Art and Culture

“As their profession is thrust into the spotlight with a new Oscar for their work being awarded on Sunday, the casting directors I spoke with acknowledged that the digital migration of their process has in some ways globalized the…
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BRAVO Youth Orchestras is one of more than 50 arts organizations asking the City of Portland to start spending an accumulated $8.5 million in Arts Tax money. BRAVO’s Community Orchestra will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, March 20, at…
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Chilean conductor Paolo Bortolameolli, who was associate conductor under Gustavo Dudamel at the Los Angeles Philharmonic through 2023, begins his term in Phoenix with the 2027-28 season. He will maintain his other current position,…
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Bill Kurtis, a former CBS-TV news anchor whose on-air career spans seven decades on radio and television,…
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In the Darfur region, three museums suffered complete destruction and looting during the first months of the conflict. The Nyala Museum was robbed of its antiquities and destroyed, followed by the looting and destruction of the…
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The forthcoming Venice Biennale will see the first Russian Pavilion since the onset of the nation’s war in Ukraine in 2022, and few outside Russia seem happy about it. Ukraine itself issued a blistering statement about the…
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“The message I’m getting,” says the chief at one respected theatre in the British capital, “is that to come to London, hire a theater like ours, pay for the flights and accommodations for the U.S. creatives and casts, it still works out…
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For many loyal patrons, the question has become how to fill the void left by the cancellations and the impending two-year closing. – The New York Times Source link
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“The medium is facing a host of issues informed by global technological shifts and the financial dynamics of mounting a production anywhere. But let’s keep it focused. Hollywood — and, yes, American independent cinema — is staring down…
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GH Hardy believed there should be a strong aesthetic judgment in mathematics, drawing parallels with poetry, and argued that beauty is the first test of good mathematics. He went as far as to say that there is no permanent place in the…
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