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Why Are So Many Writers Having Difficulty Writing During COVID?
“The problem with writing is it’s just another screen, and that’s all there is … I can’t connect with my imagination. I can’t connect...
Cancellation Of New London Concert Hall Adds To UK Musicians’ Woes
“It’s a further confirmation of the parochialization of British music and the arts,” said Jasper Parrott, a co-founder of HarrisonParrott, a classical music agency,...
American Shakespeare Center Loses Director, Will Be Actor-led
Ethan McSweeny has served as artistic director of the American Shakespeare Center since 2018. He announced his resignation effective Feb. 11, 2021. - Washington Post
When Anthony Haden-Guest Met The Christos
It was during the Running Fence project that Christo and Jeanne-Claude took me to meet the Charles Schulz, the late creator of Peanuts, who had a home in the...
Consider The Ushers…
Usher is a variant of the French huisier, from the Latin ostiarius, a custodian of the doors. The role comes from early modern theater,...
Breakthrough: Scientists Figure Out How To Talk To Dreamers In Their Sleep
An international team of researchers was able to achieve real-time dialogues with people in the midst of lucid dreams, a phenomenon that is called...
How Hollywood Has Shaped Our Views Of The Presidency
When the idea and the office of the president was regarded with a sort of reverence, presidential representations were more heroic, historian Dean J....
The Real Failures Of Our Cultural Policies
"The hidden costs of socially engaged arts practice is inextricably connected to the crisis of social care and service provision. It is also a...
Why “Noisy” Brains Are So Attractive (And More Difficult)
"The use of antidepressants has inadvertently left many of us less able to feel empathy toward others, laugh, cry, dream, and enjoy life just...
Finally, The Obama Presidential Center Is Underway
"This month, in the wake of an appeals court decision favorable to the city and the recent completion of federal reviews, Mayor Lori Lightfoot...
Met Museum Director Defends Deaccessioning To Pay Expenses
“The Met has a responsibility to our field and our global community,” Max Hollein says in a long statement posted today on the Met’s...
Book Sales Are Up 20 Percent In Australia. And Book Subscriptions Are Booming
Among the winners of this literary resurgence is a micro-industry: book subscription services, which curate a selection for you and deliver them to your...
London’s Frieze Fair Will Rent Its Space For Pop-Up Galleries
The art fair leased a pair of converted townhouses in December last year, and it has now revealed that they will open as a new...
Nielsen Will Begin To Track Diversity Alongside Ratings Numbers
The initiative combines entertainment metadata with Nielsen’s audience measurement data. It’s designed to equip content creators, owners, distributors and advertisers with data around onscreen...
Now: Better Theatre Than Yesterday
"This present moment places us in an exciting crossroad between former traditions and the emergence of technical and multi-platformed storytelling. I do not believe...
Charge: UK Government Has Forgotten Culture Post-Brexit
MPs at the digital, culture, media and sport committee hearing told DCMS minister Caroline Dinenage that her department was treated as an “afterthought” by...
How Big Tech Subverted The Public Square
"A functioning market required transparency, a mutual understanding of exchanges and a shared moral framework. And, as Rana Foroohar puts it in this brief...
Boston Symphony Finds Its New CEO At The LA Phil
More than a year after it began its search for a new president and chief executive, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is expected to announce...
Why It’s Important To Make Art With Your Kids
"When young children make art together with their caregivers, they share a new experience which can reinforce bonding. Creativity is an extension of babies’...
Research Paper Linking Violence To Video Games Is Retracted
"Zhang and his co-authors reported high levels of statistical significance for their finding, but the reported differences in the effects of violent games versus...
YouTube Chief Talks About What’s Next, Misinformation, And New Features
YouTube is planning an official rollout for “Applause,” a feature—already in testing—that lets viewers make cash payments to their favorite creators by initiating an...
AI Researchers Are Increasingly Worried About The Ethical Implications Of Their Work
Just as some computer scientists seem oblivious to ethical concerns, others appear to be trigger-happy with their moral outrage. - The New Yorker
Can Historians Be Traumatized By What They Study?
"The phenomenon of the historian traumatized by history remains unstudied and is not widely known. Yet anyone who has documented depravity knows the symptoms....
Study: Are “Minor” Literatures More Nationalistic?
"Our data consists of digital editions of 200 works of prize-winning fiction, divided into four subcorpora of equal size: U.S.-American, French, German, and a...
Struggling With The Meaning Of Cultural Appropriation
"Your poem was meant to be a complex double portrait of both the Black caregiver and your white grandmother, and the racist logic and...