The Producer Who Wants To Make Microdramas Which Are Actually Good
“Snow Story Productions CEO Austin Herring said the big hits in microdramas were ‘borderline unwatchable’ when he entered the field in 2024, where salacious...
Neue Galerie To Merge With The Metropolitan Museum
Beginning in 2028, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will own the Neue’s Fifth Avenue home and the prestige collection of 20th-century Austrian and German...
Netflix Becomes An Ad Giant: 250M Subscribers
The streaming titan said Wednesday during its “upfront” presentation to advertisers that its ad-supported subscription tier reaches reaches more than 250 million global monthly...
Study: People Are Bad At Figuring Out What They Don’t Know (Yet They Think...
People aren’t just bad at remembering things they see all the time, but also in actually knowing how they work. In a 2006 study,...
Aszure Barton’s Final Choreography Commission For Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
LubDub is the fourth and final piece of Barton’s three years as Hubbard Street’s resident choreographer. “Asked to discuss the movement vocabulary she employs...
How Your Brain Toggles Between The Familiar And Exploration
Research from my team suggests that people balance between exploration and habit – that is, trying something new or sticking with the familiar – when deciding...
Artists In The Age Of AI: Let’s Explore The Labor-Intensive Art Of The Renaissance
Artists have been raiding the toolkits of the Old Masters with new urgency of late, borrowing and reworking Renaissance and Baroque compositional drama, symbolism, and increasingly,...
NYU Students Protest Jonathan Haidt As Graduation Speaker
Student government leaders at New York University are objecting to his selection as the graduation speaker at Yankee Stadium — calling it “deeply unsettling”...
Keats’s Rediscovered Love Letters Could Sell For $2 Million
“A once-stolen collection of letters written by the poet John Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne will be sold at Sotheby’s New York this...
The Most-Performed Classical Music Concerts In Australia: Live Movie Music
According to the latest Live Performance Australia data, the most popular classical music performances in 2024 included Star Wars, How to Train Your Dragon, Pirates...
How The Smithsonian Decided To Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
“What we landed on were those moments where individuals or communities had fought for recognition and advocated for their own sense of identity and...
Reconciling The Values Of Silicon Valley
For decades, these ideologies were tolerated as part of a tacit social bargain: A group of intelligent eccentrics were left to their own devices...
Louvre Prioritized Prestige Over Security In Period Before Crown Jewel Theft, Says French Parliament...
“Security, the report revealed, had been ‘relegated to the background,’ despite two audits completed in 2017 and 2019, years before the jewel heist. The...
A New Raft Of Plays With Invented Dialogue Depicting Real People And Events
“Drama has historically been considered a form of fiction or poetry. Yet as recent plays approach the feeling of reportage, what’s surprising isn’t that...
Georgian Government Sentences Renowned Opera Singer-Turned Opposition Leader To Seven Years In Prison
Paata Burchuladze, who had a very successful career as a bass before returning home to participate in the struggle against an increasingly authoritarian government,...
Santa Fe Opera Extends Music Director’s Contract, Appoints New Principal Conductor
British conductor Harry Bicket, who was appointed the summer festival’s principal conductor in 2013 and music director in 2018, has extended his contract through...
Lincoln Center Unveils $335 Million Redesign Of Its Western Edge
The project, which aims to make that side of the campus less fortress-like and more inviting, will turn the concrete-heavy stretch around Damrosch Park...
As CBS News Radio Goes Off The Air, Longtime Staffers Remember Its 99-Year History
Dan Rather: “CBS Radio should be remembered for becoming a national institution. It, for many, many years, was part — and I would argue...
Iran: We Never Dropped Out Of The Venice Biennale, And We’re Still Coming
Earlier this month, Biennale organizers announced that Iran had withdrawn from the event. But a high official in the country’s culture ministry just said...
Free Speech on Someone Else’s Stage
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports:
Jayson Gillham believes artists have a right to bring their whole selves to the stage.
“I believe that everyone has the right...
It’s Your Turn Now.
Write, speak out, enact your own scene change. That would be the best birthday present ever. ...
Lead Event Technical Director
Lead Event Technical Director: oversee technical operations, crew leadership, safety compliance, and client coordination; requires rigging, carpentry, audio, lighting expertise in fast-paced performing arts venue.
The Various Things British People Mean When They Say “Sorry”
“In the UK, ‘sorry’ is not simply an apology, it's a cultural reflex – a five-letter pressure valve used to soften requests, smooth over...
Leading Paris Gallery Goes Bankrupt After 36 Years, Closes
Air de Paris, a leading French gallery, will close its doors and declare bankruptcy after 36 years in business, the gallery’s cofounders, Florence Bonnefous...
Harvey Weinstein Is On His Third Trial For This Rape Case — And This...
The disgraced movie mogul was first tried for the alleged assault of Jessica Mann in 2020; he was convicted of third-degree rape, but the...
