“Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?” And The Age Of “Hagsploitation” Cinema
"In the years following its release, Hollywood started producing a string of (movies) which, like Baby Jane, provided veteran actresses including Barbara Stanwyck, Tallulah...
Why The UK’s New Arts Funding Policy Works Against Culture
Viewing the process as a zero-sum game pits different parts of the country against one another. This approach also glosses over the underlying politics...
Classical Music Radio In Britain Is Losing Lots Of Listeners, Even Though Classical Music...
Data indicate that interest in classical music itself is growing, but BBC Radio 3, the more populist Classic FM, and newish Scala Radio have...
At 108, This Woman May Be The World’s Oldest Active Dancer
Eileen Kramer started dancing professionally in 1939 and lived in India, Europe, and the US before returning to Australia at 99. She now lives...
They’ve Found The Oldest Known Sentence To Be Written In An Alphabet
There are more ancient surviving writings in hieroglyphics and cuneiform, but the inscription on this 3,700-year-old personal-care item is the oldest to use letters...
Securities & Exchange Commission Investigates Hedge Fund That Invests In Broadway Shows
A marketing document from the Broadway Strategic Return Fund claims that the fund's value quadrupled from January 2016 through September 2021, a period that...
One-Person Shows Are Having A(nother) Boom — And Not Just Because They’re Cheap To...
There have been other periods when stage monologues were big on New York stages. The difference this time is the audiobook and podcast boom;...
“Absurd”, “Insane”, And “Not Doable”, Says English National Opera CEO About Moving To Manchester
Stuart Murphy: "We looked at the money. We spoke to people the Arts Council hadn't bothered to speak to in Manchester, from across the...
Gal Costa, Legendary Brazilian Songstress, Is Dead At 77
"The soprano with wild curls of dark hair was … an icon in the Tropicalia and Brazilian popular music movements who enjoyed a nearly...
What The Famed Suzuki Method Really Taught
The Suzuki story turns out to be a fascinating study in the hybrid nature of human culture, tracing a remarkable cross-century triple play—European music...
Moderation And Censorship Are Not The Same
A minimum viable product for moderation without censorship is for a platform to do exactly the same thing they’re doing now - remove all...
English National Opera Chief “Shocked” By 100 Percent Funding Cut And Suggestion To Leave...
The chief executive said the organisation was "completely shocked" by its 100% cut, announced last week as part of the latest round of ACE funding and said he...
Five Years After #MeToo, What’s Changed (And Hasn’t) For Female Artists
A recent survey by the British artist and curator Helen Gorrill, of the prices of 5,000 paintings sold at auction globally, found that for...
Judge Puts The Kibosh On Random House Acquisition Of Simon and Schuster (Not Even...
“The government has presented a compelling case that predicts substantial harm to competition as a result of the proposed merger of PRH and S&S,” Judge Florence...
Growing Concerns About The Environmental Impact Of New Zealand’s Movie Business
“If people knew how destructive the whole business is, they would think twice.” - The Guardian
A Look Inside The CIA Museum (Yes, There Is One)
The museum, whose collection documents CIA history from circa World War II to the present, is at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia and...
A Hula Dance Renaissance
Some hula masters are experimenting with the form itself, choreographing dances to nontraditional music, say, or creating longer dramas that address contemporary issues, like...
Dance And Incarceration — Both Inside And Outside The Prison
"(There's) a growing array of artists using dance to shed light on issues surrounding incarceration, the school-to-prison pipeline and the justice system as a...
Remembering The Groundbreaking Lincoln Center Directors Lab
In its 25 years, the Lab welcomed more than 1,600 directors through its doors. It was an enormously popular, productive, and competitive program, and...
Unknown Translation Of Molière By “Clockwork Orange” Author Anthony Burgess Is Discovered
"Miser! Miser! is a complete translation of L'Avare (The Miser) of 1668 ... that Burgess wrote in the early 1990s, yet it has never...
Surge In Humanities Enrollment? Berkeley Reports 121 Percent Increase In New Humanities Students
It’s unclear whether this upward shift is unique to UC Berkeley or an indication of a national trend. Arizona State University (ASU) reported a...
This Standup Comic Specializes In A Very Niche Audience: Nurses. And He’s A Huge...
Nurse Blake, "(a) 31-year-old standup whose real name is Blake Lynch, is a genuine phenomenon, a social media star with millions of followers, which...
End Of An Era: Ninth Moscow Biennale Canceled
This decision does not come as a surprise—ministry officials have prohibited dozens of exhibitions of contemporary art since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February....
How Do You Get A Rock Music Scene Started In An Isolated Town In...
"(A new) report looks into the hurdles faced by the buzzing-but-fragile music scenes of Nuuk, Greenland and two other far-northern cities: Torshavn in the...
Are NFTs The Way To Help Choreographers Keep Control Of Their Own Intellectual Property?
"Even if centralized platforms like TikTok and YouTube have issues, they also help people build brands, increase their audiences and distribute their content. Likewise,...
