Anthony Tommasini’s Farewell Essay As New York Times Chief Classical Critic
While he can't help mentioning some things that he believes mustn't remain as they are now, the title of this piece is "What Shouldn't...
Juilliard School Gets $50 Million To Expand Program For Young Black And Hispanic Schoolkids
The gift from the California foundation Crankstart will enable Juilliard to increase enrollment in its Music Advancement Program from 70 to 100 students, provide...
Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Steps Down
After five years, Paige Price will depart at the end of this season, having led the company through a difficult period that included a...
Clarice Smith, Beloved DC-Area Painter And Philanthropist, Dead At 88
She and her late husband donated many millions to humanities endeavors in greater Washington — notably to the National Gallery of Art, George Washington...
Do Computers Need To Be As Smart As Humans? Probably Not
Will deep learning eventually become “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), matching human intelligence in every way? I don’t believe it will happen in the next 20...
The YouTuber Working To Reinvent Philanthropy
Kevin Scally, chief relationship officer at Charity Navigator, the world’s largest nonprofit evaluator, says MrBeast is part of an encouraging trend of social media influencers using...
Do We Need To Save Journalism Or Reinvent It?
Platforms like Google and Facebook have transformed the way we consume and share news, but the digital revolution hasn’t yet revealed an equivalent breakthrough...
New Record: Bruce Springsteen Sells His Catalog For $500 Million
In March, Bob Dylan sold his catalog to Universal Music for a reported $300 million. Earlier this week, Primary Wave purchased James Brown’s music...
Painting Is Stolen, Then Replaced With Smaller Painting, Which Is Also Stolen…
A controversial painting was stolen from the Catholic University of America campus last month. When it was replaced by a smaller copy of the...
Lessons From Hollywood’s Digital Transition
While digital transformation was creating abundance in the scarce resources that had previously defined market power, it was also creating a new scarce resource,...
Why Did The New “West Side Story” Movie Make The Tomboy Character Trans? Because...
"In this milieu, a Cold War culture dedicated to conformity and shot through with Freudian panic about emasculation, audiences could glimpse Anybodys, a character...
The 1920s Russian Novel That Anticipated Totalitarianism
People don’t have proper names; they are marked by a combination of letters and numbers, like the inmates of Nazi camps. They wear identical...
Met Opera Will Require All Audience Members And Staffers To Get COVID Booster Shots
"The Met is the first major performing arts organization in the city to announce a booster-shot mandate that will apply to audiences as well...
The Problem With Media Consolidation
Today, the media industry has consolidated under fewer owners than ever before; its labour conditions have grown dire. The undeniable expertise of many journalists...
Album Of Actual Bird Calls Makes Top Five On Australia’s Charts
"Songs of Disappearance is surpassing the likes of Abba and The Weeknd - not to mention Christmas favourites Michael Bublé and Mariah Carey. Created...
Redefining Mainstream American Music
“We can perform this music in the concert hall, we can talk about this music. But until people are just hearing it on...
China’s Government Has A Flock Of Foreign YouTubers Making Videos About How Great The...
" new social media personalities … paint cheery portraits of life as foreigners in China — and also hit back at criticisms of Beijing's...
The Rocket Scientist Who’s Also A Principal Ballerina
Kelley Hashemi’s day job is as an aeronautical engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, where she leads a research team working...
An Incomplete List Of The Writers, Editors, And Great Literary Minds We Lost This...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Larry McMurtry, Janet Malcolm, Greg Tate, bell hooks, and so many more. - Literary Hub
The Guardian Now Has More Than A Million Online — Well, Subscribers Isn’t The...
The site has no paywall; the model is like that of public radio in the US: convince visitors to contribute. Now more than 1...
Orlando Ballet Names New Artistic Director
Jorden Morris had been hired as this season's interim artistic director in August, just after Robert Hill resigned with immediate effect after 13 years....
UNESCO Adds Arabic Calligraphy To Its “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” List
Congratulations, but isn't this a bit like putting, say, European portraiture on the list? Calligraphy is one of the most basic, fundamental genres of...
TEFAF Maastricht, One Of The World’s Biggest Art Fairs, Postponed Yet Again
The last TEFAF that actually happened was (bad timing!) in March 2020, and it closed halfway through. The 2021 event was put off for...
On Broadway They’re Canceling Performances Like Never Before (Damn Omicron!)
"The coronavirus pandemic has upended the theater industry's longstanding 'show must go on' philosophy, supplanting it with a safety-first strategy. The result: a raft...
Arts Venues In Britain See “Catastrophic” Attendance Declines Because Of Omicron
"Nathan Pearce from theatre ticket agency Seatplan said: 'As soon as Omicron was reported as a serious threat we saw a 30% drop in...
