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Chinese Composers Are Making Western Classical Music Their Own
In fact, there have been composers in China writing for European instruments for over a century. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, though,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Now We See Just How Hard An Act Alex Trebek Was To Follow
"Jeopardy's longtime host, Alex Trebek, passed away a year ago today. And in the 12 months since, it's become increasingly clear just how challenging...
After A Difficult Few Years, DC’s Mosaic Theater Gets A New Director And A...
One year ago, founding director Ari Roth was forced to resign after angry protests from staffers about his, er, management style. (It was the...
Newark Museum Of Art Is Becoming A Real Estate Developer
Plans are for the $85 million complex, to be called Museum Parc, to include two buildings containing 250 apartments (50 of them "affordable"), 2,400...
Boris Johnson’s Government Is Using Britain’s Cultural Institutions As Culture War Battlefields
Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian's chief arts writer, comments on how the current Tory administration is applying loyalty tests and generally interfering with every single...
Major Museum In DR Congo Partly Destroyed In Fire
The blaze at the National Museum of Gungu, about 400 miles southeast of Kinshasa, began late at night on November 4; an estimated one-third...
Is This Chinese Government Trying To Buy Hong Kong’s Major English-Language Newspaper?
Founded under British rule in 1903, the South China Morning Post has managed to stay more or less independent of Beijing. Now a state-owned...
The Trauma That Upended Kenneth Branagh’s Life At The Age Of Eight
He's been reeling from it, one way or another, ever since, and it's the reason he made his latest film, Belfast. - The New...
Has The Pandemic Shown Us How America Could Fund The Arts And Artists Properly?
The shutdown introduced many ordinary people to the precarity that gigging artists have always faced, and the expanded unemployment benefits — with fewer restrictions...
“The Internet At Its Utopian Best”: In Praise Of The Public Domain Review
"'A frictionless world' in which evidence of the imagination floats around in the empyrean 'without cost, without registration, and without restrictive conditions on their...
Divers Are Discovering Golden Treasure From An Ancient Indonesian Empire
"Local divers exploring Indonesia's Musi River (on the island of Sumatra) have found gold rings, beads and other artifacts that may be linked to...
Some Dancers Are Starting To Rebel Against The Zero-Body-Hair Standard
Says one choreographer, "It's not the first fight I would pick about the homogeneity of bodies on stage. But there's something archaic in dance...
