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What’s The Secret Ingredient That Makes UCLA Gymnastics Team Videos Go Viral? The Choreographer
"In her first two years as UCLA's choreographer, Bijoya 'BJ' Das has set the internet aflame with three viral floor routines. … Breaking the...
The British Are Champions Of Classic Theatre — So Why Do They Shortchange This...
Michael Billington: "In France the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth is being celebrated in a big way. In Britain it has been greeted with...
The World’s First NFT Musical (You Just Knew It Was Coming)
The set of digital collectibles offered by the producers of Ross Golan's The Wrong Man "will be a mix of music, graphics, and film,...
Indigenous Curators Are Helping Museums Reframe The Entire Story Of American Art
"With the aid of curators and artists from Native American backgrounds, curators across the U.S. are broadening narratives, questioning stereotypes, and collapsing categories." -...
Special Grants Let Bay Area BIPOC Arts Groups Get One Of The Most Important...
And that is? Their own real estate. A $3 million Performing Arts Acquisition Fund from the Hewlett Foundation has enabled five community-based groups buy...
CNN+, The Upcoming Streaming Service WarnerMedia Is Hurling Cash At
The news giant has already poached Audie Cornish from NPR and Chris Wallace from Fox for CNN+ (rumor has it they dangled $20 million...
Boris’s Government Says It Will Eliminate The BBC TV License Fee. What Is...
It's the way the BBC is funded — a flat fee, currently £159 ($217) a year, charged to every household in the UK that...
Hamburg’s Massively Expensive Elbphilharmonie Has Proven A Massive Success
By the time the concert hall opened in 2017, it was six years late and had cost €866 million, ten times the initial budget....
The Louvre Threatens To Sue Marine Le Pen For Using Its Image In A...
The far-right National Rally party released a 3½-minute video this weekend showing its presidential candidate speechifying to the camera while walking back and forth...
A Video Of An Egyptian Woman Dancing Went Viral, Her Husband Divorced Her, Her...
"The short video of Aya Youssef, a 30-year-old primary school teacher, shot on a mobile phone shows her wearing a headscarf, trousers and a...
Rethinking The Entire Subscription Model In The Wake Of The Pandemic
After having performances cancelled over and over (and if they're not, performers and programming changing last-minute) — especially in Australia, which has had some...
Winter Wassailing Is Having A Comeback
Traditionally, wassailing wasn't just a matter of going house to house at Christmastime, singing and extorting drinks. Crop-blessing wassails in England involved special clothes,...
The “Intangible Sludge”: Why Do So Many Movies Have Washed-Out Color These Days?
"Desaturation is not in and of itself bad. It's a tool that can be used poorly or well. But why is it everywhere now?...
Reassembled Papyrus Fragments Shed Light On The Lives Of Workers Who Built The Pyramids
The fragments are accounts and logbooks from the port from which blocks of white limestone (now long gone) that encased the Great Pyramid were...
Why Classical Music Folks Should Stay Away From NFTs
Besides the fact that "the NFT market is essentially a game of hot potato: Ditch it before the music stops, or you're stuck with...
Wkipedia Editors Decide Not To Classify NFTs As Art (And The Crypto Guys Are...
As one of the six editors who made the decision (the vote was 5-1) put it, "Wikipedia really can't be in the business of...
National Gallery In DC Will Close East Building All Spring
The I.M. Pei-designed wing, which contains the museum's collection of Modern and contemporary art, will shut down from the end of February through June...
The Armorer For “Rust”, Which Had That Fatal Shooting On Set, Sues Supplier For...
Star Alec Baldwin accidentally killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on October 21 with a prop gun that was supposed to...
She Gave Her First Piano Recital At Age Four. She’s Releasing A New Album...
Ruth Slenczynska, the last surviving student of Sergei Rachmaninoff, will see her new recording of his music and that of Chopin issued on the...
British Theatres Are Reeling From The Losses They Took Over Christmas Panto Season
The performances cancelled and ticket prices refunded when performers caught COVID and had to isolate, along with, when the show did go on, the...
Why Writers Can Keep Adapting And Readapting Greek Myths, Generation After Generation
Charlotte Higgins: "Greek myths don't exist in canonical forms: they are to be retold in the moment, and exist only as contaminated, and endlessly...
The Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against UNC School Of The Arts Dance Dept. Has Gotten...
There are now 56 plaintiffs, male and female former students, and 30 defendants, including some female as well as male former faculty and administrators....
Arkansas Symphony Announces Plans For New HQ (At A Surprising Price)
While the orchestra isn't changing performance venues, the 20,000-square-foot Stella Boyle Smith Music Center will include a 300-seat auditorium for rehearsals and student and...
This Troupe Of Performers With Learning Disabilities Goes Far Beyond Workshops In Schools And...
The London-based company Corali does, in fact, do programs in those places, but they've also worked with Sadler's Wells theatre and the Tate galleries...
Would Paul Gauguin Care About The Moral Condemnation He Gets Today? Just Read His...
As writer Laura Gascoigne puts it here, "Is Gauguin redeemable? By today's standards, no. Would he want to be redeemed? Almost certainly not." -...
