What It Was Like To Work For The New York Review of Books
The mailroom was out of control. Employees helped themselves to books, telephone calls to Hong Kong, extra sandwiches during press week. They had a...
Jerry Lee Lewis, 87
Lewis ultimately transcended category. With typical arrogance, he would frequently declare that there were only four real stylists in American music: Al Jolson, Jimmie...
All About The Chemistry: What Makes A Stradivarius Extraordinary? New Study Suggests…
That quest for answers got a boost from Italian researchers in a paper published by the American Chemical Society that outlines the findings of their chemical...
Politics In Art – There Really Is A Role
It seems reasonable to pose the question of art’s relation to politics in the context of the specific crisis that democracy seems to have...
Quixotic? One Man Tries To Recreate The Orchestra Mahler Would Have Heard
Mahler would be appalled at the recorded perfectionism of the modern Vienna Philharmonic. He changed his mind from one rehearsal to the next. His...
Broadway’s New Hot Play? About A Man New Yorkers Love To Hate
Starring Ralph Fiennes as Robert Moses, the play has churned up considerable interest: Performed in a 500-seat theater, it’s already sold out for the entire two-month...
Did She Introduce Eastern Spirituality To America Or Merely Hoodwink People? The Tale Of...
The answer to that question is "yes." - Mental Floss
What Museum Directors Think About The Climate Change Protesters
“We shouldn’t be vehicles for political protest and we shouldn’t be vehicles in and of itself for political change. I regard museums as civic...
A New Director For The Restive Paris Opera Ballet
Taking the helm of an unhappy company is José Carlos Martinez, a 53-year-old Spaniard, who spent 23 years dancing therey, 14 of them as...
Which Way Up? Museum Discovers Its Mondrian Had Been Hung Upside Down For 75...
The first clue that the painting, an adhesive tape version of the similarly named New York (which hangs right-side up in Paris at the Centre Pompidou), was...
Has History Finally Moved Ahead Of The Manchurian Candidate As It Turns 60 Years...
"John Frankenheimer's thriller ... managed the neat, eerie trick of looking prescient for multiple decades following its 1962 release. ... Watching the movie now,...
Just What Did Elon Musk Buy In Twitter?
As of early last year, just one in five U.S. adults said they ever use Twitter—a slice that plateaued by 2018. The research shows...
Schirmer To Publish Hundreds Of Scores By Jewish Composers Silenced By The Nazis
"The list of music to be published includes more than 300 songs, 100 chamber music pieces, 50 orchestral works and other pieces, in genres...
Not Creepy At All: Disney Wants To Integrate Your Data Across All Its Businesses
Once the company unites data collection capabilities between its various divisions, “we can give you a better experience in the park, because we know...
The Power Of Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Fiction
"His novels alternate restlessly from an East Africa of the past to the Britain of the present, as if they comprise two parts of...
The Climate-Activist Stunts In Museums Aren’t Just Badly Targeted, They’re Downright Embarrassing
"We don't know the protests are effective, and we do know they're likely to cause financial problems for many museums. Here I'll add my...
France’s National Railroad Refuses To Allow Double-Bass Players To Travel With Their Instruments
Says one musician: "We are afraid of not being able to arrive at the place of the concert, of losing our (paid) commitments. Traveling...
Parenthood Is Treacherous Territory For Stand-Up Comedy
"Jokes about raising children make an easy connection with certain sleepy-eyed audiences, but that can be its own parent trap. This is well-trod ground....
UN Agencies Are Doing Satellite-Based Tracking Of Russia’s Damage To Ukraine’s Culture And Heritage
"Geneva-based UNOSAT and UNESCO, the Paris-based educational, scientific and cultural agency, announced Wednesday that they are finalizing a database of cultural sites that compares...
The Smithsonian Selects Sites For The Proposed National Latino And Women’s History Museums
The two plots are at the southwest corner of the National Mall, near the Washington Monument: one is directly across the Mall from the...
The Latest Target Of The Self-Gluing Climate Protesters Is Vermeer
At the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, two guys in "Just Stop Oil" t-shirts walked up to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring; one...
Mindful Music Programs And Mental Health
In the U.S., teachers are turning to music to aid students of various ages with increased levels of depression and behavioral issues. - Pittsburgh...
The Art Of Persuasion (As Opposed To Coercion)
At the heart of such suspicion is the assumption that persuasion is to be understood as an act done by someone to someone. One party is active, the...
How Cate Blanchett Trained To Play A Conductor For “Tar”
“Tár” is a tantalizing example: an elite acting talent taking on a rarefied slice of the classical music world. The preparations Ms. Blanchett and...
Conductors And The Cult Of Personality: “Tar” Nails It
“TAR” is uncomfortably spot on. It’s more about abuse of power than music, though the classical trappings are a convincing gilding. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
