William Christie Looks At America’s Baroque Music Scene — And Likes What He Sees
"Indiana University for the last 40 years has been trumpeting early performance practice. Now there are maybe 20 or so extraordinary pockets of incredible...
AI-Powered Black Rappers? Created By White Designers? See The Problem?
This isn’t to say that white creators ought not create Black characters at all, but that there is something particularly gut-wrenching about the artificial...
Still Fabulous Into Their 70s And 80s: Meet The Drag Queens Who Haven’t Retired...
"The art of drag has firmly entered the mainstream, turning some performers into global celebrities. But go back half a century and the picture...
Awesome! The Debasement Of Our Linguistic Filler-Inners
We go straight to “amazing”. Or “awesome”. In both cases, as usual, I think we’re on safe ground blaming the Americans. They too, surely,...
Fears That Climate Change Could Wipe Out French-Speaking Louisiana
"People in bayou country have long learned to live under adverse weather conditions. But things have gotten much worse in recent years. Rising sea...
Qatar’s Museum Of Islamic Art Reopens Next Month, With A Redesign And Over 1,000...
Known at its 2008 opening mainly for its building, one of the last major designs by I.M. Pei, the MIA has completed an 18-month...
The Leader Of Hollywood’s New Choreographers Guild Explains Why The Union Is Necessary
"Choreographers for major network TV shows are getting paid less than the dancers. The entertainment industry needs a lot of education about how vital...
Is “Devolution” The Right Word? How Unboxed (aka The Festival Of Brexit) Came, Er,...
Theresa May first proposed the festival in 2018 to showcase the liberated UK as a creative powerhouse. Yet, by 2022, nobody was in a...
Meet The Longest-Working Black Director In History
After starting out in New York theater, Michael Schultz directed the classic PBS documentary To Be Young, Gifted and Black and made over a...
Actors’ Equity Is Taking A Hard Look At Non-Disclosure Agreements (Thanks, Scott Rudin)
One of the reasons that Rudin's extreme mistreatment of his employees went unreported for so long was his insistence on having everyone he worked...
Europe’s Film Industry Steps up To Support Its Ukrainian Colleagues
Since the domestic Ukrainian market is in, er, a difficult spot just now, there's a raft of initiatives to aid Ukrainian creators with grants...
Humans Are Wired To Be Good At Math (Oh, You’re Not?)
Research shows that humans are born with an inherent sense of numbers, known as numerosity.5 The concept of numerosity is one of the only high-level cognitive functions...
Public Radio Expands To Urban Alternative Format
Aiming to bring younger and more ethnically diverse listeners to public radio, the urban alternative format has spread to cities from Denver to Milwaukee,...
German Museums Being Criminally-Investigated For Antiquities Trafficking
Several public museums and universities in Germany have become embroiled in criminal investigations into the widespread trafficking of Middle Eastern antiquities. - The Art...
Dubai’s Proposed City In The Sky (Literally)
Set to be 550-metres tall and 3,000 metres in circumference, the skyscraper would be composed of two interconnected main rings that will house residential,...
Music Of Hate
Historically, songs were employed by labor unions to create a sense of solidarity and move labor rights forward against overwhelming odds. If music can be a...
Man Using AI Wins First Prize In State Fair Art Competition. Other Artists Cry...
Jason Allen did not paint “Théâtre D'opéra Spatial,” AI software called Midjourney did. It used his prompts, but Allen did not wield a digital...
Considering Furniture As Art
"Chairs have done the same job for centuries, whenever we wanted to sit. Presented like art, however, their variety is striking, from the delicate...
What Do We Owe The Future? Not Much
The universe is stranger than we can imagine, Albert Einstein is said to have said. Indeed, we should not even be sure there is...
Will This Year’s Venice Film Festival Signal A Revival Of Business At Art-House Cinemas?
"'It's hard to tell how healthy the art house market is right now because, since theaters reopened, we haven't had many of those real...
Music Publishers Reach Agreement Over New Rates For Streaming Music
Sources also say that both sides were eager to avoid another protracted, distracting and brutally expensive legal battle, to put it mildly: The fight over...
John Adams At 75: The Greatest Living American Composer?
"He is an artist for whom Americanness truly matters, as much as the tradition of Western classical music — both heritages treated not with...
New Computer Analysis Gives Insight Into Shakespeare’s Language
The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project at Lancaster University, deploying large-scale computer analyses, has been transforming what we know about Shakespeare’s language. - The Conversation
The Washington Post Is Reviving Its Stand-Alone Sunday Book Review — In Print, No...
The paper's Book World was closed in 2009 and reviews in the hard-copy edition were moved to the Style and Outlook sections. (Online, there...
Disney Ponders An “Amazon Prime-Like” Membership Program
The program would be somewhat akin to Amazon Prime, which offers advantages such as free shipping, discounts at Whole Foods and a complementary streaming video...
