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“TikTok In A Parallel Dimension”: Europe Is About To Let Users Turn Off The...
"The change opens the door to a strange social experiment. … 'So much of the experience of TikTok is that weird sense that you're...
There Goes Another: Public Theater Of San Antonio “Pauses” Its 2023-24 Season
As with so many other US regional theaters, a post-pandemic cash crunch to put on hold all five of its scheduled productions for the...
Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” Is Still A Hit After 20 Years, But She Herself Is...
"The problem with comics is … it's not challenging anymore because I know how to do it. My life is about the search, not...
A Double-Amputee Soldier Has Become A Star Of The Ukrainian Ballet
"Oleksandr Budko, 27, has been touring the US with the United Ukrainian Ballet, dancing before audiences of up to 3,000 people with, and without,...
Why The Dialogue On Streaming TV Is So Hard To Understand
No, you're not the only hearing person who turns on the closed captions in order to make out what's being said. It's a particular...
An Austin Theater Company Joins A Freedom-Of-Expression Lawsuit Against Texas’s New Anti-Drag Law
"(The troupe) is part of a second lawsuit challenging a Texas law that some argue would amount to a ban on public drag performances....
Israel Wants To Lend An 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic Floor To The Museum Of The Bible....
Called The Megiddo Mosaic, the 3rd-century work comes from the oldest surviving Christian place of worship, located near what's believed to be the site...
We Live In A Visual World: So More Classical Concerts Are Going Multimedia
"Organizations have been presenting more concerts that integrate other disciplines, use multimedia elements and special lighting, feature music by living composers, touch on social...
Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Is Getting A New Three-Acre Sculpture Garden
Speed Outdoors, as it will be called, will feature landscaping by Reed Hilderbrand and, in its initial installation in 2025, artworks by (among others)...
Belarus Labels Two 19th-Century Poems By One Of The Nation’s Great Authors As “Extremist...
The two pieces, written during an 1863 rebellion by Belarusians and Poles against the Russian Empire, are by Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich, whose books are taught...
In Popular Culture, An Explosion Of Out-And-Proud White Gay Male Villainy (And That’s A...
"As members of two dominant cultures in a world in which everyone's hyperconscious of identity, we have enough clout to be labeled part of...
Composer György Kurtág At 97
"The concentrated brevity of Kurtág's output means that his entire published works could be heard in approximately 10 hours. He has a reputation for...
Ailey’s Most Iconic Work: Why “Revelations” Is So Extraordinary
"In general we get in trouble if we don't do it. I've heard that even Alvin himself at some point asked if we could...
Can Graphic Novels Really Teach College-Level Math And Physics?
Two professors who use them explain how the format — visual information via image as well as text, in a form (comics) that very...
Are Hollywood’s Writers And Actors Right To Be Freaking Out Over Generative AI?
Here, for instance, is Justine Bateman: "I stress that this is an existential threat. And if they can do this with actors, they can...
Meet The Lady Who Provides The Fabulous Gowns For The Leading Pro Ballroom Dancers
Julie Wilson's home-based business in suburban northern Virginia is "considered the ballroom dance industry's leading consignment and consignment-rental dress company. Competitive dancers come here...
Designer And Architect Thierry Despont Is Dead At 75
His design work on restoration of two New York landmarks, the Statue of Liberty and the Woolworth Building, first brought him renown. He went...
Theater In Chicago Is Facing A Lot Of Problems. Here’s One Of The Least...
Besides the much-discussed problems facing most American theaters, and that leadership at many of the city's companies has changed virtually all at once, there's...
Cambodia, Laos, And Vietnam Say Denver Art Museum Still Has Works Looted From Their...
"Representatives from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam sent letters to the museum, via U.S. investigators, in May and June, saying the prized relics had no...
It’s Time To Stop Blaming The Pandemic For People’s Bad Behavior
Yes, COVID lockdowns and all that time at home certainly played a part, writes Mary McNamara, but there are other factors at work, especially...
Another Museum Joins The $30 Admission Fee Club: SF-MOMA
"The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is the latest US institution to raise its admission fees to $30, making it one of the...
Beautiful, Complex, Even Dangerous — The Recorder, Perhaps The Most Underrated Instrument
So many people cringe at the memory of the cheap little plastic instruments played by grade-schoolers. But a wooden recorder in the hands of...
Bread And Puppet Theater’s Founder Is 89. What Happens When He Finally Passes Away?
"'(It's) always been an iffy little enterprise that depends way too much on me,” said Peter Schumann. 'Is it sustainable when I'm gone and...
Younger People In England Are Making Morris Dancing, Well, Actually Kind of Cool
"Now Morris, long a poked-fun-of example of British eccentricity, is opening up to younger dancers who approach it as a living tradition. For some,...
Jan Morris Was Right: We Should Just Let Venice Sink
"And yet Morris predicted that this would never be Venice's fate, because 'the world would not allow it.' That may be true. What she...