Arts & Entertainment

Good Morning: A While back the NEA asked several arts “practitioners” to write essays in response to the Endowment’s latest arts participation study which came out last year. We’ve featured a couple of them so far — National Book Foundation director Ruth Dickey’s musings on declines in reading — less than half of American adults […]

SpeakEasy Stage – Boston’s home for bold theatre – invites applications from collaborative and risk-taking artistic leaders to serve as its next Artistic Director – Apply by Nov 15! Since 1992, SpeakEasy Stage has produced vital, timely, and entertaining plays and musicals in Boston’s South End. Our shows spark conversations that continue long after audiences

Though many believe the technology could speed the work of seasoned moviemakers, it could also replace less experienced digital artists. Others experts worry that the technology could become a quick and inexpensive way of creating online disinformation, making it even harder to tell what’s real on the internet. – The New York Times Source link

She will soon meet with King Charles, a classical music fan who studied the cello, piano and trumpet, to outline her ideas. She is contemplating a flash musical event in which the rooms at Buckingham Palace are briefly occupied by composers or performers. – The New York Times Source link

Photo courtesy of Peter Linett By Peter Linett, Senior Fellow, NORC at the University of Chicago and Co-Founder, Slover Linett at NORC The report on findings from the 2022 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) calls attention to the growing proportion of Americans who say they’ve attended art forms or genres other than

In an arena in the southern French village of Raphèle-lès-Arles on a torpidly hot July afternoon, a young black bull paws the floor next to the exit door. Eight raseteurs – the white-clad runners whose job is to seize tokens fixed to the animal – yell to get its attention. This is an event dedicated

The Bop Spotter project uses a microphone to surreptitiously and constantly record a street in the historically Latino neighborhood. Making use of a public Wi-Fi network and Shazam’s song-identifying software, Bop Spotter identifies the songs it hears and generates a public, ever-expanding list of the street’s music. – SFGate Source link

Trumpower works in Southside Studios, a collective workspace run by a fellow artist on the bank of the Swannanoa River in South Asheville. Trumpower, who spent the run-up to the storm packing up pottery and other local artists’ pieces, said no one at the time expected the flooding to be as severe as it was.