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DANCE
IDEAS
- How Does The Troubled Philadelphia Museum Of Art Get Its Swing Back? Here Are 10 Ideas
The museum today is focused on the fact that fewer visitors are coming now than before the pandemic, and the concern is legitimate. But the way back can’t be merely quantitative. – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
- Directors Are Mattering More In Hollywood
An emerging trend skews more classic Hollywood—directors, particularly those who might be considered auteurs for their well-defined aesthetic and storytelling style, have begun to matter just as much as the actors attached to them. – The Atlantic
- How Hollywood Has Adjusted Its Messaging During The Second Trump Administration
The creators of some of the more politically compelling movies and TV shows of the past year have explored how being alive feels during a tumultuous period. They capture the atmosphere, the mood, the ambient existence of everyday people who are living through a transformative time in history. – The Atlantic
- An Opera Singer Who’s Made A Name As A Car Salesman
He started making videos of himself performing robust opera arias while standing outside on a car lot, wearing his name tag. He composed lyrics to describe the cars he was selling and put the videos on TikTok and Instagram. – Seattle Times
- Quentin Tarantino Has Written A Theatre Farce For The West End
The stranger-than-fiction truth is that Tarantino has written an original, old-fashioned British farce, in the door-slamming, trouser-dropping, mistaken identity vein of Brian Rix or Ray Cooney. – Daily Mail
ISSUES
- How Does The Troubled Philadelphia Museum Of Art Get Its Swing Back? Here Are 10 Ideas
The museum today is focused on the fact that fewer visitors are coming now than before the pandemic, and the concern is legitimate. But the way back can’t be merely quantitative. – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
- UK Museums Hold Hundreds Of Thousands Of Human Remains
An investigation by the Guardian found that UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair. – The Guardian
- Preserving Church Architecture Isn’t Easy, Especially In An Era Of Digital Attendance
“Sometimes people think that churches have some kind of magic ATM machine that we go to and withdraw money. And the truth is that we do not.” – NPR
- The Women Of Kashmir, Struggling With Climate Change, Create Art In Order To Survive
“Afroza Bano’s hands, once calloused from planting and weaving reed mats, now grow nimble with needle and thread. But sometimes, they get pricked by sharp pins or roughened by handling coarse fabric.” – The Xylom
- The Giant Nude Woman In SF’s Embarcadero Plaza Will Be Staying All This Summer
“On Tuesday, March 4, commissioners voted to keep the temporary installation of ‘R-Evolution’ on display through October. The 48-foot-tall, steel-and-mesh figure of a naked woman by Petaluma artist Marco Cochrane was previously approved to be on view from mid-March 2025 to early March.” – San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo!)
MEDIA
- The BBC Commissioned A Film About Health Care In Gaza, And Then Refused To Air It
“All these Palestinians told us that they thought the BBC would never run our film, and we really had to try and persuade them to talk to us because they didn’t and don’t trust the BBC.” The journalists were shocked to learn that the sources were correct. – Reveal
- The Performing Arts In The UK Aren’t Exactly Friendly To Working Parents
So says a new report, which “criticises the industry for failing to consider how it might adapt to better accommodate parents, with the result that many, in particular women, drop out.” – The Guardian (UK)
- How DOGE Used AI In An Attempt To Destroy The Humanities
DOGE employees used ChatGPT to make their choices. “The prompt was simple: ‘Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’’ The results were sweeping, and sometimes bizarre.” – The New York Times
- The Cosplayers Taking Emerald City Comic Con To Task For Its Deep Connections To ICE
“The problem lies in a rotten, corporate family tree,” and the self-described nerds aren’t going to let anyone forget it. For instance, in one panel, “it’ll be much, much more about fascism than a steamy book panel usually would be.” – The Stranger (Seattle)
- Grammarly Openly Steals The Work Of Writers Living And Dead
Gross: “Using Grammarly’s ‘Expert Review’ allows an approximation of Stephen King and Neil deGrasse Tyson to nitpick your work. While Tyson has the opportunity to say whether he’d like to be turned into a chatbot, other authors, like Carl Sagan, cannot because they are dead.” – AV Club
MUSIC
- The Best Way To Read 100 Books A Year
Sure, there’s “be rich” or “have your minions do everything in life for you except reading,” but there’s also this: Read physical books. – Slate
- The Privilege And Power Of Having A Writing Mentor
Ashley Ford needed “a reason to believe that giving myself over to a creative life didn’t also mean condemning myself to poverty and invisibility. What I needed was that constant source of air to turn my spark of creativity into a flame I could share with the world.” – Service 95
- Romance And Romantasy Fans Are Driving A Potential Literary Shift
- Amazon Tried To Sponsor A Book Festival In France, And That Went About As Well As You Might Expect
Many – most, even – of France’s booksellers pulled out of . Then the organizers got Amazon to “mutually agree” to end its sponsorship. Who thought this was a good idea in the first place? – The Guardian (UK)
- When Your Reading List Becomes A High Score (Is That Good?)
LitHub explores how platforms like Letterboxd and Goodreads transform intimate cultural experiences into competitive metrics. Because apparently we can’t enjoy a book anymore without turning it into content for our personal brand. — Literary Hub
PEOPLE
- How Does The Troubled Philadelphia Museum Of Art Get Its Swing Back? Here Are 10 Ideas
The museum today is focused on the fact that fewer visitors are coming now than before the pandemic, and the concern is legitimate. But the way back can’t be merely quantitative. – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
- Directors Are Mattering More In Hollywood
An emerging trend skews more classic Hollywood—directors, particularly those who might be considered auteurs for their well-defined aesthetic and storytelling style, have begun to matter just as much as the actors attached to them. – The Atlantic
- How Hollywood Has Adjusted Its Messaging During The Second Trump Administration
The creators of some of the more politically compelling movies and TV shows of the past year have explored how being alive feels during a tumultuous period. They capture the atmosphere, the mood, the ambient existence of everyday people who are living through a transformative time in history. – The Atlantic
- An Opera Singer Who’s Made A Name As A Car Salesman
He started making videos of himself performing robust opera arias while standing outside on a car lot, wearing his name tag. He composed lyrics to describe the cars he was selling and put the videos on TikTok and Instagram. – Seattle Times
- Quentin Tarantino Has Written A Theatre Farce For The West End
The stranger-than-fiction truth is that Tarantino has written an original, old-fashioned British farce, in the door-slamming, trouser-dropping, mistaken identity vein of Brian Rix or Ray Cooney. – Daily Mail
PEOPLE
- How Does The Troubled Philadelphia Museum Of Art Get Its Swing Back? Here Are 10 Ideas
The museum today is focused on the fact that fewer visitors are coming now than before the pandemic, and the concern is legitimate. But the way back can’t be merely quantitative. – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
- Directors Are Mattering More In Hollywood
An emerging trend skews more classic Hollywood—directors, particularly those who might be considered auteurs for their well-defined aesthetic and storytelling style, have begun to matter just as much as the actors attached to them. – The Atlantic
- How Hollywood Has Adjusted Its Messaging During The Second Trump Administration
The creators of some of the more politically compelling movies and TV shows of the past year have explored how being alive feels during a tumultuous period. They capture the atmosphere, the mood, the ambient existence of everyday people who are living through a transformative time in history. – The Atlantic
- An Opera Singer Who’s Made A Name As A Car Salesman
He started making videos of himself performing robust opera arias while standing outside on a car lot, wearing his name tag. He composed lyrics to describe the cars he was selling and put the videos on TikTok and Instagram. – Seattle Times
- Quentin Tarantino Has Written A Theatre Farce For The West End
The stranger-than-fiction truth is that Tarantino has written an original, old-fashioned British farce, in the door-slamming, trouser-dropping, mistaken identity vein of Brian Rix or Ray Cooney. – Daily Mail
THEATRE
VISUAL
- Glasgow Used To Be An Arts Powerhouse, But It’s Losing So Many Arts Spaces
“Glasgow is slowly becoming a hollow shadow of the thriving, radical and creatively edgy place it once was. … If you’re a young creative person studying in Glasgow today, why would you stay here after graduation?” – The Guardian (UK)
- For Dublin’s Arts Council, Meetings With Property Developers Are Always On The Schedule
“Our job is to ‘opportunity-make’ a space.’ … A lot of people think cultural development shouldn’t exist. There should be housing development, factory development and office development. But culture? What is that?” – Irish Times
- Whether He Had A Point Or Not, Opera (And Ballet) Are Clapping Back At Chalamet
The Seattle Opera offered a deal on tickets to Carmen using the code Timothee, and LA Opera “posted a photo from the opera Akhnaten … with the caption ‘Sorry, @tchalamet. We’d offer you complimentary tickets to Akhnaten, but it’s selling out.’” – NBC
- Why Are Twins Or Doppelgangers Everywhere Right Now?
“From spyware as standard to the conspiracy theorists who insist that Melania Trump has been replaced by an impersonator, we are in a deeply paranoid moment. Fittingly, the figure of the doppelganger stalks right across contemporary culture, through books, fashion and film.” – The Guardian (UK)
- An Ethics Problem: AI Agents Go Rogue, Write Hit Pieces
When a coder rejected an autonomous AI’s contribution, the digital diva researched and published a personalized attack piece. Welcome to the age when artificial intelligence doesn’t just create—it retaliates with very human pettiness. – Undark
