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A Visit To Beeple’s New $10 Million Studios
Having gotten $69 million for the digital artwork that started NFT madness (which he predicted would be a bubble), the artist formally named Mike...
London’s West End Has Its First New Theatre In 50 Years
Inside the 602-seat venue, called @sohoplace, "sophisticated acoustic design means there is no need for mics or bellowing onstage – and most impressively, no...
Playwright Christopher Durang Diagnosed With Progressive Aphasia
Specifically, logopenic primary progressive aphasia, a form of Alzheimer's disease described thus by one of Durang's medical specialists: "instead of starting in the memory...
Why Is Adapting Jane Austen For The Screen So Tricky?
"The answer lies in the expectations that Austen fans, a particularly passionate and opinionated crowd, bring to her work. The problem isn't that (the...
How Evelyn Glennie’s Brain Works: The Neuroscience Of Deaf People’s Experience Of Music
"Because every hard-of-hearing person has a different history with music, and because every brain is different, how an individual's vibrotactile sense may fill in...
Want A Career In Classical Music? You Need To Be Either Rich Or Very,...
"It is a game you can train for, one you can become tremendously skilled at, but that skill and work is such a basic...
Cal Shakes Director Eric Ting Resigns
"Eric Ting is leaving his position as artistic director of California Shakespeare Theater, the company announced Wednesday, July 20, bringing to an end a...
HarperCollins Staffers Stage One-Day Strike, Demanding Less-Appallingly-Low Pay
"Around 100 employees and additional supporters (were) marching in front of the company's corporate headquarters in Manhattan in the sticky heat for higher wages,...
Russian Feminist-Queer Artist-Activist Acquitted Of Pornography Charges
"Yulia Tsvetkova, 29, spent months under house arrest after authorities in the remote city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur launched a criminal case into the 'spread of...
Bollywood’s Latest Blockbusters Are Not Doing Big Box-Office
"Expectations that pent-up demand from movie-hungry audiences would lead to packed cinema halls have been belied by millions of dollars in lost revenue, as...
Ukraine’s Historic Churches Are Being Ravaged By Russia’s War — And There’s Too Much...
"Ukraine's churches are the hardest hit of all heritage sites in the war-torn country, new data suggests. But a coalition of priests and religious...
Fired Artistic Director Of Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Says He Won’t Return If Invited...
In a statement released this week, Ken-Matt Martin writes, "I have decided that I need to take a break from nonprofit theatre administration and...
When It Was First Shown, Picasso’s “Guernica” Bombed (Ahem)
"Picasso, deeply apolitical, had shown little interest in the Spanish Civil War. ... Nor had he ever done a public mural, let alone one...
The War Between TV Studios And Their Creative Workers Over Pay Is Going To...
"In the 2023 round of negotiations with the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA, the discussions are sure to...
Henry Louis Gates Is Editing A New Dictionary Of Black American English
"A new dictionary — the Oxford Dictionary of African American English — will attempt to codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black...
The New Yorker’s Archive Editor Accuses Editor-In-Chief David Remnick Of Inserting Errors Into Her...
In a 40-part tweetstorm, Erin Overbey argued that she was put under a performance review after complaining that female and male staffers at the...
Is Lincoln Center Edging Classical Music Out Of Its Summer Programming?
Lincoln Center president Henry Timms: "In terms of volume, probably, the amount of classical music being presented hasn't changed much. The nature of it...
2022 Kennedy Center Honors: Tania León, Gladys Knight, George Clooney, U2, Amy Grant
"The performing artists recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture include actor and filmmaker George Clooney; contemporary Christian and pop singer Amy Grant;...
Baltimore Symphony Makes History Again, Appointing Its First Black Music Director
Jonathon Heyward, now 29 and chief conductor of the Northwest German Philharmonic, will be (after the late James DePreist of the Oregon Symphony) the...
Big Publishing’s Lawsuit Against The Internet Archive’s Open Library Is “A Trojan Horse”
The big-firm plaintiffs' brief accuses the Internet Archive of "mass-scale copyright infringement" and giving away "full-text digital bootlegs for free." (The Archive's Open Library...
Teaching Refugees To Tell Their Stories Via Standup Comedy
"The award-winning British comedian Tom Parry ... led facilitators in Athens and Lesbos in teaching the infamously nerve-racking art of standup comedy. Speaking to...
What’s The Most Watched News Publisher On YouTube? Vox
In number of subscribers, Vox is fourth, behind the BBC, ABC News, and CNN. But in average number of views per video, Vox racks...
“What If Arts Funding Was Honest And We Finally Admitted That It’s All Just...
"That beauty is subjective and all of our interests are conflicted. What if we replaced this arbitrary system that we pretend is rational, with...
The Nine Best Operas Of The 21st Century (So Far): A Reader Poll
Popular new opera? Well, yes: the Met did four main-stage contemporary works just last season. (Also, we're talking the likes of Jake Heggie, not...
More Interesting Finds At Jerusalem’s Church Of The Holy Sepulchre
Archaeologists have announced that they've discovered rock layers from the quarry whose granite was used to build the Byzantine Emperor Constantine's original church in...
