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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...
UK Seizes Three NFTs And Arrests Three People On Tax Evasion Charges
"Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the IRS equivalent in the United Kingdom, announced earlier this week that it had seized three NFTs and about...
The Prado Digs Out And Displays Two Goya Sketches For The First Time In...
"Pursuing a more 'panoramic approach' to the painter’s oeuvre, the Madrid institution has placed Las Majas in a new gallery alongside two little-seen sketches...
Paul Theroux Is (Re-)Figuring Out His Relationship With V.S. Naipaul
"More than fifty years of writing about Naipaul! Yet only in the last few years, the dust having settled"— Naipaul died in 2018, and,...
The Simple Reason A Bunch Of Comedians Are Suing Pandora
"Let's say (Robin Williams is) singing the words 'reality, what a concept' — in that case … a royalty would have been generated and...
Could Swahili Become The Lingua Franca Of The Entire African Continent?
"With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as...
The Set Of “Slave Play” Had To Be Completely Redesigned For Los Angeles, And...
This staging, on the Mark Taper Forum's thrust stage, is the first time since playwright Jeremy O. Harris first workshopped the play at Yale....
How Has The Dance World Changed In The Past Few Years? Matthew Bourne’s Answer...
"In a general way, I think men dancing has become a much more acceptable sort of profession. That change has had a lot to...
For The First Time, Philly’s Barnes Foundation Is Displaying Its Collection Of Native American...
"The collection of 239 objects, encompassing Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry, is not well known, despite the fact that Barnes installed the...
Despite Emergency COVID Aid, Arts Funding In Australia Remains Well Behind Peer Countries
"Standard levels of funding of arts and culture in Australia continue to lag behind major world economies and have failed to keep up with...
The New York Times Bought Wordle Three Weeks Ago, And Already There’s A Controversial...
The newspaper is removing words from the game's master list of possible word choices (mostly dirty words and obscure ones). Consequently, one day this...
Links Between Music Preference And Personality Hold True Even Across Cultures And Demographics: Study
The research, involving well over 350,000 people in more than 50 countries, tested subjects for the "Big Five" personality traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness,...
An Excellent Year For Women At The Berlin Film Festival
Female artists won six of the nine categories in the Berlinale's main section, including the Golden Bear (Carla Simón for her Catalan film Alcarrà s),...
The Original Laptop? A Tiny Medieval Pipe Organ With Hand-Pumped Bellows
It's called the organetto, and though no originals survive, there are hundreds of depictions of the instrument in art and manuscripts of the era....
Arts Programs At HBCUs Are Underfunded
Many historically Black schools are known for their famous alumni in the arts, but donations to HBCUs these days have tended to go specifically...
Pakistan’s Hottest New Pop Star Is A Veiled Female Rapper
"Eva B, once a little-known rapper from (a) Karachi urban-slum settlement" — and who now draws millions of viewers on YouTube — "says her...
Are We Witnessing The Decline And Fall Of Sex Scenes?
"Have reports of the death of the sex scene been greatly exaggerated? And, considering that just about any kind of erotic behavior can be...
A Language Is A Dialect With An Army And Navy? Not So!
A controversy over Spain's entry to this year's Eurovision Song Contest — the Spanish jurors rejected the audience's and international jurors' choice, which was...
Boise Art Museum At Odds With City Over Lease For Land It Sits On
For 84 years the museum, built with private funds, paid $1 annual rent for land in a city park. But a new law calls...
Courtauld Institute Will Stop Selling Severed-Ear-Shaped Erasers At Its Online Van Gogh Gift Shop
After an outcry from those who thought the Courtauld was mocking mental illness and psychosis for fun and profit, the museum removed the erasers...
Dance Data Project’s Latest Report Looks At College Dance Faculty
Among the major findings are that roughly two-thirds of dance professors (both full-time and part-time) and four-fifths of program coordinators are women, but two-thirds...
P.J. O’Rourke, Conservative Writer And Humorist, Dead At 74
"O'Rourke was one of the most quoted writers in America, dissecting US politics and culture with a withering disdain and a powerful line in...
Edinburgh Fringe Needs More Regulation And An End To Open Access, Says New Study
A research report titled "Future Fringe" says that the world's biggest theatre and arts festival suffers from a lack of clear lines of authority...
