Parenthood Is Treacherous Territory For Stand-Up Comedy
"Jokes about raising children make an easy connection with certain sleepy-eyed audiences, but that can be its own parent trap. This is well-trod ground....
UN Agencies Are Doing Satellite-Based Tracking Of Russia’s Damage To Ukraine’s Culture And Heritage
"Geneva-based UNOSAT and UNESCO, the Paris-based educational, scientific and cultural agency, announced Wednesday that they are finalizing a database of cultural sites that compares...
The Smithsonian Selects Sites For The Proposed National Latino And Women’s History Museums
The two plots are at the southwest corner of the National Mall, near the Washington Monument: one is directly across the Mall from the...
The Latest Target Of The Self-Gluing Climate Protesters Is Vermeer
At the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, two guys in "Just Stop Oil" t-shirts walked up to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring; one...
Mindful Music Programs And Mental Health
In the U.S., teachers are turning to music to aid students of various ages with increased levels of depression and behavioral issues. - Pittsburgh...
The Art Of Persuasion (As Opposed To Coercion)
At the heart of such suspicion is the assumption that persuasion is to be understood as an act done by someone to someone. One party is active, the...
How Cate Blanchett Trained To Play A Conductor For “Tar”
“Tár” is a tantalizing example: an elite acting talent taking on a rarefied slice of the classical music world. The preparations Ms. Blanchett and...
Conductors And The Cult Of Personality: “Tar” Nails It
“TAR” is uncomfortably spot on. It’s more about abuse of power than music, though the classical trappings are a convincing gilding. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
New Study: Playing Video Games May Help Young Brains
The gamers did better than non-gamers in tests where they had to control impulsive behavior or memorize information, according to the National Institute of...
Biden Goes After “Junk” Ticketing Fees
Some examples of these "unfair hidden fees" given by Biden were bounced check charges, bank overdraft fees, credit card late fees, resort charges at hotels, processing...
Shadow Puppetry: A Disappearing Art?
"The craft of shadow puppetry had historically been passed down, master-apprentice style, through the generations. With varied technologies and media dominating contemporary performance, practitioners...
Gilbert and George Face Social Media Ridicule Over Museum Complaints
"These two white British men are getting themselves their own museum because lack folks and women have taken over the white man's art institutions."...
After Almost 20 Years, Baghdad Has Modern Artworks On View
"In a refurbished hall that used to be the cafeteria (at the Ministry of Culture), 76 precious paintings and sculptures from Iraq's foremost artists...
How Sundance De-platformed A Documentary. Does It Say Anything About Our Current Culture?
In January, Sundance Film Festival screened it, and some employees of the Sundance Institute, which operates alongside the festival, soon resigned in protest. Even...
Britain’s NHS Tries Another Experiment Prescribing Arts And Sports As Mental Health Treatment
"NHS mental health trusts will use the activities to help 600 young people on their waiting lists for care as part of a study...
Tip Of The Iceberg: Spotify’s Latest Tool For Defining Your Music Taste
Icebergify collects data from your top 50 artists in your short-term, medium-term, and long-term listening trends, according to Icebergify. So the artists on your chart...
A New Archive At Google Arts & Culture Helps The Shattered Yazidi Community Recover
"The result of a year-long series of workshops in northern Iraq, the Yazidi Cultural Archives aim not simply to document the traditions of the...
Bored By Music? TV? Movies? It’s Not Because There’s Nothing Good. You Need A...
Today’s boredom is not hungry, a response to deprivation; it is a loss of cultural appetite, in response to the surfeit of claims on...
This Eminent Russian Pianist Had To Defect To The US, Just Like In Soviet...
Franklin Foer recounts how Mikhail Voskresensky, an 87-year-old éminence grise whose last political act was in 1963, realized he couldn't stay in a Russia...
George Orwell’s Works Are Being Serialized On Substack
"The Orwell Foundation is set to launch Orwell Daily ... with the writer's memoir Down and Out in Paris and London. ... Subscribers to...
Twitter’s Most Active Users Are Abandoning The Platform, Say Company’s Internal Documents
"These 'heavy tweeters' account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy...
Why Has Public Radio Been Able To Boost Local Journalism?
"We attribute the growth of public media local journalism to three fundamental related features of the public media system: organizational sophistication and maturity, the...
Pierre Soulages, Abstract Expressionist And Master Of The Color Black, Is Dead At 102
"In France, Soulages has obtained legendary status for his sleek abstractions, which enact elegant plays between light and dark simply by juxtaposing uneven black...
After Two Years’ Closure, Improv Institution iO Theater Chicago Is Back In Business
"iO shut down in June 2020, having been closed during the pandemic, with longtime owner Charna Halpern facing charges of racism on social media....
John Neumeier Marks 50 Years At The Helm Of Hamburg Ballet
The American-born and -trained choreographer, now 83, became artistic director of the then-under-resourced company in 1973 and led it to world-class status, creating over...
