Disney Used AI For Opening Credits Of The New Marvel Movie. Backlash Ensues
In an interview with Polygon on Wednesday, director Ali Selim confirmed that AI operated by a company called Method Studios produced the opening sequence to the...
They’ve Put Up A Geodesic Dome At The Dalí Museum in Florida. Here’s Why.
"We now have the answer: 'Dalí Alive 360°,' a new immersive experience showcasing the Spanish surrealist's works. It opens sometime this summer." - Tampa...
Artistic Exodus From Seattle — Seattle Opera Head Is Latest To Go
Christina Scheppelmann’s departure announcement comes amid leadership vacancies, or impending vacancies, at other high-profile Seattle arts organizations. - Seattle Times
North Carolina’s Triad Stage Is Closing Its Doors
"This spring, the professional regional theater in downtown Greensboro stopped selling tickets to shows while examining its options amid financial struggles. The group's volunteer...
A Depressing Report On Freelancing In The British Theatre Industry
"A comprehensive report published by Freelancers Make Theatre Work … reveals significant disparities in pay between male and female workers, amounting to a gap...
San Francisco Has Changed Its Arts Funding Priorities, And Some Groups Have Gotten Quite...
"Many arts organizations," including such flagships as the San Francisco Symphony, "have seen their city funding reduced drastically or eliminated altogether. At the same...
Motion Picture Academy Changes Rules For Best Picture Oscar
"Under the new rules, … a film will need to continue its run beyond the current requirement, a one-week theatrical release in one of...
Kennedy Center Honors 2023 To Renée Fleming, Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah, Barry...
"You know you’ve made a cultural impact when Henry Kissinger quotes your own joke back to you. That's what happened to Billy Crystal. …...
Philadelphia Orchestra-Kimmel Center Asks Court To Throw Out Philly Pops’ Lawsuit
"With an outstanding $1 million debt and a 'long history of contractual default and related broken promises and commitments,' the Philly Pops is trying...
France’s Highest Court Clears Filmmaker Luc Besson Of Rape Charge
The ruling by the Court of Cassation "marks the fourth and final judicial instruction in this case. The legal battle started with (actress Sand)...
Taylor Swift’s Billion-Dollar Machine
"If the current spending pace continues through the end of the tour, the Eras Tour will have generated an estimated $5 billion in...
Indignities Of The Old-School Book Tour
One day in 1990, I was flown first class from Dublin to Phoenix, Arizona, to read at the Irish Cultural Centre there. Five people...
How AI Will Unlock Now Artistic Worlds
Some 19th-century artists saw the advent of photography as a threat to painting. Instead of replacing painting, however, photography eventually liberated it from realism,...
The Ways Riccardo Muti Became Part Of Chicago
That Riccardo Muti became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at all is a miraculous anomaly due to a perfect storm of unexpected...
Learning Kronos: 50 New Quartets For The Future
The idea, according to founding first violinist and Artistic Director David Harrington, was to commission 50 quartets from a variety of composers, and make...
How A Regional Foundation Radically Evolved To Serve The Arts
At a time of unprecedented need, do organizations owe it to their communities to move more money out the door, even if it threatens...
NYC’s High Line Park Gets A New Bridge
The first half of the bridge—a gently sloped, 340-foot-long arm coming out of the High Line Spur, as the final section of the elevated...
France Has Treated Françoise Gilot Almost As Badly As Picasso Did
When the much-younger artist ended her relationship with the titan, he destroyed her artwork and tried very hard to destroy her career — and...
Why Have A Festival If It Doesn’t Take You Out Of The Ordinary?
“There’s no point coming here just to do one thing. Blowing in and out doesn’t work – financially! Performers get all that, and they...
Oregon Ballet Theatre’s New Artistic Director Has Some Big Dreams For Her Dancers
Dani Rowe hopes to end the company's apprentice program by 2030, instead treating — and paying — the young dancers as full company members....
What “The Truman Show” Got Right About Technology 25 Years Ago
Through Truman’s story, the movie predicted, with eerie acuity, the rise of reality TV, the transactions of social media, the banality of surveillance. But...
Utah School District Reverses Ban On The Bible Due To Inappropriate Subject Matter For...
"The (Davis School District) committee's reversal is the latest development in the debate over a Utah law allowing parents to challenge 'sensitive materials' available...
“Mao’s Last Dancer” To Retire
Li Cunxin, who found international fame for his remarkable rise from rural China to become one of the world’s leading ballet dancers, has announced...
Who’s In Line To Run Britain’s National Theatre?
"Will the NT reach for a safe pair of hands (as) arts funding is squeezed and theatre is clawing back revenue lost over the...
Russians Revive Mariupol’s Bombed Theatre As Russian Culture Showcase
“This theater is being reborn and has restored its great reputation,” said Aleksandr Rostov, the theater’s new, Russian-appointed creative director in a video to...
