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New Voices And A New Aesthetic At Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, the company's new artistic director: "I could have said, 'Oh, I'm throwing everything out,' but I don't think that's smart. ... (Yet)...
Actors’ Equity Makes Its Open Access Membership Program Permanent
"(The policy allows) any non-union theater worker to join who can demonstrate that they have worked professionally as an actor or stage manager within...
The Smithsonian Is Doing A Reality Show Competition — On MTV — For Artists
"The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is teaming up with MTV Studios to create the six episode docuseries The Exhibit: Finding the Next...
Hollywood Appears Headed For A Writers’ Strike. At Issue: The Streaming Economy
"The Writers Guild of America's current contract expires on May 1, and the industry is bracing for a major battle, and what could be...
The Strike At HarperCollins Appears To Be Settled
"HarperCollins Publishers and the union representing around 250 striking employees reached a tentative agreement providing increases to entry level salaries. If union members ratify...
Philadelphia Folk Festival Cancels This Year’s Edition, Says It’s Broke
"The Philadelphia Folksong Society is teetering on bankruptcy and won't put on its annual festival this summer for the first time in more than...
Why There’s Such A Fuss Over Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar Nomination: An Explainer
"(She) managed a surprise best-actress nomination last month that quickly turned from boon to boondoggle. It's the story everyone in Hollywood is talking about,...
Righteous Anger, Rightly Directed: Edouard Louis’s Books About Working-Class Poverty And Pain
"Louis's depiction of poverty is more radical in its honesty. Deprivation doesn't just cause pain and hunger; it also fosters hostility. Circumstances warp behavior....
How American Not-For-Profit Theatres Fared In 2021: A Look At The Numbers
"Sharp reductions in expenses coupled with large growth in government contributions and investments kept theatres afloat. ... As audiences return to live performances, theatres...
Confessions Of A Metropolitan Museum Guard
"I was attracted by this idea of doing something straightforward and honest and useful, like keeping people's hands off of some of the most...
Why Harry Styles’s Dancers At The Grammys Had To Rework Their Choreography Live On...
The song was performed on a giant rotating turntable. "After a week of rehearsing this piece perfectly going one way," explained a dancer, "the...
Burt Bacharach Dead At 94
"One of the last of the great popular songwriters of the 20th century, ... he created songs that became standards in their own right....
Search Engines’ AI Chatbots Could Soon Answer Questions Without Giving Links. What Happens To...
Microsoft is incorporating ChatGPT into Bing, and Google's at work on its own AI bot, called Bard, for its search engine. Organizations are very...
China Has Produced Deepfake News Videos And Released Them On Social Media
The videos, by a purported outlet called Wolf News, "were distributed by pro-China bot accounts on Facebook and Twitter, in the first known instance...
Sagrada Família In Barcelona Has A Big Problem Brewing With The Neighbors
Antoni Gaudí's great church has been under construction for over a century. Huge progress has been made in recent decades, and it's time to...
Stop Assaulting The Staff, Says Edinburgh Playhouse Boss To Audiences
"They have been verbally and physically assaulted by a small number of audience members while trying to do their job. Two weeks ago one...
Disney Co. Will Lay Off 7,000 Employees And Restructure
"With CEO Bob Iger back at the helm, the new organizational structure of (the company) is taking shape, with 7,000 layoffs planned. On Wednesday,...
One Of The Gun Charges Against Alec Baldwin Has A Big Legal Problem
"Prosecutors in New Mexico charged Alec Baldwin last week with a gun allegation that was not on the books at the time of the...
These New Solar Panels Are Made To Blend In Seamlessly At Historic Sites
The invisible solar panels ... were created by the Italian company Dyaqua. They can be designed to appear like stone, wood, concrete or brick,...
New Zealand’s Arts Funder Gets A Big Cash Infusion
Following last year's outcry over an even-larger-than-usual mismatch between the supply of and the demand for arts funding, the government has given Creative New...
Why The Current Crop Of Eat-The-Rich Movies Don’t Satisfy As Revenge Fantasy
"Watching these films, I found my class rage dissipating — giving way to pity — in proportion to the degree of suffering onscreen (and...
Here Comes The World’s First Heavy Metal Ballet
The as-yet untitled three-act piece, the brainchild of Birmingham Royal Ballet artistic director Carlos Acosta, will include eight songs by Black Sabbath (including "Paranoid"...
Coded Letters From The Imprisoned Mary, Queen Of Scots Have Been Deciphered
The 57 pieces of correspondence had been languishing unidentified in the archives of the National Library of France. They date from Mary's 18 years...
ChatGPT Will Not Answer Queries About Donald Trump. Why Is This?
No, it's not a matter of left-wing bias — on the part of the software (which is not alive and cannot think) or of...
The Conflict At The Heart Of The Turner Prize
"Without this competitiveness, the exhibition wouldn't have the same mass appeal. And that's the source of the Turner Prize's current identity crisis. On the...
