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Tom Sizemore Was A Drug-Addicted Basket Case — And One Of Hollywood’s Most Compelling...
"He was one of a long line of screen performers whose brilliance was shadowed by shocking offenses that employers were willing to factor into...
Can The Famously Reverberant Acoustics Of Notre-Dame Cathedral Be Restored? Should They Be?
Brian Katz, co-chief of the acoustics team for the medieval cathedral's reconstruction, has created a computer model — of which we can hear samples...
Notre-Dame In Paris Sets A Reopening Date
"The reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors at the end of 2024, less than six years...
Peak TV? These Days, We’re Headed For Trough TV.
"The boom isn't just ending. It's imploding, with some (shows) being snuffed out or vaporized altogether, and the old winner-take-all logic reasserting itself. Even...
Indie Film Studio A24 Buys An Off-Broadway Theater
"The studio, which until now has focused on making movies, television shows and podcasts, has purchased the Cherry Lane Theater for $10 million, and...
In California, The Creative Economy Is Bouncing Back From COVID Unusually Well
"The latest edition of the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy, an annual study from the Los Angeles arts school, found that the...
Daniel Harding Named Music Director Of Rome’s Leading Orchestra
"The 47-year-old British conductor has a ... new post at the The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra, starting in the fall of 2024....
Swamped By Demand For Vermeer Tickets, The Rijksmuseum’s Servers Just Give Up
"'Due to huge demand for extra tickets for the Vermeer exhibition, the website is experiencing problems,' the Rijksmuseum announced on Monday. 'Ticket sales have...
New England Symphony Orchestra Has A New Name And A New Home
The ensemble had been playing since 1974 in the north-central Massachusetts towns of Lancaster and Fitchburg under the name Thayer Symphony Orchestra; it re-christened...
The Critic-Hating, Dog-Poop-Smearing Choreographer Loses His Other Gig, Too
"The Nederlands Dans Theater has decided to suspend its collaboration with disgraced choreographer Marco Goecke. Earlier this month, (he) smeared dog feces in the...
This Circus, Having Stopped Using Elephants, Is Using Holographs Of Them Instead
"Circus-Theater Roncalli, which was founded (in Germany) in 1976, introduced the holograms in 2019 when they partnered with a German firm specializing in augmented...
Chile’s Most Famous Circus Has Been Battling Anti-Gay Discrimination For 54 Years
"All Chileans know Circo Timoteo," said manager Stéfano Rubio. More a cabaret in a tent than a conventional circus, Timoteo began in 1968 when...
Why Aren’t People Flocking To Movie Theaters? Maybe Because The Projection Is Getting So...
Neglected equipment, screens sagging or dusty with popcorn flecks, images that are too dark and sometimes bleed off the screen. "If a movie theater...
The Crusade For Equity Language Is High-Handed, Counterproductive, And Arguably Immoral: George Packer
"These changes ... are handed down in communiqués written by obscure 'experts' who purport to speak for vaguely-defined 'communities,' remaining unanswerable to a public...
Only 37 Vermeer Paintings Are Known. The Big Rijksmuseum Show Has 28. Nine Are...
"Vermeer's production was certainly larger, so the hunt continues. ... Art historians have found it particularly difficult to track down Vermeer's work for a...
Visiting A Hindu Temple That Sculptures Were Looted From
The Tanesar sculptures were stolen from India circa 1961, ultimately ending up at such prominent locations as LACMA, the British Museum, and the Met....
I Went To The Royal Opera On A £1 Ticket
Journalist Hugh Morris managed to score the ultimate prize of a cheap-tickets-for-young-audiences scheme: £1 admission to the most expensive classical arts venue in London. ...
England’s “Levelling Up” Agenda For Arts Funding Will Probably Fail The Regions It’s Supposed...
"Without a wider strategy, the worry for many is that the changes in Arts Council England grants won't come in conjunction with other kinds...
Leonard Cohen’s Heirs Sue His Ex-Manager For Forgery
"Leonard Cohen's children and heirs, Lorca and Adam Cohen, have filed a motion accusing the legendary singer-songwriter's former manager, Robert Kory, and his legal...
Willem Dafoe Is Genuinely Addicted To His Work
"Acting is not so much a job for Dafoe as a way of being, a practice so essential he can't go without it. ......
Revisiting The First Edition Of The Encyclopedia Britannica — And The Much, Much Larger...
"Encyclopedias are not like rose bushes, for which pruning is everything. They are usually the opposite, more like Japanese knotweed, spreading wildly and germinating...
Hip-Hop Meets Symphony Orchestras
Classical instruments have been sampled for hip-hop for decades, but in recent years such hip-hop stars as Mos Def, will.i.am, Pharrell Williams, and Kendrick...
Sweden Is Having A National Freakout Over A Documentary Series Called “Three Dads”
"The show didn't just annoy Swedish viewers, though — it wholly divided them. Three Dads has become a sensation during a winter of political...
How Exactly Do Movies And TV Shows Get Chosen For And Licensed To Airlines?...
"In-flight licensing (is) unique in the licensing business in that it raises questions among everyday consumers — like how titles are chosen, why a...
In War-Torn West Africa, A Pilot Project To Fight Looting And Trafficking Of Antiquities
Mali and Burkina Faso are blessed by active art scenes and scores of museums — and afflicted with militias causing murder and misery, and...
