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How The Met Opera Makes The Severed Head For “Salome”
It has to look like Peter Mattei, who’s singing John the Baptist, so they start by making a mold of his head. Then they...
“AI Narration Is, In My Opinion, Immoral,” Writes David Sedaris
“I’m as interested in an artificial voice as I am in an artificial author, which is to say not at all. … This is...
How Did Pop Wizard David Foster Figure Out Broadway Songs For, Of All Characters,...
“The cartoons were perplexing to me because the music they used is so far beyond what I would relate to,” he explains. “Don’t get...
Majority Of Parents Don’t Enjoy Reading To Their Kids: Study
“Only 40% of parents ... agreed that ‘reading books to my child is fun for me’, according to a survey conducted by Nielsen and...
Orphaned University Of The Arts Dance Program Is Coming Back To Philly, But Not...
“The former UArts undergraduate dance program, that landed at Bennington College in Vermont, had planned to return to Philadelphia for the 2025-26 school year. But...
Andrew Karpen, Pillar Of U.S. Independent Film Industry, Has Died At 59
He was the COO of Focus Features beginning in 2002 and became president and co-CEO in 2006. In 2014 he left Focus to found...
Fort Worth Police Took $7,000 Trip To New York To Investigate Sally Mann For...
After seizing some of Mann’s photos of her children from an exhibition in Fort Worth, five FWPD officers spent four days and $6,988.77 in...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Sues Trump Administration For Trying To Fire Board Members
“In its complaint, ... the CPB and the three board members — Laura Ross, Thomas Rothman and Diane Kaplan — said the president does...
Mellon Foundation Provides “Emergency Funding” For State Humanities Councils Defunded By NEH
“The Mellon Foundation has announced $15 million in ‘emergency funding’ for state humanities councils across the country. The support comes after the Department of...
Federal Court Orders Trump Administration To Release Radio Free Europe Funding
“U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth … granted the temporary restraining order for the U.S. Agency for Global Media to disburse ($12 million) for April...
All U.S. Holocaust Museum Board Members Appointed By Biden Have Been Fired
“The Trump administration has terminated members of the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum appointed by President Joe Biden — including Doug...
The 19-Year-Old Bisexual Diarist Who Became The Literary Sensation Of 1902 America
“Originally titled ‘I Await the Devil’s Coming’, The Story of Mary MacLane records four months in the life of its author. Nothing much happens in...
A Rabbit On The Couch In A Psychoanalyst’s Office
“The premise may seem absurd but that is precisely the point – absurdism is a way of dealing with themes that have proved ......
A Dancer-Turned-Neuroscientist On Finding Flow
“This passing of the boundary between ‘doing steps’ and really dancing … is truly exhilarating. I’ve experienced it many times when dance took me...
Southwest Florida Symphony Closes Down
The orchestra will remain in business through the end of its fiscal year on June 30. That coincides with the previously announced departure of the...
Child Damages Mark Rothko Painting In Rotterdam
“Conservators will now have to repair the artwork, Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8, after it was ‘scratched’ by a child visiting the Rotterdam gallery where...
New Indie Publisher, Conduit Books, Will Focus On Male Authors
Says founder Jude Cook, “Excitement and energy around new and adventurous fiction is around female authors – and this is only right as a...
Detroit Opera Stages “The Central Park Five” And Braces For Trump Blowback
“(The company’s) leadership team understands the perils of mounting a production that waves a red cape at a pumped-up, reactive presidency. Surprisingly, the opera...
Civil Rights Leaders Rally Around Smithsonian’s African-American History Museum
“A coalition ... kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts...
San Francisco Symphony Musicians Use MTT’s Last Concerts Ever To Demand More Money
At these 80th-birthday concerts for Michael Tilson Thomas, who has suffered a recurrence of an aggressive brain cancer, the musicians distributed leaflets to the...
British Sunday Newspaper The Observer Relaunches After Being Sold By The Guardian
“Editor-in-chief and major shareholder James Harding set out his stall in the first issue under its new Tortoise ownership on Sunday, (saying) the paper...
Indiana Lawmakers Cut All State Funding For Public Radio And TV
“The public wasn't given a chance to testify on the 11th-hour change, quietly added to the 220-page budget bill just one day before lawmakers...
Two Scholars Argue Over The Number of Penises In The Bayeux Tapestry
Oxford professor George Garnett announced in 2019 that he had counted 93 penises stitched into the embroidered account of the Norman conquest of England — 88...
Revisiting The World’s First Advice Column, Which Debuted In 1691
London printer John Dunton created the Athenian Gazette, or Casuistical Mercury as a broadsheet answering questions and providing topics for patrons to discuss at coffeehouses....
Hofesh Schechter Says The English Have A Problem With Contemporary Dance
“’English audiences, in particular, expect to come in, understand it, and have a good conversation about it afterwards.’ The Israeli-born, soon-to-be-British choreographer would prefer...
