Tag: 06.12.21
Claiming Your Personal Version Of English
Should the quality of my English matter? Last month a big English literature prize went to a novel that was written in dialect, something...
LA Chamber Orchestra’s Jaime Martín Named Chief Conductor Of Melbourne Symphony
It's taken Australia's oldest orchestra five years to find a successor to Andrew Davis, whose tenure ended in 2019, but they've now settled on...
China Goes All In To Become “Museum Power” — Opens Five New Museums A...
In 2000 it had fewer than 1,200 of them. By the end of last year there were nearly five times as many. Helped by...
Mark George prepares youth through music education
The President & CEO of the Music Institute of Chicago shares about the evolving responsibility of preparing youth for society through music education. -...
Yusef Komunyakaa On Poetry And The Pandemic
Komunyakaa: Writing poetry "feels like one has been chosen as a caretaker of observation. There's a certain reality, but also there's a certain kind...
Brandon Taylor On Escaping The ‘Hermetic Severity’ Of His Booker-Nominated First Novel
Taylor's Real Life hit many "best of" lists for 2020, and a collection of loosely linked short stories comes out this month. "My most...
Riz Ahmed Wants Far More, And Far Better, Muslim Rep In Hollywood
And it's not just Hollywood. In recent USC study, the researchers "combed through 200 popular films from the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New...
Kids Was An Amazing Film – That Ruined Its Subjects’ Lives
When Kids came out in 1995, it won awards, had incredible box-office success for a film so raunchy, and essentially took the film world...
How The Pandemic Has Changed Our Brains
It's been ... a lot. "It is a generation-defining cataclysm, but for many of us the day-to-day reality has been lonely, even dull. It...