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...
COVID And The Art Of Party Tents
Last year, as the pandemic isolated us into our respective domestic cocoons, designers took to their AutoCAD to imagine a brave new world of...
An Expertise In Books Gets You…
Literature professors have often had significant difficulty acknowledging their expertise and corresponding difficulty in justifying their status to skeptics, for broadly two reasons. - Public...
Ho-Hum: Golden Globe Nominations Are Out, But Few Seem To Care
There were no press releases sent en masse with statements thanking the HFPA and saluting co-stars and filmmakers. Also absent were the emotional reaction...
Blind To Ideas Of Reality?
If biology can innately limit the mind of a cat, could we humans, also creatures of nature, be subject to a similar destiny? Could...
Trailblazing Black Feminist bell hooks, 69
Her writings anticipated and helped shape ongoing debates about race, gender and class in the United States. - Washington Post
The 16 Defining Art Events of 2021
In-person gatherings return, NFTs (or the people involved) go nuts, $20 billion-with-a-b worth of art donated in South Korea, major new museums in Paris...
Canon Fodder: Classical Music’s Difficult Reckoning with Race
"More than anything, the artistic questions facing classical music today go well beyond the simple dualism of keeping or tossing the canon; they revolve...
A New York Times Entertainment Reporter Remembers His Childhood As A Real-Life Carny
As Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley hits screens, Brooks Barnes takes the occasion to write about the corn dogs he dipped and unlimited snow...
How Elizabeth Alexander Is Transforming The Mellon Foundation
Alexander came to the organization with a specific mandate, she said, of “sharpening the focus—doing all the work, every penny, through a social justice...
A Major Black Theater Company In An Unlikely Place Bounces Back From The Pandemic
COVID arrived at a bad time for Sarasota's Westcoast Black Theater Troupe: it had just opened a new venue in February 2020. Luckily, "one...
Where The Main Thread Of American Opera Ought To Have Gone: “Porgy”
Joseph Horowitz teaches us to stop hearing “Porgy and Bess” narrowly, as a Black opera, or as some sideline oddity called a folk opera....
Taking On, And Having At, The Ballerina Mystique
Rachel Kapelke-Dale: "In the end, Ballerinas turned out to be about the violence that emerges from the rage of being trapped in someone...
