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As We Lose The Ability To Write By Hand, What Else Are We Losing?
Even if you're unmoved by the idea that we're losing touch with a physical human practice thousands of years old, there are measurable cognitive...
How Maria Tallchief Changed American Ballet
"Her centennial is this year — she died in 2013, at 88 — and she remains widely regarded as America’s first prima ballerina. …...
Parkland School Shooting Parent Makes Theatre With His Grief
"Joaquin “Guac” Oliver and 16 others were murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February 2018. Manuel Oliver turned...
Thomas Søndergård Makes His Mark On The Minnesota Orchestra
Since succeeding Osmo Vänskä as music director in the fall of 2023, he has shown a flair for programming, thrown himself into community engagement...
Controversy Over Two Oscar Contenders’ Use Of AI On Actors’ Voices
The re-recording mixer for Emilia Pérez said that AI software was used to extend the vocal range of star Karla Sofía Gascón to reach...
Why Scotland’s Government And Its Arts Funding Agency Are Like A “Dysfunctional Divorcing Couple”
Alan Cumming, who made the comparison, provides a good example: he was hired in September to run the Pitlochry Festival Theatre and "invite the...
KERA, Dallas’s Public Radio & TV Outlet, Announces $100 Million Expansion
"The station, which began broadcasting on television in 1960 and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary in radio, is expected to move out of its...
The British Museum And Its 8 Million Objects, 6 Million Annual Visitors, Hundreds Of...
"It is a sprawling, chaotic reflection of Britain’s psyche over 300 years: its voracious curiosity and cultural relativism; its pugnacious superiority complex; its restless...
Large Ancient Bathhouse/Spa Uncovered In Pompeii
"The newly unearthed spa complex comprises the classic Roman trio of thermal rooms — calidarium (hot), tepidarium (warm), and frigidarium (cold) — alongside a...
Britain Should Offer Tax Deductions For Corporate Arts Philanthropy As France Does
"Introduced in 2003 by then culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon, this policy incentivises corporate philanthropy for arts and charities by offering a 60 per cent...
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, 95
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his generation. … (He)...
Check Out Some Of History’s Great Literary Forgers And Fraudsters
There's the guy who wrote a love letter to Anne Hathaway and some poems and passed them off as Shakespeare. The guy who faked...
World’s Top Street Dance Competition Comes To Arab World For First Time
"Rhythmic beats echoed through the Tunis Opera Theatre stage as dancers faced off at the first-ever edition in the Arab world of a street...
They’re Already Thinking About An “Emilia Pérez” Broadway Musical
"We would love to put Emilia Pérez on Broadway," said co-composer Clément Ducol. "At the start, (director) Jacques (Audiard) mentioned he was thinking of...
Getty Museums In L.A. Now Seen As “Beacon Of Fire Preparedness”
"The Center, which houses a sprawling collection in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a 'marvel of anti-fire engineering.' The...
US Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Law Banning TikTok
"TikTok, which has 170 million monthly American users, had argued the ban tramples on the First Amendment rights of both the app and its...
Bankrupt University Of The Arts Building Is Sold At Auction — To Curtis Institute
The renowned music school outbid Temple University for the former Arts Alliance building, very near Curtis's home on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, after an...
Countertenor David Daniels Sues U. Michigan For Firing Him For Sexual Misconduct
"Daniels, 58, was hired as a voice professor in 2015 and granted tenure three years later in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance....
Sacramento’s Public Radio Station Sues Its Ex-GM For Theft
"The lawsuit, filed in December, claims that (Jun) Reina used the misappropriated funds for lavish overseas trips, home renovations, his children’s college tuition, and...
Cape Cod Public Radio Station’s Home Is Saved, Though The Station Itself Still Has...
GBH, the Boston public radio/TV franchise that owns Cape Cod station CAI, agreed to sell the historic house where CAI has studios to the...
Wanamaker Organ’s Landlord Promises To Keep It In Place
"Left open are questions of access to and care of the instrument, as well as how often it would be played after the expected...
Actor Joan Plowright, 95
Until late in life, her fame as the wife/widow of Laurence Olivier obscured from the wider public (though not from colleagues) her own extraordinary...
David Lynch, 78
"(His films) bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences...
Google “Cubism” These Days And You’ll Get A Bunch Of AI-Generated Garbage
Same with Bing and DuckDuckGo; the bogus AI images are crowding out Picasso and Braque in the results. The stuff comes from CubismArtwork.com, which...
Rehab For Actors Recovering From Playing Hamlet
It doesn't necessarily seem all that improbable, but no, this isn't really a thing. It is, however, the concept of the play Hamlet Camp,...
