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The Pandemic’s Limitations Freed This Dancer And Choreographer To Create Something New
Luke Murphy's Volcano is "performed for an audience of eight, with each audience member in an individual booth." Sure, "it looked like 'financial madness,'...
Classical Music Audiences Want Print, Not PDFs
"Those ushers who once carried proud armfuls of programs now wander the lobbies, outfitted (sometimes literally) with oversize QR codes, waiting to be scanned...
Farewell, California Institute Of Abnormal Arts
"The gallery of curiosities alone was well worth the price of admission on a Friday or Saturday night. Human fetuses in jars, a preserved...
The New Disney Series’ Biggest Problem With Its Depiction Of A Teenager In New...
Sure, Ms. Marvel absolutely nails the life of a Muslim teenager in the U.S. But "there’s been a cardinal unspoken rule when it comes...
The Long Journey Of British Street Art
Have murals finally matured in the UK? "Powerful street murals can enhance a sense of place and local identity, and reach audiences who may...
The Supreme Court’s Dreadful Dobbs Decision May Accidentally Spur Data Privacy Advances
"'The circle of people who have to act like they’re in a spy movie is getting bigger and bigger,' says Cindy Cohn, executive director...
Conductor Collapses From Podium And Dies In Munich
Stefan Soltesz, an Austrian conductor, was near the end of the first act of Richard Strauss' The Silent Woman at the Bayerische Staatsoper in...
The Emmy Nominations Prove No One Knows How To Watch TV Anymore
"Folks just watch things in weird chunks now, sneaking in bits and pieces of viewing where they can." - Wired
For Romans, A Chance To See Art On Its Way Back Home
The Museum of Rescued Art is rescued from thieves, from looters, and occasionally from natural disasters, or time itself. "I think of this as...
What The Newly Discovered Van Gogh Self-Portrait Teaches Us Is This
It's "not hitherto unknown biographical or psychological detail, but an understanding of general artistic process that serves to humanise Van Gogh, to make his...
Gangnam Style Turns Ten, And It Still Holds Records On YouTube
"In December 2012, “Gangnam Style” became the first music video to earn more than a billion views on the platform. That momentum continued to...
Movie And TV Studios Have Extended COVID Protocols Through The End Of September
They're not messing around with omicron variants. - Variety
A Time To Laugh, A Time To Cry
Sometimes, it's easier to attack serious subjects with biting satire - and for Black authors, though that's not exactly new, it is having a...
How Relentless Right-Wing Attacks Shut Down An Entire Library
Vinton, Iowa's library shuttered as the staff resigned after a barrage of attacks. The complaints: "That we were not being fair to President Trump...
Excavation Work Unveils Constantine-Era Rock Layers In Jerusalem
"New excavation findings provide an exciting glimpse into how early churches built within the period known as Late Antiquity were carried out while revealing...
The Rise Of The Messy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine
How Persuasion got itself Fleabagged, and lost Anne Elliot in the bargain. - LitHub
The Art Of Artificial Intelligence
The truly interesting questions concern curating AI art - and that starts with the words a curator feeds into the program. - Wired
How A Small Town Near Liverpool Got A Shakespeare Theatre For The North
It's been a quarter-century of ideas, fundraising, failed plans, failed lotteries, failed trusts - and a lot, lot, lot of donations. - The Observer...
At Cambridge, Changing 350 Years Of Tradition
Outwardly and proudly sexist tradition, that is, as the Boys' Choir of St. John's College becomes simply "The Choir of St. John's College" —...
Theatres Go Through A Sea Change With Fight And Intimacy Choreographers
"I think back to when I was her age, and I wonder how many terrific fight choreographers we missed out on because we had...
Inside The Inventive, Intense Animation For Marcel The Shell’s Big-Screen Debut
"The danger, when you’re dealing with a bigger budget, is that in polishing it up, you might sand down all the things that made...
The Unintended Side Effect Of A Grammy Nomination
For those who don't win, it kills creativity and experimentation. - BBC
A Jukebox Opera Makes Its Debut
"Francesca Zambello, the artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Festival, came up with a novel idea. 'I just said, ‘Let’s do a Rossini comedy...
Netflix Rests Its Hopes On Ryan Gosling And The Former Captain America
No, this isn't a return of an early meme. This is an action film, by the brothers who made Marvel zillions of dollars with...
How To Save Britain’s Hazardous Houses Of Parliament Palace
Rowan Moore says let the details go and save the monument by killing its Victorian darlings. "Think the unthinkable about heritage. For a feature...
