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CBS Approves The First Black Daytime Soap Opera On US Television In 35 Years
"The network on Monday announced that the series, (titled The Gates and) following the lives of a wealthy Black family in a posh, gated...
New York Philharmonic Suspends Two Players Accused Of Sexual Assault Whom It Had Tried...
In the wake of last week's Vulture/New York magazine article reporting details of an alleged drugging/rape while the orchestra was performing in Vail in...
Artists At Israel’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Refuse To Open Until There’s A Gaza Ceasefire
"Artist Ruth Patir said the exhibit ... 'will only open when the release of hostages and ceasefire agreement happens' in a statement shared on...
Armorer In Alec Baldwin “Rust” Shooting Gets Maximum Jail Sentence
"Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March by a jury on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. … The...
An AI-Powered Salvador Dalí, Answering Your Questions Via A Lobster Telephone
Yep, that's pretty surreal. - Forbes
4-D Theatre About Irish Peat Bogs (Wait, What?)
"Staged at a massive round table for 25 audience members, covered with 330 pounds of dried Irish peat," Luke Casserly's Distillation "is not easy...
A Connecticut Civilian At A Pilobolus Workshop
"Emily told us to 'start walking' — all of us, in any direction, or all directions, as she and Matt called out instructions. …...
Salman Rushdie Reads From His Memoir About Being Stabbed Onstage
“I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up in some public forum or other, and coming for me in just this way....
The Power Players In Arts And Culture In New York City
This inaugural list by Politics NY includes the obvious (directors of prominent institutions like the Morgan Library, Roundabout Theater, BAM, both Mets), the famous...
All That Money Being Spent On The Downtown L.A. Arts District — What Exactly...
Buildings and facilities, mostly. There's the Grand, the $1 billion apartment/hotel/retail complex, designed by Frank Gehry, which opened across the street from (Gehry's) Disney...
How The O.J. Simpson Trial Changed Television News
"All of a sudden, TV news ... wasn’t just about war and peace, elections and Supreme Court decisions. The salacious, it turns out, rates...
Beautifully Preserved 2,000-Year-Old Frescoes Uncovered In Pompeii
"Mythical Greek figures ... are depicted on the high black walls of a large banqueting hall. … It was likely the walls' stark colour...
AGMA Accuses Miami City Ballet Of Union-Busting Campaign
"Miami City Ballet management has begun an aggressive, coordinated union-busting campaign against their dancers, the majority of whom are fighting to unionize. … Furthermore,...
Early Reactions In The Mediasphere To The NPR Editor’s Essay Accusing The Network Of...
Some came to Uri Berliner's defense, notably including one former senior NPR executive; others accused Berliner of using straw men or bad-faith arguments. A...
New York Philharmonic To Tour China This Summer
The five-concert tour to Guangzhou, Nanjing and Shanghai, led by outgoing music director Jaap van Zweden and running from June 27 to July 3,...
How Bollywood And Prime Minister Narendra Modi Use Each Other
"Under Modi’s leadership, three themes emerge in a cluster of films that favor (his party's) goals and policies and are endorsed by the party:...
This Guy Founded A Male Exotic Dance Troupe In (Of All Places) Singapore
"There were no success stories of male exotic dance troupes in Singapore, where the nightlife industry isn't as vibrant as in the US. But...
Dinh Q. Lê, Artist Known For “Photo-Weaving,” Has Died At 56
"Lê’s early work comprised large-scale photomontages that he made by weaving together strips of photographs, deploying the method used by his aunt in creating...
Roberta Smith On 38 Years Of Art Criticism For The New York Times
"Critics need to be more flexible than artists. You have to be open to being changed and pushed into new directions. ... My main...
The Richard Serra Sculpture So Controversial It Was Put Before A Federal Tribunal
Tilted Arc (1981) was commissioned by U.S. General Services Administration for Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan. "Serra intended to elicit a connection between those...
Scanning The Brains Of Jazz Guitarists To Find “Flow”
"Their level of experience ranged from novice to veteran, as quantified by the number of public performances they had given. The researchers placed electrode...
Alexei Navalny’s Autobiography Will Be Published Posthumously This Fall
"During the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison, the Russian opposition leader was writing a memoir about his life and...
How Performing Artists Are Depicting Robots In The Age Of AI
"Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, signaling a mighty leap forward in robots’ and artificial intelligence’s ability to imitate human interaction, we’ve...
Broadway Is Struggling. Nonprofit Off-Broadway Is Struggling. But Commercial Off-Broadway Is Having A Great...
"A small sector of New York’s theatrical economy and one that has for years been somewhere between difficult and dormant, is back in business."...
Performers Complain That Edinburgh Fringe Has Become Far Too Expensive To Take Part In
Even well-established comedians and other artists say that the costs, particularly for housing ("pure greed"), have soared to prohibitive levels, especially for those just...