Actress Pauline Collins, Known For “Shirley Valentine,” Has Died At 85
She began her carer in theatre and TV and first became widely known as troublemaking parlour maid Sarah on Upstairs, Downstairs. Her turn as...
Anti-Israel Protestors Light Flares Inside Crowded Paris Concert Hall
Thursday night’s Israel Philharmonic concert at the Philharmonie was interrupted three times by demonstrators, including twice when flares were lit in the balcony and...
Switzerland Asks UNESCO To Officially Recognize Yodeling
The country’s government has requested that the UN agency designate yodeling as Intangible Cultural Heritage. UNESCO’s committee for Intangible Heritage will decide at its...
What Margaret Atwood Left Out Of Her Memoir
By telling a straightforward tale about her life in which she is the unquestionable hero, Atwood leaves little space for truly literary tensions but...
The Idea Of An Anthropocene Era Has Been Declared Dead
In 2016, the group made its recommendation that the Anthropocene should be considered as the new epoch. This recommendation was later forwarded to higher...
Doomerism as A Philosophy
As a wide range of social scientists, pollsters, and trendspotters have observed, a sense of fatalism has increasingly suffused the attitudes of many millennials...
The Old Whitney Museum Is About To Reopen As Sotheby’s. Here’s What’s Been Done...
The renovation is thoughtful and deeply respectful, with a stress on materiality and crisp detail that is typical of Herzog & de Meuron. -...
Opera In Decline? Maybe Not In Australia, Suggest Recent Data
'Both our Sydney summer and winter 2025 seasons recorded their highest ever number of first-time purchasers, while repeat purchasers also grew. This increase in...
“India’s Picasso,” The Country’s Most Admired And Reviled Artist
In March, a painting by M.F. Husain became the highest-priced modern Indian artwork ever; in June, an auction of his work in Mumbai was...
To Get More Patrons, San Francisco Plans To Allow Movies Theatres To Serve Alcohol
"You have to basically be a restaurant, which movie theaters are not. This is going to make it easier for movie theaters to have...
The Tax Scams Behind UK Movies
For Love or Money had a budget of £4.3m and claimed tax credits of £994,353 – or 23% of the budget. If you actually...
AI Hallucinations Mimic The Traits Of Narcissism
To understand why they persist, it helps to see them not as acts of deception, but as predictable behaviours of systems built to be...
Why Robotics Companies Are Working With Dancers
“As moving machines like drones and self-driving cars become more integrated into our daily lives, the tech companies behind them are realizing they need...
James Gaffigan Appointed Music Director Of Houston Grand Opera
The New York-born, Houston-trained conductor is currently general music director of the Komische Oper Berlin and just completed a term leading Valencia’s Palau de...
When Dance Movement Is Constrained By Costumes
Josephine Flos was rehearsing the opening of “Figure,” a new dance piece created by the fashion designer Lisa Konno in collaboration with the choreographer...
Man Returns Piece Of The Acropolis Hist Father Took In 1930
Back in 1930, Gaetano visited Athens with the Italian Navy. And at the Acropolis—the Greek capital’s hilltop covered in ancient architecture—he picked up a...
Chicago Arts Funding Could Shrink Next Year
“(Mayor Brandon) Johnson’s proposed budget allocates just north of $62 million for (the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events) for next year. That’s...
Have Leading Arts Organizations Fulfilled Their Diversity Promises? In Chicago, The Answer Is …
… in effect, “no comment.” Of 21 organizations WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times approached, only seven completed the survey. One answered part of it,...
Hunger: Inside David Ellison’s First 100 Days Running Paramount
“By the accounts of many industry insiders, Ellison has been leveraging his family’s extraordinary wealth and access to President Trump to prepare for a...
So, Who’s Really Looking To Buy Warner Bros. Discovery (Or Pieces Of It)?
“That’s the question on the minds of Hollywood and Wall Street after the company put itself up for sale, citing ‘unsolicited interest’ from ‘multiple...
“Vibe Coding” Is Collins Dictionary’s 2025 Word Of The Year
“’Vibe coding,’ an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, … was coined ... to describe how artificial intelligence...
Staffers At Detroit Institute Of Arts Prepare To Unionize
“DIA staff are seeking to unionize with AFSCME Cultural Workers United (AFSCME Michigan), a division of the national AFSCME union that represents workers at cultural institutions including...
Atlanta Symphony Extends Nathalie Stutzmann’s Contract As Music Director
Her term will run for three additional years, going through the end of the 2028-29 season. - ArtsATL
Kristin Chenoweth On The Backlash To Her Tweet On Charlie Kirk’s Death
“It was tough on me, but I’m not going to answer any questions about it because I dealt with it. It nearly broke me,...
“The Baker’s Wife,” A Musical That’s Been Proofing In The Oven For 50 Years
Composer Stephen Schwartz and book writer Joseph Stein spent months on a pre-Broadway tour in 1976 trying to fix the show. It didn’t work,...
