Director Milo Rau’s Staged Moral Tribunals Have Been A Big Success. His Latest Choice...
Rau’s trials — with real witnesses and arguments, followed by symbolic judgments — have put Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists, mining companies in the Congo, and...
Web Video Is Coming To TV. But The Tyranny Of Web Format Is Problematic
How much do we want the internet to be television? A good gimmick for social-media content doesn’t automatically translate to interesting TV, a medium...
Condustor Ryan Wigglesworth On What The Classical Music World Is Now
A new generation – of concert-goers as well as performers – are essential to classical music’s future. Would a Ryan Wigglesworth born today still...
If It’s Art And People Like It, Then…
Our reigning cultural ideology has been poptimism—the idea that if a lot of people like a work of art, then it has to be good....
The Director Who Brought Sicilian Dialect Back To Palermo’s Stages
Emma Dante, who will receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at this year’s Venice Theatre Biennale, led a revival of interest in dialect...
Is LA Finally Getting The Fringe Theatre Festival It Deserves?
This year’s event has a record number of participants, and is set to break even after operating at a loss for the last two...
How Good Is AI At Spotting Talent? Soccer Teams Are Working On It
For decades, the beautiful game depended on the human eye: a scout on the sideline, attentively watching, waiting for that something special. That process,...
How Do You Prepare For The NBA Finals? Wembanyama Sketches In Gramercy Park
As seen in a viral video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Wembanyama and his sister Eve, who also plays professional basketball, but in Europe,...
How Gaudí’s Design Keeps Sagrada Familia Standing Tall Without Flying Buttresses
The great Barcelona architect despised flying buttresses, especially in 20th-century neo-Gothic architecture, calling them “crutches” for a building that couldn’t support its own weight....
Movie Scores Are Taking Over Orchestra Programs
What used to be a novelty has now become a core staple of symphonic programming in the United States: live soundtracks, performances in which...
California Universities Abandoned The SAT. It’s Been A Disaster
A huge share of STEM and economics faculty across the UC system is now in open revolt—demanding that California’s public universities at least look...
AI Bootleggers Are Stealing Songs, Tweaking Them And Making Money
It was an AI-manipulated version of the band’s 2019 single “Angels Above Me,” sped up with a tweaked lead vocal and a dance-music kick...
Julio Le Parc, Pioneer Of Moving Op Art, Has Died At 97
“He focused on kinetic sculpture … and the geometric optical illusions of Op Art, infusing them with regional influences” — he was Argentine, though...
Plan For $1.16 Billion Opera House Scrapped By Mayor Of Düsseldorf
Millions have already been spent on planning and architectural design for a new home for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and total costs for...
Trump Administration Asked National Park Visitors To Report “Negative” History Info. Visitors Did Something...
What most respondents considered negative was the effort itself. One visitor called it “un-American.” Another criticized the idea of “having Americans call in and snitch...
Imax Is Considering Selling Itself To A Big Studio. Here’s The Problem It Has.
“A key challenge will be finding a buyer who wouldn't present a conflict of interest.” How so? - TheWrap (Yahoo!)
The “Middleware” Problem: How Do You Find Classical Music?
“For decades, the relationship between artists and audiences was heavily mediated and nurtured by newspaper critics, classical radio hosts, record-store owners, etc. — They...
Directors Guild And Hollywood Studios Agree On Four-Year Contract
“The deal struck between the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers came four weeks after talks began.” - AP
Forgotten Manuscript By JRR Tolkien Found In Oxford Library
“The Lord of the Rings author’s translation of a medieval religious text from the early 13th century had lain forgotten in the Bodleian Libraries’ collections...
Executive Director – Historic Paramount Theatre
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As Russia’s War Rages On, Kyiv Hosts A Busy Literary Festival
“A sign of the nation’s complete engulfing by war was the presence of so many soldiers on the stages; writers who had become soldiers,...
Archaeologists Find Intact 18th Century Ship Off Norway
In addition to the well-preserved ceramics, researchers found barrels of grain and an array of high-end European-made goods ranging from chandeliers to stemmed glasses....
Turmoil At Korean National Ballet Over Choice Of Next Artistic Director
Following widespread rumors that the chosen candidate was a politically-connected university professor with no experience in ballet, the company’s dancers issued a public statement...
Report: Arts Audiences Are Growing In Australia
The survey, conducted since 2009 and last published in 2022, has found that almost all Australians (98%) engage with the arts in some capacity...
Why We Crave Social Interaction
Among humans, “you can feel lonely at a party, or you can feel fine alone in your office." Whatever the ideal degree of togetherness,...
