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The Audience At This Musical Behaved So Badly That The Director Just Ended The...
Northern Ireland Opera's performance of Sondheim's Into the Woods in Belfast last Saturday was cut short at the intermission after spectators moved around and...
The Problem With Orchestras Programming Movies With Live Accompaniment
It's a good idea: audiences like it, and excellent music gets revived in the context it was meant for. It's not the technical difficulty...
Art Generated By Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Copyrighted, Rules U.S. Copyright Office
"Last week, a three-person board reviewed a 2019 ruling against Steven Thaler, who tried to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he...
One-Third Of The Oscar Categories Will Be Moved Off This Year’s Live Telecast
Of the 23 competitive awards, eight — editing, sound, makeup, original score, production design, and the live action, animated, and documentary shorts — will...
De Wain Valentine, Who Pioneered The Use Of Plastics As An Art Medium, Dead...
In particular, he was the first to use polyester resin and Plexiglas to make sculptures. (He learned how to shape and sand them in...
Whatever Happened To The Statue Of Voltaire In Paris That Got Pulled Down In...
It hasn't been seen since; many people feared that city authorities decided to melt it down, as the Vichy regime did with its predecessor...
How Aleshea Harris Puts Black Life Onstage
Hilton Als: "Harris's aim as a playwright is to remove the kitchen sink and slather the stage with blood and celebration. … Just as...
Serge Diaghilev Was Not A Good Guy: Bronislava Nijinska
The pathbreaking choreographer once wrote, " He victimised the ballet artists when they left his company and tried by all means possible to prevent...
“What Does It Mean To Make Black Film History Accessible?” Why Maya Cade Created...
"My driving question for all of this ... has been: What does this mean to a Black person? And not just the Black people...
“I’m A Fool, What Have I Done” — The Museum Guard Who Drew Eyes...
"Aleksandr Vasiliev, a decorated veteran of the Afghan and Chechen wars, told journalist Elena Pankratieva that he believed the 20th-century work by Anna Leporskaya...
Why Some Composers Are Fuming About This Year’s Classical Grammy Nominations
"Letters of complaint have been sent to the organisers, the Recording Academy, arguing that the tracks in question – by two separate artists, Jon...
The Editor Who Published “Maus” Recounts His Decision To Go Ahead With It
Tom Engelhardt, then at Pantheon Books: "The feeling that I simply had to do Maus was one of the two least rational decisions I...
Why Is There A Staff Exodus At Philadelphia’s Public Radio Station?
"In interviews, 10 former and six current WHYY staffers cited lower pay than at other media outlets, a lack of opportunities for advancement, a...
Scotland Allocates Yet More Money To COVID Arts Recovery
£16 million may not seem like much to Americans, but it can go a long way in a nation as small as Scotland. -...
Belgium Takes First Big Step Toward Returning Looted Art To Congo
The Belgian government has turned over to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's prime minister an inventory list of 85,000 items in the country's...
Jewish Jokes, And Jewish Humor, In A Time Of Increasing Hatred
"Scolds from the Anti-Defamation League … will never end an ancient prejudice, but they could ruin a good time. … That has made me...
The Twilight Of The “Slate Pitch”
"Slate had a whole editorial style that was based around provocative — some would say trolly — articles and up-is-down theses. … Everyone understood...
Here’s The Man With The Key To The Past At Jacob’s Pillow
"As director of preservation (and archivist), Norton Owen oversees exhibitions, the growing online resource Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive, PillowTalks, pre- and post-show lectures, and...
William Kraft, Who Helped Make Los Angeles A Hotbed Of New Music, Dead At...
At the L.A. Philharmonic, Kraft was principal timpanist, composer-in-residence, and associate conductor; he co-founded the L.A. Phil New Music Group, with which he started...
Inside San Francisco’s Emerging Black Composers Project
The joint program of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music is now working with its first class of fellows,...
Why Is Joe Rogan’s Podcast Such A Big Deal? It’s Not Politics. It’s Demographics.
"Rogan is not just a purveyor of right-wing ideologies. He has built an empire by introducing these ideas — and a wide range of...
How Brazil’s Version Of Joe Rogan Got Himself In Hot Water, Too
Bruno Aiub, who uses the nom de microphone Monark and who models his very popular podcast (titled Flow) on Rogan's, made an argument this...
Arts Venues Grapple With Whether To Require (And How To Enforce) Audience Masking
"Venue staff are increasingly on their own, leaving ushers, house managers, security staff and box office managers in the crosshairs of different audience members'...
Is This Broadway’s Worst Job? Front-Of-House COVID Compliance Officer
Says one, "There are so many moments where I'm shocked by humanity. Once when I called out for proof of vaccination and photo IDs,...
Harper Lee’s Executor Will Not Get To Take The “To Kill A Mockingbird” Film...
Those people being the heirs of star Gregory Peck and the producer and director of the 1962 film version. Executor Tonja Carter (as she's...
