Inside The Brutal World Of Testing Video Games
QA testing doesn’t involve leisurely trying out different video games, but is instead an intense and often tedious process of making sure that every...
Did COVID-19 Change American Opera? It Was Changing Already.
"For years now, opera has been in a sort of cocoon-like transition period as it explores new works and ways to move beyond its...
For The First Time, The RSC Casts A Disabled Actor As Richard III
Playing the last Plantagenet king will be Arthur Hughes, 30 years old and born with radial dysplasia. (He identifies as "limb-different".) The production opens...
Archaeologists Discovered An 800-Year-Old Imperial Palace Where One Of The Winter Olympic Villages Was...
The site — at Zhangjiakou, where most of the skiing and snowboarding events are being held — is believed to be the Taihe Palace,...
A New Guaranteed-Income-For-Artists Program In New York State
"Spearheaded by the Mellon Foundation, ... the $125 million initiative, Creatives Rebuild New York, will issue monthly, no-strings-attached payments to up to 2,400 artists...
Right-Wing Platform Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million To Leave Spotify And “Save The World”
"The CEO of the Canadian video-sharing platform Rumble (tweeted) … 'How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both new and old, with...
The Picasso “Guernica” Tapestry Was Taken From The UN Last Year. Now It’s Back.
Last year, to the surprise of many (including the Secretary General), the tapestry's owner, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr., had it taken from its place...
Thomas Dausgaard Is Out Of Another Job, And BBC Scottish Symphony Has A New...
The recently-departed music director of the Seattle Symphony hasn't been to Glasgow to conduct his other orchestra for nearly two years, and his contract...
Meet The Teenagers Who Started A Bookclub To Read Banned Books
The teen members of Kutztown’s Banned Book Club, meet every two weeks to read and discuss literature that conservatives across the country are working...
Superstar Concert Ticket Prices Soar, Pricing Out Many
“Even with the inflated prices, I’m still going to go to gigs because music is what I live for. But working-class people are getting...
Tracking Broadway’s Uneven Reopening: Winners And Losers
The quick upshot: While the formerly $15 billion industry was still recovering, many shows made up much, if not all, lost momentum. But the...
Spotify’s Real Problem: Unrealistic Ambition
What’s become increasingly clear in recent weeks is that the source of Spotify’s headaches isn’t Rogan. It is Spotify’s own corporate ambition to dominate...
US Treasury Department Warns Of Money Laundering Through Fine Art
The treasury department did find evidence of money laundering in the high-value art market. A common theme is that criminals use shell companies to...
Cellist Leslie Parnas, 90
From the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, Parnas was the principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He went on to be a prizewinner...
Here’s How China’s Influence On American Culture Works
“Red Dawn” would become a case study observed by every producer in Hollywood who needed this market to make a profit. And soon, it...
Is Hollywood Rethinking The Romantic Gender Age Gap?
“Men on screen have a whole life, and women only have a shelf life,” says Nicky Clark, the founder of campaign group Acting Your...
Perhaps We Need A True Oscars Villain To Know Movies Can Come Back From...
The true way to unite a culture is to give the Best Picture nod to something like Crash. (Please do not, though. Please.) -...
Henry Darger’s Landlords Inherited The Rights To His Art, But Should They Have?
Good question, though without the landlords' advocacy, the world might never have heard of the artist and his work. "Now distant relatives of Darger...
How Physics Shape Opera, And The Rest Of Reality
It's all about resonance. "A system’s natural frequencies depend on its intrinsic properties: For a flute, for instance, they are the frequencies of sound...
It’s Possible That On Tuesday, The Oscars Will Nominate No One New For The...
The trend is weirdly strong: "If you read the tea leaves put forth by the nominations for the DGA and SAG, there’s a strong...
Artist Damien Hirst Faces His 16th Accusation Of Plagiarism
Can one plagiarize a painting of cherry blossoms? Perhaps. "English artist and writer Joe Machine ... says they look just like his own cherry...
Why Are People Upset About The Sudden Demolition Of This 1945 House?
The Marcel Breuer-designed Geller House "embodied the optimistic, now-vanished values of postwar suburbia: technological progress and a lifestyle built around children’s needs." - The...
Along With COVID Disinformation, Turns Out Joe Rogan Was Peddling The N-Word An Awful...
Spotify has removed 70 episodes wherein Rogan used the N-word, but none of the episodes removed were related to the protest over Rogan's habit...
A Harvard Student Has Created An Entire Musical For A Korean Disney Princess
Julia Riew's senior thesis at Harvard is "complete with script, screenplay, and more than 15 original songs. Her Disney-inspired work tells the story of...
One Way Singapore’s Theatre Actors Have Kept Busy During The Pandemic
Would you believe that interactive Zoom mystery theatre is a thing? Actor Bright Ong says, "The tectonic plates under have shifted, and the...
