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Where Have Theatre Audiences Gone?
One expert says theatres have to invest in kids to inculcate a cultural habit "they might enjoy as they get older" - but, she...
The Musicians In Love With Obscure Instruments
Paul Rogers plays "a hybrid of the baroque-period viola da gamba, double bass and Indian sitar, seven rather than four playing strings, as well...
AI Generated Work Is Not Copyrightable, Judge Rules
If there's one thing Hollywood moguls love more than cheap, AI-generated work, it's copyright. - The Hollywood Reporter
Actors With Dwarfism Aren’t Pleased With Hugh Grant’s Oompa Loompa
And those actors also point out that if Hollywood can go digital to make Grant small, Hollywood can use digital tools to make them...
A Teacher Read Her Fifth-Graders A Book About A Fish’s Shadow
And then she was fired. - Washington Post
How Actor Lea Salonga Relaxes Between Performances Of Here Lies Love
Her PlayStation 5 is key, she says - and the K-Pop stars BTS. - The New York Times
Professors Are Using AI To Cheat Academic Journals
That's only if you consider AI cheating, of course - which apparently many scientific journals do not? - Wired
Bradley Cooper Didn’t Need To Mess With His Nose At All
"Sling in the right sort of suit and those who knew what Bernstein looked like would surely think the actor close enough. There...
Is Balzac’s House In Paris Worth A Visit?
Perhaps. "The house is strikingly modest—a low, almost defensive-looking structure, huddled on the hillside like a barnacle." - The Paris Review
Several Men Are Convicted In A Multinational Art Theft Sting Operation
A Chinese Min dynasty vase, valued at more than £2 million, was stolen in Geneva in 2019 by an international art theft ring that...
Get Rid Of Your Physical Books
There's just no need to have the dust-collectors cluttering up your house. - Slate
Studios And Writers Will Continue Talks This Week
Are things changing? Reports say Disney's and Netflix's CEOS pressured the studios for a deal- "an offer that reportedly included ensuring human beings would...
This Dancer Challenged South African Apartheid In Ballet – And Then Fled To England
Johaar Mosaval has died at 95. Mosaval, who had South Asian ancestry, "was prohibited from touching White dancers with his bare hands" - but...
It’s Time To Embrace ‘Bad’ Audience Behavior
After all, they're live. That's what we want - energy. - The Guardian (UK)
Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Authorize Strike
The musicians voted just before the season begins. The union local's president said, "Management has shown that musicians are a cost to be contained,...
With This Tech, Human Can Truly Feel The Music
New haptic suits take individual notes, and turn them into specific spinal, ankle, and other vibrations. Cool??: "Wearing one of them feels a little...
We Don’t Understand Van Gogh’s Cypress Trees
In the 19th century, those trees were like hooded skeletons - harbingers of darkness and death. - Hyperallergic
Looking For ‘The Next Adele,’ England Puts A Performing Arts School Up North
In nearly direct opposition to the UK's recent lack of support for the arts, "the school will offer 500 places and will be free...
Man Who Helped Create Fake Basquiats Avoids Prison Time
Michael Barzman, after first lying to the FBI, "eventually admitted involved working with an associate to create between 20 and 30 fake pieces that...
The CD Is Back, Baby
Gen-Z-ers aren't, like, listening to CDs though. "Carniol, like other young collectors, considers the CD to be more akin to merchandise than a functional...
The UK’s ‘Best Music Venue In The World’ Used To Be A Secret
Performing in a former cloth trading hall in West Yorkshire, one musician said, was "like performing in an Italian piazza." - BBC
Superstar Gallery LGDR Implodes, Two Years In
One gallerist admitted she doesn't work well by committee; the others are forming something called the "Art Family Office." - The New York Times
What Makes AI Run?
Theft. "Pirated books are being used as inputs for computer programs that are changing how we read, learn, and communicate. The future promised by...
There Are No ‘Bad Accents’ In Movies
Just witness, if you will, the unbelievably broad "Texas" accent of Uma Thurman in Red, White & Royal Blue. - The New York Times
Jane Austen’s Dances Of Seduction
In an Austen novel, when the main characters and their love interests dance, they "move to a subtle sensuality that pulses below the surface,...
