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Warner Bros. Is Holding Secret “Funeral Screenings” Of Shelved “Batgirl” Movie
The showings are reportedly restricted to those who worked on the film, as well as selected executives and representatives, before the footage is locked...
More Basquiat Scandal Fallout: Orlando Museum’s Interim Director Resigns After Seven Weeks
Luder Whitlock took the temporary post on July 5, following the firing of director Aaron De Groft after the FBI confiscated as forgeries the...
This Is Possibly The Most Influential Artist Whose Name You’ve Never Encountered
One wouldn't expect to consider a designer of advertising posters to be historically important, but Jules Cheret's work — widely imitated and now found...
Hating Holden Caulfield Does Not Make You A Bad Person
Certain corners of Twitter need to be reminded of this: a bitter argument broke out last week between those who find him an insufferable...
In This Concert, An Artificial Intelligence Program Was The Piano Soloist
The software called Voyager improvises responses to a live performance in real time. Last week, New York's Ensemble Signal and jazz flutist Nicole Mitchell...
The Most Improvisational Of Standup Comedians Tries An Actually Scripted And Plotted Show
"You may not know her name, but (Kate) Berlant is influential in comedy circles, and her digressive style stands for everything that a scripted...
A First Look Inside The International African American Museum
The long-planned institution on Charleston's waterfront, set to open next January, will tell stories of the Africans involuntarily brought to the U.S. and their...
Genre- And Medium-Spanning Writer Michael Malone Is Dead At 79
"(He) moved seamlessly between genres, writing serious comic novels, comic serious novels and bestselling mystery novels — in addition to working on soap opera...
The Museum Of The Bible Returns A 1,000-Year-Old Manuscript Looted From A Greek Monastery
"The (Gospel) manuscript is to be repatriated next month to the Kosinitza Monastery in northern Greece, where it had been used in liturgical services...
Independent Spirit Awards Make Their Acting Categories Gender-Neutral
For both film and TV, the four current acting categories will be replaced with two, lead and supporting performances, with ten nominees each. For...
NPR Is Starting A Podcast Channel On YouTube
"On Thursday, the two announced that more than 20 NPR shows, including Up First and Throughline, are now available on the platform. ... The...
How Contemporary Dance Artists Who’ve Stayed In Ukraine Are Helping The War Effort
Some are continuing to create dance as possible; most are doing volunteer work as well. Several are developing ways to assist solders with stress...
Meet Tamara Rojo’s Successor At The Helm Of English National Ballet
Aaron Watkin, a 52-year-old Canadian who has spent the last 16 years as artistic director of the Semperoper Ballett in Dresden, actually danced with...
Actors’ Equity Joins The Fight To Unionize Dancers At An L.A. Strip Club
Performers who work or worked at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood have been picketing for months, arguing that working conditions...
The Guardian’s Dance Critic Rates Heads Of State On How They Boogie
If people are ragging on poor Sanna Marin, the Finnish prime minister who was videotaped while out partying, then Lyndsey Winship will wield her...
Covering Kyiv’s Anti-Tank “Hedgehogs” With Traditional Ukrainian Art
Artist Varvara Logvyn has been painting the steel obstacles, which look like giant jacks from a children's game, in the traditional, brightly colored Petrykivka...
Norah Vincent, Who Wrote A Bestseller About Living And Passing As A Man, Is...
"Ms. Vincent was a lesbian. She was not transgender, or gender fluid. ... She was a contrarian, and proud of it. ... She tilted...
Bullfighting Is Fading Away In Spain. So How Can They Repurpose All The Bullrings?
Most of them are in city and town centers, and many are architecturally significant and can't or shouldn't be demolished. Yet they're usually too...
Why Did Netflix Build A Gorgeous Replica Of The Sistine Chapel And Then Destroy...
The streamer spent $5 million to build it for The Two Popes, and it seems nobody understands why it wasn't repurposed. (Perhaps because the...
Why Did The Philadelphia Orchestra Pull Beethoven’s 9th From Its Edinburgh Concert? The Choir...
The concert is the first on a 15-day tour, and the players won't risk COVID transmission, so they asked the Edinburgh Festival Chorus to...
Return The Rosetta Stone To Egypt, Demands The Country’s Most Famous Archaeologist
Says Dr. Zahi Hawass of the 2,200-year-old stele, which provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, "The Rosetta Stone is the icon of Egyptian...
Francesca Zambello Wraps Up 12 Years At Glimmerglass Opera
She feels she has achieved her goals at the upstate New York summer festival: "Creating a 'festival' environment and focusing on our brand of...
“A Special Magic Of Its Own”: Wallace Shawn On The Pleasures Of Reading Plays
"The written play has its own music, its own pristine existence — words, thoughts, and spirit ... abstracted from the bodies of actors (moving)...
Alexander Payne And Laura Dern Figured “Citizen Ruth” Would Eventually Be A Period Piece. ...
Payne's 1996 dark comedy starred Dern as a trainwreck who finds herself co-opted into America's abortion battles. Says Dern now, "we thought we were...
The Issues Around Copyright For Choreography On TikTok Are Even Messier Than You Think
Intellectual property law concerning choreography in general hasn't yet been thoroughly worked out by the courts — and when it comes to choreography created...
