Art and Culture

It didn’t even last 24 hours on stage. In 1832, The King Amuses Himself — a play by Victor Hugo — premiered in Paris. It was banned the next day. It couldn’t be performed in France, but the text was still published. It ended up in the…
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A rule of thumb in linguistics gives any language a thousand years. At that point, linguistic drift will have made the mother language nearly incomprehensible to its…
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Joana Vicente is departing the Sundance Institute, where she has overseen the nonprofit and its storied film festival since late 2021. Sundance board member Amanda Kelso will step in as acting CEO through April, while…
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The image was striking: a sexualized and grotesque fusion of donkey, woman, devil, and bird. The monster stood next to a river, with the flag of the pope on a castle in the background. It was a woodcut on the first page of a pamphlet,…
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The arts are one of Britain’s strongest suits. Music, theatre, museums and art, literature, the screen industry – all are fundamental to the way the country is seen overseas, and of profound importance to citizens’ quality of life. A…
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It’s a well-known truism that arts professionals’ energy for what they do usually far outweighs their passion for their pay cheques. It’s also a widely-known fact that many arts sector workers could be using their topnotch…
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A study conducted on young Italians found that the connection between working memory and divergent thinking is influenced by whether an individual has undergone formal musical training. This relationship proved to be stronger among…
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The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have approved $535 million in funding for the Corporation…
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As the ballet dancers moved through the familiar rituals of their daily class, they tried to ignore the gunshots and explosions outside. It was 1979, and Iran was in the midst of a revolution that would overthrow the ruling Shah and turn…
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“We would love nothing more than to be able to immediately restore the number of SoundBox performances, semi-staged productions, and new commissions; to resume touring; and to reinstate Concerts for Kids. The limiting factor…
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