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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....
Janeane Garofalo, True To The Gen-X Ethos, Never Sold Out
A trailblazer for years, "Garofalo didn’t just help shift the comedy scene away from clubs. Her style represented a sea change from the polished,...
Apparently, There’s A Rampant Violin Playing Scam In The United States
Scammers ruin everything, including violin skills: "At its most basic, it’s someone who is busking with a violin, apparently playing, while they’re actually faking...
Hollywood And Abortion Activism
Meetings, walkouts, subtle out of office notes - and representation: "Many in Hollywood have begun to think about how they portray characters receiving abortion and...
X-Rays Reveal A Hidden Van Gogh Self-Portrait
"Experts at the National Galleries of Scotland made the find when the canvas was X-rayed before an exhibition. The hidden self-portrait was covered by...
Meryl Streep’s One Weird Trick
You can never unsee this, so only click if you dare. - The New York Times
Real Objectivity Involves A Heck Of A Lot Of Subjectivity
That is, "being objective" means having the ability to identify with someone else's subjective experience. - Aeon
A New Law In The UK Would Harshly Target Those Who Physically Deface Monuments
The new law comes within a suite of rules intended to give the police more power over protesters. "Anyone caught damaging a memorial in...
YouTube Live Has Been Rather Quietly Growing Until It’s Bigger Than Hulu
"Google nearly decided to call the internet TV service 'YouTube Air,' because an early version used an over-the-air TV antenna," and then internally it...
The Serious Right-Wing Threat To Queer Children’s Literature
"The assumption that 'a gay book' is necessarily a sexualized book, and therefore inappropriate for children, is baked into the language of 'Don’t Say...
The Charming Actor Whose Star Power Has Grown Along With India’s
Why is Shah Rukh Khan so celebrated as he marks 30 years in the Hindi film industry? "He shows us a glimpse of a...
Spotify Bought Heardle, But Some Fans Aren’t On Board
Is this a little like The New York Times buying Wordle? Yes, and the outrage is not dissimilar. For instance: "I lost my game...
The Basketball Superstars Who Learned Ballet And Tap To Better Protect Their Flexibility And...
People described Michael Jordan's basketball moves as "balletic," and sometimes said Kobe Bryant "tap-danced" his way to the net - but those were metaphors....
Emmy Nominees Tell Us We’re Truly Not OK
Perhaps that's not such a surprise, well into our third year of a global pandemic, but the drama nominees show "it is easy to...
Artificial Intelligence Can’t Make Art Without Humans To Provide The Spark
At least, not for now. People using the program DALL-E, which takes human words and makes images in response, "have found that it elevates...
The Refugee Orchestra Of Glasgow
In a heavily refugee and immigrant area of Glasgow, "Musicians in Exile a way of helping to give musician asylum seekers and refugees...
Just Say What It Was, Texas
Obviously, "involuntary location" is a nonstarter, but also, "describing someone as a slave does nothing to diminish their humanity. Enslaving someone diminishes their humanity,...
