With Cell-Phone Cameras Everywhere, Will Stage Actors Refuse To Do Nude Scenes?
Says one publicist, "Ten years ago, I don't think the first thing out of my mouth (to a client) would have been: 'Are you...
Rhiannon Giddens Will Direct Next Year’s Ojai Music Festival
The versatile singer-instrumentalist-composer, whose opera Omar is about to have its world premiere at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, will head the 2023 edition...
Authorities Seize Five Ancient Egyptian Works From Met Museum
The case that led to the arrest of the Louvre's former director has spread to the US: the Manhattan D.A. office has impounded five...
Want To Buy Verdi’s House?
Verdi built Villa Verdi on land he owned in Sant’Agata di Villanova, a hamlet near his home town of Busseto in the Emilia-Romagna region,...
Has The Great Majority Of The World’s Greatest Literature Been Lost?
Researchers concluded that a humbling 90% of medieval manuscripts preserving chivalric and heroic narratives – those relating to King Arthur, for example – have gone. Of...
Why, Despite Efforts, Have The Arts Failed To Diversify?
‘In answer to the question, “Who do you make work for?” people will say, “I make work for everyone – for anyone.” But when...
After Twelve Years, Old Vic Bristol Has A New Leader
“For Bristol Old Vic to appoint a highly talented Black Latinx woman as artistic director provides a real opportunity to effect real change in...
Space Opera Is Thriving (And Evolving)
The subgenre has evolved and thrived for a century with its key elements mostly intact: galactic encyclopedias of knowledge, interstellar politics, heroic journeys, and...
Five Takeaways From This Year’s Cannes Festival
That’s 107 films, 11 days, and flickering images that don’t stop playing in your mind after the credits end. - Screen Daily
This 15th-Century Hindu Temple Was Built To Double As A Musical Instrument
"Within the Vijaya Vittala Temple in Hampi, South India are 56 pillars, each 3.6 metres high, which when gently tapped produce delicate musical notes....
Do The Arts Have Too Many Managers?
Half of all public and private grants now pay administrators’ salaries – only a quarter fund arts production. Even if many are wonderful, managers...
Straddling The Boundary Between Historical Fiction And Nonfiction Novel Is An Epistemological Feat
"Both (Benjamín Labatut's) When We Cease to Understand the World and (Danielle Dutton's) Margaret The First blur their relationship with historical fact, shifting between...
How The Pandemic Has Changed How We Think About Work
Commuting may have a bad reputation, but for a surprising number of people it can be positively enjoyable. - 3 Quarks Daily
Here’s A Challenge For You: Designing Apartment Blocks For Refugees That Fit In With...
"Amid war with Russia, the city’s challenge is to integrate tens of thousands of residents displaced from fighting in eastern Ukraine without sacrificing Lviv's...
Latest Horror Show: Movie Theatres Worry About Popcorn Shortage
Theaters are finding workers harder to hire, and inflation is hitting costs. Perhaps most chilling, supply-chain issues are foreshadowing shortages behind the concession stand,...
The Very Tricky Art Of Translating And Subtitling Streaming TV Series
After the English subtitles for Squid Game attracted a lot of criticism, "improving the quality of translated content has become a priority for streamers...
End Of An Aura: Licensing Company Forbids Vegas Wedding Chapels From Using Elvis
The licensing company that controls the name and image of “The King” is ordering Sin City chapel operators to stop using Elvis in themed...
The Famed Cabaret Shows At The Lido In Paris Are No More
"Amid financial troubles and changing times, the venue's new corporate owner is ditching most of the Lido's staff and its high-kicking, high-glamour dance shows...
The Savannah Bananas, The Dancingest Team in Baseball
The players have their moves; the half-time dance team is a troupe of grannies; the ushers and umpires dance; the first-base coach is a...
Who’s The Greatest Performance Artist Of Our Lifetimes? HM Queen Elizabeth II
"Her controlled, carefully evolving, global visibility has been one of the great demonstrations of durational performance art. It is a feat ... made possible...
Yes, MoviePass Collapsed, But The Movie Theater Chains Seem To Be Making The Subscription...
Cinemark's Movie Club ($10 monthly for one movie) has 1 million active members, and AMC's Stubs A-List ($19.95 a month for 3 movies a...
How Did “The Karate Kid” Turn Into A Musical?
"Robert Mark Kamen was through with The Karate Kid, his semi-autobiographical 1984 martial arts film that spawned a string of movies, an animated program...
France Had Big Plans To Return Its African Art To Africa. Here’s Why There...
"It is almost five years since President Emmanuel Macron announced his revolutionary plan to return African heritage to the continent. … But following Macron's...
Is The Louvre About To Sue Its Former Director?
Last week, Jean-Luc Martinez, ousted as the museum's director last year, was indicted for complicity with the trafficking of stolen Egyptian antiquities purchased by...
Why We Can’t Stop Measuring Things
Around 6,000 years ago, the first standardised units were deployed in river valley civilisations such as ancient Egypt, where the cubit was defined by...
