What’s The One Thing That Profanity Throughout The World Has In Common? Phonemes.
The phonemes they lack, that is. "They're less likely than other words to include the consonant sounds L, R, W or Y. And more...
How Post-COVID-Lockdown Dance Has Changed In Los Angeles
After experiencing the tolls of the pandemic — loss, stillness and uncertainty — the work of 2022 introduced new techniques, technologies and narratives that...
Angels In The Bible Have No Wings. Who Gave Them Wings, When, And Why?
The ancient Near East had many divine beings with wings, including cherubim and seraphim. Yet, in both Old and New Testaments, angels are identified...
A Scientific Analysis Of How Popular Music Has Changed
The study of patterns and long-term variations in popular music could shed new light on relevant issues concerning its organization, structure and dynamics. More...
Broadway Musicals Have Gotten Too Damn Loud
John McWhorter: "I don't mean ordinary modern pop loud. I mean that in many numbers the volume is turned up so high ... you...
Culture Is Under Attack Worldwide. We Ought To Confront It Now
As a group, arts leaders from all sectors and geographies must now recognize the threats to cultural institutions: potential physical harm to artists; damages...
How The National Philharmonic Of Ukraine Plays On, Even Through Russian Missile Strikes And...
Smaller ensembles are playing with battery-powered lamps, and attendance is capped at the number of people who can fit in the concert hall's bomb...
How Diversity Makes Orchestras Better
“For me, diversity is always a thing I like to think about as sort of necessary to enhance the vibrancy of an organization. Even...
The Tory Government Wants English National Opera To Move North, But Does The North...
"Opinion locally is divided about whether the ENO should relocate. But the London-centricity of much outraged reaction to the story has generated irritation. ......
British Media Giant ITV Goes All In On Streaming (And Not Everyone’s Sure It’s...
This week the company launches ITVX, a free, ad-supported streaming service. The plan is to offer 10,000 hours of content, including new material, in...
US Ballet Companies Are Performing Fewer Works By Women Than Last Season, Researchers Find
"Of 1075 announced works for the 2022/2023 season amongst the Largest 150 U.S. ballet and classically influenced companies, 27% are choreographed by women, which...
Author Dominique Lapierre Dead At 91
His books — some nonfiction, some historical novels, several with co-author Larry Collins — sold 50 million copies. Among them are Is Paris Burning?...
Group “Concerned With Slavery Justice” Sues Smithsonian To Stop Repatriation Of Benin Bronzes
A New York-based nonprofit called the Restitution Study Group is asking a US federal court to undo the ownership transfer of the Smithsonian's 29...
Lula Promises He Will Reopen Brazil’s Culture Ministry, Shuttered By Bolsonaro
Outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro dissolved the Ministry of Culture on his first day in office, slashed arts funding by half or more and politicized...
Ukraine’s Culture Minister Asks Other Countries To Boycott Russian Culture (Even Tchaikovsky And Chekhov)...
"Oleksandr Tkachenko argues that such a 'cultural boycott' would not amount to 'cancelling Tchaikovsky', but would be 'pausing the performance of his works until...
Here’s The Ukrainian Culture Minister’s Essay Calling For A Boycott Of Russian Culture
"Russia isn't just physically attacking Ukraine; it is also trying to destroy our culture and memory. ... The Kremlin (has) made clear that culture...
Will Neuroscience Be Able To Predict When (And With Whom) You’ll Fall In Love?
"I’m a scientist myself, but I find it a bit unsettling that a brain scientist or computer might accurately predict whom I’ll fall in...
David Geffen Hall Reimagined
Does a concert hall with great natural sound matter anymore? - Architectural Record
Libraries As Activist Organizations?
The condemnation of the history of the American library, by its own gatekeepers, has done more than bring “Drag Queen Story Hour” to every...
Closing Of A Literary Magazine Demonstrates The Perilous Nature Of Literary Magazines
Its short existence offers insight both into what is possible for a literary magazine to accomplish and into the tenuous place such publications occupy...
London’s National Gallery Cancels Exhibition With Pushkin Museum
Although it was never publicized, the two institutions were to have jointly presented next year’s exhibition After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, but the arrangement was...
Steven Dietz: New Theatre Is More Important Now Than Ever
"We quit on the theatre much more readily than the theatre quits on us. I am aware now—as a working artist in my 60s—that...
Pantone’s Color Of The Year Gets The Assessment It Deserves
The color company used AI to create an "endless new ecosystem to be explored, called 'the Magentaverse'." Well. As the subhed puts it, "Say...
Woman Arrested For Spraying Fake Blood On Toulouse-Lautrec Painting in Berlin Museum
The incident was reminiscent of recent climate actions at European museums, however the prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday that it has been deemed an...
Timbuktu Isn’t The Only Place With Badass Librarians. They’re Heroes In Ukraine, Too.
"The brutal material horrors of the struggle, might make any cultural reading of the conflict seem fantastical or glib. But at its core, and...
