The Iconic Floor Tiles Of Barcelona
The decorative cement tiles were used in most residential buildings that went up from the late 19th-century construction boom to 1950, and they became...
For The First Time In Three Years, The Oscars Will Again Have A Host
Names like Dwayne Johnson believed to be among those on their wish list. Popular former hosts such as Chris Rock also have been approached...
A 30-Hour, Three-Day Theatre Piece Staged On A Three-Ton Ice Block Suspended Over Sydney...
The work, titled Thaw and conceived by physical theatre company Legs on the Wall and Alaskan composer Matthew Burtner, "features an acrobatic performer balancing,...
Global Disarray Is Growing. Do We Have The Creativity To Stop It?
The gap between global challenges and responses is large and growing. And the resources needed to turn things around – especially collective will and skillful...
Where Films’ Set Design Illuminates The Struggles Of Working-Class Folks
"Those struggles can be seen in water-stained walls, amid the brick piles of a bulldozed neighborhood or on the tattered carnival tents of The...
