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Benin Bronzes Are Not Safer Held In The West, Say Researchers
“They have been equally unsafe in the hands of British, not least because of attack in 1897, which destroyed so much royal and sacred...
Top Music Industry People Weigh In On The State Of Streaming
Senior figures from Spotify, Apple and other streaming services have commended the virtues of streaming, and few in the world of music would dispute...
Dallas Symphony Invites Out-Of-Work Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Musicians To Play Joint Concert
“Someone on our team said, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun if we could bring together musicians around the U.S. who are not working, for some...
And Now: Virtual DJ’s Powered By AI
"Virtual entertainment is the new cultural center of gravity," Authentic Artists founder and CEO Chris McGarry told Protocol. Authentic Artists has developed a dozen...
Steven Leigh Morris On What Did In LA Stage Alliance
"When members of the community say about LASA that they didn’t feel included or respected, my heart goes out to them. I ran the...
What I’ve Learned Watching Dance Online For A Year
Work filmed or streamed that is performed with a live audience present cannot replicate the exchange of energy, delight, sorrow, laughter, and tears of...
Hot Off The Press — How The Sacramento History Museum Became A TikTok Star
Museum docent Howard Hatch started making short videos of him working an old printing press. Soon the museum had more than a million followers...
How To Help Students Catch Up After Lockdown? The Arts
Research confirms that arts education contributes significantly to social-emotional well-being as well as college, career and citizenship readiness. - San Diego Union-Tribune
How Gabby Giffords Uses The French Horn To Help Her Recovery
The ex-Arizona representative was shot ten years ago. She's rebuilt her life with constant therapy, including playing the French Horn, which helps with her...
Stephen Hawking — A Life In Ideas Obscured By Celebrity
Hawking was no Newton. He said so himself. At a White House event in 1998, First Lady Hillary Clinton read a question from the...
Stuck In The Post-Truth World — How Do We Get Out?
We now consider disinformation a defining part of the contemporary experience. In 2016, Oxford Languages chose post-truth as its word of the year. The...
How Blockchain Is Transforming Partnerships
Blockchains may radically transform many facets of business life, but they’re a tool particularly well suited for collaborations. Put simply, blockchains are digital ledgers...
Twyla Tharp Talks Dance With Terry Gross
"This last year, with the pandemic and its disruptions in terms of routine, discipline, just ordinary day-to-day activities, the body doesn't know itself at...
The Art Of Doing Nothing Architecturally. It’s A Revolution
In a world in which flamboyance and style have long determined how an architect becomes a star, this approach – doing nothing – is an...
Guilty Pleasure? What’s So Guilty About It? “Low” Culture Has Triumphed
"Everything that was once considered lowbrow is now triumphant. It is still common for people to talk of “guilty” cultural pleasures—TV, dance music—about which...
Dana Gioia On Being An “Information Billionaire”
"I think poetry has a social function but it’s a relatively complicated and subtle one, which is to say, the reason that we have...
Workers Start Cutting 1000 150-Year-Old Oaks To Rebuild Notre Dame’s Timbers
Experts have felled 59 of the trees at the Villefermoy forest in the Seine-et-Marne region, and a further 26 oaks will be donated by...
How To Draw More People Into Cities Again? Build More Culture Spaces
"Culture has been a potent driver of Chicago for decades, of course, but this still is a unique moment, especially with the new availability...
This Gainsborough Portrait Of An Obscure Composer Sold For £2,500 (Could Be Worth £1...
“Gainsborough had a great deal of interest in musicians and likened a picture to a piece of music, once writing: ‘One part of a...
Netflix Makes Deal With Sony To Stream Its Movies (And Preclude Sony From Starting...
Sony and Netflix also inked a first-look deal for movies made exclusively for streaming, boosting the slate of Netflix originals. Sony said those films...
Back In The Theatre: “Necessity Is The Mother Of Devotion”
I can report that once the rest of us were inside — 25 or so socially distanced in a black box theater that normally...
Study Science, Fine. But Arts And Humanities Are The Future Of Work
With the rise of artificial intelligence, machine programming, and the ever more rapid automation of technical skills, many companies are seeking just the creative...
Canada’s New Opera Champion Bob McPhee, 65
As head of Calgary Opera he was one of the most innovative champions of the art form. “I think he truly changed opera in...
Diversity Lessons From The 1990s Culture Wars
"What David Lang wrote in 1989 was not wrong: no senators took to the floor to tear up scores by Philip Glass or John...
How American Theatre Marginalizes Asians
"Just as Asian shows are seen as exotic oddities rather than universal, Asian American theatres aren’t considered national theatres by funders, even though it...