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Soprano Erie Mills Has Died At 73
From the late 1970s, she had a glittering 25-year career as a coloratura, from the Met to La Scala to Santa Fe and beyond,...
How Commonwealth Short Story Prize Determined That This Year’s Winners Are All AI-Free
“The Commonwealth Foundation asked writers to provide drafts, story outlines, manuscripts and other evidence of their creative process when investigating allegations of AI use...
Royal Ballet And Opera In London To Eliminate 64 Staff Positions
“The reductions amount to roughly five percent of the organization’s current workforce of 1,169 staff. Nine of the cuts will involve compulsory redundancies, with...
New York Will Not Pursue Another Retrial Of Harvey Weinstein
“The movie mogul still stands convicted of another sexual felony in New York and others in California, and he remains behind bars. But the...
The Marquis De Lafayette Has Become A Selfie Magnet In Paris
In France, feelings about him are more mixed than in the U.S. (For one thing, during and after the French Revolution, he favored a...
Competing At Istanbul’s Tango Championship
The Turkish metropolis has become one of the world’s major centers of tango, perhaps behind only Buenos Aires itself. This month Istanbul hosted La...
An Actor With Alzheimer’s Performs Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape”
Peter Marinker, now 84, first played Krapp in 1983, and he’s reusing the tapes he made back then for this production in London. He’ll...
Commonwealth Short Story Prize Determines That None Of This Year’s Winners Were Written By...
“The Commonwealth Foundation dismissed accusations that the short stories which won its literary prize this year were generated with artificial intelligence, saying a month-long...
The New Republic’s 20 Images That Define American History
In 15 photographs, four paintings, and one very iconic sculpture, “a visual chronicle of the national experience, from Iwo Jima to Emmett Till to...
Vatican Begins First-Ever Restoration Of Raphael Frescoes In Apostolic Palace
“The Vatican Museums on Wednesday announced the start of a five-year, $5.5 million project to clean and restore the Raphael Loggia, a 65-meter (yard)...
Major Hollywood Studios Are Starting To Produce Their Own Microdramas
“While comparatively obscure microdrama companies, with names like DramaBox and GammaTime, have received significant investment in the past year from venture capitalists and entertainment...
When TheWrap Used AI To Make A Microdrama
“After four days and $150 worth of digital credits to access the tool, we created four minute-long episodes designed as a take on the...
The New Republic’s 15 Most Important Artworks In U.S. History
The editors have chosen four movies, six books, two songs, a piece of classical music, a painting, and a monument “whose impact extended beyond...
Revamp Of Philadelphia’s “Avenue Of The Arts”: The Beta Test Is Complete
“A landscaped median under construction for months in front of the Kimmel Center has reached completion — the down payment on a promised major...
Live Nation’s CEO Spoke Directly With Trump Before Surprise Dept. Of Justice Settlement
“Live Nation has confirmed that the company had several meetings with the Department of Justice and the Office of the White House Counsel before a...
Why The Onion Is Going Ahead With Its Infowars Parody Even Though The Case...
Basically, if Alex Jones can play dirty, then The Onion can play dirty, too. - Law and Chaos
Even Award-Winning Indie Filmmakers Make Shockingly Little Money
Brady Corbet, who made The Brutalist, earned, he says “zero dollars” for his work on the movie. The five directors who agreed to be...
As Other Small Colleges Shrink Non-STEM Programs, These Four Are Adding New Dance Majors
“To get a new major approved, faculty must demonstrate that there’s a genuine hunger for more dance on campus. They must lay out the...
Attendance At Pittsburgh Symphony’s Classical Concerts Is Back Up To 50%
The average audience at Heinz Hall for the flagship classical series is roughly 1,450, just over half of the venue’s capacity and up 14%...
Too Many Books, Too Quickly: Australia’s Publishing Industry Is Too Prolific For Its Own...
“Talk to authors, talk to prize judges, talk to critics and to editors and you hear versions of the same story. ... What might...
Why Are New Musicals On Broadway So Scarce This Year?
“How did the new musical — long Broadway’s fundamental building block — become so scarce that the New York Drama Critics’ Circle opted to...
How Arts Philanthropist Christophe De Menil Ended Up Isolated During Her Final Years
The daughter of the founders of Houston’s Menil Collection, Christophe herself had a glittering social life filled with the arts and artists, and she...
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s First Full Musical Since “Hamilton” Will Arrive On Broadway Next Spring
The show is Warriors, an adaptation of the 2024 concept album by Miranda and Elsa Davis. The source material is Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel...
Museum Curator In San Francisco Terminated After His Arrest For Secret Bathroom Video
“The Cartoon Art Museum has parted ways with Andrew Farago, the longtime curator and public face of the San Francisco institution who was arrested this month...
Manhattan’s Borough President Directs His Entire Discretionary Budget — $50 Million — To The...
“Fifty-five cultural institutions and 28 schools will benefit from grants ranging from $60,000 to $2 million,” with much of the money designated for buildings...
