The Streaming Problem
The streaming age has been hard on independent musicians. In 2020, analytics company Alpha Data examined data based on 1.6 million artists who released...
De Wain Valentine, Who Pioneered The Use Of Plastics As An Art Medium, Dead...
In particular, he was the first to use polyester resin and Plexiglas to make sculptures. (He learned how to shape and sand them in...
Public Broadcasters Having Difficulty Meeting DEI Goals
Managers and staff who are leading DEI initiatives at their stations describe unanticipated delays in implementing action plans, misunderstandings over the roles of staff...
Whatever Happened To The Statue Of Voltaire In Paris That Got Pulled Down In...
It hasn't been seen since; many people feared that city authorities decided to melt it down, as the Vichy regime did with its predecessor...
Understanding The Evolutions Of Traditions
Although small modifications do not undo a tradition, small changes can aggregate into significant deviations. For example, if someone is tall, then if they were...
How Aleshea Harris Puts Black Life Onstage
Hilton Als: "Harris's aim as a playwright is to remove the kitchen sink and slather the stage with blood and celebration. … Just as...
The New Online Choreographers
Among this blossoming crop of teachers and influencers, and the legions of creators making their moves into memes on TikTok, Angela Trimbur, 40, stands out. Underpinned by an...
Serge Diaghilev Was Not A Good Guy: Bronislava Nijinska
The pathbreaking choreographer once wrote, " He victimised the ballet artists when they left his company and tried by all means possible to prevent...
Could Our Conscious Minds Exist In Virtual Worlds?
Once one has been presented with the hypothesis that we could exist as the conscious beings we are in a purely fabricated world of...
“What Does It Mean To Make Black Film History Accessible?” Why Maya Cade Created...
"My driving question for all of this ... has been: What does this mean to a Black person? And not just the Black people...
“I’m A Fool, What Have I Done” — The Museum Guard Who Drew Eyes...
"Aleksandr Vasiliev, a decorated veteran of the Afghan and Chechen wars, told journalist Elena Pankratieva that he believed the 20th-century work by Anna Leporskaya...
Why Some Composers Are Fuming About This Year’s Classical Grammy Nominations
"Letters of complaint have been sent to the organisers, the Recording Academy, arguing that the tracks in question – by two separate artists, Jon...
The Editor Who Published “Maus” Recounts His Decision To Go Ahead With It
Tom Engelhardt, then at Pantheon Books: "The feeling that I simply had to do Maus was one of the two least rational decisions I...
Why Is There A Staff Exodus At Philadelphia’s Public Radio Station?
"In interviews, 10 former and six current WHYY staffers cited lower pay than at other media outlets, a lack of opportunities for advancement, a...
Scotland Allocates Yet More Money To COVID Arts Recovery
£16 million may not seem like much to Americans, but it can go a long way in a nation as small as Scotland. -...
Belgium Takes First Big Step Toward Returning Looted Art To Congo
The Belgian government has turned over to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's prime minister an inventory list of 85,000 items in the country's...
Trump’s New Social Network Soars To Top Of Apple Store (But New Users Encounter...
While it seemingly has attracted broad interest, many users who attempted to sign up for Truth Social accounts on Monday (Feb. 21) have reported...
The Problem Of Writing Fiction Of Now During The Pandemic
“It seemed too soon to be writing about the pandemic, which we were living through, but it also seemed hard to be writing about...
Does The Demise Of The Capitol Steps Comedy Troupe Say Something About How America...
Political humor had changed. It was less lighthearted, more snarky and sarcastic. Washington had changed, no longer a place where Democrats and Republicans would...
More And More Museum Workers Are Unionizing
Many of the workers who have recently joined unions have come from the curatorial, administrative and education staffs — white-collar office workers who often...
On The Frontlines Of The Battle For Our Attention
The reality is we simply don’t have the long-term studies that tell us whether our collective attention span has actually shrunk. What we do...
Theatre was Inventive During COVID. That Inventiveness Might Make Theatre Better Going Forward
In order to survive at all during this period, theatre did need to adapt, and notable examples of genius materialised, reimagining the genre entirely....
University Censors Project About Censorship
The irony is almost too neat: a college student plans a program of songs from musicals that have faced censorship – and with less...
The Scourge Of Book Blurbs
It is perhaps true that blurbs are rarely the deciding factor. Most likely a potential reader has heard word of mouth recommendations, read reviews,...
The Mechanizing Of The Humanities Is Not Going Well
The academic insistence on using bibliographic citation techniques developed for the printing press feels increasingly eccentric now that reading materials and essays exist in...
