Realigning: Ballet For The Rest Of Us
Founded in Los Angeles in 2011 by Michael Cornell, the Align Ballet Method was born out of a desire to make ballet approachable for...
Bruce Willis Becomes First Celeb To License His “Digital Twin” For Acting Work
Using deepfake technology, the actor appeared in a phone advert without ever being on set, after his face was digitally transplanted onto another performer. Willis...
Here’s Meta For You: A Play About Whether And How Working-Class People Can Do...
Class Act, based loosely on Shaw's Pygmalion and Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, is inspired by lead actor Mish Gregor's "bogan" (that's Australian...
How Your Brain Rewires Itself In Your 40s
The brain begins becoming less connected within those separate networks and more connected globally across networks. By the time we reach our 80s, the...
Bayard Rustin Wasn’t Just A Civil Rights Hero, He Was An Early Music Geek
He taught himself to play the lute while imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II, collected antique instruments, and recorded, as a...
Simple Question: How Many Black Musicians Play In America’s Orchestras?
"We do not know how many Black people are in orchestras. And I say that as a representative of Black Orchestral Network. One of...
A Dance Version Of “The Matrix”, Staged By The Director Of “Slumdog Millionaire”
Danny Boyle is creating a "large-scale immersive performance" of the landmark science-fiction movie for the new performance venue The Factory International in Manchester next...
Tanglewood Breaks The New Norm In Rebounding After COVID
The season total represented a decline of 7 percent compared to 2019, when 311,596 patrons attended 248 performances. Because there were 44 fewer events...
Was King Charles Actually Right About Modern Architecture?
"If you read his 1984 'carbuncle' speech in full, what follows might come as a surprise. Far from issuing a decree for more Corinthian...
Inside One Of America’s Last Two Piano Factories
Not long ago, piano factories like this were one of America’s largest and most formidable industries, employing tens of thousands of workers. Today, only...
How The Inventor Of Television Got Screwed Over By Corporate America
More specifically, the Radio Corporation of America (you know it as RCA), whose boss, David Sarnoff, stole some of Philo T. Farnsworth's technology, and...
A Museum Hosted A Family-Friendly Drag Show At An LGBTQ+ Exhibit. Then The...
Said one employee at Memphis's Museum of Science and History, "Whether the police couldn't or just wouldn't do anything about them, I don't know....
When Right-Wingers Targeted Drag Queen Story Hour At A Montana Bookstore, The Community Rallied
"Local bartenders, retirees, restaurant workers and marketing professionals joined other Pride-goers to create a buffer around the store's entrance. Someone started playing music from...
The Crash Is Here: NFT Sales Have Fallen By 97% In Nine Months
"In January 2022, $17.2 billion was traded on the NFT market, a stunning high that eclipsed 2021's NFT mania. ... But since the start...
Two Years After Being Sued, Brown Paper Tickets Still Owes A Lot Of Arts...
In 2020, the attorney general of Washington state ordered the Seattle-based ticketing service to pay what grew, six months later, to a total of...
“It Was Unfinished Business”: The Revamped David Geffen Hall Is What Deborah Borda Came...
She ran the orchestra in the 1990s, and left partly because she saw no real will to fix the Phil's long-problematic venue. After 17...
World’s Second-Largest Cinema Chain Says Attendance Won’t Be Back To Normal For At Least...
"Exhibition giant and Regal owner Cineworld Group, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S., predicted on Friday that cinema admissions...
Canadian Museums Issue Guidelines To Decolonize Museums
The Association urges legislation to support the repatriation of Indigenous belongings and remains of ancestors, and dedicated funding for the repatriation process. It was...
How A Texas Court Ruling On First Amendment Could Break The Internet
A state compelling social-media companies to host all user content without restrictions isn’t merely “the most angrily incoherent First Amendment decision I think I’ve...
The Vocabulary Problem (And What Makes Language Fun)
The problem arises because people use different words for the same thing. Your wallet is stolen, and you’re going to google what to do....
Russia Won’t Submit Entry For This Year’s International Oscar
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russian films have not seen much travel to the west, particularly as those made with state...
Christie’s New NFT Platform Is Called Christie’s 3.0
“This is a platform for us to more rapidly scale our digital art offerings and do more frequent emerging artists auctions and work with...
Wendell Pierce Is Broadway’s First Black Willy Loman, A Role He Never Knew He...
"Even though Pierce has enjoyed a robust career, which includes long stints on prestige television shows and an Obie award for sustained excellence of...
Why It’s Difficult To Grasp The Concept Of Time
Physicists and philosophers may have different approaches to the structure of time, but what unites them is a rejection of the notion that that...
The Smiley Face, At 50 Years Old, Is Very Big Business
"The smiley – at least, this particular version of it – is a trademarked image. Want to use it? You gotta pay. Today, the...
