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Jaap van Zweden To Leave New York Philharmonic In 2024

" announced that he would leave his post at the end of the 2023-24 season, saying that the pandemic had made him rethink his...

Britain Has A New Culture Secretary (And It Looks Like She’s A Doozy)

"Boris Johnson has appointed Nadine Dorries as culture secretary, giving a first Cabinet post to an outspoken MP who has previously accused the BBC...

This A Cappella Quintet Can Mimic Your Electronic Devices

"Traditional a cappella groups cover pop lyrics and full music beds with impressive skill. But one group in South Korea, called MayTree, is taking...

It’s Not Easy To Be Both A Professional Dancer And Religiously Observant

"By and large, the North American dance community is secular and leans politically to the left. For Orthodox Jews as well as some evangelical...

Why Short, Soft-Spoken, Fey Truman Capote Was So Popular With The Strong And Powerful

"In the beginning, they'd look down on him. But everybody who took the time to speak with him was captivated by his intellect; it...

There’s Lots Of Complex, Intricate Movement In The Broadway Play ‘Pass Over’. Don’t Call...

"There's not even blocking," says director Danya Taymor (Julie's niece). "I mean, there's a little blocking." That was worked out by the director and...

Loving Or Hating Ebooks: The Quality Of ‘Bookiness’

"Whether you love or hate ebooks is probably a function of what books mean to you, and why. … What it means to read,...

Professional Classical Musicians Have The Same Physical Problems (Other) Athletes Do

LA Phil violist Ingrid Hutman: "When we're injured, we tend to go to sports doctors because that's what's available. It's very difficult to find...

LA MoCA Makes it Official: Johanna Burton Will Be Its Solo Director

Two weeks ago, she was named executive director, working alongside Klaus Biesenbach, whose title was changed to artistic director. Last Friday, Biesenbach was appointed...

Public Radio Is Moving Into The ‘Urban Alternative’ Format

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is giving a total of $1.3 million to public stations in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Jackson, Mississippi to develop digital...

The New Yorker’s Archivist Counted Up Decades’ Worth Of Nonwhite Writers’ Bylines, And …

Erin Overbey: "As someone who's done the research, seen all the numbers, I can tell you that things are simply not changing quickly enough...

Japan’s ‘Nobel For The Arts” To James Turrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Sebastião Salgado, Glenn Murcutt

The Praemium Imperiale, including ¥15 million ($136,000) for each recipient, is awarded for painting (Salgado, a photographer), sculpture (Turrell, a light artist), music (Ma,...

The New Hot Spot For Art In Athens Is — Piraeus (?!)

Yes, the Greek capital's grotty old seaport, which has been busy, industrial and unpleasant for 2,500 years, is seeing serious art galleries, and the...

Peru Has A New National Museum With Thousands Of Pre-Columbian Objects

"The Peruvian government has inaugurated the Museo Nacional del Perú, a $125m museum that was initiated by the ministry of culture to preserve the...

‘Negotiated Authenticity’ — What Black Scriptwriters In Hollywood Have Always Been Expected To Provide

That's how one screenwriter describes the unspoken task she and her Black colleagues usually face: "it's still white people determining what the Black experience...

South Korea Considers Adding A Serious Museum To Its Busiest Airport

Authorities are planning to set aside two spaces at Seoul-Incheon, one in each terminal, as a satellite location for one or two major museums....

Mirga’s Successor At The City Of Birmingham Symphony Has Been Chosen

And it's sort of an internal hire: in April 2023, Kazuki Yamada, a 42-year-old from Japan who's been the orchestra's principal guest conductor for...

Yep, Too Much TV Really Will Shrink Your Brain, Researchers Find

A professor at Johns Hopkins found that middle-aged people who watched an above-average amount of television lost volume in the frontal cortex. (The Guardian's...

Is There *Anything* To The Idea That You Can Learn A Foreign Language While...

Well, you can't say there's nothing to it. But there's not much. And don't even think that playing recordings of the language while you’re...

For The First Time, A Dancer In A Wheelchair Will Perform With London’s Royal...

Joe Powell-Main studied at the Royal Ballet's school for four years, until his accident at age 15. Now 23 and a member of Ballet...

As London’s West End Reopens, It May Scrap Wednesday Matinees

There's plenty of demand for seats from theatregoers within England, but the audience for midweek afternoon shows is almost entirely tourists from abroad, of...

Broadway’s Biggest Hits Are Back Onstage At Last

Eighteen months after the novel coronavirus shut them all down, the long-running audience favorites — Hamilton, Wicked, The Lion King, Chicago — resume their...

George Wein, Who Invented The Outdoor Popular Music Festival As We Know It, Dead...

His Newport Jazz Festival, founded in 1954 and packed with major stars from the beginning, was the template for everything from Woodstock to Lollapalooza...

Aid For German Arts Institutions Damaged In Summer Floods

"The German government will give €30 million ($35.4 million) in aid for areas impacted by this past summer's devastating rainfall and floods, including to...

Have A Look At The New Yorker’s Original Mission Statement

So many things about the magazine — in both content and design — are recognizable today that it's easy to forget that, when Harold...
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