And Now Some Orchestra Business Numbers:
For the last 12 months (November 2020-October 2021), orchestra ticket revenue is down 67%. This is on par with results for the larger performing...
How A Master Of Indian Classical Dance Is Subtly Transforming Her Genre
Bijayini Satpathy spent 25 years performing and teaching at Nrityagram, the famous dancers' village near Bangalore, before deciding to become a touring solo artist....
Evidence Vikings Landed In North America Nearly 500 Years Before Columbus
Scientists have known for many years that Vikings — a name given to the Norse by the English they raided — built a village...
The Uyghur Cultural Traditions Being Wiped Out Under Beijing’s Crackdown
There's been plenty of coverage of the built heritage of the Uyghurs that has been razed in recent years, but intangibles — literature, traditional...
Could This Show Replace The Golden Globes?
The Critics Choice Awards has long been something of an also-ran. The 2020 show drew just 1.2 million viewers, about half the audience of...
National Museum Of Afghanistan Is Open Again — With Taliban Guards
Twenty years after a previous generation of Taliban took over the country and looted and smashed its way through the collection, the new government,...
Rape Charge Against Filmmaker Luc Besson Dismissed By French Court
After a 3½-year judicial investigation in Paris, and in accordance with the prosecutor's recommendation, the case brought against Besson by actress Sand van Roy...
Suddenly The Best Documentary Short Oscar Race Is Interesting, Thanks To Two Old Titans...
Time was, that was a low-stakes category for obscure indie directors. Ten years ago, HBO was the only major competitor. Now several legacy media...
Association Of American Publishers Sues To Stop States’ Library E-Book Laws
The trade group says that a Maryland law (along with a similar one pending in New York) requiring publishers who sell e-books to individual...
Rolando Villazón Had Thought His Voice Was Fried For Good — But He’s Singing...
Following a meteoric rise in the '00s, the Mexican tenor suffered more than one vocal crisis, changed repertoire, and finally gave up. But, he...
Dutch Government Set To Spend €150 Million To Buy A Rembrandt From The Rothschilds
The Standard-Bearer, once owned by George IV of Great Britain, is one of the very few Rembrandts still in private hands. The Rothschilds are...
Circus Oz, Australia’s World-Renowned Troupe, Is Closing Down
The government agencies that provide 75% of Circus Oz's budget told the company that it must revamp its board and governance or lose funding....
How Our Talent For Charades Facilitated Spoken Language
If words are arbitrary and purely a matter of convention, then how did they come to be established in the first place? In practical...
Detroit Symphony Picks New Chief Exec
Erik Ronmark has spent virtually his entire career with the DSO, having started as a part-time assistant in the music library in 2005. He was...
Why Are DeepFakes So Morally Unsettling?
Deepfakes, for better or worse, are here to stay: apps that make use of this technology are widely available, and will only become more...
Learning Isn’t Enough: Why Robots Will Need Genetic Codes
“I would love to have a robot load up dishes into my dishwasher, and I’d love to have a robot clean my house,” says...
New Report: Who Leads The World’s Ballet Companies
Of 179 artistic directors of major ballet companies, 59 are women (33%), while 119 are men (66%), and 1 is gender expansive (0.6%). Similarly,...
The Power Of A Great Hollywood Actor
The effect that actors have — the source of their power and fascination — is more than just subjective. It’s interpersonal. Watching them act,...
Doom Metal Organist Picketed By French Catholics Who Call Her Music “Satanic”
One critic describes Anna von Hausswolff's music as "where post-rock, doom metal, modern classical and high church music all coexist." Her concert at a...
Hollywood’s Progress In Diversity Hits A Speed Bump
“Diversity” may have become an even more popular buzzword in show business circles since the summer of 2020, but the goal of attaining full...
In Germany, Stage Directors Rule, But It’s The Actors Who’ve Been Keeping The Theaters...
"One of the main reasons theater here has been able to rebound after repeated closures is that Germany effectively has a standing army of...
The First Piece Of Music Created By An AI Was In 1956
Decades before today’s artificial intelligence pop stars, Auto-Tune and deepfake compositions was Lejaren Hiller’s piece, described by the New York Times in his 1994 obituary as...
Now *This* Is How To Design Attractive Affordable Housing
Critic Oliver Wainwright says that the architects of this east London project, called A House for Artists, have found a way to follow local...
Transformative Director Of NYC’s City Center Steps Down After 18 Years
During her tenure, Arlene Shuler has transformed City Center from a mostly rental space for dance companies to a producing house that commissions and...
How “Squid Game” Has Transformed International TV
Better, perhaps, to say that the Korean hit marks a transformation that has been happening for several years now: the gradual acceptance by anglophone...
