“We Were Duped!”: Movie Audiences Shocked To Learn They Were Watching Musicals
“A lot of people who are walking out of musicals and loving them may not even know that it was a musical,” said Paul Dergarabedian,...
As Jaap Van Zweden Prepares To Leave New York And Hong Kong Philharmonics, He’s...
This month the 63-year-old Dutch conductor began his term as music director at the Seoul Philharmonic. That orchestra had been considered one of Asia's...
Design For Florence’s New Airport Has A Vineyard On The Roof
"Few details about the design (by Rafael Viñoly Architects) have been released, but the terminal's main feature will be a vast sloping roof, which...
Fed-Up Museum Director In Florence Compares The City To A Prostitute. Bad Idea.
"Mass tourism has turned the Italian city of Florence into a 'prostitute,' the director of Galleria dell’Accademia" — home to Michelangelo's David — has...
Suspect In Murder Of Gallerist Brent Sikkema Confesses
"Alejandro Triana Prevez, a 30-year-old Cuban national, was arrested just days after the 75-year-old New York gallerist was found dead in his apartment in...
Owner Of The Weather Channel Makes $30 Billion Offer To Buy Paramount
"The comic-turned media mogul (Byron Allen) has made a $14.3 billion offer to buy all outstanding shares of Paramount Global. … The deal would...
60-Seconds-Per-Episode Soap Operas Have Come To TikTok
"The biggest player in this new genre is ReelShort, an app that offers melodramatic content in minute-long, vertically shot episodes and is hoping to...
Sotheby’s Is Cleared Of Defrauding Art-Collecting Oligarch
"Sotheby’s was cleared Tuesday in Manhattan federal court of claims that they helped Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier defraud Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, in...
Chita Rivera, 91
"With her raven hair, lithe frame and smoky voice, Ms. Rivera cut a mesmerizing Broadway figure for more than six decades, her name synonymous...
Rebellion At The Royal Society Of Literature
Set up under the patronage of George IV to “reward literary merit and excite literary talent”, the society still has royal sponsorship from Queen...
Hundreds Of Immersive Art Experiences Are Changing The Art World
Outernet in December announced that it recorded 6.25 million visitors in its first year of operation, while the British Museum attracted 5.83 million visitors...
Two Years After Pandemic, Toronto’s Theatre Scene On Verge Of Collapse?
Unless there's a turnaround in the sector, arts leaders who spoke with the Star say the once-thriving sector in Toronto — one of the...
Boston Lyric Opera Names A New Director
Nina Yoshida Nelsen, a mezzo-soprano and the cofounder of the Asian Opera Alliance, joined the company as an artistic adviser in 2021. She becomes...
Here Is The State Of The World’s 7000 Languages
Across the 7,168 living languages today, 43% are at risk of being endangered. - Visual Capitalist
Turns Out That Playing An Instrument Helps Your Brain Age Well
A new study claims that "practising and reading music may help sustain good memory and the ability to solve complex tasks." - BBC
San Francisco Ballet’s New Director On Keeping Dance Relevant To Audiences
She’d like to involve the audience, sharing extracts or work-in-progress and getting feedback, like a TV pilot or test screening in film. “We’re competing...
The Rehabilitation Of Caspar David Friedrich, Standard-Bearer Of German Romantic Painting
"When (he) died in poverty in 1840, he was almost forgotten by the contemporary art world. As his 250th birthday approaches, his reputation is...
Miami English — A New American Dialect
The new parlance is a Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida, a lingo-infusion born out of decades of immigration from Spanish-speaking...
“Shattered Glass” At 20
"In deference to this milestone, the film’s enduring appeal in J-school classrooms, and its rent-free existence in the backs of reporters’ minds, Poynter spoke...
Spotify’s Audiobook Service Takes Off After Launch
With the addition of Spotify, the audiobook sector grew by 28 percent in that period, the company said. Using figures provided by Spotify, Bookstat...
“Deep YouTube,” The Billions (Yes, Billions) Of Videos Most People Will Never See
"The viral videos and popular conspiracy theorists are, of course, important. But the reality is that the number and perhaps even importance of those...
US States Rethink How To Teach Reading
Dozens of cities and states across America are overhauling the way their schools teach reading — attempting to close gaps exacerbated by the pandemic....
Inside The Crumbling Condé Nast
"The shuffling and reshuffling has reached the point where Condé is now spitting out the people who were brought in to replace the prior...
Publisher Marc Jaffe, Who Pioneered The Paperback Book Market As We Know It, Is...
"(As) editorial director of Bantam Books, … he oversaw a boom in paperback publishing beginning in the 1960s, putting out hitmakers from The Catcher...
In War-Battered Kyiv, Playwrights Turn Toward Comedy
"In a studio theatre tucked into a courtyard behind Kyiv’s main Khreshchatyk Street, six playwrights and six directors were hammering out a fraught question:...
