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Why Robotics Companies Are Working With Dancers
“As moving machines like drones and self-driving cars become more integrated into our daily lives, the tech companies behind them are realizing they need...
James Gaffigan Appointed Music Director Of Houston Grand Opera
The New York-born, Houston-trained conductor is currently general music director of the Komische Oper Berlin and just completed a term leading Valencia’s Palau de...
Chicago Arts Funding Could Shrink Next Year
“(Mayor Brandon) Johnson’s proposed budget allocates just north of $62 million for (the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events) for next year. That’s...
Have Leading Arts Organizations Fulfilled Their Diversity Promises? In Chicago, The Answer Is …
… in effect, “no comment.” Of 21 organizations WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times approached, only seven completed the survey. One answered part of it,...
Hunger: Inside David Ellison’s First 100 Days Running Paramount
“By the accounts of many industry insiders, Ellison has been leveraging his family’s extraordinary wealth and access to President Trump to prepare for a...
So, Who’s Really Looking To Buy Warner Bros. Discovery (Or Pieces Of It)?
“That’s the question on the minds of Hollywood and Wall Street after the company put itself up for sale, citing ‘unsolicited interest’ from ‘multiple...
“Vibe Coding” Is Collins Dictionary’s 2025 Word Of The Year
“’Vibe coding,’ an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, … was coined ... to describe how artificial intelligence...
Staffers At Detroit Institute Of Arts Prepare To Unionize
“DIA staff are seeking to unionize with AFSCME Cultural Workers United (AFSCME Michigan), a division of the national AFSCME union that represents workers at cultural institutions including...
Atlanta Symphony Extends Nathalie Stutzmann’s Contract As Music Director
Her term will run for three additional years, going through the end of the 2028-29 season. - ArtsATL
Kristin Chenoweth On The Backlash To Her Tweet On Charlie Kirk’s Death
“It was tough on me, but I’m not going to answer any questions about it because I dealt with it. It nearly broke me,...
“The Baker’s Wife,” A Musical That’s Been Proofing In The Oven For 50 Years
Composer Stephen Schwartz and book writer Joseph Stein spent months on a pre-Broadway tour in 1976 trying to fix the show. It didn’t work,...
Is Marseille Becoming A Dance Capital?
“The Ballet National de Marseille has also taken a bold new direction under the leadership of the experimental collective (LA)Horde, producing edgy performances drawing on...
DJing As Therapy For Ukrainian War Veterans
“At the Superhumans Centre, near Lviv, … the most critically war-wounded are treated with prosthetics and reconstructive surgery, and psychological support is given to...
Art Institute Of Chicago Is Building $50 Million Conservation Center
“The 25,000-square-foot facility, to be known as the Grainger Center for Conservation and Science, will contain conservation laboratories, offices and a study center as...
Historic Philadelphia Theater To Become Cicely Tyson Performing Arts Center
The former Logan Theatre, a 1923 movie palace on Broad Street in North Philadelphia which has been empty since 1992, will undergo a $10...
Grade Inflation At Elite Colleges: Students Are Obsessed With “Points Taken Off”
Harvard administrators have released a statement saying that grade inflation has crossed a catastrophic threshold. Many Harvard undergrads treated the statement as a catastrophe...
It’s Official: The Big, Weird, Brutalist Fountain In San Francisco Will Be Removed
“A divided San Francisco Arts Commission on Monday approved a plan to at least temporarily remove the Vaillancourt Fountain from Embarcadero Plaza, a final...
For First Time, Diary Collection Wins Baillie Gifford Prize For Nonfiction
“How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner charts the Australian writer's life from her early career in bohemian Melbourne to raising...
Prix Goncourt, France’s Top Literary Prize, Goes To 20th-Century Family Saga “The Empty House”
“Laurent Mauvignier Tuesday won France's top literary award, the Goncourt, for his family saga spanning the 20th century and recounting the story of his grandmother...
Medieval Tower In Rome Collapses, Kills Worker
During renovations on the 13th-century Torre dei Conti, the structure started to collapse, trapping two workers. During the 11-hour rescue operations, passersby watched as...
Some Folks Are Not Happy About Philadelphia Art Museum’s Rebrand, And That Includes Some...
“Critics say the new logo and its angular griffin look severe — more like a soccer team, a clothing brand, or a beer label...
Anne Sexton’s Horror Short Stories, Rejected By The New Yorker
Editor Roger Angell called the three stories “interesting and wholly original” but said “they seem to work in very different ways on different readers.”...
The Persistent, Pernicious Myths About Shakespeare And Marlowe
The Romantic ideal of a singular creative genius remaking the rules of his era doesn’t really match William Shakespeare, who was (for a theater...
Movie Theater Owners Are Freaking Out Over Possible Sale Of Warner Bros. Discovery
“Multiple theatrical executives … conveyed a sense of grave concern, if not panic, over the possibility of a studio that grossed more than $4...
Ohio Law Could Void Cleveland State University’s Transfer Of Its Student Radio Station To...
“The Cleveland State University-Ideastream deal over WCSB 89.3 could be invalidated because the college did not follow Ohio public meetings law, an expert on...
