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People Are Spending Hours Conversing With ChatGPT
"In 2013, Spike Jonze's Her imagined a world where humans form deep emotional connections with AI. … Ten years later, thanks to ChatGPT's recently...
This Ballet Dancer Has Returned To The Stage After A Hip Replacement
Jessica McCann of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre suffered hip pain for years, but by last year's Nutcracker, she reached the breaking point. Doctors said she...
Remember The Medieval Painting That Was Hanging Over An Old French Lady’s Stove? It’s...
The Mocking of Christ, by the 13th-century Italian painter Cimabue, was sold at auction, reportedly to collectors in Delaware, for €24.2 million. The French...
Radio Anchor Shot To Death In Philippines While Live On Air And Facebook
"The gunman gained entry into the home-based radio station of provincial news broadcaster Juan Jumalon by pretending to be a listener. He then shot...
The Troubles At English National Opera Never Seem To End
The current crisis at the company is hardly the first: ENO has faced severe financial difficulties repeatedly over its history. Yet the government funding...
A New Company In Florida Aims For A Healthy, Eating-Disorder-Free Approach To Ballet
"After more than a year of planning, fundraising, obtaining nonprofit status, holding auditions and settling on a name (Azura Ballet), that vision – to...
Philadelphia Orchestra Members Return To China, 50 Years After Its Historic First Visit
"The orchestra first visited China in September 1973, marking a thaw in U.S.-China relations just as the two nations began normalizing ties. … Fourteen...
Ibsen’s “Ghosts” Was A Huge Flop When It Was New. How Did It Become...
In the 1880s, the script was rejected by major theaters all over Europe. Its first London performance (1891) was denounced by the Telegraph as...
Paid Product Placement In Opera And Ballet Stagings? London’s Royal Opera House Is Seriously...
"High-end fashion houses like Burberry have experience in the performing arts, creating bespoke ballet costumes for special performances. The idea is to expand these...
Joan Woodbury, Who Pioneered Modern Dance In Utah, Is Dead At 96
"Woodbury and her artistic partner, Shirley Ririe, formed Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in 1964, when they both taught dance at the University of Utah. …...
For The First Time, Broadcast And Audio Outlets Will Be Eligible For Pulitzer Prizes
The awards are still for written journalism only, but NPR, CNN, and the US TV Networks have been producing written journalism on their websites...
Trump’s Former White House Chief Of Staff Sued By His Publisher For Lying In...
"All Seasons Press alleges that sworn testimony by (Mark) Meadows undermined The Chief’s Chief, in which he wrote that the election was stolen from...
Four Men Arrested And Charged With Theft Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Solid Gold Toilet
The notorious art object, titled America, was stolen from an exhibition at Blenheim Palace in England in 2019. There's as yet no indication of...
The Wall Street Journal Discontinues Its Bestseller List
"The Wall Street Journal has stopped running its weekly bestseller lists. The final lists were carried in the past weekend's editions. The paper ran...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Attack A 17th-Century Painting With Hammers
Two members of the British group Just Stop Oil took hammers to the glass protecting Diego Velázquez’s "Rokeby Venus" at the National Gallery in...
Miami Beach’s Removal Of Mural Memorializing Victim Of Police Shooting Is “Government Speech”, Rules...
A three-judge panel upheld the U.S. District Court ruling that, since the city government had commissioned Rodney Jackson‘s Memorial to Raymond Herisse (2019) and...
The Oxford English Dictionary Is One Of History’s Great Crowdsourcing Projects
"The OED’s founders realized that such a titanic task could never be accomplished by a small circle of men in London and Oxford, so...
Keeping The Choreography Of “Wicked” Fresh For 20 Years
Associate choreographer Corinne McFadden Herrera: "It’s a never-ending process. The show’s principals generally stay about a year here in the States, and then we...
The 24 Hour Plays — What I’ve Learned Pulling All-Nighters To Help Create One-Acts...
Veteran TV writer/showrunner Warren Leight (Law & Order: SVU): "Be open. … Some writers come in with a notion of what they’re going to...
Malaysian Government Orders All Concert Organizers To Have A Kill Switch To Cut Off...
"The deputy communications minister, Teo Nie Ching, told the parliament’s lower house that concert organisers must have 'a kill switch that will cut off...
Court Ruling Revives Copyright Lawsuit Over Dance Movies In Video Game “Fortnite”
"In a 'novel' ruling on 'one of the oldest forms of human expression,' the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a...
A Hollywood Writer’s (Anonymous) Post-Strike Diary
"Re-entry is always harder than takeoff. … What’s weird is the adrenaline let-down. … That fact remains, though, it’s not really over. Not as...
The (Worrisome?) Rescue And Resurrection Of Ebony Magazine
The flagship of African-American legacy media, hard-hit by the forces hammering print media over the past two decades, went bankrupt in 2019. Black investors...
Plans For Museum About Pulse Nightclub Massacre In Orlando Are Abandoned
"Leaders of a private foundation working to build a museum and memorial to honor the victims of (murder) at a gay nightclub in Florida...
Frick Pittsburgh Cancels Exhibition Of Islamic Art
"'Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art' was announced by the museum in early October — days before Hamas attacked Israel — and was...
