Seven Years After Fire That Destroyed It, National Museum Of Brazil Is Partially Reopening
“(The museum) in Rio de Janeiro will temporarily reopen some galleries this month, nearly seven years after an electrical fire engulfed the building and...
Guy Klucevsek, Contemporary Classical’s Accordion Superstar, Is Dead At 78
“Writing in The Village Voice in 2015 about a series of performances … in the East Village, Richard Gehr noted that, ‘having mastered the...
What’s Going On With The Part Of The Disney Co. Folks Forget About, Disney...
“Disney Publishing’s most recent pivot came in 2020, when it sold 1,110 children’s titles to Hachette and decided to focus on acquiring global content that...
Texas Will Pump $300 Million Extra Into Its Film Incentive Program
“Senate Bill 22 … (will) allow the comptroller to deposit $300 million into a new Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Fund every two years...
How It Got To The Point That Taylor Swift Had To Buy Her Own...
“(Her) years-long saga to win back the rights to her first six albums will go down as one of the most significant storylines in...
SUMMER RERUN: What Would a Post-NEA (Arts) America Look Like?
An all-too-prescient post from January 2025 begs you to answer the question: if WHEN the NEA’s funding is eliminated, how ...
After 16 Years, Marc Maron Will End His Megahit Podcast “WTF”
After more than 1,600 episodes, Maron says he and his producer, Brendan McDonald, are “tired” and “burnt out” but “utterly satisfied with the work...
Loretta Swit, Who Played Major Houlihan On M*A*S*H, Has Died At 87
“Sally Kellerman played Houlihan in the movie version and Swit took it over for TV, eventually deepening and creating her into a much fuller...
Disney Laying Off Hundreds Across Its Entertainment Divisions
The bulk of them are across divisions of Disney Entertainment, including marketing for both film and television as well as television publicity, casting and...
After Decades Of Defense Of The NEA, It’s Stunning To See It Brought Low
If it remains at all, it will be as a sham vehicle through which the administration will fund its favored projects, such as non-Equity...
Tourist Jumps Fence, Damages Terracotta Warriors In Xian
The tourist was visiting the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Xi’an, a city in western China that was the capital during several ancient dynasties, when...
What Henry James Knew About The Act Of Criticism
Criticism, done well, is performance. Criticism done best opens the lives of writers, as well as their literature. Henry James’ speech on Balzac (which...
Dana Gioia’s Memoir: Critique Or Pining For A Time That Has Passed?
Old men are entitled to a little nostalgia, and Gioia isn’t the only postwar culture hero looking to escape, to some extent, into the past....
Study: Americans Increasingly Get Their News From Sources They Don’t Trust
While Americans get news from social media, they often don’t see those sources as trustworthy. And while Democrats see most traditional news sources as...
Canadian Museums Facing Storage Crisis
Museums in Canada face several challenges to housing and preserving their collections, let alone displaying those items. And overcrowding is becoming a bigger issue, experts say,...
The Creative Industries’ “Napster Moment”?
If copyright protections were to be stripped away, then so begins the unraveling of the entire value proposition that union members past and present...
500 Broadway Artists Versus Patti LuPone
More than 500 Broadway artists are calling for "accountability, justice, and respect" after theater legend Patti LuPone received widespread pushback over recent comments she made about fellow...
Is AI Coming For Backstage Jobs?
Or, excuse us, we mean, is it bringing a “revolution” to theatre? - The Stage (UK)
The Effort In Indonesia To Install Beautiful Microlibraries Everywhere
“The structures are built using a range of materials and passive cooling principles. The facade of the Bima microlibrary in Bandung was built in...
The Newest Hint That There’s Strong Interest In Off-Broadway Shows
“There are a lot of really beautiful shows that just are never going to attract the audience, and/or support the budget, that you increasingly...
Reality TV, You May Not Be Surprised To Know, Distorts Our View Of Who...
A professor of political science writes that there's “extensive research finding correlations between one’s tendency to believe in the bootstraps version of the American...
Los Angeles Opera Names Its New Music Director
"When Domingo Hindoyan, the Venezuelan chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, made his debut with L.A. Opera last November with Roméo et Juliette, Times...
Renee Victor, Voice Of Abuelita In Coco, Has Died At 88
“Victor appeared in a number of television series through her decades-long career, including as Lupita on the comedy Weeds” - but most people younger...
Playing A Regal, Demanding Musician Doesn’t Make One Regal Or Demanding
Natalie Venitia Belcon "insists that in her downtime, offstage, away from journalists, she is an everyday sort of woman who prefers oversize T-shirts and...
What’s Going To Happen When We Can Translate Animal Languages?
“Speaking whale would expand our sense of space and time into a planetary song. I imagine we’d think very differently about polluting the ocean...
