This House Is Being Built By Living Trees
The strangeness of the building is that it’s meant to be occupied by humans, animals, and plants. The slowness of the building is that...
Musicians Walk Out In London After Not Being Paid
The earlier rehearsal with the London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) had not gone well. Half of the musicians walked out in protest at the way...
Cleveland Triennial Of International Art Shuts Down
In its first two iterations, FRONT drew hundreds of thousands of visitors and attracted the attention of visual arts media from around the world....
Has Technology Made Learning Other Languages Obsolete?
New technology in the form of apps and tools offering real time translation have simplified the world so much that we don't really need...
Looking Back On Michael Tilson Thomas’s 50 Years With San Francisco Symphony
If we’re very fortunate, we may yet have another opportunity to hear these musicians working together on an ad hoc basis. For now, though,...
Artists Win Small Victory In Suits Against AI Companies
U.S. District Judge William Orrick, in an order issued on Thursday night, rebuffed arguments from StabilityAI, Midjourney and StabilityAI that they are entitled to a First...
Royal Winnipeg Ballet Asks Patrons Not To Use Ticket Sites After Scams
RWB spokesperson Jocelyn Unrau said criminals used stolen credit card numbers to buy tickets, then sold them to unwitting customers through online resale platforms. -...
MoMA Returned A Nazi-Looted Chagall To Its Heirs, And Garnered A Large Fee
"MoMA, which acquired in 1949, received $4 million in compensation for giving it back under an arrangement negotiated by a restitution company that...
The Monologues Of Oscar Season
Joining, say, Sally Field in Norma Rae or Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, "actors in current Oscar-season movies enjoyed ample opportunity to...
PEN America Has A Whole Bunch Of Writers Quite Furious At It
More than 600 writers have signed a letter that "condemns PEN’s relative silence on the unfolding genocide in Gaza ... on the heels of two...
Was It The Strikes, Or Sexual Harassment Allegations, That Is Shutting This Talent Agency...
Or are the harassment allegations part of an ownership argument? In any case, the A3 Artists Agency is shutting down today. - Los Angeles...
Why Won’t The ‘Toxic’ Ballet World Change?
“Who’s really motivated to change the system if it’s working for some people?” - MSN (The Telegraph UK)
Theatre Leaders In Kansas City Vow To Rebuild After Fire Guts Historic Building
This year was the Metropolitan Theater Ensemble’s fifth year in the Warwick Theatre building, which "originally opened on Sept. 26, 1914, and seated 1,200.”...
After Bell Canada Announces Massive Layoffs, Justin Trudeau Calls The Company Out
The prime minister said the media company that runs CTV and many radio stations had made “a garbage decision.” He added “that media layoffs...
The Art World Excludes Most Of Us
A journalist who got immersed as a security guard and gallery assistant says, "I became initiated into the way that the art world wields...
How To Create A Musical With A Deaf Main Character
Never forget Deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members; audio signals must be matched with visual cues. And “finding the right actor to enlist as Jones...
Ralph Fiennes Wants Theatre To Be More Affordable, And More Surprising
That he, he’s so very finished with content warnings for something like the Scottish play, which he and Indira Varma star in. He said...
Director Wim Wenders Says All Of His Films Are About How To Live
Wenders, the German director whose latest film is nominated for an Oscar, but from Japan, says “For a long time I did not know...
The Lunar New Year’s Lion Dance Draws D.C.’s Chinese Residents Back To Chinatown
The dance unites a disparate group. "Unlike cities like New York and Toronto, D.C.’s Chinatown no longer feels particularly Chinese Chinese architectural motifs still...
What Is To Become Of Opera?
Can any opera company withstand the blows of the 21st century? “The ongoing crisis in opera parallels a current 'free fall' … in American...
Does The U.S.’s Recording Academy Care One Bit About The Issues Jay-Z Brought Up?
"This isn’t just about hip-hop. This is about Afrobeat, Latin music and the genres that the ‘mainstream' overlooks.” And evidence, based on many years...
How Do Social Media People Create Those Art, But Make It Sports Posts?
"Oftentimes, you will see on social media people post a photo from a sports event and say, ‘Hang it in the Louvre,' as a...
The Download Wars, Or, How iTunes Became Relevant Again
In the early 21st century, downloads were a thing, but now, downloading rather than streaming "is a purely performative gesture – it only ever...
Climate Protestor Charged For Defacing African American Civil War Memorial At The National Gallery...
The protestor painted on the wall next to Augustus Saint Gaudens’s Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial, not the piece itself. However: Jackson Green "has been...
Nothing Lasts Forever, Especially Not Digital Archives When Mergers Come Into Play
In short: Don’t give up your DVDs or Blu-Rays, OK? Digital “copies” are simply rentals, as Funimation fans are discovering to their chagrin. -...
