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The Most Important School Subject For Future Tech Workers? Would You Believe It’s Drama?
So argues one business-oriented demographer. Why drama? Because you learn how to work closely in groups and to fill a variety of roles, onstage...
Someone Paid $30 For This Drawing Five Years Ago. Now It’s Worth About $10...
The sketch, titled The Virgin and Child with a Flower on a Grassy Bank and dating from around 1503, was purchased by a Massachusetts...
Big U.S. Podcast Companies Turn Their Attention To Non-English-Speakers
Vice Media, Audible, iHeartMedia, and the children's podcast producer Tinkercast are all working to expand offerings in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, French, and other...
Italy’s Turning A 233-Year-Old Prison Into An Arts Center
The panopticon-style jail, built in 1789 and closed in 1965, is on the tiny island of Santo Stefano, part of the Pontine Islands off...
Look Out, Disney! Mattel Is Coming For Hollywood (Yes, The Toy Company)
Greta Gerwig is directing a Barbie movie with Margot Robbie (Ryan Gosling plays Ken). Lena Dunham has a Polly Pocket film coming. Tom Hanks...
How San Antonio Symphony Musicians Are Keeping Themselves Fed Through A Months-Long Strike
There's teaching, church gigs, the occasional out-of-town sub job in another orchestra. The lucky ones have fully-employed partners. - KPAC (San Antonio)
Remember Trump’s Order That The Art At Federal Buildings Must Not Be Abstract?
"President Joe Biden has reversed a Trump-era order requiring that any visual art added to government buildings must portray American historical figures or ideals...
How Broadway’s “The Music Man” Has Worked Its Way Through A COVID Nightmare
Since the revival began rehearsals in October, five dozen cast and crew members have tested positive for the virus; at one point producers had...
Conductor Edward Gardner Gets A Big New Job
Currently the chief conductor of the London Philharmonic and Bergen Philharmonic and formerly music director at English National Opera, Gardner will become music director...
There’s A New Art Space At Berlin’s Old Airport, And Some Artists Want It...
"The exhibition space, called Kunsthalle Berlin, opened January 28 at the Tempelhof Airport, a facility that was built by the Nazis in 1923 and...
Mirga Will Not Be Taking An American Orchestra Job Anytime Soon
"As administrators search for a conductor of her stature, as well as for someone to tip the scale of gender balance in the United...
The U.S. Now Has One Massive Spanish-Language TV Network
"Univision and the Mexican TV giant Televisa completed their $4.8 billion merger on Monday, (combining) Televisa's media content and production assets with Univision's assets,...
The Lady Who Wrote “Goodnight, Moon” Was No Gentle Madonna
Margaret Wise Brown "burned through her money as quickly as she earned it, travelling to Europe on ocean liners and spending entire advances on...
Greece Is Restoring Its Ancient Amphitheatres And Returning Them To Use
From Epiros in the north down to Sparta and beyond, the outdoor venues where classical drama was born are being rediscovered: 25 are hosting...
All Over France, An Exhibition Shows The Sensuous Side Of Muslim Culture
"It is called 'The Arts of Islam: A Past for a Present', and each of its 18 participating venues contains 10 works intended to...
Public Libraries Are Offering Training In Starting And Running A Small Business
"As the pandemic has spurred an entrepreneurship boom, many public libraries have stepped in to meet a growing need among new business owners, particularly...
Broadway’s Reopening Last Fall Did Not Go As Expected, Even Before December’s Omicron Spike
"During the months when the pandemic kept Broadway shuttered, a hypothesis took hold: Once theaters reopened, the audience would include more New Yorkers and...
Federico Bonelli, Star Of London’s Royal Ballet, Named Artistic Director Of England’s Ballet North
Bonelli succeeds David Nixon, who ran the company — based in Leeds but touring more than any other ballet troupe in the UK —...
Chicago Sun-Times Is Now Officially A Subsidiary Of Chicago Public Radio
The merger, announced last fall and officially completed on Jan. 31, is funded by $61 million in donations from foundations and individuals. The money...
New York Times Drops A Million Or Two To Buy Wordle
The newspaper said that it paid an amount "in the low seven figures" for the game, which was released in October and gained hundreds...
Uffizi Gallery, Mecca Of Renaissance Art, Moves Slowly Into Contemporary Work
It's not easy to do this, since people come from all over the world to see the classics, but the Florence museum's dynamic director,...
Some Of The Best-Loved Scenes In Iconic Movies Are Only There Because Of Test...
Anne Archer shooting Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Julia Roberts dancing with Rupert Everett to end My Best Friend's Wedding. The freeway dance that...
What Should Be Done With Fascist Monuments After The Fascists Have Been Ousted?
Most Nazi monuments in Germany were torn down after 1945, but in Spain and Italy many of the buildings and statues glorifying fascism are...
Theatres Are Experimenting With Varied Curtain Times — Again (And That’s A Good Thing)
It was only from the 1970s that American commercial theater settled on the rule: start at 8:00 for evening shows and 2:00 for matinees...
There Will Be No Picasso NFTs After All
"After a granddaughter and great-grandson of the artist trumpeted the upcoming sale, lawyers for the family said Thursday that his heirs have not authorized...
