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Supply Chain Shortages Are Costing Hollywood A Bundle
Constructing sets has become wildly more expensive: "A sheet of plywood was $20 or $30 in recent years but is now roughly three times...
How Memory Works
Precise stimulation may be able to retrieve vanished memories from where they're encoded - and create fake memories as well. - LitHub
Tenor Russell Thomas ‘Plays’ It Forward
Thomas, named artist in residence at the Los Angeles Opera and about to star in the new LAO COVID-safe performance of Oedipus Rex, says...
Luis Biasotto, Argentine Dancer And Choreographer, Dies Of COVID At 49
Biasotto was the co-founder of Grupo Krapp with his longtime artistic partner, Luciana Acuña, who wrote, "Luis moved comfortably in the abyss. The emptiness,...
Broadway Theatre Owner Cited In Stagehand’s Death
The citations from the federal government's Occupational Safety and Health Administration were issued to the Shubert Organization for the Winter Garden Theater "six months...
The Complicated Legacy Of Betty Crocker
This single cookbook defined American womanhood, but there were a few issues. For one thing, Betty Crocker wasn't a person. - LitHub
Investment Funds Are Obsessed With Old Rock And Pop Songs – Why?
It's not because they'll live forever; think of the precipitous decline of Elvis' music and memorabilia. It's because they're hot right now and for...
Arturo Luz, Neo-Realist And Key Figure In Art Spaces In The Philippines, 94
As an artist, "Luz was best known as an artist who liked to use spare lines and dramatic compositions in his practice that included...
Solving One Problem With Publishing Genres
Though "Asian fantasy" has been exploding in popularity as a sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy, not all authors think that's a good categorization....
The Independence Of UK Museums May Be In Danger
The government appears to be meddling in free speech on university campuses - and now in national museum decisions. "This came to a head...
Disney Is Rebranding Villains And Trying To Pretend That’s Feminist
It seems good at first, right? Adding dimension to villains! "In theory, this is a positive shift, Disney’s attempt to offer its young audience...
Gallery Assistants Aren’t Earning A Living Wage
Perhaps not a shocker, but in a 300-gallery survey, results painted "a portrait of an industry beset with income inequality." Assistants' top pay was...
Violetta Elvin, Royal Ballet Prima Ballerina, 97
Elvin, a Russian dancer who also performed with the Bolshoi, "gave London audiences one of the first tastes of Russian style. ... Elvin created...
Preserving The Jail Where Oscar Wilde Was Imprisoned
The prison was closed to the public in 2013 on "health and safety grounds," but actors including Kate Winslet, local politicians, and more want...
In England, An Attempt To Redefine Culture
For Leeds 2023, the festival's creative director says they'll try to "let culture loose" to reach everyone in the city during their year. Lyn...
What Brain-Computer Interfaces Will Do To Our Ideas Of Free Will
You can already see a divide in the literature - positive stories about people with ALS or locked-in syndrome learning to use neural transmitters...
How ‘In The Heights’ Became The Post-Pandemic Movie Of The Summer
Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose Hamilton, filmed, made Disney+ a lot of money last year (and ensured musical theatre fans had something to watch over and...
The 106-Year-Old Dancer Who Hates The Word Old
Eileen Kramer still dances every day. And she also "writes a story a day from her Sydney aged-care facility, publishes books and has entered...
Mary Beard: Ancient Rome Never Disappoints
The Cambridge classics professor (and Twitter, TV, and book star) says that our desire to compare the U.S. to ancient Rome is normal -...
The Prado Is Taking Its Art To The Streets
In replica form, that is. "Exact replicas of masterpieces from the Prado museum, including paintings by Goya, El Greco, and Fra Angelico, have been installed...
The Hollywood Bowl Is On Plan C, Full Reopen
As vaccines spread and COVID-19 numbers drop, "concert and theater venues are scrambling to keep up and figure out when and how to welcome...
The Science Of Pleasure
It goes way - way - beyond dopamine. "You could say that dopamine is to happiness what petrol is to a car; it’s an...
The Era Of The Big Comedy Film Is Over
TV shows, TikTok, live mini-shows, Instagram Stories, and memes - comedy has changed. Even the second Borat movie, though it was made and was...
Australia’s National Arts Policy Needs A Rethink
After the terrible effects of COVID-19 on the arts, what should Australia do next? One think tank says the country, where arts funding dropped...
Remembering Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Famed Canadian Architect
Oberlander, who died at the age of 99 in May, had a long, rich career whose influence continues to grow. She was "an early...