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Remember Waacking? It’s Back
The kinetic, flamboyant, arm-waving dance style was born in the Black and Latino gay nightclubs of L.A., spread via the TV show Soul Train,...
Donald Pippin, San Francisco’s Pied Piper Of Opera, Dead At 95
For 40 years, he and his resourceful company, Pocket Opera, used young singers, small instrumental groups, and librettos in English to bring unfamiliar works...
What Happens If An Archivist Sneezes On A Centuries-Old Manuscript?
First, for God's sake, he shouldn't wipe it off himself. (This lesson was learned the hard way.) Beyond that, there are ways of...
Pornhub Is Now Offering Virtual Museum Tours
The website has launched "Classic Nudes", a curated selection of NSFW art at the Louvre, the Met, the Prado, etc. View the works online...
California Budgets $50 Million In Pandemic Relief For Small Theaters
"The subsidy came after intense lobbying from small theaters concerned about their future after a 15-month shutdown. Compounding the effects was the prospect of...
Court Throws Out Judge Roy Moore’s Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen
The former Alabama jurist and Senate candidate sued the actor/mockumentarian over the scene in the Netflix series Who Is America? in which Baron Cohen's...
Meet Spoleto Festival USA’s First New General Director In 35 Years
Succeeding longtime chief Nigel Redden in October is Egyptian-American musicologist Mena Mark Hanna, a teacher, composer, Coptic Orthodox cantor (!), and former administrator at...
Can The Metropolitan Opera Start Its Season On Time? It’s Up To The Musicians’...
The company, which was having money troubles even before the pandemic, finally has agreements with the unions for onstage (AGMA) and backstage (IATSE) workers....
Italy Bans Cruise Ships From Venice (And They Mean It This Time!)
An announcement to this effect was made earlier this year, but the mammoth passenger boats turned up anyway. But now the national government, eager...
The Man Who Saved The Slovenian Language
Over six centuries in the Habsburg empire and most of another in Yugoslavia, the tongue of this tiny Alpine land might well have faded...
British TV Has Become A Major Worldwide Export
And it isn't just Downton Abbey and Killing Eve: MasterChef and Naked Attraction air in dozens of countries. In fact, other nations are now...
Robots Are Now Sculpting In Carrara Marble
AI software isn't designing the sculptures in the Italian quarry town (yet), but it is controlling precision machines that do the strenuous grinding and...
Wayne McGregor: ”We Need, In Dance, To Slightly Rebalance What It Is We’re Watching...
"The more we see diverse body types on stage, the more people understand that dance as an expressive art form can have this wide...
The Play For Our Moment? A Harold Pinter One-Act From 1960
Charles McNulty: "The Dumb Waiter lampoons the subservience to authoritarian power by focusing on the behavior of the stooges. Pinter humorously captures their moral...
Master Bluegrass Fiddler Byron Berline Dead At 77
"Weaving elements of pop, jazz, blues and rock into an old-timey approach to his instrument, Mr. Berline contributed instrumentals" to recordings by Bob Dylan,...
‘Voice Cloning’ — AI-Generated Copies Of Individuals’ Speech Intrigues And Worries Voice Actors
Artificial intelligence software can now create very convincing reproductions of people's vocal timbres and speech patterns. Could this be a tool to let voice...
Jerry Saltz Turns Down $250K Substack Offer To Stay At New York Mag
The Pulitzer-winning art critic said tweeted, "I think it's fishy to always be barking to your readers to subscribe. … I like being in...
Who’s Up For Taking Over Dallas’s Classical Radio Station?
Last month, the City of Dallas, which owns and (for now) operates WRR Classical 101 FM, issued a Request for Proposals from nonprofits to...
You’ll Still Be Wearing Masks At Performances In England, Even After July 19
Freedom Day (as Boris Johnson has called it) will see all COVID-related legal restrictions on arts venues lifted, but the Society of London Theatres...
Verbier Festival Orchestra Quarantined, Misses Its First Concert Of Year
Nine cases of COVID have been discovered (so far) among the orchestra's young musicians, who are isolating from everyone else at the site. The...
Can Walking Tours Be Turned Into Theatre?
Alexis Soloski considers four of them currently running (if that's quite the word) in New York City, suggesting that they can be a good...
Former UK Culture Minister Calls For Electronics Tax To Fund Arts
In a column co-written with artist Yinka Shonibare, Ed Vaizey, culture minister under David Cameron and now in the House of Lords, argues for...
Is This A Time To Open A New Performing Arts Conservatory?
Even as institutions are merging and closing due to the pandemic, Danny George and Ricky Loftus George are planning to receive students at the...
This Woman Has Been Playing Piano For 104 Years, And She’s Still At It
Colette Maze was born in 1914, began picking out melodies on the keyboard by age three, released her first CD at 84, and recorded...
New Yorker Cartoonist Danny Shanahan Dead At 64
Over three decades he published more than 1,000 witty single-panel cartoons in The New Yorker and other magazines, with characters ranging from cats and...
