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Arizona Opera Finds Its New General Director Close To Home
“Arizona Opera took its search for a new leader international only to find the ideal candidate a few miles from its downtown Phoenix headquarters. The...
Walt Whitman, The Original Self-Mythologizing Selfie King
“Unlike many of his contemporaries, the poet collected an ‘abundance of photographs’ of himself. And like many people today who snap and post thousands...
Why Trump’s Tariffs Will Be A Big Pain In Ballet Companies’ Feet
“Compounding recent major cuts to arts funding, the footwear the ballet world relies on could be just one more unanticipated casualty of the current...
Why “Requiem For A Dream” Still Upsets People After 25 Years
“The film-makers set out to deliver a sensory bombardment that would mimic the experience of addiction. But they ended up doing much more, touching...
EU’s Highest Court Finds Hungary’s LGBTIQ Content Ban Violates Charter Of Fundamental Rights
“The non-binding opinion from the court’s advocate general … represents a comprehensive demolition of the arguments made by the Hungarian government defending its so-called...
Producers Can Make A Fortune Presenting Movie Stars In Broadway Plays. The Stars Themselves?...
Really famous stars anchoring and co-producing a show — George Clooney, Hugh Jackman, Bette Midler — can negotiate a good percentage of profit for...
Archivists Are Going To Have A Hard Time Documenting The Digital Era
It’s two problems in one. The detritus — diary entries, to-do lists, correspondence — in which researchers often discover key details rarely gets put...
Oh, Great! AMC Theatres Is Going To Run Commercials Alongside Movie Trailers
“AMC Theatres has agreed to show pre-movie advertising before features begin as part of a new deal with National CineMedia, … the in-theater advertising company.”...
National Portrait Gallery Director Is Still At Work, Despite Trump’s Announcement Of Her Firing
“Kim Sajet’s refusal to abide by Trump’s decision (will test) the bounds of presidential authority over the Smithsonian. ... It is not a traditional...
Almeida Theatre, London’s Pint-Sized Powerhouse, Appoints Dominic Cooke Artistic Director
The 325-seat playhouse in Islington, which has a long history of spawning award winners and West End and Broadway hits, has chosen Cooke, formerly...
Behold London’s Serpentine Pavilion For Summer 2025, by Marina Tabassum
“Named A Capsule in Time, the Bangladeshi architect’s partially-sheltered pavilion, made from wood and polycarbonate, comprises four arched timber structures that take on the...
Montreal Dance Studio Drops Its Classes In Gaga Technique Because It Was Created In...
Last month, Studio 303 publicly joined the BDS boycott, including “all cultural and academic products that normalize the State of Israel." That includes Gaga,...
“Z Literature” — Fiction Designed To Convince Young Russians To Fight In Ukraine
These novels, aimed at young men who will soon be targets of recruitment drives, often feature hyper-nationalist, crudely-drawn “accidental travel” plots, wherein the hero...
“Bone Records” — How Forbidden Jazz And Rock Were Smuggled Into The Soviet Union...
It turns out that X-ray film was just soft enough to be etched on by an electromechanical lathe. So one could take exposed X-ray film...
How The Broadway Cast Of “Purpose” Coped With Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Constant Rewrites
Glenn Davis: “The hardest day I’ve ever had as an actor: Branden rewrote our two scenes in the second act. ... We rehearsed the...
Peru Reduces Protected Area Around Nazca Lines By Half, And Archaeologists Are Alarmed
“The Nazca Archaeological Reserve has been reduced from approximately 2,162 square miles to 1,235 square miles. … The area now excluded from the environmental...
They’re Making An Animatronic Walt Disney For Disneyland. Walt’s Granddaughter Says He Would Hate...
Joanna Miller expresses great admiration for the skills of the Disney Company’s animatronics team. But she argues that "two minutes with the robot will...
Smithsonian Leadership Is Conspicuously Silent About Trump’s Firing Of National Portrait Gallery Director
Since the firing last Friday, leaders at the Institution have been considering whether, in a lawsuit or even in public statements, to challenge a...
GBH, Boston’s Public TV Powerhouse, Has Third Round Of Layoffs
“GBH on Monday announced it laid off 45 employees, roughly 6% of its workforce. … Home to national programs like Frontline and Antiques Roadshow, GBH is...
Novelist Edmund White, 85
The novelist, five-time memoirist, and co-author of the pioneering 1977 book The Joy of Gay Sex “was a major influence on modern gay literature,...
Kennedy Center Ticket Subscriptions Are Down By Over One-Third
“Sales of subscriptions for the coming season … are down by about $1.6 million, or roughly 36%, compared with last year.” A current staff...
Former Met Opera Chorus Director Heads To Chicago Symphony
Donald Palumbo, 76, is credited with revitalizing the Met chorus during his 17-year term (2007-2024) and, before that, the chorus of Lyric Opera of...
Salman Rushdie Explains Why AI Isn’t A Threat To Fiction Writers (Yet)
“The problem AI (has is) that it (can’t) make up its own jokes, the writer said. ‘It has no sense of humour – you...
Philly Gets A Brand-New Festival Of Nouveau Circus
“The new 10-day event, the Philadelphia Contemporary Circus Festival, features more than 24 exhibitions, workshops, and artist showcases throughout Old City and Camden, … (offering)...
David Cope, A Pioneer In AI Music Composition, Is Dead At 83
“Before the proliferation of A.I. music generators, before the emergence of Spotify and the iPod, before Brian Eno had coined the term ‘generative music,’...
