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Yorgos Lanthimos Is Directing Super Bowl Commercials
Yes, the filmmaker behind The Lobster, The Favourite, Poor Things and Bugonia has made ads for Squarespace (the website-building platform) and Grubhub to air...
Why Ralph Fiennes Decided To Direct An Opera
Not just any opera, mind you: the story is one to which he has a long connection: the Pushkin/Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin. The person who...
How The Prix De Lausanne Works (An Explainer)
The Switzerland-based ballet competition, known for launching the careers of many star dancers, takes place next week. Here executive and artistic director Kathryn Bradney...
What Goes On Inside Shen Yun’s Upstate New York Compound?
When CBS Sunday Morning visited, its crew found young dance students silently meditating. Two former students say, however, that they were allowed limited contact...
Ai Weiwei Returns Home To China For First Time In 10 Years
The dissident artist, who in 2011 had his passport confiscated and spent 81 days in prison, left when his documents were returned in 2015...
Colorado School District Drops Its Appeal Of Order To Reverse Book Bans
“Defendants in Crookshanks v. Elizabeth (Colo.) School District, who had appealed to the 10th Circuit after a federal judge ordered the district to restore 19 censored books,...
Cash-Strapped Vienna Cuts Its Arts Funding
While the reductions aren’t as severe as in Berlin (€130 million) or France (€150 million), the Austrian capital has withdrawn €5 million from several...
Teatro ZinZanni Is Ending Its Chicago And Seattle Shows
The dinner theater/circus arts hybrid's founder says that attendance never really recovered from COVID, but that, this past fall, there began a fatal decline...
With Little Warning, SFMOMA “Pauses” Its Free First Thursday Program
“Free First Thursday, which waives the general admission fee for all Bay Area residents from 4-8 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month,...
Studio Museum In Harlem Closed Through Next Week Due To “Sprinkler Emergency”
Last Saturday, as museum staff were preparing the building for the winter storm, a sprinkler malfunction caused water to pour from a ceiling near...
Despite Withdrawal Of Federal Funding, Public TV And Radio Are Hanging In There
“Six months after the funding cuts, few public TV or radio stations have closed their doors. Many have scraped together a patchwork of funding...
Finally, A New Broadway Musical Is Turning A Profit
“The Outsiders, … which opened in April 2024 and won the Tony Award for best new musical two months later, has recouped its $22 million capitalization...
Trump Tries To Shift Blame For “Massive Deficit” At Kennedy Center
He posted on Truth Social, referring to cascading cancellations and plummeting ticket sales, “People don’t realize that The Trump Kennedy Center suffered massive deficits...
Has Dancing In Clubs, Or In Public At All, Died Of Embarrassment And Fear...
“We spoke to DJs, dance experts, real estate agents who make dancing home-tour videos, aspiring professional dancers and club owners to get their take....
Philip Glass Cancels World Premiere At Kennedy Center
“(My) Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the...
Cliburn Amateur Piano Competition Is Permanently Shut Down
The Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition, founded in 1999, was held eight times, most recently in 2022. News of its retirement comes just a few...
What The New California Version Of The New York Post Is After
Says Nick Papps, founding editor-in-chief of the Murdoch tabloid California Post, “We'll have the wit of the New York Post headlines, which is really...
BAFTA Nominations 2026: “One Battle After Another” Pips “Sinners”
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture comedy, received 14 nominations for Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, while Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller...
Legal Teams Across The US Organize To Fight School And Library Book Bans
“Across America, publishers, libraries, and literary organizations are building a formidable litigation slate to ensure the availability of books in public and school libraries.”...
Thieves Steal The Entire Collection Of Silver From A Silver Museum
Before dawn last Wednesday, two men broke into the Silver Museum in the Dutch city of Doesburg and stole every piece there except a...
Scholar Argues That Shakespeare Was Really Emilia Bassano, A “Black Jewish Woman”
The claim that Emilia Bassano Lanier was Shakespeare’s “Dark Lady” is now familiar; even the argument that she — a published poet under her...
Opera Philadelphia Extends General Director Anthony Roth Costanzo’s Contract
The renowned countertenor/impresario, who took the helm of the admired-but-struggling company in 2024, has added two years to his contract, which now ends after...
Restoring “America’s Notre-Dame” — Which Is In, Of All Places, Kentucky
The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington (across the Ohio River from Cincinnati) is a scaled-down copy of Notre-Dame de Paris on the...
Darren Walker, Who Headed The Ford Foundation, Is Heading To Hollywood
“On Friday, Walker, 66, was named president and chief executive of Anonymous Content, the production and management company” which produced, among others, the Oscar-winning film...
Can Generative AI Generate Convincing Dance Movement? Nope, Not Yet.
“CalMatters and The Markup tested four commercially-available AI video-generation models — OpenAI’s Sora, Google’s Veo, MiniMax’s Hailou, and Kuaishou’s Kling — and so far, dancers don’t have...
