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Philadelphia Orchestra Cancels Next Spring’s Tour To California
Concerts in early March in Los Angeles, Orange County, Santa Barbara, and Palm Desert were found "no longer financially viable" due to "significant increases...
Ken Jennings’s Travel Guide To John Milton’s Paradise
"You'll arrive at a realm ringed by a crystal wall and enter through the blazing portal of its golden-hinged gate — which will open...
Don’t Fret, Book Lovers: ChatGPT And Other AI Programs Will Not Destroy Literature
"For years, venture capitalists have promised to upend books and the structures around their creation and consumption. … For the most part, despite tech's...
A 24-Year-Long Restoration Of 16th-Century Tapestries Is Finally Complete
"On Thursday, the final tapestry in the set of 13 Gideon tapestries (at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire) was unveiled on the wall of the...
Even Librarians And Parade Organizers In Florida Are Relieved As Court Blocks DeSantis’s Anti-Drag...
"Librarians who feared fines for hosting drag queen story hours and Pride parade organizers who worried about citations for including drag performers can breathe...
Despite Rhetoric And Good Intentions, Arts Orgs In Australia Haven’t Done Much To Diversify...
"Of the 184 cultural organisations surveyed, and 1,011 individual responses from those working within arts organisations, more than half the respondents conceded they had...
Flooding Near The Taj Mahal May Actually Be Beneficial
Heavy monsoon rains this summer have swollen the Yamuna River in Agra right up to the Taj's walls. There might be slight damage to...
Why Would Disney Sell Off ABC? And Who’d Buy It?
"The decline of the linear TV business model has been apparent for years. But even so, the idea that ABC — not to mention...
Just Before A Strike Vote, Backstage Union IATSE, Broadway Producers, And Disney Agree On...
"The Broadway League and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees say a tentative agreement has been reached among the two parties and Disney...
Tony Bennett, 96
"Few entertainers have had such a remarkable second act. He had his first top-selling hit in 1951 with 'Because of You,' then topped the...
New Haven Symphony’s Next Music Director Is Perry So
"So" — who begins his term in the fall of 2024 — "isn't a stranger to New Haven. Born and raised in Hong Kong,...
David Byrne Named Artistic Director Of London’s Royal Court Theatre (No, Not That David...
"David Byrne, an award-winning playwright and director who has built a powerful reputation at a small studio theatre in London" called New Diorama, "is...
Philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt, The First Great Theorist Of Bullshit, Is Dead At 94
"(His) fresh ideas about the human will were overshadowed in the broader culture by his analysis of a kind of dishonesty that he found...
Keeping Yiddish Alive — And Secular — In Melbourne
"Today, Yiddish is most commonly used in ultra-Orthodox communities in places like Brooklyn or Jerusalem. But in Melbourne, snatches of it can be heard...
Europe’s Most Famous Churches Are Finding It Hard To Have Worship Services Amidst All...
From Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to the Vatican to Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, the challenge is that "worshippers, who often come because celebrated churches tend...
Ira Glass Talks About “This American Life” As A Business
"(In the beginning), there was no real reason for (public radio stations) to pick us up. So …we basically looked for what the stations...
Is This Wing-Shaped, Standing-On-Its-Side Baby Grand Piano Ingenious Or Ridiculous?
"Dan Harden's proposal, called the Ravenchord, is shaped like a bird's wing, with strings fanning out from the center. In concert, a pianist would...
Director of Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia Fears Italy’s Rightist Government Will Revoke The Museum’s Independence...
"Even as Cecilie Hollberg highlights her achievements at Italy's second-most-visited museum" — it's the home of Michelangelo's David — "since arriving in 2015, rumors...
At Colorado’s Central City Opera, CEO Pamela Pantos Is Suddenly Out In The Middle...
Pantos joined the summer opera festival as president in February of 2022 — with longtime company chief Pelham Pearce remaining as artistic director. But...
Since The Password-Sharing Crackdown, Netflix Has Gained Nearly 6 Million Subscribers
The streaming company added 5.9 million new paid subscribers during the second quarter of 2023, the first period after instituting what it calls its...
Ancient Dance Floor Designed To Sound Like Thunder Is Discovered In Peru
"Found at the site of Viejo Sangayaico, 200km southeast of Lima, the floor was built into an open-air platform sometime between AD1000 and AD1400....
For Its New Artistic Director, Chicago Shakespeare Turns To One Of England’s Great Theatre...
Edward Hall, who founded the all-male Shakespearean specialist Propeller Theatre Company, is the brother of actress/director Rebecca Hall and son of Royal Shakespeare Company...
Another Jackass Carves Her Name Into The Colosseum In Rome
"A Swiss teenager is the latest offender to start carving her name into the ancient amphitheatre. The 17-year-old was caught in the act, with...
Explosions, Radiation Sickness, And A Love Song To The Periodic Table: Simon Mayo On...
"The head of Opera Holland Park, James Clutton, … approached Jonathan Dove to compose the music and Alasdair Middleton to write the libretto. The...
Explaining “Situation Deepfakes”. How They Could Affect Elections, And How To Guard Against Them
"The idea and technology of a situation deepfake are the same as any other deepfake, but with a bolder ambition: to manipulate a real...
