The Building Industry Helped Create The Climate Crisis. The National Building Museum Wants To...
"The construction industry is responsible for nearly 40 percent of global carbon emissions, and it must be part of the solution, says museum president...
Study: Listening To Familiar Music Boosts Brain Function
"We have new brain-based evidence that autobiographically salient music -; that is, music that holds special meaning for a person, like the song they...
Here’s The First State To Requires All High Schoolers To Take A Media Literacy...
The Illinois legislature approved the rule this summer — almost entirely along party lines. Republicans seem to assume out-of-hand that the class will be...
Theatre Workers Aren’t Just Leaving Jobs, They’re Leaving Theatre
Theater salaries, even for full-time jobs, are so low so often that the weekly nationwide theater newsletter Nothing for the Group recently debuted a section called That’s...
What Will Change The Way Hollywood Portrays Muslims? Maybe Just This Directory
When a co-founder of the Pillars Fund advocacy organization discussed this issue within the industry, he heard repeatedly that decision-makers didn't know where to...
This Theatre Is Avoiding Founder’s Syndrome By Shutting Down When Its Founder Retires
First Folio Theatre, a small Equity company in the Chicago suburbs, will close when David Rice retires in 2024. He and his wife founded...
Think There Aren’t Any Serous Female Magicians Or Jugglers? Let’s Make That Idea Disappear
Los Angeles magician Krystyn Lambert and puppeteer Pam Severn have launched a new variety show called "No Man's Land" featuring circus artists, jugglers, ventriloquists,...
Sadler’s Wells Reveals Plans For New Dance Center In London’s Olympic Park
Sadler's Wells East, one of the anchors of the coming East Bank arts district, will include a 550-seat theatre presenting numerous dance genres, a...
Attendance At The World’s Most Visited Museums Plunged By 78% In 2020
The two most-attended are the same as most years, the Louvre and the National Museum of China; below them, pandemic closures changed the rankings...
Actor Dean Stockwell Dead At 85
After a successful but unhappy career as a child star, he left and returned to acting several times: in the late '50s and 60s,...
Canada’s $100K Giller Prize Goes To Omar El Akkad For “What Strange Paradise”
An Egyptian-Canadian journalist and author who lives in Portland, Oregon, El Akkad describes his novel as "a repurposed fable. It's the story of Peter...
Diagnosis: What Would It Take To Make Victoria BC A Music Center?
Research was completed by an organization that specializes in analyzing local music scenes — Sound Diplomacy — which has come up with strategies for...
Scottish Nightclub Tries To Harness Dancers’ Energy To Power Club
Glasgow nightclub SWG3 is set to trial technology that captures body heat from dancers to create renewable energy to heat up or to cool...
Why “Dark Ages” Is a Flawed Historical Narrative
“Powers and Thrones” reminds us why modern scholars cringe at any reference to the term “Dark Ages.” The idea that the early Middle Ages were an...
Broadway Box Office Rebounds
In all, the 30 productions had a combined paid attendance of 193,309, about 82% of total capacity. The previous week’s attendance was 78% of...
How A Poem Can Change The World
By using things like imagery, metaphor, narrative and even white space, poetry has the power to make abstract or diffuse issues, like climate change, more...
Depression Isn’t Just A Low Mood. It’s an Altered State Of Consciosness
While depressed people are not literally in a different world, they are in a different state of consciousness – one they can become awake...
Golden Age Hollywood Director John Farrow Had An Extraordinary Life. Why Have We Forgotten...
He was more than Mia's father and Ronan's grandfather. He ran away to become a sailor, he wrote a Tahitian-English-French dictionary; he pretended to...
Vatican Library Opens Its First Contemporary Art Space
The library’s first public exhibition space is meant to “support the culture of encounter,” according to librarian Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça. - Artnet
Creating Personalized Audio News Streams By Algorithm Is Not (Yet) A Success
"Audio is hard, from both a publisher and a consumer perspective. … And if Google couldn't figure out a way to assemble the sort...
Netflix Is Being Sued And Sued And Sued. The Nature Of Streaming May...
Why is Netflix facing so many defamation lawsuits? It’s at least partially because of the nonfiction fare that is booming on the streamer. Following...
How Dance Aspen Arose From The Ashes Of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
"Starting from scratch with no funding and with a global pandemic raging on, the group set a goal to raise $50,000 over the course...
Yuval Noah Harari: How Stories Drive Humanity
Previously philosophy was a kind of luxury: You can indulge in it or not. Now you really need to answer crucial philosophical questions about...
Most US Theatres Lost Money And Audience On Their Digital Projects During Lockdown (But...
A survey of top execs at 64 companies in 25 states found that, following an initial flurry of interest in the spring of 2020,...
Why NPR Shouldn’t Take Facebook Money
Legitimate news organizations need to take a stand that goes beyond disclosure. Don’t just tell me that unethical companies are or were sponsors adjacent to...
