Art and Culture

In 1994, Philip Glass wrote six seemingly ordinary piano etudes for conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies on the occasion of his 50th birthday. Glass also wrote them for himself. Etudes are traditionally studies in technique, and…
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Figures from the political world getting involved in theatre makes a certain amount of sense, since producers and politicians both have to raise money from their social and professional circles. – The Stage Source link
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Leaning for centuries at a worrisome tilt, the Garisenda Tower in Bologna has endured insults and trauma. Dickens called it “sufficiently unsightly,” if extraordinary, while Goethe said it was “a spectacle that disgusts.” And then there…
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Glendale, California CNN  —  Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the “wildest ride in the wilderness,” sits at one edge of Disney World’s Magic Kingdom park, the most…
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Art of Craft is a series about craftspeople whose work rises to the level of art.When Ayoung An was 8, her parents bought her a violin. She slept with the instrument on the pillow next to her every night.Two years later, a shop selling…
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A comprehensive study spearheaded by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics provides evidence that people tend to show a predisposition towards rhythms formed by…
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For several years, during The Speakeasy, the audience participation which immersive theater invites would regularly get out of hand. But there were no bouncers or others to help, and management did little to help the actors. Said one,…
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Stephanie Shapiro is a Baltimore writer and a former journalist.A friend once lamented that her spouse spent Saturdays reading instead of doing household chores. How daring, I thought, to let the weeds grow and dust accumulate, to skip…
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“When the pandemic hit and office workers stopped tuning in on their commutes, that accelerated a worrisome trend: a downturn in radio listeners, which preceded a decline in advertiser dollars. Now, (GBH and WBUR) are confronting…
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“A 55-year-old American attorney named Bradley J. Gordon and three Cambodian women working for him are at the helm of a broadening expedition to recover thousands of artifacts that disappeared from the country’s temples during a…
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