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Meet Some Of The Workers Making Theatre Accessible To Disabled People
Ben Glover is a creative captioner, integrating captions for the hearing-impaired into set and lighting design. Nadine Beasley provides live audio description for the...
SXSW Expands Beyond Austin For The First Time —And It’s Going A Very Long...
The Aspen-Festival-for-hipsters is crossing both the Pacific and the Equator: SXSW Sydney will run October 15-22 this year, focusing primarily on creative industries in...
“Copying Is Not Satire, It Is Theft. And Lying To Consumers Is Not Conceptual...
That declaration comes from the federal lawsuit that Yuga Labs, which created the Bored Ape Yacht Club, against artist Ryder Ripps for alleged "trademark...
Anti-Oil Protestors Are Gluing Themselves To Paintings In British Museums
Asking "What's more important? This painting? Or a future?" (as if they were mutually exclusive), members of the group Just Stop Oil glued their...
San Diego’s Theaters Are Back. Half Of Their Audience Is Not.
"For some, the drop has been small, but for most, the average decline is about 50 percent of 2019 sales. Local theater leaders say...
Amazon Is Spending Big Money To Become A Player In Live Sports Media
The retailing-giant-turned-streaming-giant already has a $1 billion-per-year deal for NFL games and a similar deal for the UK's Premiere League soccer. Now Amazon has...
YouTube Has Spawned A Crop Of Media Critics
"They almost certainly see themselves as comedians, not media critics, but they haven't hesitated to judge the content they discuss. They cover an arena...
Is Taika Waititi Maybe A Little Bit, Er, Workaholic?
"His runaway résumé is also a sign of how difficult Waititi finds it to say no. And if you wonder how anyone can possibly...
Is There About To Be A Labor Dispute At The Alvin Ailey Company?
The contract between Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and its dancers' union expires this week, and there's no new agreement in sight. The union...
A Little Dust-Up Over Opera And Classism In Britain’s Parliament
Boris's deputy, Dominic Raab, took a potshot at Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner (a longtime union rep proud of her working-class roots) for going...
San Francisco Expands Its Guaranteed Income Pilot For Artists
"Thanks to funding from Jack Dorsey's #StartSmall foundation and a donation from billionaire McKenzie Scott, which supplemented the city's initial investment with $3.5 million,...
“It’s A Mysterious Thing, The Dynamic Between A Puppet Onstage And The Audience, Even...
Take, for instance, the puppet playing Milky White the cow in the upcoming Broadway revival of Sondheim's Into the Woods. - The New York...
Hagia Sophia’s 1,500-Year-Old Marble Floors Cracked By Heavy Machinery
"A number of marble tiles on the floor of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which was turned back into a mosque in 2020 after...
Remember When Hollywood Threatened To Pull Out Of Georgia Over An Abortion Ban? It...
"Now that the law is on the verge of going into effect, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, the studios have gone quiet. ......
Germany Signs Formal Agreement To Return 1,100 Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
"The collection of metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin ... that have found their way into...
There’s A New, Well-Endowed Funder On The Arts Scene
"Funded by a $440 million bequest from Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, the Ruth Foundation for the Arts immediately enters the highest echelons of arts...
The US Has Lost 360 Newspapers Since 2019
"That is on top of the 2,500 closures since 2004 documented in earlier reports. The result is even more 'news deserts' in poorer and...
Can New York City Public Schools Have Both Smaller Class Sizes And Music And...
Probably not, says Education Through Music executive director Janice Weinman, and especially not this year. The state legislature just passed a law requiring the...
The Poetry Of Marilyn Monroe
She wrote poetry regularly, though she never published any of it. Sure, she was no Marianne Moore, but there's real thought and feeling in...
Who Was St. Sebastian, And How Did He Become A Major Element In Gay...
He was a Roman soldier martyred in the 3rd century CE, traditionally depicted tied to a tree, wearing only a loincloth, his bare torso...
The Bells Of Notre-Dame And The Sounds You Never Knew They’ve Been Making
Large cast-metal bells like the ten at the Paris cathedral (they survived the 2019 fire) emit sounds all the time: when they're not actively...
Queering Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Yes, Serge Diaghilev was what we might call today queer, but he certainly couldn't be open about it — and neither could the pathbreaking...
Foley Artists And The Secrets Of Movie Sounds
"The bulk of the sound in film is typically added in postproduction. ... Foley effects are custom to a film, and are synchronized to...
The Oberammergau Passion Play, An Almost 400-Year-Old Tradition, Is Not Just Back, It’s Better
"Thanks to steady work since 1990 to maximize the play's ecumenicism via ever bolder changes in characterizations and design" — in particular, altering anti-Semitic...
The One American City Where Contemporary Classical Music Has Become The Norm
Mark Swed: "New York, London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam happen to be historically vibrant centers of new music. ... But new music hasn't in...
