How Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla Has Changed The Orchestra
She could probably now have any orchestra she wanted. But at the moment she doesn’t want any of them. She comes from a tightly...
Removing Notes From Mendelsohn To Demonstrate Plight Of Whales
Hebrides Redacted successively removes notes from the 10- to 11-minute overture in proportion to the decline in humpback whale populations over many decades. A short...
The Blatant Propaganda Of Action Movies
For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from...
For Black Writers: A “Representation” Trap
Our current problem isn’t an insufficient amount of Black representation in literature but a surfeit of it. And in many cases that means simply...
Broadway’s Edgy Revival Of Oklahoma! Has Encountered Fierce Audience Reception Around America
Some performances of the Tony-winning production have continued amid clamorous walkouts or loud booing; one ended with a patron running from their seat and...
World’s Architects Are Flocking To Saudi Arabia To Try Their Most Inventive Ideas
For architects, Saudi Arabia has become Shangri-La, a place to test their wildest and wackiest ideas. - The Wall Street Journal
The Joys Of Hunting For Fossils In DC
No, not the human kind. "The District was, all jokes aside, a lush swamp back in the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs, muck-dwelling mollusks and megalodons...
Earning Disparities Persist For ‘Non-Professional’ Artists
A new study shows that artists who are women and/or BIPOC earn about 23 percent less than white men, even in the non-professional creative...
Goodnight Moon At 75
Jacqueline Woodson: "The ‘goodnight nobody’ always caught me by surprise and made me think ... I thought in including that ‘Goodnight nobody’ spread, Hurd...
Paul Newman, In His Own Words
Why a new biography now, 14 years after the star actor died? "The book is assembled from five years’ worth of interviews that the...
A Timeline Of When Artist Ben Sakoguchi Was Excluded From The California Biennial
It's not a simple tale. The Orange County Museum of Art asked him what to say to viewers who were made uncomfortable. He responded,...
How Director Park Chan-Wook Channels Hitchcock
"The mystery genre, Park’s chosen conduit this time around, scratches an existential itch in the human condition, he thinks. Since our lives overflow with...
Artistic Communes Aren’t A Gen-Z Invention
Just ask the writers of the 18th century like Coleridge and Shelley (perhaps not Mary Shelley, whose experience was, well, different). - The Guardian...
The Incredible Lightness Of Becoming A Ballet Star
Unity Phelan, who made three debuts in one week this seasons, says, "I always try to keep it light even when I’m just stressed...
Italian TV And Movies Are On An Export High
Those exports are still relatively rare, but the increase is notable. "Significantly, half of the 48 titles exported by Italy around the world over...
How Poet Jorie Graham Is Dealing With The Long Climate Emergency
Graham gives her readers the possibility of "adaptation and radical witness. Her language and poetic structure adapt to her changing world and reality, and...
Oh No, John Cleese, What Happened To You?
John Cleese told the BBC, on the BBC, that the BBC probably wouldn't let him speak. "In a previous appearance, also on the BBC,...
Go Ahead, Buy That Piano
"Some things in life are meant to be heavy and indebting and antiquated; they are meant to demand regular and highly specialized maintenance; they...
Is The Royal Society Of Arts Forcing Out Unionizing Workers?
A staffer who spoke to The Observer last week was fired, and others were told not to say anything about the union in public....
Why A Horror Film’s Number One Opening Weekend Has Renewed The Streaming Debate
Would Halloween Ends have opened bigger if it weren't also streaming on Peacock? Maybe. - Seattle Times (AP)
Los Angeles City Councilors’ Leaked Racist Audio Turns Oaxaquena Bands Into Stars
Las Cafeteras, a band, composed a love song to Oaxaca in response. One band member: "It’s now our responsibility, I think, as people of...
Russian Troops Murder Conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko, Who Refused To Perform For Them
"Conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko declined to take part in a concert 'intended by the occupiers to demonstrate the so-called ‘improvement of peaceful life’ in Kherson,'"...
Who’s To Blame When Algorithms Promote Self-Harm?
Literally, who is responsible - legally? "A growing body of research suggests that social media platforms play a role in depression, body image issues, and other...
The Queen Of The Recap Podcasts
Mallory Rubin watches each House of Dragons episode three times before her two podcasts. "It would be hard to engineer a commentator better equipped...
How Robbie Coltrane Made Hagrid The Heart Of Harry Potter
"Coltrane, across a decade of movies, imbued in him a depth and warmth that made him feel not just instantly memorable, but real. In...
