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Survey: When American Arts Organizations Plan To Resume Live Performances
The study surveyed 104 organizations, including 91 in the United States and 13 in Canada, from Dec. 12, 2020 through Jan. 12, 2021. The...
Amanda Gorman Invited To Recite Poem At This Year’s SuperBowl
She will be reciting at the Super Bowl pre-show on Feb. 7, before the Kansas City Chiefs play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. - NPR
A Lawsuit Over Schenkerian Music Theory And A Huge Debate Over How Music Theory...
At its best, music theory creates simplified models that help us understand how compositions are conceived and constructed while leaving space for the mystery...
A Trump Presidential Library? The Argument Against It
"The danger of Trump using a presidential library to burnish his image is far more serious, with the ex-president and his surrogates still promoting...
Why “Our Town” Still Resonates 80 Years Later
With the country splintered, its institutions shaken, a book documenting a classic American play affirming shared life experiences and bedrock values seems especially timely....
Simon Rattle’s Departure From London: Sign Of A Post-Brexit Musical Exodus?
"At the darkest hour, with concert halls shuttered and musicians facing visa hell, Rattle’s defection is being regarded, rightly or wrongly, as a loss...
Playwright: We Need To Stop Cancel Culture
“I do not consent to being part of an arts community that engages in witch hunts of people who don’t think like me,” Carmen...
Apple’s Tim Cook: We Have To Say All Engagement Isn’t Good Engagement
"At a moment of rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms, we can no longer turn a blind eye to a theory of...
The Improbable Story Of A Disney Movie That Almost Didn’t Get Made
"So, uh, how — and why — did all of this happen? Here is the oral history of The Emperor’s New Groove, an irreverent,...
Cheech Marin’s New Museum Gets A Green Light
After years of planning, the long-awaited Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California, has finally received the green...
With No Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans Creates Floats Out Of Houses
"Look around Rona, socially distanced float houses have become a thing. A really big thing. Apparently, if you to take the parades off our...
The Perils Of Our Time Demand An Artistic Response
Deborah Cullinan: "The events of the past year, and the shocking insurrection that took place at the Capitol on Jan. 6, have reinforced the...
A Rethink In Investing In Smaller Arts Organizations
"It is time to make significant investments in these smaller organizations to increase their capacities and develop a practice that does not make becoming...
This Was An Odd Year For Movies. The Oscars Should Reflect That
"The kinds of movies that traditionally contend for awards — mid-budget dramas with recognizable stars and respectable historical subjects or social themes — were...
Biden’s Inauguration Was Driven By Creativity. So Let’s Use That Creativity…
There can be no national recovery, no American Rescue, without the creative economy, and the 5.1 million creative workers who make it up. And...
The Cure For Disinformation
"The internet contains, for better or worse, a significant amount of humanity’s intellectual and creative outputs. It’s also a cesspool of outrageous falsehoods. Having...
Study: Can Machines Make Good Therapists?
A recent study invited college students to talk about their emotions via an online chat with either a person or a “chatbot” (in reality,...
The Genius Equation (Or How You Can Become One)
"If you’re a prodigy with a great gift for something, you can simply do it – yet might not be aware of why and...
The Inauthenticity Of Working In A Digital Medium
"With digital, there is no such thing as authenticity. You are trusting that it is what it is. I feel eventually no matter how...
The Plight Of The Artist… As Expressed In A Cartoon
There is ample absurdity to wring from the fine-art ecosystem, where hierarchies and quid pro quos rule. Players ruthlessly engage in an unspoken competition...
Lessons For Us From China’s Cultural Revolution
Trump failed to purge all the old élites, largely because he was forced to depend on them, and the Proud Boys never came close...
A Need For Orchestras To Be More Nimble In Scheduling
Until the arrival of the coronavirus, the prevalent model was not particularly friendly to rapid response. Symphony orchestras did a good deal of planning...
Longtime Folger Theatre Director Janet Griffin To Step Down
The announcement means the departure of one of Washington’s longest-serving theater chiefs and an opening in a company with a prestigious literary pedigree: It...
Building Preservation Run Amok? LA Grapples With What To Save
If the owner is explicitly saying the business itself won’t survive, keeping the building around as a cultural monument raises additional questions about what...
Highlights Of 125 Years Of The NYT Book Review
"In many ways, the Book Review’s history is that of American letters, and we’ll be using our 125th anniversary this year to celebrate and...