ArtsJournal1
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...
The Little Red Barn Where Some Of The World’s Best Ballet Dancers Grow
The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet was founded in Carlisle, a college town in the south-central part of the state, in 1955. The school has...
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....
