Their first two videos, for Wolf Totem, and Yuve Yuve Yu (or How Strange, How Strange) have amassed more than 45m views on YouTube over the last year, while their debut album, The Gereg, ope…
He was part of a generation of musicians who, aided by the burgeoning recording industry, helped revive Baroque music in concert halls after World War II. That group included Nikolaus Harnon…
"The recent outcry online over the low wages, high stress and professional instability that assistants face " given a voice through the hashtag #PayUpHollywood Â" has served to highlight …
"The Academy's response to any criticism no matter how facile or valid"including accusations of radical leftism, elitism, racism, sexism, and general mustiness"has been to make vague, grand …
"It's that disconnect between long- and short-term interests that makes frothy articles so frustrating. The feeling of curiosity promised you'd learn something and, admittedly, you did " now…
"There are different types of creepiness, and the array of things that creep us out ranges from dolls that are too lifelike to clowns in places where clowns should not be… The basic premis…
William Paul Gerhard, an engineer with the British Fire Prevention Committee, stated in a report that by May 1897 there had been 1,115 recorded theater fires in Europe and America (since rec…
"Part of the appeal is the sheer human spectacle provided by costumed attendees (or playtrons, in Renfaire-ese). Though the village is ostensibly set in the 16th century, it most accurately …
Who is being produced on our stages? What kinds of characters are appearing on our stages? And what do these plays look like in terms of form and thematic content? " Howlround
"If the judges felt that they needed the world to know about these two novels, shouldn't that be a cause for celebration? It seems to me that the work of these two fine writers is being over…
The Army is forming a new unit with a similar mandate to be composed of commissioned officers of the Army Reserves who are museum directors or curators, archivists, conservators and archaeol…
"From the dull art of crafting Thanksgiving turkeys out of handprints to the bad politics of making headdresses out of turkey feathers, the point of contact between Indians and non-Indians b…
He's Casy Reitz, currently executive director of New York's Second Stage. "Before taking the position at the Second Stage Theater in September of 2010, Reitz was director of development at t…
"It can't be overlooked that San Francisco has some heavyweight car-free peers. Once, pedestrianized urban cores were largely the domain of enlightened mid-sized cities in northern Europe. B…
If a freelance journalist writes for a magazine, newspaper or other entity whose central mission is to disseminate the news, the law says, that journalist is capped at writing 35 "submission…
Tosches and his fellow music writers Richard Meltzer and Lester Bangs were labeled "the Noise Boys" for their wild, energetic prose, a world away from fan magazines like Tiger Beat and Seven…
As humanities majors slump to the lowest level in decades, calls are coming from surprising places for a revival. Some prominent economists are making the case for why it still makes a lot o…
While the glass art industry blows oxygen and life into intricate glass chandeliers, vases, bowls and complex sculptures, it also consumes hefty amounts of natural gas and propane while fill…
"It has become clear to me that John and Caryn Havlik's work is distinct, inimitable, and intrinsically New York"and that this beloved team must stay with us. A show like New Sounds can only…
Shigeru Ban, a designer of houses and visitors' centers and condominiums and towers, is perhaps more famous as a designer of emergency shelters, for people suffering from earthquakes and flo…
"The current streaming culture we find ourselves in marks music and wide open spaces of exploration into nothing more than a commodity, and because of this, we're increasingly driven away fr…
"Until recently, this debate over whether actors literally lose themselves in their roles was largely a matter of conjecture. However, a pair of research papers in psychology published this …
"The main contention of What We Talk About When We Talk About Books " that reading print can be a sociable, active, and even seditious activity " is so sensible that it seems incredible that…
The Phoenix Symphony (TPS) is Arizona's largest performing arts organization and considered a cultural icon. Founded in 1947 as a part-time orchestra, TPS has grown to become Arizona's only …
This Little Light of Mine: The inimitable Mr. Cummings speaks to the League's annual meeting about how the arts has the power to change lives. "As I march toward the twilight of my life, the…