Art and Culture

By Will DunhamWASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and French the most common, counting native and nonnative speakers. That is a…
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In 2014, Aurora Orchestra did something that had never been done at the Proms before. We played Mozart’s 40th symphony – that has been done, many times – but from memory.It was terrifying. Orchestral musicians usually start getting out…
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The burgeoning field of fiction character biographies.Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit?LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of…
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Read more Featured Stories like this in The Strad Playing Hub With such a varied and busy performance and recording careers, how do musicians rely on their bodies to perfect their craft, and how do they care for their bodies to…
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ESPN hopes you dance. Or at least that you like to watch other people dance. The International Dance League (IDL) has struck its first-ever media rights deal in a partnership with ESPN. IDL events will air on ESPN2 somewhat…
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Today, many would argue that the ordinary ‘truth of accountants’ is more fundamental than ecstatic truth, which relies heavily on perception, interpretation and subjective feeling. Yet this misses the reality that art discloses. –…
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Research shows that improvisation and creativity are good for the brain. In an episode of the Greater Good Science Center’s “Science of Happiness” podcast, host Shuka Kalantari talked to Karen Barrett about what happens in the brain…
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His vision was to turn Pitlochry Festival Theatre into both an artistic retreat and a producing powerhouse. It was to invite exciting creatives to Perthshire and create and premiere a show, then for that show to be sent on to London,…
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“Age is a big deal in dance,” Nora Kimball tells Pointe on a call from her home in Frankfurt, Germany. The US-born dancer, now 69, has enjoyed an illustrious and varied career with companies ranging from…
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