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The Intangible Effects Of The Me Too Movement

"As a worker’s rights movement, it brought about a slew of upgrades to industry standards and state law. As a major news event, it...

Streaming Services Want To Fill The Family Movie Void

A Netflix exec: "We loved going to see great original family films. ... Sadly, now when you look at what a lot of the...

An Artist Has Turned Iran’s Fountains Blood Red

"The Persian-language Twitter account 1500tasvir, which has been monitoring the state crackdown that has killed dozens, credited the red liquid in the fountains’ basins to an...

Without Italian Opera, Mexican Ranchera Would Be Very Different

It all started with tours: "In the early 1800s, opera companies and their star singers traveled from Italy to perform across the country. 'It...

Driven Out Of Belarus For Opposing The Regime, An Opera Singer Rebuilds His Career

Ilya Silchukou was the "lead soloist at the State Opera Bolshoi who represented his nation at official government functions at home and abroad and...

The Lessons Of 60 Years Of Listening To The New York Philharmonic

Geffen Hall (previously known as Avery Fisher Hall) was an acoustic disaster from the jump. But while "the hall was no Carnegie or the...

Battered By The Pandemic, Secret Cinema Gets A Real-Life Fairytale Ending

Or rather not ending, but continuation, as a U.S. company buys and intends to expand the company that hired actors and built elaborate sets...

LA Opera Gets A New Resident Conductor

Lina Gónzalez-Granados was 5 "when she joined a 'tuna' — a musical group traditionally made up of college students who ... stand in a...

How To Get Newspapers To Drop Their Paywalls

Get them to become part of public media networks, as with the Chicago Sun-Times. - Nieman Lab

London In Three Dimensions

For those visiting for Frieze, London offers the rewards of sculpture - even if the death of the queen scuppered a planned Sculpture Week....

Why Is Director David O Russell Avoiding Consequences For His Behavior?

His terrible treatment of his actors, including Amy Adams, on sets has been an open secret for quite some time. Yet he's faced no...

Artificial Intelligence Has Transformed Many Things – Including Cheating At Chess

"For some high-level players, even getting the advice of a machine for a move or two at a critical moment is all you’d need...

It’s Not Just Some Artists Faking Native Heritage

The issue of "Pretendians" is real in Canada (and the U.S.). Who decides? And why are so many academics, writers, and artists claiming First...

The Iconic Easter Island Statues Have Been Damaged In A Fire

"Ariki Tepano, with the indigenous Ma'u Henua community that manages the park, said the fire had done 'irreparable' damage to the site. 'The moai are totally...

Cinema Is Dealt A Body Blow In Edinburgh

"Poor on the outside and rich on the inside, and led by pioneers like Lynda Myles, Murray Grigor and many others, the Edinburgh film festival was...

Hans Zimmer Doesn’t Want People Watching The Films He Scores On Their Phones

The range isn't the same, either for visuals or his music. "To this day, I still get letters from people going, 'There's 20 seconds...

But Truly, Who Cares If It’s Not A Vermeer?

Philip Kennicott: "Authenticating work empowers scholars, and now scientists, and seems to be part of the gatekeeping apparatus that makes museums feel like zones...

Stephanie Dabney, International Star And Role Model For Black Ballerinas, Has Died At 64

Dabney was 16 when she joined Dance Theater of Harlem. She gained fame in the title role of the company’s 1982 production of Stravinsky’s...

Why The Philly Museum Of Art Workers Are Striking

In one's own words: "We have no archivist, no rights & reproduction specialist, no collections database manager; we have only one paper conservator, one...

Liverpool Wins The Contest To Host Ukraine’s Eurovision

But at what cost to the city? - BBC

Defining The Nonbinary Play

A nonbinary playwright takes a crack at it. "There will be many holes in this amorphous theatrical survey, and I hope other non-binary creators...

Vermeer Didn’t Paint One Of The National Gallery Vermeers

Turns out that, as long suspected, Girl with a Flute is not by Vermeer. "Thanks to new combinations of scientific analysis, art historical insight...

So Much Is Riding On The Renovation Of The Lincoln Center’s Geffen Hall

For one thing, "New York has yet to see tourism fully rebound, and attendance at many performing arts organizations has lagged. The reconfigured hall...

Sacheen Littlefeather Dies Just Weeks After Academy Apology

Littlefeather, "the Apache activist and actress who refused to accept the best actor award on behalf of Marlon Brando at the 1973 Oscars," has...

The Attempt To Make True Crime TV Less Exploitative

One duo says it can be done. "We’re about understanding the evidence and showing how a case can go from what should have been...