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What Theatre Audiences Want Now
"Theaters must think more expansively of themselves as communal spaces, not merely entertainment venues for stage presentations to ticket buyers;Â what does it mean to...
COVID Broke The Habit Of Going To The Theatre
Can anything - musicals, serious plays, popular actors, dramatic cuts to staff, or great bundles of tickets - fix this issue? Who knows? "Audiences...
TikTok Sells A Lot Of Books Through BookTok – And Maybe Now As A...
"By tapping into TikTok’s ability to drive attention to books and its vast trove of user data, ByteDance could boost its own authors at...
Amsterdam To Rename Its Hermitage Museum After Cutting Ties With Russia
"Starting in September, the Hermitage Amsterdam will be called H’ART Museum. It has established partnerships with the British Museum, Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian...
Some Homeless Shelters Are Getting A Radical Redesign
"Severe stress can literally change the brain, affecting memory, coping skills and abilities to regulate emotions. Aware of just how much the physical environment can...
How Disney’s Creative Chief Went From Bullied Kid To Where She Is Now
Well ... she wrote and directed Frozen. "Now 51, Lee is warm, glossy and as successful as you can get. She no longer needs...
European Museums’ Numbers Appear To Be Rebounding Somewhat
A year after many European countries declared the COVID-19 emergency "over," museum attendance is ticking back up, at least domestically. Compared to 2019, at...
Meredith Monk At 80, In Amsterdam And Everywhere
"An interdisciplinary artist who doesn’t dabble in composition, performance, filmmaking and choreography so much as create from a Gesamtkunstwerk state of mind, ... Monk...
How A One-Person Play About Drinking Helped Its Actor Get Sober
André Royo (Bubbles in The Wire) on Drinking in America, sober: "My daughter never saw me act on stage before, so it was the...
The Canadian Teenager Who Made The Lego Scene In The New Spider-Man Movie
"The 14-year-old in Milton, Ont., was tapped to animate a scene in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse after his shot-by-shot recreation of the original trailer — stylized so that the characters...
Body Found In California Mountains Where Actor Julian Sands Went Missing
"The body was discovered at about 10am on Saturday in wilderness near Mount Baldy in the San Gabriel mountains and was transported to the...
How Art Can Influence Leadership, According To The Head Of The Mellon Foundation
Elizabeth Alexander: Art "has to start from a place of finding the truth: What is the light that you’re trying to share? Then, what does...
The American Academy Of Poets Names Its First Latino Head
"Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Maldonado is steeped in the American poetry scene. At the 92NY's Unterberg Poetry Center, he has overseen...
In The UK, Giving More Little Kids Skills Through Shakespeare
"One nine-year-old girl is heard saying to her teacher: 'I'm absolutely sluggardized." A few weeks before, her year five class had been deciphering the...
A Century Ago, This So-Called ‘Female Impersonator’ Made Broadway Men Swoon
Julian Eltinge "represented a unique form of the art, one that emphasized fidelity to femininity instead of risqué repartee, outlandish outfits or high-energy lip...
Goodbye, Philip Schuyler
Another statue goes down for its inspiration being an enslaver. For a century, few knew who he was, but "in recent years it sometimes...
Has The Time Finally Come For An Oscar For Best Stunts?
Of course, "there is the question of who actually gets the Oscar. Is it the stunt artists? The choreographer? The film’s director? Is the...
The Fight Is On To Preserve Denver’s Iconic Chicanx Murals
In the 1960s and 1970s, Denver's Chicana/o community painted murals partly because the city knew they were cheaper than removing graffiti. Now they're disappearing....
Looks Like The Actors Might Not Go On Strike After All
Union president Fran Drescher to her SAG-AFTRA members: "We are having an extremely productive negotiations that are laser focused on all of the crucial...
The Same People Who Don’t Like Robot Created Headlines Also Don’t Like Human Created...
"What we find, then, is what we’ve previously called 'generalized skepticism,' whereby people are skeptical of all forms of news selection, whether done by humans or...
Photographer Paul Ickovic, Street Photographer Across The Globe, 79
"His approach was often likened to that of his hero, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and others whose notion of 'the decisive moment' shaped modern street photography and...
At A Time Of Urgency In The Creative Arts, Britain Is Dropping The Ball
But museums are trying their damnedest to pick it up. "This surely is the route through the coming AI storm: the digital age demands...
Can Someone Please Fix The FCC?
By "someone," we mean the Senate. "Tens of millions of Americans don’t have access to high-speed broadband. Depending on who you ask, that number...
Making Sculptures Of Body Parts We’d Maybe Rather Not See
In artist Mire Lee's work, "motors, tubes, and pumps paired with silicone, ceramics, fabrics and liquids become sculptures that are bizarre, messy and (in...
The Bronx Is Getting A Museum Dedicated To Salsa
"The heart of salsa - the fast-tempo, horn-heavy music and its hip-swinging dance style - has beat loudly and strongly in New York for...
