Renee Fleming Will No Longer Perform At The Kennedy Center
“Fleming and the Kennedy Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday evening. The center’s website said that she had...
The Love Letters From Lord Byron’s Boyfrien
“While performing the role of the straight heartthrob in public, Byron was concealing his more complex history—no matter the sacrifice to his feelings.” -...
This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Documentaries Fight The Power
“Each is a story about standing up to something that seems too big to confront: an authoritarian government, an abusive system, dehumanizing societal norms....
Meta Hits Pause On Teens Chatting With AI Characters
Apparently, it was too hard to put parental controls on the old characters. So: “We’re pausing teen access to the current version while we...
Restoring “America’s Notre-Dame” — Which Is In, Of All Places, Kentucky
The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington (across the Ohio River from Cincinnati) is a scaled-down copy of Notre-Dame de Paris on the...
Darren Walker, Who Headed The Ford Foundation, Is Heading To Hollywood
“On Friday, Walker, 66, was named president and chief executive of Anonymous Content, the production and management company” which produced, among others, the Oscar-winning film...
Comic Con Bans AI Art
“Material created by Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show. If there are questions, the Art Show...
Curator Resigns After Nan Goldin Acquisition Voted Down
A senior curator and two collections committee volunteers have resigned their posts at the Art Gallery of Ontario after the institution voted against acquiring a new...
Dallas Opera Raises Record $54M
More than 100 donors contributed to the campaign, with recent significant gifts from the Perot family, the Hamon Foundation, the Vansickle Family Foundation, Cece...
Can Generative AI Generate Convincing Dance Movement? Nope, Not Yet.
“CalMatters and The Markup tested four commercially-available AI video-generation models — OpenAI’s Sora, Google’s Veo, MiniMax’s Hailou, and Kuaishou’s Kling — and so far, dancers don’t have...
Minneapolis Arts Organizations Join General Strike Today
“We’re pausing operations to recognise the weight of this moment in our community and to care for our employees and people in the Twin...
Ghost Light: When Theater’s Cast Goes Digital Forever
Simon Stephens' mixed-reality experiment at The Shed asks the existential question: if actors perform in cyberspace and no one applauds, is it still theater?...
Author Declares Culture Dead, Publishers Still Printing Books
W. David Marx diagnoses 25 years of creative stagnation in a new cultural history. Presumably the irony of launching a fresh cultural critique about...
The Heart Of Small-Market Weekly Newspapers? The Obituaries
“It has long been recognized that newspaper obituaries hold value for communities, documenting lives and preserving local history. Their significance is rarely debated. Their...
Amazon’s AI Authors Lack What Writers Need Most: Attitude
Machine-generated novels and coloring books are flooding the marketplace, but they're missing literature's secret ingredient—artistic ego. Turns out readers might actually miss all that...
AI Art’s Predictable Problem: The Cliché Machine Cranks On
As algorithms churn out endless variations on tired themes, human artists are discovering their secret weapon isn't perfection—it's the beautiful, messy unpredictability that no...
Justice System Meets Its Deepfake Moment
When seeing is no longer believing, Canadian courts face an existential crisis: how do you prove what's real when reality itself can be manufactured?...
Houston Grand Opera Is Doing Very Well These Days. Meet The General Director Behind...
“The company’s recent successes include two Grammy nominations; press attention for the hiring of music director James Gaffigan; announcements of bold new works; and...
There’s A New Oscar Category For Casting. Not Many People Really Get What It’s...
“Even in a case where a star comes on first, … the casting director has to build an entire world around them — not...
Should Struggling Artists And Performers Get Preference In New York City’s Affordable Housing Programs?
After all, large numbers of creatives have been fleeing the city, driven away mostly by the high cost of apartments. But would such a...
Chaos At One Of San Francisco’s Beloved Indie Performance Venues
“CounterPulse … is in crisis caused by financial strain, leadership collapse and a bitter labor conflict. With just one show on its calendar for...
New York State Governor Proposes $150 Million Retroactive Extension Of Theater Tax Credits
“(State agency) Empire State Development … currently isn’t accepting applications for the New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit. … The proposed...
There’s A New Cliburn Competition Coming — This One For Conductors
“The first Cliburn International Competition for Conductors will take place in 2028 in Houston. … The competition will be hosted in partnership with the...
Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley Public Media Lays Of Half Its Staff
“The Bethlehem-based organization, which includes PBS39, WLVR radio and the Lehigh Valley News website, will lose about half of its workforce, which had stood...
Finally, A Ballet Shoe That Incorporates Athletic-Shoe Technology
Seth Orza, when he was a principal with Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, developed plantar fasciitis and couldn’t find a shoe that would give...
