Portland Theatres Collaborate On New Venue Collective
The Cuomo Theatre Collaborative will serve as a new building for small to midsize theatres such as Third Rail and PETE, and will serve...
Ambitious Plans For A New Bay Area Arts Venue
The project aims to nurture the artists and arts leaders of tomorrow by investing in arts education, including artists-in-schools programs, student performances, master classes,...
Dayton Ballet’s Artistic Director Will Step Down At The End Of This Season
Karen Russo Burke's decade-long tenure included a merger with the city's orchestra and opera company into the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance and has seen...
Research: Rethinking Baby Boomer Participation In The Arts
Findings confirmed this cohort ‘talked about how arts and culture helps them stay up to date; they use the phrase “to keep young, keep...
Was Piet Mondrian The Austere Ascetic People Took Him To Be?
No. No, he was not. - The New Yorker
“Transformative” $22 Million Gift To Canadian Theatres
The money – gifted in sums from $125,000 to $1.5-million, to both big institutions and smaller independent theatre, mostly based in Toronto, all but...
Not Every Device Shakespeare Used Makes Sense After 400 Years. How Do Today’s Directors...
"Unfamiliar language, outdated ethics, baffling behaviour? We've become used to sifting racism or sexism in these texts – but what other problems give people...
A First: This Year’s Giller Prize Shortlist
The most obvious is that, for the first time, all are by writers of colour. A glimpse between their covers reveals something else though....
Pop-Up Libraries In Vacant Storefronts Are Helping Bring Post-Pandemic Melbourne Back To Life
"Where a mens' retailer once stood in the boutique clothing and cafe mecca of Little Collins Street, changing rooms have been transformed into cozy...
New App Will Listen While You Hum And Identify And Play The Song
Once the service identifies a track, it will show you an information page with its title, artist and single/album cover where you can play...
The Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible Phenomenon Of “Semantic Bleaching”
"(It's) like staining all the color out of our words, and it happens with overuse. Another way to describe it is supply and demand....
Who Owns Rights To The TV Coverage Of Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral, The Broadcasters Or...
"The BBC, ITV and Sky News have been given until Monday to produce a 60-minute compilation of clips they would like to keep from...
The Court Cases Over Texas’s And Florida’s New Anti-Moderation Laws Could Save, Or Destroy,...
"If these laws take effect, platforms will be forbidden from prohibiting or deprioritizing certain kinds of content — creating the potential for a future...
How Adnan Syed’s Release Mirrors The Change In True Crime Media
"In the years since Serial took off, numerous productions, including later incarnations of the flagship show, have shifted attention from individual cases ripe for...
Cleveland Orchestra Receives An Extraordinary Gift: The Only Complete Manuscript Of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony
The score, written between 1888 and 1894, was donated by orchestra board member Herbert Kloiber, who purchased it in 2016 from the estate of...
UK Amends Museums Law To Allow Deaccessioning Items For “Reasons Of Morality”
"The country's High Court of Justice ruled in 2005 that, per the British Museum Act 1963, national museums could not remove items from their...
In Antwerp, They Built One Museum Inside Of Another
The city's Royal Museum of Fine Arts is now opening after a $100 million, 11-year renovation that involved constructing a small white-cube museum for...
The Uber-Rich’s Mad Rush To Evacuate Art As Hurricane Ian Approached
“It reinforces the importance of the pre-storm plans, because after the storm, the conditions are so detrimental to the artwork. The humidity, you don’t...
Nina Totenberg’s Friendship With RBG Shows The Perils Of Insider Friendships
There’s a chance that a blunt story about Ginsburg’s decline might have changed the trajectory that led to the end of Americans’ right to...
Why We Laugh
This raises the possibility that laughter may have been preserved by natural selection throughout the past millennia to help humans survive. It could also explain why...
Movie Academy’s LA Museum Sees Boffo Box Office In Its First Year
At the very least, the museum’s rosy first-year financial picture makes it something of a rarity among nonprofit cultural institutions, many of which are...
Sydney Festival Quits All Funding By Foreign Governments After Controversies
Sydney festival has suspended all funding agreements with foreign governments and their cultural agencies, after a mass boycott by artists and audiences earlier this...
American Newspapers Are Losing Their Comics Sections
This shrinking of American “funny pages” comes more than a century after the rise of the print comics section. “Comic strips were created —...
TikTok Creators Are Making Shortened Versions Of Movies And Getting Millions Of Views
Chinese creators use translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs to help viewers speed-watch movies and TV dramas in English, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia. Despite...
Australian Performers Are Back Onstage And In Fine Form. Not Enough Australians Are Coming...
Australia's state capitals had some strict lockdowns, with Melbourne the world's most severe. Performing arts groups are still reporting attendance remaining stubbornly below 2019...
