Tip Of The Iceberg: Spotify’s Latest Tool For Defining Your Music Taste
Icebergify collects data from your top 50 artists in your short-term, medium-term, and long-term listening trends, according to Icebergify. So the artists on your chart...
A New Archive At Google Arts & Culture Helps The Shattered Yazidi Community Recover
"The result of a year-long series of workshops in northern Iraq, the Yazidi Cultural Archives aim not simply to document the traditions of the...
Bored By Music? TV? Movies? It’s Not Because There’s Nothing Good. You Need A...
Today’s boredom is not hungry, a response to deprivation; it is a loss of cultural appetite, in response to the surfeit of claims on...
This Eminent Russian Pianist Had To Defect To The US, Just Like In Soviet...
Franklin Foer recounts how Mikhail Voskresensky, an 87-year-old éminence grise whose last political act was in 1963, realized he couldn't stay in a Russia...
George Orwell’s Works Are Being Serialized On Substack
"The Orwell Foundation is set to launch Orwell Daily ... with the writer's memoir Down and Out in Paris and London. ... Subscribers to...
Twitter’s Most Active Users Are Abandoning The Platform, Say Company’s Internal Documents
"These 'heavy tweeters' account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy...
Why Has Public Radio Been Able To Boost Local Journalism?
"We attribute the growth of public media local journalism to three fundamental related features of the public media system: organizational sophistication and maturity, the...
Pierre Soulages, Abstract Expressionist And Master Of The Color Black, Is Dead At 102
"In France, Soulages has obtained legendary status for his sleek abstractions, which enact elegant plays between light and dark simply by juxtaposing uneven black...
After Two Years’ Closure, Improv Institution iO Theater Chicago Is Back In Business
"iO shut down in June 2020, having been closed during the pandemic, with longtime owner Charna Halpern facing charges of racism on social media....
John Neumeier Marks 50 Years At The Helm Of Hamburg Ballet
The American-born and -trained choreographer, now 83, became artistic director of the then-under-resourced company in 1973 and led it to world-class status, creating over...
And Who Is John Neumeier’s Successor At Hamburg Ballet?
Demis Volpi, a 35-year-old Argentine-German choreographer who trained in Buenos Aires, Toronto, and Stuttgart, has been artistic director of the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg...
Is “Quiet Quitting” A Problem In The Arts?
The global report determined that ‘only 21% of employees were engaged at work, and most didn’t find their work meaningful following the pandemic’. In...
Dancing Times To Sell Its Historic Trove Of Pictures
The collection consists of approximately 35,000 images, the majority dating from the early years of the 20th century through to the early years of the...
Why Critics And Audiences Often Disagree
So what’s the actual reason for the gap between audiences and critics? Simply put, it’s that audiences tend to be easier to please because...
Bard Announces New Maya Lin Performing Arts Building
The swirling effect is meant to gently integrate the building into the surrounding meadow while creating a structure that complements — but never competes...
Parent Complaints About “Pornographic Books” In Utah School Libraries Pour In After New Law
Utah parents have filed hundreds of requests to remove specific titles from K-12 libraries since a new law took effect in May banning “pornographic or...
Spotify Reports Big Subscriber Gains, Profits; Stock Price Falls
Spotify reported 456 million monthly active users, up 20% from a year earlier and above the company’s guidance. Paying subscribers, Spotify’s most lucrative type...
Alicia Alonso’s Successor At Cuba’s National Ballet Has A Very, Very Difficult Job
"Viengsay Valdés ... has the task of renewing the ballet's reputation when Cuba finds itself in a deep economic crisis. It will not only...
Osvaldo Golijov: After A Decade Fallow, He Returns With New Music
"It’s not like I didn’t attempt; I couldn’t finish a thought. I would begin something and then stop halfway because I’d think it was...
How Has TikTok Outrun YouTube And Facebook In Just A Few Short Years? It...
Or, to be more precise, it's very good at guessing what will interest you: "the most powerful tool TikTok has to grab users and...
Lessons From The James Corden Affair: Likeability Is Oh So Fragile
Likability has always been important in talk-show hosts, but balanced by other virtues like creativity, funniness, political or even journalistic insight, the ability to...
Berlin Philharmonic Conductor Kirill Petrenko Worried That The Pandemic Demonstrated That Orchestras Were Expendable
"We all were very destroyed because at a certain point we thought no one needs us anymore. Their life goes on. The concert halls...
The New Geffen Hall: More Intimate, Friendlier
The presentation demonstrated a greater use of theatrical lighting, improved amplified sound, and video technology in what had been a temple to un-enhanced instruments. David...
A Boy-Meets-Girl Play, Set At A Real-Life Pro-Nazi Summer Camp On Long Island
"For much of its running time, Camp Siegfried resembles a romantic drama, a coming-of-age story. That's a queasy proposition, considering the play's setting. In...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Workers’ Tense Return To Work After Strike
While some union members described cold and awkward interactions with management, others had more positive anecdotes in which middle managers were excited at their...
