"While the streamers' appetite for documentary content has created a new golden age for nonfiction filmmaking, it's come with transformations that many find worrying: Doc subjects are being paid, timelines are getting scrunched, and the line between premium nonfiction and reality television is blurring." - The Hollywood Reporter
Joshua Barone pays a visit to, and is thrilled by, Barrie Kosky's production of Fiddler on the Roof at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Yuval Sharon's staging of Act III of Die Walküre, under the title "The Valkyries," at Detroit Opera. - The New York Times
Daniel Evans, artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre, and Tamara Harvey, artistic director of Theatr Clwyd in North Wales, submitted a joint application for the RSC job, start work in Stratford-upon-Avon in June of next year. - The Guardian
This year's honorees are choreographers Lucinda Childs, Kyle Abraham, and Dianne McIntyre; dancer Herman Cornejo, a principal at ABT; and historian of African-American dance Brenda Dixon Gottschild. - Dance Magazine
“I’ve been here almost 32 years. Literally, the story never changes. We have an incredibly rich and vibrant arts scene here, and I resent being told we’re dying.” - Hyperallergic
Deepfakes graduated from a looming threat to something an enterprising teenager can put together for a TikTok, and chatbots are occasionally sending their creators into crisis. - New York Magazine
Pressing Don’t Recommend Channel would stop only 43 percent of unwanted video recommendations while the Dislike button stopped only 12 percent of recommendations users did not like. - Wired
Arts of illusion are often taken for granted, explained away as a series of clever tricks, but in the sharp and magical transition from possible to impossible we find answers to some of the most fundamental questions in philosophy and cognitive science. - Psyche
The totem poles in Ketchikan represent the ancestral traditions of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people. The Ketchikan Museum’s collection at the Totem Heritage Center alone has more than 30 poles from the 19th century, relocated from the original villages in which they were found. - Smithsonian
Owning a disputed, possibly wildly valuable, art work is a cruel test of any person’s aesthetic values, basic reason, and innate (often well-disguised) capacity for greed. Close your eyes and there are millions of dollars hanging on the wall. Open them, and there is nothing to see. - The New Yorker
Historical stagecraft expert Wendy Waszut-Barrett paints backdrops and wing pieces with the same material that European craftsmen used four centuries ago: distemper paint, made simply of pigment and glue. Here's a report on how she fabricates and deploys the paint and on the advantages it offers. - Early Music America
These groups may indeed be performing the most innovative composers. But what is also emerging is a much more heightened gravitational pull of music to money. This has meant that for composers to survive they’ve become much more fiercely competitive. - Ludwig Van
"(He was) a founder of the so-called Group of 5, norm-shattering Swiss directors who helped drive a new form of national cinema. His best-known films tended toward a stark neorealism, laced with incisive dialogue and an arid wit, and often centered on characters struggling against conformity." - The New York Times
Using Yunchan’s Rach 3 video for comparison, these numbers put the Van Cliburn competition viewership well above some of the biggest television show premieres in history. - Ludwig Van
"After spending the past few years teasing its literary ambitions and acquiring the audiobook platform Findaway for $119 million, Spotify has formally launched its audiobooks business as an à la carte model that will allow users to purchase and download individual audiobooks." - The Hollywood Reporter
