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NEA Releases A Blueprint For Arts Organizations Reopening
"The NEA conducted in-depth interviews with nine arts organizations to identify common practices among those who have successfully reopened their doors to audiences or...
Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” Reimagined To Account For Climate Change
"Like the original music, some of the representation is fairly literal: Instead of hearing strings play what sounds like a thunderstorm once, you might...
The Subversion Of The Digital World
"I always go off of this dancing logic: for every system of control that establishes itself in a very direct and very antagonizing way,...
Frank Gehry’s Dream Of Turing The LA River Into A Vast Cultural Space
Architect Frank Gehry has unveiled a bold plan to transform the river into more than just a concrete flood channel and establish it as...
Conformers Or Weirdos? What We Know About How People Think
"Unlike much of the world today – and most people who have ever lived – Weird people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, guilt-ridden and analytical...
Reconsidering The Benefits Of Hierarchies
"Similar to the related terms of bureaucracy and meritocracy, hierarchy is a concept rife with negative connotations. Common sense might suggest that it is...
Orwell Topped Book Bestseller Lists This Weekend. But…
“1984” rose to the top of Amazon’s top-selling book list over the weekend. On Monday, it reached the No. 1 spot. Not bad for a...
An Analysis Of QAnon By A Game Designer
"When I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built...
How Governments Around The World Are Supporting The Arts To Survive COVID
Governments across Europe, as well as in Canada, Australia and some Asian countries, have held back the wave so far by moving fast at...
What I Learned About Myself When I Got Amnesia
"We all forget things, of course – who your 6th-grade social studies teacher was or what you had for lunch a month ago are...
How Our Media Diet Has Changed
While Covid-19 quarantines have made television one of the more dominant mediums around, they’ve also altered the diet of what we watch within that medium. Pre-pandemic,...
The Fictional America And How It Powers Fictions No Longer True
"In the extraordinary drama of America, fiction is paramount to preserving systemic structures of imbalance. That’s how it has been for centuries, and that's...
For-Profit Immersive Museums Are Investing Big For After The Pandemic
While traditional museums are discussing closures and mergers, the for-profit industry around experiential or immersive art is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into...
Miami Museum Planned Exhibition As Investigation. That Proved Problematic
By the time the exhibition closed in March, because of the pandemic, the college had scaled back a plan to host programming that directly...
After 43 Years, Chicago Tribune Arts Critic Howard Reich Retires
He reflects on his career and (in typical fashion) leaves readers with a basketful of music, book and video recommendations. - Chicago Tribune
For The Third Year In A Row, Last Year UK Opened More Independent Book...
Released as part of the BA's annual membership survey, the number of independent bookshops holding membership at the end of 2020 rose to 967...
The Center Of Hollywood’s COVID Outbreaks
Eleven more cases came from The Kominsky Method, a Michael Douglas-starring Netflix series where aging actors confront mortality. Around the same time, according to...
Louvre Reports 72 Percent Drop In Admissions For 2020
The museum has reported one of its worst attendance figures ever, with around 2.7 million visitors—a 72% drop compared to 9.6 million in 2019....
Simon Rattle To Leave The London Symphony For Munich
Rattle said his reasons for accepting the Munich job were “entirely personal, enabling me to better manage the balance of my work and be...
Images From An Insurrection
Whether or not these fever-dream images show the actual point of insurrection or are, more likely, the inevitable byproduct of twenty-first century-rioters armed with...
The Damages To Art In The Capitol Building
Insurrectionists' "time in the building is now represented by the damage they left behind. A 19th-century marble bust of former President Zachary Taylor was...
Yes, Things Might Look Up, But It Will Be A Long Slow Recovery For...
For a broad chunk of the population, turning off that switch might not be as simple as being told it is okay to do...
Neil Sheehan, 84, NYT Vietnam Reporter Who Got The Pentagon Papers
"Mr. Sheehan, the son of impoverished Irish-immigrant dairy farmers, graduated from Harvard University and served in the Army before joining the United Press International...
A New “Arts Worker” Movement
Built on the concept of the “arts worker” — an immense labor category representing 8.8 million Americans doing everything from designing clothing to sweeping museum...
What Dallas Black Dance Theatre Learned About Virtual Performance And Charging For It
Dallas Black Dance Theatre envisions and is now developing a full complement of virtual activities. These include conservatory-level dance training at the same professional...