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Two Miami City Ballet Alums Start Up Southwest Florida’s First Professional Company
After they left MCB, Iliana Lopez and Franklin Gamero launched a school in Fort Myers, training dancers and then watching them leave for elsewhere...
Could Studios Use Chat-GPT To Produce Scripts And Get Around The Writers’ Strike?
"If half the internet can be tricked by an AI-created Drake and The Weeknd collab, could that same tech write scripts and enable studios...
Austria Prepares To Return Two Parthenon Marbles To Greece
"Museums in Austria and Greece are discussing the potential return to Athens of two ancient Greek sculptures, a move which could have a knock-on...
Renzo Piano’s Latest Museum Building, Istanbul Modern, Is Opening
"The building boasts a footprint of 110,000 square feet, with dedicated space for temporary and permanent exhibitions, educational programs, film screenings, and a café....
Another Step To A Well-Deserved Pritzker Prize? Yasmeen Lari Wins The RIBA Royal Gold...
Her country's first female architect, Lari, now 82, gave up a career building high-profile landmarks to design simple, inexpensive structures of bamboo and mud...
What It’s Really Like To Live In A House By Frank Lloyd Wright
"Actually living in a work of art affects how you see and feel details on a daily level." says one of the seven homeowners...
Translating “Blue”, Derek Jarman’s Final Film, To The Stage
Released a year before Jarman's 1994 death from AIDS, Blue is a collage of texts, narrated over an empty blue screen, on illness and...
Yvonne Jacquette, Who Painted Dazzling Aerial Landscapes Decades Before There Were Drones, Is Dead...
"She crisscrossed continents for those brief glimpses of natural and man-made landscapes, which she often made into watercolors while on board." Sometimes she painted...
Can Members Of The Actors’, Directors’, And Tech Crew Unions Refuse To Cross The...
Contracts generally prevent unions themselves from joining in, but individual members may choose to honor the picket line — though not necessarily without consequences....
Disney Sued Florida Gov. DeSantis And His Hand-Picked Board. Now That Board Is Countersuing...
"The board overseeing Disney's special taxing district" – the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board of supervisors – "voted on Monday to sue the...
Hollywood Writers’ Strike Immediately Shuts Down Late-Night TV Shows
The work stoppage by the Writers Guild of America has led to the temporary closure of the weekday late-night shows on NBC, ABC, CBS,...
Vice Media Is About To Declare Bankruptcy: Report
"Vice, the brash digital-media disrupter that charmed giants like Disney and Fox into investing before a stunning crash-landing, is preparing to file for bankruptcy,...
The Streisand Effect Applies To Censored Books, Too
"The best sales pitch is the threat of censorship. It draws attention to books that might otherwise have gone under the radar." What's more,...
Here’s Why San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Resigned So Suddenly
Two weeks ago, Danielle St.Germain stepped down from the dance troupe without explanation. Now the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have announced that...
La Scala Just Finished Its Second Renovation In 20 Years. Here’s A Q&A With...
Mario Botta: "We've added a 17-story structure (six floors are underground) on the Via Verdi. At the base of this tower is an orchestra...
Reckoning With George Balanchine, For Good And Ill
"It's possible to see Balanchine as both a god and a bogeyman, responsible for everything that's wonderful or wrong about ballet. Of course, that's...
Meet The Boxing Champion Who Helped The Met Opera Stage The Fights In “Champion”
Chris Dumont, the company's fight director, is much more used to staging fencing than fist-fighting with gloves. So he turned to former professional WBO...
How The Journalists Of Kyiv’s Main English-Language Newspaper Regrouped After Its Oligarch Owner Fired...
When Adnan Kivan bought the Kyiv Post, he promised editorial independence; when the paper became too critical of the Ukrainian government for his taste,...
Despite The Invasion, Independent Bookstores Are Opening And Thriving In Kyiv
"They have popped up like mushrooms after rain," says one visitor. Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian's chief culture writer, visits three of them. - The...
Where Did The EGOT Thing Come From, Anyway?
"Many people who first heard of an EGOT assume it originated on the hit NBC sitcom 30 Rock. ... It turns out the term...
What The Writers’ Guild Is Demanding In The Hollywood Strike
"The Guild (wants) a TV staffing minimum, which would range from six to 12 writers per show, based on the number of episodes, ......
An Advance Look At Madrid’s €162 Million Museum Of Royal Collections, Opening This Summer
"Overseen by Spain's national heritage institution, Patrimonio Nacional, the gallery's aim is to share hundreds of items drawn from the 19 royal palaces and...
2023 Tony Nominations Led By “Some Like It Hot,” “& Juliet,” “Shucked,” “A Doll’s...
Some Like It Hot garnered 10 nominations, while musicals & Juliet, Shucked, and New York, New York each landed nine. Leading the plays were...
Maybe This Man, Not John James Audubon, Is The Painter Of Birds We Should...
"Born in 1869, (Rex) Brasher left an enormous body of paintings, almost 900 large-scale watercolors documenting American bird life and habitat, that became the...
The Hollywood Writers’ Strike Is On
"Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for...
