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Wales’ Smoking Ban Is So Strict That A Film Set Had To Relocate To...
“A horror about mythical Welsh fairies had filming relocated to north Yorkshire after crew found out about strict non-smoking rules on sets in Wales.”...
Sundance Says Goodbye To Park City In A Swirl Of Nostalgia And Deals
“While Sundance can surprise as well as delight, attendees often seem happy just to be there. … While the applause tends to be overgenerous,...
Glasgow Is About To Lose Its Center For Contemporary Arts
“In a statement the board said it had been ‘unable to achieve a sustainable financial position’ and was entering liquidation.” - BBC
One Thing Gold Can Stay
On Broadway, musicals generally have not recouped their costs in recent years. But The Outsiders is different. - The New York Times
Neil Young Has Given His Entire Catalogue Of Music To Greenland
Young wrote: "My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos. … I think the message I...
The Writer’s Guild Has A Staff Union, And That Union Has Authorized A Strike
“The labor group’s staff union (WGSU), which includes attorneys, research analysts and other positions, claims that ‘management has dismissed staff’s needs and engaged...
Layoffs Thrust Boston Museum Of Fine Art Firmly Into A Credibility Crisis
“Against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s targeting of DEI policy at universities and cultural institutions and expanding ICE raids, the layoffs are causing...
Canadian Legend Catherine O’Hara, Of Schitt’s Creek, Best In Show, And Home Alone, Dead...
“Though Big Hollywood roles didn't follow Home Alone's success, O'Hara would find her groove with the crew of improv pros brought together by Guest...
Visual Arts Infrastructure In The UK Has Been Vastly Underfunded For Years
A new, private foundation wants to counter that with some funding. - The Guardian (UK)
Little Did We Suspect That Viral Animal Videos Would Portend The Return To Prominence...
Cows. Tools. Gary Larson. Need we say more? - NPR
What’s Next For The Sacramento Ballet?
There’s a new executive director, a search for an artistic director, and of course, it’s trying to keep a 71-year-old arts institution going. -...
If You Hear Music During A Football Game, It’s Because Of This Berklee Alum
Joshua Sutherland is "the bridge between the music industry and the NFL,” he says - and he’s also in charge of promoting women’s and...
Portland’s Theatrical Future Thrown Into Doubt After New Study
The 3,000-seat Keller Auditorium is seismically challenged. Should the city rebuild it, support the new Portland State University Broadway-show-size theatre, or make a third...
The Woman Who Keeps San Francisco Arts Going
Maria Manetti Shrem’s influence is everywhere - as is her name, alongside that of her late husband. A short list: The new UC Davis...
Val McDermid’s Publisher, Reissuing Some Old Books, Asked Her To Work With A Sensitivity...
McDermid wasn’t a fan of the idea. “The books she wrote in the 1980s and 1990s featured characters in law enforcement who used racial...
How Sundance Has Been Reacting To ICE’s Violence In Minnesota
Edward Norton: “We have extrajudicial assaults on Americans and humans going on on a daily basis now. And it’s not OK. … We cannot...
The Man Who Ate The AI ‘Art’ Tells Us Why
Graham Granger: “I saw the AI piece and it was just—as an artist myself, it was insulting to see something of such little effort...
Yes, The Super Bowl Has An Official Pop Artist
Charles Fazzino "has been the official artist for Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game for more than 20 years. He’s served a similar role for...
The Thing Is, Computers Can Only Copy
Software can’t surprise us the way humans can. - Aeon
Will The Grammys Finally Recognize This 85-Year-Old Singer Who Has Been Performing For Seven...
“‘You don’t get to Cowboy Carter without Candi Staton,’ the musician and podcast host Rissi Palmer said, referring to the Beyoncé album. ‘She was seamlessly Southern...
When You’re In A Repressive Society, Art Of Any Kind Can Spark A Rebellion
Even multiple-copied cassette tapes of Queen, for instance. “What moved me wasn’t just the sound, but what it represented.” - The Guardian (UK)
Let’s Keep Talking About What The Abrupt Decline Of Handwriting Is Doing To Us
Writing by hand “allows the cognition of what we're working with to actually move through the visual processes, move through the physical processes of...
We Can’t Really ‘Unwind’ With Screens
“Although many people turn to screen-based activities to wind down, these activities may have the opposite effect biologically.” - The Conversation
Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Helped This Religion Reporter Uncover Her Own Lost History
"Stoppard wasn’t telling a story of Nazis and gas chambers; he was exploring the psychological danger of hiding one’s Jewish identity. A month after...
What To Read Now
At least according to Ali Smith, whose 2024 book Gliff is such a good, terrifying book about the surveillance state that you’ll think it’s...
