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Benita Valente, Bel Canto Soprano Who Brought Joy To The Met For Decades, Has...
Valente “was acclaimed for the faultless technique and intelligence of her performances in operas, recitals and chamber music, but inexplicably failed to gain...
Paris Investigators Prefer To Let The Mystery Be
The mystery of who that dapper person in the now famous photo might be, that is. The jewel theft, they’re working on. - AP
Police Make Arrests In Louvre Heist
“The arrests were a major breakthrough for French investigators, who are racing to find the thieves before the jewelry is dismantled and the rare...
A Few Moments In The New Julia Roberts Movie Have Transformed Actor Lio Mehiel’s...
“Such a step has been years in the making. Mehiel, who lived in Puerto Rico until they were 5 years old, began their creative...
How A Hardline Evangelical Christian Childhood Can Lead To Mainlining Supernatural Horror As An...
“With his insistence on seeing only god’s will in the Catholic vs. Protestant religious wars of his Europe, Luther reminds me of nothing...
Along With The Entire East Wing, The White House’s Movie Theatre Is Now Destroyed
“The 42-seat luxurious movie theater a place where countless presidents, their families or staff have screened any movie of their choosing, whether the...
It’s Getting Harder And Harder To Take OpenAI Seriously
Curing cancer? Hm, not so fast. “Slop, memes, and sex seem like such a comedown from OpenAI’s carefully cultivated reputation as an ambitious but...
The Administration’s Pressure On Museums Will Soon Be An All-Out Assault
Museums are not ready. “Censorship corrodes trust in complex ways. … Solidarity is mostly lacking in the museum world, where the strategy so far...
The Chinese Artist Who Creates AI Slop By Hand
It was amazing at first. But “Mu says he doesn’t have any immediate plans to make another Sora imitation, partially because the video quality...
Guillermo Del Toro Says He’d ‘Rather Die’ Than Use Generative AI
“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features. But I did want...
Longing To Watch An Art Heist Movie For Louvre Reasons?
Some of the great ones — minus Ocean’s 8, which, hm, wonder why — are on this long list, for your autumn and winter...
Can Broadway Truly Be Captured On Film?
Good question, one that 1948’s biopic about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart - Words and Music, starring Mickey Rooney as a heterosexual Hart -...
This Year’s Oscar-Winning Documentary Decided It Was Only Ethical To Self-Distribute On Streaming
“The Palestinian-Israeli collective behind the film rejected a deal from Mubi, the company behind hits such as The Substance, after controversy over ties to an investment firm...
The Desperation Of The British Museum
Or, the UK version of the Met Gala: "Eight hundred invited guests each paid £2,000 to party alongside some of the world’s most sensational...
Obama’s Presidential Library – And Basketball Court – Rises On Chicago’s South Side
"Only the museum will require a paid ticket. Nearly a dozen other spaces — meeting rooms, classrooms, parks, an N.B.A.-size basketball court, even a...
How Chicago’s Timeline Theatre Is Building A New Space Despite, Well, Everything
“‘To build a building like this, it required public investment, it required private investment, and it required a lot of belief through those dark...
The Unlikely Juggernaut Of Netflix’s Oscar Desires
Will Netflix ever win Best Picture? It’s been trying - hard - for 10 years. This year? Hm. Not necessarily Best Picture, but “I’d...
In Los Angeles, Updating A Famous Mural To Reflect One Of The Subject’s Trans...
In Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown, the “revision follows more than a year of conversations that included Filipino-led groups, local nonprofits and the muralist, Eliseo...
The Blurred, Problematic Truths Of The Sora App
“The app’s popularity—it surpassed 1 million downloads in its first week—is ripe for this moment of decaying truths, where fact and reason have an...
Instagram Moves To Add A PG-13 Label To Teens’ Accounts
“After at least half a decade of acute concern about the way that platforms such as Instagram may affect young people, ... Meta has arrived at a...
The New York Times Says The Met Is Full Of Creepy Halloween Art
There’s even a checklist you (if you were in New York) could take to the massive museum with you. - The New York...
What’s Going To Happen To The English National Opera In Manchester?
Tensions still exist between London and Manchester, and not everyone is pleased. The ENO's artistic director says, "“The way this happened was not something...
AI Slop Videos Are Terrible, Except Maybe These Translated From Chinese Weird ‘Videos’ Of...
The creator says Mayor Adams "works so well because he has so many existing real videos where he says unusual and funny things. …...
Hollywood’s Latest Drama Is All Of The Fake Props Flooding The Market
"From Dorothy’s ruby slippers in The Wizard of Oz to Harry Potter wands, props from iconic films are earning big dollars at both auction...
When Administrators Tried To Squelch The Indiana University Student Paper, A Rival University Stepped...
There’s no First Amendment right if you don’t own your own printing press, as student journalists at Indiana University learned last week when administrators...
