Topic: arts

ADOLESCENCE

• Slow Songs Are Now Sad Songs (For Increasingly Sad Teens?)

  • Honest-Broker
  • 09/10/23
  “I’m told that the top search term at Spotify among teens is “sad.” And it’s more than music. Sadness is so widespread among youngsters (especially teen girls) that the Centers for Disease Control is now tracking it. So we shouldn’t be surprised that music and cultural indicators reflect the same reality… So what songs do […]

ARTS

• State Of The Arts Industry, March 2024

  • New York Times
  • 03/12/24
  “The pandemic brought live events and big gatherings to a halt, silencing orchestras, shutting museums and movie theaters and leaving sports teams playing to empty stadiums dotted with cardboard cutouts. Now, four years later, audiences are coming back, but the recovery has been uneven. Here is a snapshot of where things stand now:”

• The Grammys Have An Award For Music Educator Of The Year

  • NPR
  • 02/07/24

• You’ve Heard Of Bruegel The Elder. Here’s A Close Reading Of One Painting

  • Hyperallergic
  • 01/31/24

• On Placing Rhapsody In Blue In Historical Context

  • New York Times
  • 01/26/24

• Best Close-Up Photography From 2023

  • Colossal
  • 01/10/24

• “24 Exceptional Subway Artworks To See In NYC”

  • Hyperallergic
  • 01/07/24
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  • Excellent Visualization Of Difference Between Western And Indian Music

    • Popshift
    • 01/03/24

  • “Best Theater Of 2023”

    • New York Times
    • 12/15/23

  • Are We Living In The Least Artistic Century In 500 Years?

    • New York Times
    • 10/10/23
    “More than the economics, the key factor can only be what happened to us at the start of this century: first, the plunge through our screens into an infinity of information; soon after, our submission to algorithmic recommendation engines and the surveillance that powers them. The digital tools we embraced were heralded as catalysts of […]

  • “A Collection Of Antique Book Patterns From Front Or End Papers”

    • Kottke
    • 09/20/23

  • Farhad Manjoo: “I Finally Learned How To Draw. Here’s How.”

    • New York Times
    • 09/15/23

  • Slow Songs Are Now Sad Songs (For Increasingly Sad Teens?)

    • Honest-Broker
    • 09/10/23
    “I’m told that the top search term at Spotify among teens is “sad.” And it’s more than music. Sadness is so widespread among youngsters (especially teen girls) that the Centers for Disease Control is now tracking it. So we shouldn’t be surprised that music and cultural indicators reflect the same reality… So what songs do […]

  • “Grown-Up Theater Kids Run The World”

    • New York Times
    • 08/20/23
    “Well before being appointed to the Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson participated in theater and improv as an undergraduate at Harvard, and was once paired with Matt Damon — then a student, now a Hollywood actor — in a drama class.”

  • Close Reading John Williams’ Compositional Techniques For Film (via Indiana Jones)

    • New York Times
    • 07/07/23

  • School Plays Are Increasingly The Subject Of School Politics

    • New York Times
    • 07/04/23

  • “These Were The Most Performed Plays And Musicals In High Schools This Year”

    • NPR
    • 06/05/23

  • Is Musical Ability Nature Or Nurture? An Initial Study.

    • Harvard
    • 03/10/23

  • Brooks: On The Importance Of Art

    • New York Times
    • 03/02/23

  • Making Music Has Huge Brain Benefits

    • Boston Globe
    • 12/21/22

  • Bringing Music Back Into Schools Helps Heal From The Pandemic

    • New York Times
    • 06/19/22

  • “The War On Music” How Modern Classical Forgot To Sound Good

    • Wall Street Journal
    • 06/16/22
    “The great virtue of John Mauceri’s “The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century” is that it acknowledges what many writers on the subject know but can’t say: that something went badly wrong in music in the 20th century, and especially after 1945. The time has come, Mr. Mauceri writes, “to ask why so much […]

  • Can A.I. Create Art?

    • The Daily Beast
    • 06/10/22

  • How To Read A Still Life: A Beautiful Multimedia Essay

    • New York Times
    • 05/08/22

  • “People Who Attend Cultural Events Are Happier With Their Lives Than People Who Don’t”

    • ArtNet
    • 08/26/19

  • Most Popular High School Plays And Musicals, 2019

    • NPR
    • 07/31/19

  • On The Role Of Dance In The Ancient World

    • New York Review of Books
    • 07/20/19

  • “10 Reasons To Let Your Kid Major In Music”

    • Forbes
    • 06/04/17

  • Yes, The Arts Do Promote Meaningful Creativity

    • Pacific Standard
    • 02/11/15

  • How Music Is (And Isn’t) A Language

    • Pacific Standard
    • 02/26/14

COGNITIVE SCIENCE

• Making Music Has Huge Brain Benefits

  • Boston Globe
  • 12/21/22

• Yes, The Arts Do Promote Meaningful Creativity

  • Pacific Standard
  • 02/11/15

CREATIVITY

• Can A.I. Create Art?

  • The Daily Beast
  • 06/10/22

• Yes, The Arts Do Promote Meaningful Creativity

  • Pacific Standard
  • 02/11/15

CURRICULUM

• “Grown-Up Theater Kids Run The World”

  • New York Times
  • 08/20/23
  “Well before being appointed to the Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson participated in theater and improv as an undergraduate at Harvard, and was once paired with Matt Damon — then a student, now a Hollywood actor — in a drama class.”

• Yes, The Arts Do Promote Meaningful Creativity

  • Pacific Standard
  • 02/11/15

DIVERSITY/INCLUSION

• On Placing Rhapsody In Blue In Historical Context

  • New York Times
  • 01/26/24

• School Plays Are Increasingly The Subject Of School Politics

  • New York Times
  • 07/04/23

HUMANITIES

• Are We Living In The Least Artistic Century In 500 Years?

  • New York Times
  • 10/10/23
  “More than the economics, the key factor can only be what happened to us at the start of this century: first, the plunge through our screens into an infinity of information; soon after, our submission to algorithmic recommendation engines and the surveillance that powers them. The digital tools we embraced were heralded as catalysts of […]

TECH

• Farhad Manjoo: “I Finally Learned How To Draw. Here’s How.”

  • New York Times
  • 09/15/23

• Can A.I. Create Art?

  • The Daily Beast
  • 06/10/22