An Intimacy Coordinator Explains How Exactly He Works On Set
"Your boundaries can change given the person, given who's in the room, given I'm on a sofa not a bed, that changes how I...
Judge Strikes Down Feds’ Monopoly Case Against Facebook
The judge eviscerated one of the federal government’s core arguments, that Facebook holds a monopoly over social networking, saying prosecutors had failed to provide...
A New American Heroine: Sapphire’s ‘Push’ At 25
Tayari Jones: "The miracle of Sapphire's gift is that she weaves her sharp social commentary and critique into the fabric of this story without...
What Might Have Been — A Plan For NPR To Be An Arts Powerhouse
Once upon a time, kids, NPR was to have taken its place among other national broadcasters around the world to become the standard for...
Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ To Be Cut By Half
Before the pandemic, the award-winning hit played in two parts running a total of more than five hours. As theaters reopen, Cursed Child will...
YouTube Buys Naming Rights For New 6000-Seat Theatre In LA
The 6,000-seat performance venue at the Hollywood Park sports and entertainment complex in Inglewood, Calif., will be called “YouTube Theater.” - Variety
Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stephen Dunn Dead At 82
"He departed from the 'confessional' style of self-lacerating poetry and considered himself instead a 'meditative' or observational poet. Writing in a plain, unfussy style...
Turns Out AI Can Be Pretty Easily Fooled By Patterns
The ability to succeed at the task can be thought of as a foundation for all kinds of inferences that humans make. - Quanta
LA’s Echo Theater: 25 Years As A Hotbed Of Offbeat New Work
Artistic director Chris Fields: "We've had a very simple system at the Echo. We read a play every week amongst ourselves and talk about...
To Protect Your Orchestra Players From COVID, Change Their Layout: Study
A study undertaken over the past season by the Utah Symphony and University of Utah researchers found that a new seating arrangement could reduce...
They’re Back To Dancing At Jacob’s Pillow, Even If It’s All Outdoors
The dance festival in the Berkshires is coming back from last summer's cancellation, the first in its 89-year history, and the destruction of its...
Stolen Picasso And Mondrian Works Recovered In Greece
Picasso's Head of a Woman and Mondrian's Stammer Windmill, taken from the National Gallery of Greece in 2012 in a seven-minute robbery, were seized...
Painting Falls Off Wall, Turns Out To Be Lost Rembrandt
The Adoration of the Magi hanging in a country house near Rome was assumed to be a copy. But, five years ago, the owners...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Sees Reason, Will Have Intermissions
About six weeks after announcing that, as a COVID safety measure, it would eliminate intermissions when it resumes live performances — and just over...
Philadelphia’s Annenberg Center Changes Name
"Penn Live Arts is the new moniker for the group and series long known as the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The switch...
Suffering Under The Weight Of Happiness
Wanting to copy the happiest people in the world is an understandable impulse, but it distracts from a key message of the happiness rankings—that...
No Surprise: How AI Is Choosing The Next Pop Stars
Musiio is just one of many hi-tech firms changing the way songs are categorised, playlisted and promoted, to eventually reach the ears of millions....
Philadelphia Museum Of Art’s Sleek New Gehry Makeover
Philip Kennicott: "The changes at the Philadelphia Museum are stunning". - Washington Post
Louis Menand Takes On O. Henry
In New York, he began producing at an astonishing rate. He contracted to write a story a week for the Sunday World, and he...
Sudden Move: Oregon Ballet Theatre Ousts Artistic Director
“I was informed on Wednesday of this week that the board has decided to go a different direction in the AD role and that...
In Praise Of The Meritocracy
Meritocracy, for all its flaws, may well be, like the democracy it has sometimes served, better than the alternatives. At the very least, we...
A Social History Of The Asterisk
By the eighteenth century the asterisk was being deployed as a sort of censorship, covering up letters to represent a d**n vulgar word without...
The Basic Tensions Between Individualism And The Greater Good
Do we want conflicting disconnected atoms or thriving autonomous individuals? And what role do culture and society have in their formation? - 3 Quarks...
Why Big Video Game Companies Keep Imploding
Dysfunction is baked into the video game production process, as it currently exists. The big-budget games industry is dominated by a few large companies,...
“Banksy: Genius Or Vandal” Raises Ire Of Banksy Fans
The exhibition will take over a “secret” location in L.A. to be disclosed to ticket holders in July. - Los Angeles Times
