Why Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla Is Stepping Down In Birmingham
If this period of enforced home life made her reassess her priorities – she lives in Salzburg with her husband and their two children...
A Sharp Rise In Demands To Ban Books In Libraries
“We’re seeing an unprecedented volume of challenges. I’ve worked for ALA for 20 years, and I can’t recall a time when we had multiple...
Why Did We Organize Time Into Seven-Day Weeks?
The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, David Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule....
Why Does Sad Music Make Us Feel Better?
It can act as a social surrogate. Sad music can be experienced as an imaginary friend who provides support and empathy after loss. -...
The Scheme That Saved Classical Music In Melbourne Is Expanding To The Rest Of...
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall streamed 430 performances, with over $1.6 million going to musicians during one of the longest, strictest lockdowns in the world....
Education As A Class Indicator (But Maybe Not How You Think)
Historically, in America, the true strength of the Classics and of a Classical education has not been among the elite but among the rising...
Climate Change Is Damaging Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art
Veteran archaeologists have noted visible changes just over the past half-century or less. Much of the rock art is painted on sandstone, which absorbs...
Technology Is Promising Boosts To Your Enlightenment
Technoboosts include brain stimulation, which uses electric currents or other means to directly target certain brain areas and change their behavior, and synthetic psychedelics,...
Zadie Smith Never Meant To Write A Play. A Press Release Made Her Do...
First of all, when her neighborhood submitted a bid to be London's Borough of Culture, she agreed to participate, thinking it wouldn't win. Then...
Why We Sleep
Sleep’s benefits extend far beyond the brain, and that muscles, the immune system, and the gut can all have a say in when and...
Jimmie Durham, Native American Artist And Activist (Or Was He?), Dead At 81
"(He was) celebrated for incorporating traditional Native American imagery and materials into lively, unconventional sculptures before his claim of Cherokee ancestry was widely challenged,...
Students And Teachers Of The Afghanistan National Institute of Music Flee
The school became known for supporting the education of girls, who make up about a third of the student body. The school’s all-female orchestra,...
How Children’s Radio Grew Popular And Then Faded Away
"Back in April, the only real player in the kid-centric terrestrial radio space, Radio Disney, which started life on the airwaves 25 years ago...
Finally, A Creative is Suing Over A Hollywood Studio’s Creative Accounting Of Profits
Studios have long had a reputation for promising actors or writers a percentage of a movie's profits, then using accounting tricks to show that...
One Of New York’s Biggest Collections Of Antiquities Is In The Manhattan DA’s Office
"The Antiquities Trafficking Unit is very much a victim of its own success. Set up in 2017 … to curb the smuggling of cultural...
Even Ancient Egyptian Relief Carvers Had Interns, And They Messed Up Sometimes, Too
"Scholars have long believed that apprentices learned their craft before they were allowed to carve reliefs for rooms like this one," the Chapel of...
Alumni Of University Of Utah’s Ballet Program Describe Body-Shaming, Intimidation, And Prejudice
A dozen graduates wrote letters describing abusive and sometimes racist language as well as body-shaming and authoritarian attitudes. The school's current director says progress...
More Than Half Of Arts And Heritage Jobs In UK Were Lost Due To...
"(A study) revealed the industry suffered a 60% decline in output because of restrictions. It said about 55% of jobs — 450,000 people —...
2021 National Book Awards Go To Jason Mott, Tiya Miles, Malinda Lo, Martín Espada,...
Mott's Hell of a Book won for fiction; Miles's All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack for nonfiction; Lo's Last Night at...
As Beirut’s Conditions Deteriorate, Its Orchestra Plays On
As the value of Lebanese money fell, the 100 or so musicians in the orchestra watched the value of their pay fall from $3,000...
This Time, We’re Really Anxious (A History)
Of course, anxiety never went away. Depression might have seemed ubiquitous, but people in the late 20th century hardly had less to be anxious about or more...
A New Model For Funding Art?
It pools 100 medium-sized donation of $1,000 each, with the total amount going to one not-for-profit project. Community projects apply and have their applications...
How Punk Rock Of The 70s And 80s Figured Out Safe Concerts
Venues for punk shows were numerous, encompassing everything from pet grooming stores to nonprofit community centers. The small-venue approach lent itself to the formation...
Theatre That Breaks Pre-Pandemic Rules
It's a musical experiment that questions the long-accepted rules of theatermaking and theatergoing, established and upheld before the pandemic. For example, a percentage of...
Hmnnn – UK Change Of Stance On Repatriation Of The Parthenon Marbles?
When Boris Johnson’s spokesperson was asked on Tuesday, he said: “I won’t pre-empt their meeting, obviously, but the possession of the marbles is a...
