Omicron Is Wreaking Havoc With Touring Broadway Shows
“Touring, when we can perform, is going great — the audiences are showing up, and the audiences are enthusiastic. Touring is not going great...
Countries That Fund Public Broadcasting Better Have Healthier Democracies: Study
The question is: in which direction does the causality run? - Nieman Lab
COVID Is Changing The Way Film Festivals Work (For The Better)
Now that the movies being showcased at festivals might end up spending their opening weekend screening on your iPhone anyway, does it matter if...
Cairo’s Biggest Makeover In Decades Is Focused On Egyptian Culture
"The renaissance of traditions spans everything from new museum exhibits to artisans integrating old crafts into modern furniture and designers selling handmade jewelry, bags...
Netflix’s First Original Feature In Arabic Accused Of “Moral Degradation”, “Inciting Homosexuality And Betrayal”
The film, a Lebanon-set adaptation of the much-remade Italian film Perfect Strangers, includes unfaithful spouses, a gay character, and a woman removing her undergarments...
As Big West End Shows Offer Massive Discounts, Smaller Shows Are Being Squeezed Out
"Theatre producer David Pugh (fears) it could spell the end of plays in the West End. … By contrast with his show, where tickets...
UK’s First Dedicated LGBTQ+ Museum To Open In London This Year
"The charity Queer Britain has taken on the ground floor of the Art Fund building in (King's Cross) for the museum but hopes to...
Paris Surgeon Tried To Sell X-Ray Of Bataclan Shooting Victim As NFT
Dr. Emmanuel Masmejean, an orthopedic surgeon who claims to have operated on five victims of the 2015 terrorist attack, listed on the NFT sales...
Elza Soares, Brazil’s Grande Dame Of Samba, Dead At 91
"(She) rose from the slums of Rio de Janeiro and became one of Brazil's most popular singers of all time by fusing the traditional...
Dallas Museum Of Art Begins Planning For Major Expansion
"'We are now at the very early stages of planning what this will look like,' says the museum's director, Agustín Arteaga." An architecture firm...
Why Is Canadian Architecture So Dreadful?
Today, barring the newish Halifax and Calgary central libraries (which opened in 2014 and 2018, respectively), one wonders whether the average Canadian could name...
Broadway Fires Its Harry Potter
The show on Sunday issued a statement saying that James Snyder, who played the title role for about a year before the pandemic and...
Having Trouble Focusing? Here’s Why
Our brains aren’t designed to absorb so much at a time: In one study, 136 students took a test; some had their phones turned...
Lee Godie Was Chicago’s Iconic ‘Bag Lady’ Artist
Godie was a "weathered blond woman wearing a rabbit fur coat and men’s orthopedic slip-ons as she hawked her art on Michigan Avenue." The...
Catch The “Vibe”
Once, vibe, mood, and energy were watchwords of the counterculture. Today, this vocabulary has diffused beyond any niche group. - The Drift
What We Learned About Teaching Music Online
Going online has forced music educators to adapt existing ideas, or adopt existing technology, to discover, invent and share ways to reach students to...
Can American Audiences Still Do Ambiguity?
We want thinking and imagining lives that are active rather than passive, evolving rather than static. A flourishing shared cultural life is one in...
Despite Omicron, LA Art Fairs Push Ahead
Typically this weeklong coagulation of art fairs in mid-February — dubbed Frieze Week — draws art makers, sellers, collectors and spectators from around the globe, which...
The Value Of Stephen Sondheim’s Estate
The “West Side Story” songwriter’s assets totaled approximately $75 million, according to papers accompanying his 2017 will filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s court last month....
San Francisco Arts Organizations Wondering At Delays In City Funding
Over the past few months, arts administrators across the city have become increasingly distressed by the significant delays they’ve experienced while trying to get...
Abigail Disney Is Disgusted By Disney, And Made A Movie To Explain Why
Disney and two of her siblings are executive producers on a new documentary that "positions the entertainment company that bears their name as 'ground...
A Ugandan Novelist Has Been Imprisoned For His Tweets, And May Have Been Tortured
The EU special representative for human rights says, "I’m alarmed by reports of alleged torture and incommunicado detention of author . He remains in...
When The Art Connoisseur Is A Robot
Artificial intelligence (OK, not an actual "robot") is really, really good at identifying brushstrokes. "The researchers hypothesized that brushwork on a painting leaves behind...
We’re All Used To Streaming Theatre Now, But What About Augmented Reality Theatre?
You know, hologram theatre in your kitchen or living room or ... wherever. "Theater makers are naturally fascinated: They’re used to working in 3-D....
Some Musicians Are Going Label-Free, Again
Why? Streaming royalties. - BBC
