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Yum! Espresso Made From Venice Canal Water Wins Architecture Biennale’s Top Prize
The project — “Canal Café” by Diller Scofidio + Renfro — filters water from Venice’s notoriously polluted canals and lagoon through a series of...
Bay Area Is Evidently Losing Yet Another Theater Company
“Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company plans to ‘suspend’ producing shows (next season), taking a possible step toward closure. The company hopes to continue to exist in some form,...
Ten Heritage Foundation Arguments Against The NEA, And How To Answer Them
Ben Davis: “I think it’s important for NEA advocates to actually understand the spectrum of arguments ranged against them, and not rely on dated...
English National Opera Names André De Ridder Music Director
The German conductor, currently Generalmusikdirektor of the Theater Freiburg, succeeds Martyn Brabbins, who resigned in 2023 to protest ENO management’s proposed elimination of 19...
Screenwriter-Director Robert Benton, Winner Of Three Oscars, Is Dead At 92
Of the nine films he wrote and directed, the best-known are the two for which he won Academy Awards: Kramer vs. Kramer (for screenplay...
Authors Guild Sues DOGE And NEH For Cancelling Grants
“A class action lawsuit was filed Monday by the Authors Guild, along with independent scholars and writers, against the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and officials within the...
Audible To Use AI For Narrating And Translating Audiobooks (But Not All of Them)
“Today, Audible announced it would begin offering AI-powered narration to select publishers. AI translation services will launch in beta later this year.” CEO Bob Carrigan pointed...
New York State Increases Tax Credit For Broadway Productions
“Included in the $254 billion budget is an expansion of the New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, known colloquially as the downstate tax...
Ireland’s New National Dance Company Makes Its Debut
“Liz Roche, Artistic Director of Luail, Ireland's all-island dance company, (writes) about the beginnings of the company, as it prepares to make its highly anticipated...
Read The Resignation Letter From NEA Literary Staffers
“We are processing a lot of complex emotions in this moment, as we imagine you are too in light of recent agency developments, but...
As The Big Streamers Retrench, Nigeria’s Filmmakers Pivot To YouTube
The country’s film industry is the world’s second largest by output, but the big streaming services who had been commissioning films have cut way...
The Ascent And Descent Of Gérard Depardieu: A Timeline
“For over half a century, (he) stood as a towering figure in French cinema, a titan known for his commanding physical presence, instinct, sensitivity, and...
The Full Arc Of A Tragedy In 4½ Minutes: Audra McDonald And Ben Brantley...
“All of this — right down to that climatic, rushing release called catharsis — is provided, near the end of a delectably tuneful show,...
Putz Paints Penis On Ancient Peruvian Ruin
“The man was filmed while spraying the graffiti on one of the original walls of Chan Chan, a pre-Columbian city 500km (300 miles) north...
New York State Boosts Tax Incentives To Attract More Business From Hollywood
“New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has approved a state budget that increases the cap on the state’s film and TV subsidy to $800 million,...
Second City In Chicago Boosts Pay And Avoids Actors’ Strike
“The performers’ major concern was a wage increase. David Kolen, a senior business representative at Actors Equity Association, said the performers have taken a...
Budget Cuts In Los Angeles Threaten Frank Lloyd Wright Landmark
“Hollyhock House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s eclectic Los Angeles masterpiece, is under threat of closure and losing its UNESCO World Heritage Site status amid drastic budget cuts...
La Scala’s Next Music Director Will Be Myung-Whun Chung
The 72-year-old South Korean-born, US-trained conductor has appeared at the Milan opera house more often than any other guest conductor, going back to 1989....
Gérard Depardieu Found Guilty of Sexual Assault
“The actor, 76, has been convicted of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of Les Volets Verts...
Some Italians Are Highly Offended By Estonia’s Eurovision Song Contest Entry
The Baltic nation’s submission this year is “Espresso Macchiato,” in which Estonian singer-rapper Tommy Cash (who bills himself as the “Kanye East” of Europe)...
Marina Harss Adds Another Dance Critic Gig To Her Portfolio
The well-regarded author, critic and biographer has been appointed dance critic for The Hudson Review, a quarterly journal focusing on literature and the arts....
Donald Trump, Broadway, And Fame: A Brief History
With the real-estate heir-turned-tabloid fixture-turned-reality TV star-turned-politician having taken over the Kennedy Center and now talking about what big-name musicals to present there, Jada...
Researchers Identify Author Of Ancient Scroll Carbonized By Vesuvius
“Traces of ink lettering visible in the X-ray images” — virtually unrolled and scanned for words by a specially-designed AI program — "revealed the...
Chicago Public Schools Unveil Revamped Arts Education Plan
“Chicago Public Schools officials on Wednesday announced a plan aimed at increasing the quality of arts instruction by establishing a comprehensive arts curriculum and...
Jazz Singer Andy Bey, 85
“Bey had a multiphase musical career, with peaks and valleys that had more to do with shifting tastes than any fluctuation in quality. But...
