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“No Thinking, No Rationale, No Explanation” — Yet Precise: Sharon Eyal’s Choreographic Process
“Everything you see on the stage starts with Eyal herself improvising, which is then mapped on to the dancers. ... Each movement idea could...
About AI, Many Podcasters Are Rather Ambivalent
Like other creative types, a lot of podcasters are skeptical of or even downright hostile to the idea of using AI bots, which only...
A Play About Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings Nearly Broke This Theater Company Apart....
Eight years ago at the Marin Theatre near San Francisco, Thomas Bradshaw’s play Thomas and Sally sparked in-person protests, an open letter with 1,800 signatures, and a...
The Grand Reveal: At Long Last, The Grand Egyptian Museum Has Its Grand Opening
The $1 billion, 5 million square-foot complex. for which planning first began in 1992, includes 12 main galleries holding over 50,000 items, a conference...
Why So Many People, Including New York’s Governor, Mispronounce Zohran Mamdani’s Name
John McWhorter: "Mispronouncing someone’s name certainly can be a form of ridicule or dismissal. … But malice is not the only possible explanation for...
Doctors May Now Prescribe Attendance At A Montreal Symphony Concert
“Physicians will get prescriptions that they will give to patients. ... And we will give each patient that calls us two tickets for free,”...
Some Of The Loot From The Paris Treasure Heist — The One Last Year...
Last November, thieves used axes to break into the Musée Cognacq-Jay and steal seven antique snuffboxes, all highly bejeweled and all on loan from...
Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of The Year Is — Well, Is It Even A Word?
Boomers, X-ers, and most Millennials will just see it as a pair of numbers. Gen Z-ers may recognize it as what their younger relatives...
Sotheby’s To Auction Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet (Wait, Didn’t That Get Stolen?)
Yes, one copy of the 18-karat commode was purloined from an exhibition in England last year. That was the one first displayed at the...
Alabama Public Television Considers Dropping PBS Entirely
With APT having lost well over $2 million in support from the now-defunded Corporation for Public Broadcasting, some board members see PBS dues as...
It’s True: Ticket Sales Have Nosedived At Kennedy Center Since Trump Takeover
“Nearly nine months after Trump became chair of the center and more than a month into its main season, ticket sales for the Kennedy...
Meet New York’s Seniors-Only Precision Dance Troupe. It’s Called The Pacemakers.
“The team performs for hundreds of thousands of fans each year, appearing frequently at sporting events, community centers, festivals and conferences across the Northeast....
I’m A James Baldwin Chatbot. Ask Me Anything.
At an “unlikely creative hub” in New York’s financial district, there’s an old electric typewriter which has been attached to a chatbot trained on...
U.S. Media Went All-In On Diversity A Few Years Ago. Now It’s Backing Away...
“Last week, NBC News gutted all the reporting groups aimed at the stories of underrepresented groups. And they're hardly alone. … As more media companies...
W.H. Auden Became Close Friends With The Sex Worker Who Robbed Him
“A ‘once in a century’ discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship...
Ronald K. Brown On 40 Years Of His Dance Company And How To “Make...
“Dance is already abstract, and so the role of us as artists is to be as specific as possible with what we want to...
A Club Where Jazz Fans Gather To Play Old 78 Shellac Records
“At the Hot Club of New York, ... jazz from the 1910s through the ’50s crackles to life, spun on 78 RPM discs made...
England’s Arts Funding Agency Suffered A Major Computer Failure In July. The Mess Still...
Arts Council England’s online portal, Grantium, was used by artists to submit and manage funding applications. It crashed in July, leaving thousands of applications...
Dallas Theater Center Cancels Shows At Last Minute Two Weekends In A Row
The company was producing Michael Frayn’s backstage farce Noises Off, which is, as DTC’s executive director wrote to subscribers, “an intensely physical comedy that...
Dubai To Get Its First Real Art Museum
While the extremely affluent emirate has had commercial galleries and art fairs for years, the Dubai Museum of Art will be its first museum....
Post-Merger Layoffs At Paramount Begin: Over 1,000 Jobs Cut
“Paramount on Wednesday began … the first wave of a deep staff reduction planned since David Ellison took the helm of the entertainment company...
Five Additional Suspects Arrested In Louvre Jewel Robbery Case
“One of the men detained ‘was a target of the investigators – we have traces of DNA linking him to the robbery’, (prosecutor Laure)...
Two Suspects In Louvre Jewel Robbery Confess Involvement, Says Prosecutor
Prosecutor Laure Beccuau also said that the pair are believed to be the men who forced their way into the museum on Oct. 19....
Oldest Surviving Piece Of Western Music Notation Turns Up Near Philadelphia
A private collector brought a page from a mid-9th-century liturgical book to document dealer Nathan Raab, who, after research, identified some previously overlooked markings...
An Interview With “The Interview Assassin,” The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner
Q: Why do you think people still talk to you? IC: Most people don’t read bylines, and the vast majority of people I interview have...
