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Travel Bans From The US Administration Have Stymied Artists, Keeping Them From North America
This isn’t great for U.S. audiences either - or the producers and promoters trying to bring international artists. “It’s an unbelievable mess, … and...
Can’t Predict The Oscar Winners Without Predicting Who’s Even Going To Be Nominated
“The Oscar field has included one international director for seven straight years, making it likely that dissident filmmaker Panahi, a vocal critic of...
A New Show Shares ‘A Gush Of Affection’ For A Giant Of Art History
Meyer Schapiro "was one of the most important figures in the evolution of art history as an academic field. He combined close formal analyses...
When Equity Actors Need A Little More Work For Health Care, This New Theatre...
“Helping stage managers and actors just shy of eligibility qualify for coverage through the Equity-League Health Fund—one of the strongest health plans in the...
Popular Streaming ‘Singer’ Sienna Rose Probably Isn’t Real
One huge tell: If you listen to a few of “Rose’s” tracks, “you'll hear a telltale hiss. … That's a common trait of music...
Miami Used To Be The Telenovela Capital Of The United States
Three companies “produced between seven and 10 telenovelas a year between them, a volume that would leave Miami the primary center of production of...
The D.C. Area May Be Getting A ‘Mini-Sphere’ Like The One In Vegas, But...
“The smaller cousin of the famed Vegas attraction would offer the same features as the original and be the first in a ‘global network’...
The Best Use Of AI In Music Is For Surveillance
But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. “AI music is here to stay, and rather than fighting it, we should understand its...
What’s Going On With A Proposed Audit Of The Houston Airport’s Public Art Program?
In November, the mayor of Houston said, “Quite frankly I like art, but I like parking at the airport and access and picking up...
The Weird Grief Porn Of Birds In Recent Hollywood Movies
“If you can’t tolerate autonomy, love it and set it free, if you can’t relish it for its very ugliness, its deathiness, then you are...
In Praise Of The Boarding School Novel
“Because they distill and contain all the pain and pleasure of being young into one crucible, ... they are such rich source material for...
Heated Rivalry Clip Nights Are Overtaking Dance Floors
OK, sure: Heated Rivalry Night “began as a single event that quickly sold out, leading to extra dates … and more than 100 multi-city pop-ups are...
Netflix Apparently Wants Its Movies To State And Restate Plots Three Or Four Times
Matt Damon says action movies used to have three acts, but now, “They’re like, ‘Can we get a big one in the first five...
More Of The Met’s Employees Vote To Unionize
"The exact size of the bargaining unit is still being determined because museum officials challenged the eligibility of more than 100 employees; the union...
To The Mayor Of San Francisco, The Demise Of The California College Of The...
“Learning about the end of California College of the Arts was a sad day. And it’s in moments like these that we should rekindle...
In An Attempt To Beat AI, Matthew McConaughey Trademarks His Phrase
“McConaughey has had eight trademark applications approved over the past few months, and the actor said in an email ..r that he wants to,...
Rhoda Levine, Pathbreaking Opera Director, Has Died At 93
Perhaps her “most significant contributions to the repertoire were the premieres ... Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, an anti-Hitler allegory composed in...
In The US, We Write Essays, And Often Think, Backwards
We think we already know what we want to find, and that enables LLMs to “hElP” with predictable, middling, brain-anesthetizing results. “But a chief...
The Washington National Opera, Which Had A Donor Renewal After Leaving The Kennedy Center,...
The opera, which "received an influx of donations, from more than 500 donors, after its announcement last Friday that it would seek a new...
Spanish Singer Julio Iglesias Denies Charges That He Sexually Abused Two Women In His...
The two former employees “allege they had been sexually assaulted and subjected ‘to inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation … in an atmosphere of control...
Disney Started A Thread About Movie Quotes But Deleted It With Celerity
“People immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty...
One Art Student Hung An AI-Generated Show As His Own, And Then Another Art...
The student who ate some of the show was then arrested and charged. One Bluesky post about the event said, “Look for the helpers.”...
Our Attention Is Being ‘Fracked’ By Big Tech
But there are ways to resist. - The Guardian (UK)
The Physics Of Plur1bus
For real: How does “The Joining” work? Science has thoughts. - Wired
Buildings Of The Past Are Underused Tools For Dealing With Climate Change
During Britain’s “little Ice Age,” builders used common-sense tricks that could still keep houses warmer - or cooler - today. - BBC
