The Bubble Art Taking The Edinburgh Fringe By Storm
Performers are delighting crowds with bubble blowing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, using a mixture of dish soap, water and lube — and occasional...
Beloved Iron Sculptures In Chicago’s Grant Park May Be Relocated
“The sculpture Agora — a striking work composed of 106 nine-foot-tall iron human figures — has been a fixture on the southern edge of...
Data: Canada’s Arts Industry Economy Has Surpassed Pre-Pandemic Levels
Today’s analysis indicates that the performing arts have surpassed pre-pandemic levels of revenues and impact on GDP (i.e., the levels in 2019), neither of...
Los Angeles As A Literary Genre
Writers in Los Angeles? To the East Coast, such a notion was ridiculous. And yet, I was to discover, there was a freedom in...
Portland Maine Passes Moratorium On Proposed New Live Nation Venue After Musician Protests
Dozens of local musicians and venue operators said the city should take more time to evaluate whether it should bring Live Nation, which is...
Sheila Jordan, 96, “An Impishly Imposing Jazz-Vocal Titan”
“Jordan was that rarest bird, a singer — a white singer, a ‘chick singer’ — who earned the trust and admiration of geniuses like Mingus and...
Another Bay Area Theatre Company Lays Off Staff And Vacates Its Venue
“Aurora Theatre Company announced in May that it was suspending production next season, Bay Area theater fans have feared the worst: permanent closure of yet...
Ravinia Festival Opens The First Of Its Newly-Renovated Venues
“The Audrey, formerly known as the Ravinia MusicBox, was revealed at a press event on Thursday. Inside The Audrey, in the north corner of...
Ten Semifinalists And Two Judges Withdraw From LGBTQ+ Lit Prizes Over Another Nominee’s Anti-Trans...
The awards in question are the UK’s Polari Prizes, and the issue is the presence on the longlist for Polari Book of the Year...
Public Radio Broadcasters, Ever More Strapped For Cash, May Consider Selling Off Stations
“The loss of federal funding has led most public radio and television stations to take a fresh assessment of ... what it might take...
Arts Organizations: Laughing, Yelling, Insanity, and You
Nonprofit arts organizations are dropping like flies. Got a problem with that? One ...
Public Radio Station In Alabama May Drop NPR Programming
The executive director of Alabama Public Television — which, in addition to a statewide network of PBS-affiliate TV stations, operates a public radio outlet...
Ambassador Theatre Group Is Looking To Buy TodayTix
“ATG, which owns dozens of theatres across the UK and has produced recent versions of Cabaret and Pretty Woman, is likely to line up against US bidders...
Will AI Take Away Your Creative Job? We Don’t Think So
"We believe creative professionals can harness new technologies while still upholding their foundational creative and ethical principles." - The Conversation
Is Art Nouveau Ready For A Comeback In The Age Of AI?
More than a century on, as artificial intelligence offers a fresh tech challenge to humanity, a timely spot of revisionism appears to be taking...
Since Assisted Death Has Been Legal In Canada, More And More Canadians Are Choosing...
MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for...
Why Did The Whitney Suddenly Cancel Its Independent Study Program?
As democratic values in the United States erode at an accelerated pace, acts of silencing and erasure at artistic and academic institutions — think...
Wikipedia’s Huge AI Slop Problem
With the rise of AI writing tools, Wikipedia editors have had to deal with an onslaught of AI-generated content filled with false information and...
UK’s New Online Age-Verification Law Is Causing Massive Censorship
While the law and others like it claim to be narrowly focused on pornographic content and material that promotes suicide, self-harm, eating disorders or...
What Happens When Ventriloquists Gather
Their hearts were in vaudeville. But we were all in Kentucky. Side by side by side, we stood near the entrance of the Vent...
Report: Trump’s Kennedy Center Boss Is Largely AWOL From The Job
Ric Grenell, a former Trump ambassador to Germany and longtime Republican attack dog, is “only occasionally at the Kennedy Center,” a source told CBS News....
Anthropic Argues In Its Copyright Appeal Case That Settlement Would Put It Out Of...
As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months" based on a class...
How TV Networks Are Now Trying To Control The Watercooler Moment
Hosting their own podcasts and making-of series, networks "try to anticipate what beats from the episode people will be talking about and then ......
The Morally Nebulous, Financially Lucrative World Of The Gaming Cheat
On the one hand, there are quite a few data-stealing cheat systems out there. On the other hand, "your laptop’s probably never as safe...
As ‘Black Swan’ Turns Fifteen, Four Black Swans Contemplate What It’s Meant For Ballet
“Black Swan felt magical to me. It offered this picture of being in New York and dancing for a professional company. I don’t remember...
