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James Darrah On The Future Of Opera
“I think the future of that looks like we embrace the cinematic, and digital media side of opera to an even greater degree. And...
The Man Who Figured Out How To Make Millions On Song Rights
In less than three years, Merck Mercuriadis has become the most disruptive force in the music business. Put simply, Hipgnosis, his company, raises money...
Vienna Philharmonic Sends Letter In Support Of Met Opera Orchestra
"The world is watching. 30% of the members of the MET Orchestra can no longer sustain a living in New York City due to...
Studies: EMail Is Making You Miserable!
A study, published in 2019, looked at long-term trends in the health of a group of nearly five thousand Swedish workers. They found that...
German Study: Concerts, Museums, Performances In Theatres Are Safer Than Other Indoor Activities
The researchers found that if kept at 30% capacity with everyone wearing a mask and following proper precautions, museums, theaters, and operas are safer...
How Museums Use Consultants To Hide Behind Their Biggest Problems
“Consultants are hired to tell museums the truth,” says Adrienne Horn, the president of Museum Management Consultants and a former executive board member for...
New Director Takes Control Over Pompeii Site
"He was among the first crop of foreigners picked to direct an Italian museum or cultural site as part of what was a contentious...
What Will Happen If Publishing Giants Merge?
"Perhaps the industry’s biggest concern about the merger, especially among agents and authors, is what it will mean for book deals. An agent representing...
How Memory And The Passage Of Time Fold On Top Of One Another
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrung meaning from time. Each day is so like the former. April disappeared entirely; Thanksgiving feels as close, or faraway,...
London School Of Contemporary Dance Overhauls Everything To Become More Diverse
"The drive to create a more diverse dance curriculum and the aim to harness digital capabilities to prepare graduates for a post-Covid world means...
How Novels Can Help Plan Our Way Through COVID Recovery
As sources for possible future scenarios capable of providing strategic foresight, or producing alternative future plans, novels can also help businesses create dialogue on...
A Life Listening To Jazz: W. Royal Stokes
No one could have predicted Stokes’s zigzag jazz life, including him. Born in D.C. in 1930, he was a teen obsessed with boogie-woogie records;...
Is It Time… Finally… To Kill The Book Blurb?
In 1936, George Orwell claimed that “the disgusting tripe that is written by the blurb-reviewers” was causing the public to turn away from novels...
Race, Privilege, And Values Collide At Smith College
"This is a tale of how race, class and power collided at the elite 145-year-old liberal arts college, where tuition, room and board top...
Former Producer Accuses KCRW Of Systemic Racism
Cerise Castle said in a podcast interview and on social media on Monday that her time at KCRW was “marked by microaggressions, gaslighting, and...
More People Are Sending Nude Selfies Of Themselves. Why?
As the pandemic forces relationships to be conducted remotely, more people than ever are resorting to the virtual exchange of intimacies. Last autumn, a...
Australia’s Big Festivals Have Thrived With International Stars. Can They Work With Local Artists?
Tasmania’s MONA FOMA festival last month saw a 'hyperlocal' approach to programming. Unable to draw headliners from around the world, local artists were front...
Our Strained Conceptual Relationship With Squirrels
"It’s almost as though the existence of animals, and their various similarities to humans, constituted insults. Like a squirrel, I have eyes and ears,...
Remember The Concert Companion? (It’s Worth Remembering Why It Didn’t Catch On)
Roland Valliere described the Concert Companion as similar to audio guides in art museums. “I was trying to do for symphony orchestras what audio...
NYC Culture Jobs Down By Astonishing Two-Thirds In 2020
Jobs in arts, entertainment and recreation fell by 66% last year from 2019, the largest decline among the city’s economic sectors, erasing a decade...
Watch This AI Play Almost Any Piece Of Music On The Piano After Hearing...
Created by Canadian-based Massive Technologies, the AI pianist is trained to listen to musical compositions and recreate them with virtual hands—and the results are...
160 Public Confederate Symbols Were Taken Down In 2020
In the group’s “Whose Heritage?” report, the Southern Poverty Law Center said that last year had been transformative, but that more than 2,100 symbols...
Claim: Once-Proud Glasgow School Of Art Now A Toxic Mess
First there was the fire. "Since then, tragedy has turned to travesty and toxicity as a wall of silence coupled with multiple sackings has...
16-Year-Old Dance Student Becomes First To Reach 100 Million TikTok Followers
Charli D’Amelio, the 16 year-old dance student and TikTok sensation was awarded $100,000 from TikTok when she reached 100 million followers in November of...
When The Masses First Started To Read Widely…
"It has recently been argued that reading novels, especially epistolary novels, helped people in the 18th century to put themselves in other people’s shoes,...