RSC Chief Gregory Doran Steps Down Temporarily
The Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director is taking indefinite compassionate leave (the UK equivalent of family/medical leave) to care for his husband, actor Antony...
NPR ‘Weekend Edition Sunday’ Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro To Depart
After working as an international correspondent starting in 2004, she became host of the Sunday morning flagship in 2017. She made the announcement on...
M+, Hong Kong’s Long-Delayed Contemporary Art Museum, At Last Has An Opening Date
It's been 18 years since the project was first proposed, and there have been messy conflicts over costs and content (notably over the inclusion...
Cellist Sebastian Hess Dead At 50 Of Brain Aneurysm
A student of William Pleeth and Mstislav Rostropovich, he made his solo debut at 18 with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic and developed...
The Unusual History Of Free Jazz
Given the revolutionary nature of the music, it’s no surprise that many in the field greeted it with such disdain. - The Guardian
New Movie Museum Shows LACMA Made A Mistake Selling Old Department Store
Christopher Knight: "Although the department store would not have made good art museum exhibition space, it is now very easy to see how well...
Two Huge Tom Cruise Movies Are On Hold. Will Hollywood Survive?
Suddenly, the unthinkable had happened: Tom Cruise seemingly now had nothing to do. - Deadline
Where We Are Now In Teaching Machines To Learn
High hopes for the imminent arrival of general AI have been there from the very beginning, and the successes of machine learning keep them...
Australian Court Rules Media Can Be Sued For Comments On Posts
It comes after a former teenage prisoner sued media companies over Facebook comments posted below articles about his mistreatment in detention. - BBC
Do Big Film Festivals Still Matter?
These days it pays to look at things from a sober perspective, but let’s face it: glitz can be fun. - Toronto Star
What’s The Latest Dangerous Distraction For Drivers? Infotainment Screens On Their Dashboards
"With American traffic fatalities recently hitting a 15-year high, an infotainment arms race seems like the last thing we need right now. The car...
Of Writing And The Usefulness Of Cliches
It was only with the emergence of an artistic movement, beginning around the mid-18th century, that probable language came to be regarded less as the building...
Katherine Dunham Was More Than A Choreographer And Ethnographer. She Was An Entrepreneur.
Her Ballet Nègre in Chicago, founded in 1930, was only the second ballet company of any kind in America. Her revues Tropics and Le...
How Expertise Is Being Redefined
I believe there exists a modicum of groupthink in an established expert community; solidarity in opinions may be seen as desirable among some in...
How On Earth Did Experimental Downtown Drama Land On Broadway?
"An unusually large proportion of the 10 plays opening this fall are what one producer calls ‘formally inventive’ and others might label downtown, avant-garde,...
Rethinking The Idea Of Theatre As Public Space
In a world dominated by Netflix, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Twitter, the idea of using theatre to drive change and inform our political life...
A Choreographer’s Podcast Examines How The Hell You Can Eke Out A Living In...
Miguel Gutierrez's Are You for Sale? explores "the ethical entanglements between art and money": the convoluted systems of philanthropy and grant applications, the good...
Artificial Intelligence Will Likely Be More Tool Than Human Replacer
Though a wide range of A.I. technologies have improved by leaps and bounds over the past decade, even the most impressive systems have ended...
The Secrets Of 1,000-Year-Old Riddles
The oldest surviving collection of riddles assembled in English is in the Exeter Book, copied around the turn of the first millennium CE. They...
Writing Good Trivia Questions Is Even Harder Than Answering Them
Thorsten A. Integrity (né Shayne Bushfield) of the trivia site LearnedLeague explains what he has to consider: Is this too hard? Too easy? Is...
Phil Schaap, 70, Who Knew About Jazz History Than Anybody
From his teens, he astonished the great musicians he met with his recall of details, and for five decades he shared that knowledge as...
Jazz Venues In New Orleans Weren’t Hurt Too Badly By Hurricane Ida — But...
One historical site was blown to bits, but most performance spaces came out with only some roof and water damage. Yet the performers themselves...
As Sea Levels Rise And Floods Proliferate, Museums Spend Millions To Protect Themselves
Some museums, like the Whitney, learned the hard way (during construction, Superstorm Sandy dumped six million gallons of water into the basement); others (like...
Alberto Vilar, High-Profile Arts Donor Turned Famous Fraudster, Dead At 80
He proudly (extremely proudly) donated millions to the Met, Covent Garden, Kennedy Center, and others, his name prominently displayed — until the tech stocks...
Police Disassemble Hong Kong’s Tienanmen Massacre Museum
The June 4 Museum, as it's called, had been closed to the public (presumably on Beijing's orders) since June. This morning, police were seen...
