Maurice Sendak’s Dance Between Art And Music
Music was an essential ingredient in Sendak’s creative process. “The work can’t happen without music,” he said in 1994. “I think everything I’ve done...
Fresno Voters Approved A Measure To Spend Millions On The Arts. Now The City...
Measure P went before Fresno voters in November 2018 to add a 3/8th-cent increase to the sales tax for 30 years to benefit parks...
Historically We Have Been Defined By Our Geographies. That May Be Changing
Geopoliticians’ reluctance to reckon with the climate crisis comes from their sense that there are only two options: transcend the landscape or live with...
480,000 University Of California Academic Workers Walk Off The Job Over Pay
About 48,000 unionized academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses — who perform the majority of teaching and research at the state’s...
Why Do So Many New Movies Look Like Crap On The Big Screen?
As a practical matter, turning out movies that look worse in a theater than they might on a TV screen is a real problem...
The Science Of Violins’ “Phantom Notes”
The team found that all violins produced combination tones, but the oldest instruments produced the strongest ones. The magnitude of the most prominent combination...
Study: Rats Move In Time To Music
Researchers in Japan played Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448) for 10 rats, and tiny wireless accelerometers affixed to the...
A Guide To All 25 National Book Award Finalists
Which debut novel might hear its name called? Will nonfiction about viruses or chronic illness defeat Imani Perry's sweeping take on the history of...
Inside The Fight To Save The Unauthorized Trans Joker Movie
The director "was certain that viewers would never mistake her absurdist, autobiographical ... queer coming-of-age film, in which the titular heroine battles gender dysphoria...
Amazon Enables The Shady, Lucrative Book Rip-Off Business
Summary Culture gone wild: "I was flattered that these folks, whoever they are, had bothered to rip off my book. But I was also...
Harvard Says It Has Hair Samples From 700 Native American Students
The hair samples were taken from children at residential schools between 1930 and 1933. The Peabody Museum "apologized to Indigenous tribal nations and descendants...
How Tech Like Spotify, Facebook, And Google Lock Us In
And how they rip us, and artists, off as well. "Large firms can corner audiences and put them into a sort of corral. And...
Restoring, And Unveiling, A Long Censored Nude By Artemisia Gentileschi
And by long, we're talking centuries. "Swirling veils and drapery were added to Allegory of Inclination about 70 years after Gentileschi painted the lifesize...
How Did Harper Bliss Write Nearly 40 Novels In Eleven Years?
Well, first of all, the romance author doesn't think that's quite enough: "I’m now writing my third book this year. I always aim for...
Turning Margaret Atwood’s ‘MaddAdam’ Into Dance
Imagine making a ballet of this: "The novels that constitute the MaddAddam trilogy are set in a world where genetic engineering has produced a variety of...
Alan Rubin, Co-Founder Of Washington’s Biograph Theater, Has Died At 85
Rubin was a geologist before he discovered the joys of art films in San Francisco. "For nearly three decades before it went dark in...
The UK’s Official Singles Chart Turns 70, And Looks Back On Its Many Controversies
There was the case of the vanishing Beatles hit, the decision around "Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead" after Margaret Thatcher's death, and the...
At HarperCollins, The People Who Make The Books Are On Strike
"It's been a long negotiation process for the approximately 250 union members. This includes people working in publicity, design, marketing and more - all...
To Stop Climate Activists, One Madrid Museum Is Adding A Police Presence
At the Reina Sofia, "security measures have been reinforced, including the presence of undercover members of the police forces." - Hyperallergic
The New ‘Black Panther’ Movie Sets A Box Office Record
"The highly anticipated sequel to Disney and Marvel Studios’ 2018 blockbuster Black Panther shattered the domestic opening weekend record for the month of November,"...
The Tale Of A Famous Canadian Wartime Painting
Eva May Roy was a private - a special one. "Before the CWAC was created, the only option available to Canadian women looking to...
A British Ballet Star Unites Ukrainian And Russian Exiles In Dance Of Defiance
Xander Parish, a star at the Mariinsky Ballet, fled at the start of the war. Last weekend, he led Ukrainian and Russian ballet exiles...
Gal Costa, Who Popularized Brazil’s Tropicalia Songs, 77
"Costa was a leading exponent of música popular brasileira. ... She never considered herself a traditional protest singer, or even politically motivated until the...
Should Paul Allen’s Art Collection Have Gone To A Public Museum?
Probably. But it seems like "he valued the money his artworks could bring to good causes more than the pleasure and knowledge they could...
For ‘Messiah’ Season, A Handel Game
"Handel was a prolific composer of many other fine pieces, too: chamber music, organ works, 120 cantatas, 42 operas and 29 oratorios" - and...
