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Dancer Sheema Kermani Has Spent Decades Infusing Her Art With Activism
Kermani, 71, is a leading dancer and choreographer in Pakistan. "Over the decades, Kermani has defied rising Islamic conservatism in her country to perform...
Charlotte Church Says Her Worst Job Ever Was Being On A Major Label
The singer, who became famous at 11, says, "It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a...
Forsooth, Actors At Medieval Times Hath Formed A Guild
What is Medieval Times? Well: "Queens, knights, squires and stablehands at the Lyndhurst castle voted on Friday to unionize." Audience members get rowdy; horses...
The Grisly Way Leonardo Learned The Beauties Of Human Anatomy
Through dissection, of course. "By late 1510 he was in Pavia, a university city south of Milan. ... Pavia is cold in winter, ideal...
The Metaverse Is Coming To Hollywood, Probably Starting With Disney
"When we think about the virtual plane of existence where the impossible is possible, it's likely that many of us are going to want...
The Academy Museum Doesn’t Want To Fight With Its Workers Union
The voluntary recognition of the union from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures comes less than two months after employees organized. Now for a...
Rhiannon Giddens Picks Out And Reweaves The Threads Of The Silkroad Ensemble
Former leader Yo-Yo Ma "saw the classical footing he brought to Silkroad as 'a starting point,' and classical music itself as 'a form of...
Jerome Eisenberg, Antiquities Expert, Has Died At 92
Eisenberg was "a leading New York antiquities dealer who in the murky world of tomb raiders and smugglers held himself up as a guardian...
A Life Skills Coach And A Gallery Conspire To Get Black Canadians To Write...
The group founder: "I don't hear about romance novels taking place in Alberta — with Black people. There are Black people in Alberta, Edmonton...
Why Theatre Twitter, TikTok, And Instagram Absolutely Lost It Over Funny Girl Cast Changes
And yes, theatre folks on social media absolutely lost it. "All of this getting out so soon made what could have been a...
When Lofi Girl Disappeared, YouTube’s Issues With False Copyright Claims Reared Up Again
YouTube isn't protecting its smaller artists (or any artists) from false claims. Says one producer, "A lot of the legal practices are going towards...
Crazy Rich Asians Star Constance Wu Says She Attempted Suicide After Social Media Backlash
Wu wrote that during the backlash to a tweet, "I started feeling like I didn’t even deserve to live anymore. That I was a...
The San Francisco Symphony Has Hired Its First New Principal Cellist In 45 Years
"Rainer Eudeikis, currently the principal cellist with the Atlanta Symphony, ... will succeed the late Michael Grebanier, who led the cello section from 1977...
After Baltimore Museum Of Art Staff Unionize, The Walters May Be Next
The BMA final vote was 89 to 29 in favor of joining the union, and the vote happened as workers at other Baltimore area...
A Toronto-Based Filmmaker Uploaded A Movie Poster, And Is Getting Thousands Of Threats
Leena Manimekalai shared the poster, of the Hindu goddess Kali smoking a cigarette and holding a Pride flag, on Twitter. "Any artist would expect...
Why Can’t Filmmakers Learn How To Cast Dakota Johnson?
Only Maggie Gyllenhaal has worked well with her in the past few years, in Lost Daughter. Dare we even address the travesty of the...
The Head Of This Year’s Controversial Documenta Has Resigned Amid Multiple Scandals
The main scandal is about antisemitic art. "So many people worked for so much time on this, ... and by not addressing the accusations...
Thousands Of People Demonstrate In Support Of Union Workers At Philadelphia Museum Of Art
"Unionised workers and museum administrators remain at odds and the PMA union has gone without a contract for 23 months." - The Art Newspaper
Sanctuary Cities, Sanctuary Theatre
How useful is sanctuary theatre anymore? "The confessional genre of sanctuary theater places a labor demand—for a coherent, affectively productive story—on an already distressed migrant. This...
Cheaper Netflix, With Ads, Is Coming
Those ads will come from a partnership with Microsoft. "It’s very early days and we have much to work through, ... but our long-term...
The Victory Gardens Debacle Is A ‘Dire’ Warning To Regional Theatres
"The Victory Gardens train wreck brings to the fore important questions of where the primacy in institutional theatres lies when dissension grows too great:...
How To Keep A Music Festival’s Sound Pristine
Hire engineer/producer Da-Hong Seetoo, whose dad "fostered a second career for his son by letting him tinker with a 1947 General Electric tube radio...
The BBC Made A Lot Of Money Last Year
Rather jaw-dropping, really. "The BBC has declared a record income of £5.33 billion ($6.4 billion) for the 2021/2022 period, up from £5.06 billion last year, and...
The Art Fund’s Museum Of The Year Completely Reconfigured Itself During The Pandemic
And the effort paid off: The Horniman's "values are woven through everything it now does, with a passionate team breathing life and meaning into...
Inside LA’s Center Theatre Group As It Methodically Searches Out A New Leader
It's a deliberate process. "We are not starved for folks being able to select shows and communicate with artists and keep those programs running....
