Yet Again, The Turkic Languages Of Central Asia Are Changing Their Alphabets

"The question of alphabet reform is hardly new for these countries — over the last 150 years, Kazakh has been written in Arabic, Latin,...

Allegations Of Sexual Harassment At Juilliard

According to a 2020 survey conducted by the school, 11 percent of respondents indicated knowledge of a sexual assault that took place in a Juilliard-related context....

Jerry Saltz Weighs In On The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals

"I wouldn't be surprised to see (the) protest included in upcoming lists of top-ten artworks of 2022. Theirs is a form of performance art,...

How A Seattle Dance Company Bought A Church

“When came in and showed us how they were going to love the space, to use it for art and dance, it was...

The Main Rival To Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre In Jacobean London Was Funded By Female...

"Academics have discovered that women made up a large part of the financial force behind the Fortune Theatre, the great rival to the Globe,...

Post-Mortem: English National Opera

Did it have to die? The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality. Take opera in English,...

London Police Burst Into A Gallery, Thinking That A Sculpture Was An Actual Dead...

Someone reported a woman inside, hunched over a table, who hadn't moved for two hours.  Figuring it was a heart attack or overdose, police...

Principal Bans Students From Seeing “Oliver” Over Concerns About “Violence, Alcohol Use and Thievery.” 

The Children's Musical Theatreworks show, which opened to general audiences on Dec. 2, wasn’t some new, explicit, souped-up version of the classic Broadway musical....

Why The New York Times Best Seller Lists Drive The Publishing Business Insane

Basically, nobody can figure them out: the Times rankings frequently don't match publicly available sales figures, and while the paper says it uses various...

After 45 Years, The Urban Institute For Contemporary Arts In Grand Rapids Is Shutting...

UICA, which merged with a nearby state university and art college in 2013 following earlier financial troubles, said in its announcement that it has...

Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch’s Go-To Composer, Is Dead At 85

He wrote songs for Nina Simone and Nancy Wilson, and scores for directors Danny Boyle, Jane Campion, and Paul Schrader, among others.  But he's...

One Week After Being Sold, Bookforum Is Closing Down

Just days after its parent company, Artforum International, was acquired by Penske Media, the literary journal announced that the current issue is its last....

Adjunct Professors At Mannes School Of Music And Parsons School of Design End Their...

The walkout by part-time faculty (87% of the total) at the New School University, which encompasses both Parsons and Mannes, began on November 16...

Daniel Barenboim Will Return To Conducting (At Least For New Year’s)

In October, he announced that he was cancelling his performances indefinitely in order to deal with "a serious neurological condition."  But he will make...

Oh, No!  The Golden Globes Aren’t Going All Tasteful And Serious, Are They?

Owen Gleiberman: "As the nominations were announced, I thought, 'Please, Golden Globes! Atone for your sins, fix your corrupt ways, but don't take away...

“The Banshees of Inisherin” And “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Lead Golden Globe Nominations

"Banshees" garnered eight nominations (including picture, director, and screenplay), followed by "Everything" with six, and "The Fabelmans" and "Babylon," each with five. - Variety

The History Of Books In Defining The World

Since all reading at that time occurred out loud rather than inside one’s head, the study rooms were a modern librarian’s nightmare: no one...

Rise Of The Virtual AI Girl Bands

In fact, there's mainly one big difference between them and any other pop group you might know - all 11 members are virtual characters....

Crappy Pay Is Pushing Writers Out Of Publishing

The report shows a drop in the proportion of full-time authors from 40% of those surveyed in 2006 to just 19% today. This shows...

Some Fears About The Future Of Choreography

Difficult conversations about intention, taste, and editing are vital for the sake of developing successful new work. With focused training, and subsequent appropriate delivery...

Have We Reached The End Of Our Love Affair With Celebrity Memoirs?

According to industry magazine the Bookseller, hardback sales of celebrity autobiographies are down compared to last year, when titles by Billy Connolly, Bob Mortimer and Dave...

This Year’s Turner Prize Winner Is Older. Makes Sense.

There is something universally cheery and comforting about the phrase “oldest ever winner” – designed to put a glint in the middle-aged eye and...

Has Spotify Actually Cracked The Code To Your Musical Taste?

“People often think about taste as being really individual,. But in the social sciences we say: ‘Ah, that’s not really true.’ Your tastes are...

Has TikTok Killed The Pop Music Bridge?

If you have listened to pop music at all in the past few years, you may have noticed that something is missing. The bridge...

How The Greatest Generation Of Physicists Upended The World

The era upended the world as these men and women knew it, both scientifically and socially, and they heatedly debated how to reconceptualize their...