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Editing Video News Footage Has Become A Fraught Matter (Thanks To You-Know-Who)
“In the space of a few months, a straightforward journalistic skill — editing tape for broadcast — has been behind a $16 million legal...
Turmoil At Palm Springs Art Museum Over Hiring of New Director
Trustee Patsy Marino, who chaired the search committee, has resigned (along with two other trustees) over the elevation of chief curator Christine Vendredi to...
“The Hunger Games” Has Now Become An “Immersive Theatrical Experience”
“To succeed, critically and commercially, the stage version must balance the horror the novel describes with enough verve and spectacle to delight a discerning,...
City Council Restores Funding To Dallas Black Dance Theatre
“On Wednesday, Dallas City Council voted to grant $225,000 for cultural programming to (DBDT). Last year, $248,000 in funding was cut in response to...
Sting Will Revive His Old Broadway Musical At The Metropolitan Opera House
The Last Ship flopped in its initial Broadway run in 2014-15. Sting has now revised the show, with new songs and a new director,...
George Lucas’s Museum Of Narrative Art Gets Official Opening Date
“After years of delays, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles will finally open its doors to the public on September 22,...
World Cup Draw Will Take Over Kennedy Center For Three Weeks At No Charge:...
The Dec. 5 draw, the World Cup’s highest-profile pre-tournament event, was expected to be held in Las Vegas. Trump reportedly swooped in at the...
Temple University To Open Downtown Philadelphia Campus Where UArts Used To Be
Temple, the Pennsylvania state university whose main campus is in North Philadelphia, will renovate Terra Hall, which had been a classroom building for the...
When The Andrew Lloyd Webber Canon Becomes Experimental Theater
Critic Zachary Stewart considers how the new immersive adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera (titled Masquerade), the drag-ball production of Cats (subtitled The...
San Diego City Council Promises Not To Cut Arts Funding In Next Budget
“Council members have declared city arts funding off limits for budget cuts next spring, even as they face a projected $111 million deficit. ......
Explainer: The Crisis At The BBC That Cost The Director-General His Job And Drew...
“(A journalist) takes a deep-dive into all the facts of this fast-developing story, and why it’s brought the BBC to an inflection point.” -...
London’s Royal Opera Institutes Dynamic Pricing, And Top Ticket Prices Soar
“(The house) is selling tickets for Siegfried, the third instalment of Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle, for up to £415 ($546). This is the priciest known...
Choreography In Space: Exploring The Possibilities
“How? The answer in (one) case was Velcro-covered suits, … just one form of technology that dancers are using to simulate the effects of...
Staffers Call Strike At Britain’s Tate Galleries
Workers at all four galleries — Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, Tate St. Ives in Cornwall, and Tate Liverpool — represented by the...
Some US Bookstores Have Set Up Food Banks To Help Cut-Off SNAP Recipients
“With the (federal government) shutdown creating anxiety and uncertainty for those who depend on government aid, many independent bookstores took on a new role...
US Museums Have Had A Pretty Rough 2025, Finds Survey
An American Alliance of Museums survey of over 500 museum directors found that one-third of responding museums have lost government grants or contracts under...
Disney’s Standoff With YouTube Could Cost It Quite A Lot
“Disney may lose $30 million in revenue per week as its carriage dispute with YouTube TV has left ABC, ESPN and more of the media giant’s...
Antiquities Stolen From National Museum Of Damascus
Thieves smashed open a door on Sunday night and reportedly took ancient Roman marble statues and gold items. The museum had reopened for good,...
Actress Sally Kirkland, 86
A Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award winner and Oscar nominee for the 1987 film Anna, in which she plays a great Czechoslovak actress...
Musicians Of Venice’s Opera House Lead March Through City To Protest Music Director
“On Monday, musicians, singers and stagehands (from Teatro La Fenice) marched through Venice with workers from other Italian opera houses. … They were joined...
Inside The Negotiations That Ultimately Kept Broadway Actors From Striking
As the union’s executive director, Al Vincent Jr., tells it, Actors’ Equity was much closer to declaring a work stoppage than we might think....
There Are Two Farmer’s Almanacs In The US. Only One Is Shutting Down.
There are The Farmer’s Almanac and The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Both are over 200 years old and both are annual publications known for their...
Protesters Disrupt Opening Of Nigeria’s New Museum Of West African Art
“Videos circulating online show more than a dozen young people on Sunday evening rushing the grounds of the multi-million-dollar Museum of West African Art...
Lucinda Childs’s Niece Comes Into Her Own As A Choreographer
“As (Ruth) Childs carved her own path as a freelance dancer (in Europe), the specter of her aunt’s work loomed. It continued to deter...
Boston’s WGBH Has Fourth Round Of Layoffs This Year
“Fifteen employees were told that their positions were being eliminated, according to a statement from President and CEO Susan Goldberg. She cited the loss...
