Major Social Media Influencer. Black And Queer Activist. Ballet Star. Meet Harper Watters
"The Houston social-media influencer is a gay Black man with a gift for the absurd and a passion for platform heels. He's also a...
Can You Really Be A Better Person Taking Masterclasses Online?
Mark Williamson, the company’s chief operating officer, told me, “I think it’s legitimately possible for us to create an algorithm that builds a personalized...
Fully Trained Dancers Are Finding A New Home In Burlesque
"For the growing number of women who have found their way to nightlife performance from a concert-dance background, burlesque can feel pretty close to...
Giant Puppet Finishes Four-Month Refugee Walk From Syria To UK
Little Amal, whose name means hope in Arabic, was created by Handspring, the company that made the equine puppets in War Horse. She stands 3.5...
Is Eight Shows A Week Too Much To Ask Of Actors?
The schedule is famously wearing, especially for leads in demanding roles. (Come the holidays, they sometimes do ten shows a week.) As Broadway returns...
The Unprecedented Logistics Behind Getting Broadway Up And Working Again
Broadway shows stopped dead in their tracks in March 2020. The production teams simply had to hurriedly depart their stages with scenery still in...
This May Be The Most Innovative Public Library In The U.S.
The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library in Memphis hosts "financial literacy seminars, jazz concerts, cooking classes, and many other events — more than 7,000...
Seriously? Send Your Art To Space?
Uplift promotes ‘Constellation Vault’: ‘a platform for commercial promotion and exhibition in low Earth orbit’. ‘The Constellation Vault will offer patrons the exclusive opportunity...
The “Immersive Transcript”, A New Way To Make Podcasts Accessible To Deaf Audiences
"Transcripts are hardly uncommon in podcasting but they're often an afterthought, littered with omissions and inaccuracies thanks to automated transcription. … For their new...
The High-Tide Flooding In Venice Is Only Getting Worse
Says the chief caretaker of St. Mark's, which sits at the city's lowest point, "I can only say that in August, a month when...
Unknown Arshile Gorky Painting Discovered Behind Later Artwork On Paper
The newly discovered work, called Untitled (Virginia Summer) and dated ca. 1946-47, was found when the Arshile Gorky Foundation sent out The Limit (1947)...
Pianist Yundi Li Arrested On Immorality Charge In Beijing
Li, who earned fame in the West in the '00s and became a household name in China, was arrested with a sex worker —...
Alec Baldwin, Firing Prop Gun On Set, Kills Cinematographer And Wounds Director
While filming a scene on location near Santa Fe for the feature Rust, which he co-wrote, is producing and stars in, Baldwin discharged a...
Bernard Haitink, Revered Conductor, Dead At 92
Known especially for his Mahler and Bruckner, Haitink had long tenures at the helm of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, Royal Opera...
Facebook Agrees To Pay News Outlets In France For Content
"Facebook said Thursday that it has struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that...
Robot Artists Detained By Egyptian Authorities Over Security Concerns
A robot artist made it to an exhibit at Egypt’s pyramids after its British maker said airport security held his creation for 10 days...
Chicago Art Institute Fired Its Docents. But The Story Isn’t So Simple
James Rondeau, the Institute’s director, said that the docents program had long been viewed as logistically unsustainable, and that the Institute had stopped adding...
How The Big Resignation Is Remaking America
This is a moment of fascinating decentralization. The U.S. economy lost its mojo. We had less quitting, less moving, and less entrepreneurship than in...
The New York Times Long History (And Ambitions) For Books
It all started in the very first issue of The New York Daily Times on Sept. 18, 1851. In an article on Page 2...
Exploring: The Culture Of Music Genres
“It’s not untrue that these genres are a kind of record company plot to sell us music but there’s a reason why this conspiracy...
Vinyl Records Are Popular — Too Popular To Keep Up
Left for dead with the advent of CDs in the 1980s, vinyl records are now the music industry’s most popular and highest-grossing physical format,...
What Monica Lewinsky’s Documentary About Public Shaming Completely Misunderstands
In HBO's 15 Minutes of Shame, Lewinsky — the prototype victim of worldwide public humiliation via the media — argues that today's Twitter-driven pile-ons...
Reconsidering The History Of Humanity
Humanity was not restricted to small bands of hunter-gatherers, agriculture did not lead inexorably to hierarchies and conflicts and there was not one mode...
Is This 12 Hours Of Documentary Theatre Or Is It Displaying People As If...
The show 12 Last Songs at Leeds Playhouse consists solely of dozens of people talking about, or actually doing, what they do for a...
A New Shakespeare-Style Theatre In The UK North
Shakespeare North Playhouse is on course to open next summer, joining only a handful of historically accurate, wooden-framed theatre auditoriums in England. - The Stage
