The Thing About Sleep: It’s Essential
One thing that sleep researchers are pretty sure of is that every system in our body seems to be impacted by sleep. When we...
At 87, Choreographer Yvonne Rainer Has Created Her Final Work
"Given her age, it makes sense. But is it really true? 'Yeah, I feel it's my last production. ... I don't know. I have...
The Long Brave Effort It Takes To Get A Book Translated Into English
If anything, six years between the publication of the original text and its English translation is rather speedy, especially for a literary work whose...
Why Folks Are Flipping Out About The New Anthony Bourdain Biography
Many people close to the late chef/author/TV star refused to speak with Charles Leerhsen for his Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of...
Mondrian’s Fanatical Pursuit Of Perfection
“Beneath the surface there was always a major concern which would compromise with nothing. Even though, like Baudelaire’s albatross, he had ‘giant wings,’ he...
What’s Really Extraordinary About Whoopi Goldberg
"(She's) managed a one-of-a-kind, first-of-its-sort, decades-long career with dreadlocks on her head, no eyebrows on her face and her foot in her mouth ......
Experience Shows: Four Veteran Stage Actors Discuss The Good Things About Acting Past Age...
"What I think is so wonderful about getting older in this work is that you learn how much you don't have to do. You...
A First Look At The Renovated David Geffen Hall (Yes, A Look) By The...
Michael Kimmelman won't say anything about the acoustics until there are actual concerts, but he recounts the venue's star-crossed history of expensive disappointments and...
Dallas Public Radio Station KERA Is Buying The Daily Newspaper In Denton, Texas
"North Texas Public Broadcasting, the parent company of news/talk KERA Dallas (90.1), is in the process of acquiring the Denton Record-Chronicle. ... Facilitating the...
US Securities And Exchange Commission Sues Former Execs Of MoviePass For Fraud
"The market regulator said that for more than two years, Theodore Farnsworth and former Netflix executive Mitchell Lowe, who were CEOs of Helios and...
President James Madison’s Crystal Flute Gets Played By Lizzo
The instrument is one of the 1,900 flutes in the Library of Congress's collection, the world's largest. Last week, Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla...
France Increases Its Arts And Culture Funding By 7% To €4.2 Billion
Rima Abdul Malak, the country's minister of culture, announced the record-high budget earlier this week. €208.5 million of that money will go to the...
Why Axios’ “Short Brevity” Writing Style Isn’t So Smart (And Doesn’t Save You Time)
Skim an Axios story, and it will fly past so quickly you’ll have no idea what it says. You have to read carefully to grasp its...
Authors Protest Staff Pay At Iconic Australian Bookstore
“Readings can afford to pay a living wage to its workers. This is a multi-store business that, until 2021, posted profits for 25 consecutive...
Finland Is Forgoing Concrete For Wood In Its Buildings. Is This The Future?
Developers are increasingly swapping out more mainstream materials like concrete and steel, in favour of wood. It's linked to the country's ambitious efforts to...
Claim: Silicon Valley’s Attitudes On Sexual Censorship Are Harmful
At a time when attitudes toward sex work, transgender individuals, and other sexual minorities are by and large changing for the better, it is perhaps...
Portland Theatres Collaborate On New Venue Collective
The Cuomo Theatre Collaborative will serve as a new building for small to midsize theatres such as Third Rail and PETE, and will serve...
Ambitious Plans For A New Bay Area Arts Venue
The project aims to nurture the artists and arts leaders of tomorrow by investing in arts education, including artists-in-schools programs, student performances, master classes,...
Dayton Ballet’s Artistic Director Will Step Down At The End Of This Season
Karen Russo Burke's decade-long tenure included a merger with the city's orchestra and opera company into the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance and has seen...
Research: Rethinking Baby Boomer Participation In The Arts
Findings confirmed this cohort ‘talked about how arts and culture helps them stay up to date; they use the phrase “to keep young, keep...
Was Piet Mondrian The Austere Ascetic People Took Him To Be?
No. No, he was not. - The New Yorker
“Transformative” $22 Million Gift To Canadian Theatres
The money – gifted in sums from $125,000 to $1.5-million, to both big institutions and smaller independent theatre, mostly based in Toronto, all but...
Not Every Device Shakespeare Used Makes Sense After 400 Years. How Do Today’s Directors...
"Unfamiliar language, outdated ethics, baffling behaviour? We've become used to sifting racism or sexism in these texts – but what other problems give people...
A First: This Year’s Giller Prize Shortlist
The most obvious is that, for the first time, all are by writers of colour. A glimpse between their covers reveals something else though....
Pop-Up Libraries In Vacant Storefronts Are Helping Bring Post-Pandemic Melbourne Back To Life
"Where a mens' retailer once stood in the boutique clothing and cafe mecca of Little Collins Street, changing rooms have been transformed into cozy...
