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Amsterdam Is Trying Very Hard To Shed Its Reputation As A Party Destination
"To combat the excess of party tourism, new rules (began) this February — among them, a law that window brothels, bars and pubs in...
At 50, Carlos Acosta Is Returning To The Stage Of London’s Royal Ballet
"I was playing with doing the balcony pas de deux of Romeo and Juliet but that would have been way too much. I have...
Harriet Choice, A Pioneering Female Jazz Journalist, Is Dead At 82
"Thousands of people knew Harriet Rosenfeld Choice by the words she wrote for this newspaper, decades worth of her enthusiastic and influential coverage of...
Standup Comedians Aren’t Terribly Worried About The Threat Of AI (For Now)
"'Writing jokes will be one the very last tasks AI will be able to do convincingly and effectively,' predicts Conan vet Matthew Broussard. 'Meaning,...
Translating Manga For The US Market Has Been A Complicated Business
"Since manga was first introduced to the U.S. in the 1980s, American companies have wrestled with how to adapt the genre for their readers....
The National Youth Orchestra Of The United States, A Decade On
"Carnegie Hall's initiative to train the next generation turned 10 this year. After arriving July 1 for intensive instruction ... at suburban Purchase College,...
Actors’ Union Gives Approval For More Than Three Dozen Films To Shoot During Strike
"SAG-AFTRA has granted approval to 39 independent productions to shoot during the strike, after confirming that they are not tied to AMPTP companies. The...
Israel Lent Some Artifacts To President Trump. Now It Can’t Get Them Back From...
The antiquities were lent for a 2019 Hanukkah event at the White House but, due to a "bureaucratic difficulty," were never displayed. They were...
Hollywood Made A Film About The Movie Industry’s AI Crisis Ten Years Ago, Before...
Director Aril Folman's 2013 film The Congress, starring Robin Wright, "foresaw problems including actors' loss of control over their images, the specific difficulties of...
The Unlikely Composer Of The Music Most Played Over The Phone For Customers On...
"(She's) never played a live gig and is unknown to the music industry. But every day since 2017, Harriet Goldberg's jazzy instrumental, 'My Time...
Soaring Ticket Prices Due To Soaring Costs Are Threatening Australia’s Entire Arts Ecosystem
"The poet Mary Oliver once described art as being like 'bread in the pockets of the hungry'. … (But) what does it mean when...
Is This The Voice Of The Elusive Banksy?
Someone has dug out a 2005 interview on NPR's All Things Considered. Host: "We assume that you are who you say you are, but...
“Dr. Strangelove” Is Coming To The Stage
The nuclear apocalypse comedy will be adapted by Armando Iannucci (Veep, The Death of Stalin) and will star, and be directed by, Sean Foley....
Another Ethnic Casting Controversy As Hispanic Actress Signed To Play Fanny Brice In “Funny...
"As the North American tour of Funny Girl gets ready to hit the road beginning Sept. 9 following the Lea Michele-led musical's closing on...
This Artist Has Created A Robot Dog That Poops AI-Generated Art Criticism
"The furry pooch, named A.I.C.C.A. (or Artificially Intelligent Critical Canine) has been trained on a corpus of visual art and art writing. … Using...
Derek Malcolm, Longtime Film Critic For The Guardian, Is Dead At 91
"Derek defined himself as a reviewer rather than a critic, having started when more judgmental figures were leaving the arena. Among many choice anecdotes,...
A Major Art Gallery Is Now Representing A Choreographer
"Dancer Sarah Michelson has inked representation with David Zwirner, which has plans to show new work by her at its new Los Angeles location...
Major Buyouts And Layoffs At Penguin Random House
"Some of publishing’s most celebrated and enduring editors are leaving Penguin Random House after accepting buyout packages. Meanwhile, an undetermined number of company-wide layoffs...
Highway Tunnel Past Stonehenge Gets UK Government Approval
"The transport secretary has granted a development consent order for a scheme to widen roads and dig a two-mile tunnel near the ancient site....
The Censored Parts Of Elizabeth I’s First Biography Have Been Revealed
"State-of-the-art imaging technology has enabled the British Library to read hidden pages of William Camden's Annals for the first time. … Those pages had...
Orbán Government Fines Budapest Bookstore $36,000 For Displaying A Gay Young-Adult Graphic Novel
"Hungary’s right-wing government has fined a bookstore nearly €32,000 (12,000,000 forints) for displaying the award-winning young adult graphic novel Heartstopper in the children's section...
Translating A Stately, Centuries-Old Confucian Ritual Dance Into 21st-Century Performance
For their US debut, Seoul Metropolitan Dance Theater and stage director Kuho Jung have adapted the "il mu" dance from the royal Jongmyo Shrine,...
A Ukrainian Nonprofit Collects The Graffiti Invading Russian Soldiers Have Left Behind
"The cultural nonprofit Mizhvukhamy is documenting these findings in Wall Evidence, an open archive created for future research (on) the Russian invasion." Some samples:...
Why Did Dürer Paint Himself Into An Altarpiece? Spite, According To New Research
"The Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer took revenge on his patron" — Jacob Heller, a wealthy Frankfurt merchant — "after a bitter row over pay...
Nearly A Fifth Of Staff Laid Off At New York’s Public Theater
Says artistic director Oskar Eustis, "Our audience is down by about 30 percent, we have expenses up anywhere from 30 to 45 percent, and...
