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The page turner disturbs our illusion of musical command, threatening to shatter the audience's suspension of artistic disbelief, where we disaggregate the magic of the sounds we experience …
"The sprawling science, tech and business museum on the city's South Side will become the Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry after the museum's board voted to accept Griffin's…
Neural lace and other AI-based enhancements are supposed to allow data from your brain to travel wirelessly to one's digital devices or to the cloud, where massive computing power is availab…
It's not just a matter of slangy terms like "happy dust" (German and Spanish have their own words for cocaine). Finding equivalents for the contractions and non-standard grammar in the libre…
The Pyramid entrance was revamped in 2014-16, and a total rehang of the collections is under way, including rewriting labels for the 38,000 works exhibited in the galleries. " The Art Newspa…
"He got hooked on the idea that movie title sequences could be more than just 'book covers,' as he once described it, and he parlayed that concept into a 50-year career designing title seque…
The drummer and composer Tyshawn Sorey has a lovely phrase to describe the practice of improvisation: "the adornment of time." " New York Review of Books
"Working with dancers, a lot gets communicated non-verbally, but with untrained dancers you need to find a specific and deliberate language around movement because there is no shared languag…
Robert Hewison: "ACE's response to its lacklustre level of achievement has been to invent three "outcomes" so inoffensive that no one would disagree with them: "creative people" " more empha…
As a result of Yemen's complex civil war " now in its fifth year " many of the country's wonders have been damaged or are under threat. While the destruction pales in comparison to the human…
There's evidence it did. In some respects. But the answer is a bit more complicated. " BBC
How did New Age end up carrying so much baggage in our musical memory? Its fall from grace, when it once soared, might be due to New Age's status as one of the most heavily marketed musical …
The two named plaintiffs seek to represent a class of more than 100 former female students at Studio 4. Their complaint alleges that Studio 4 set out to "create a steady stream of young wome…
"I shall be firm straight and even cruel to be faithful. I SHALL DANCE. Yes . . . I shall dance. Say it over and over and over to infinatum [sic]. I shall dance I shall dance . . . I will li…
Barely more than a week ago, the board of the Seattle company said there wasn't money to continue operating even for another month and was prepared to close. (This just nine months after Int…
Just a couple of months ago, it looked like the foreign administrators brought in to reform Italy's museums would all be chased out of the country by the populist government. Then that gover…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review the Broadway transfer of Freestyle Love Supreme. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * One of the reasons why Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hami…
W.C. Fields performs his vaudeville juggling act in The Old Fashioned Way, directed by William Beaudine and released in 1934: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related …
"When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past"and when you're seventy, nearly all of you." Jean Anouilh, Time Remembered (trans. Patricia Moyes)
The news that Darren Walker has been named as one of the National Gallery of Art's five general trustees gave me pause. My misgivings arose from what struck me as his astonishingly clueless …
With virtually no public money flowing in, U.S. arts organizations have, understandably, been most concerned with the interests of those who fund the enterprise. This narrowness of attention…
"Reading books is something I was once did compulsively, willingly and joyfully. But as I get older and spend more of my life online, reading books has become harder. Studies suggest I'm not…
Lone wolves, domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and militiamen on the far-right fringes who have long trafficked in an expansive body of published manifestos and propagandist fiction. …
The decision to remove fines is a growing nationwide movement. Already, dozens of U.S. libraries have fully or partially eliminated overdue fines (usually for teens and children), according …
Provincial cuts to the Ontario Arts Council will leave small magazines struggling to pay writers and illustrators, silencing important minority and marginalized voices, and putting the magaz…
