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From Wagner To Verdi, It’s An Unexpected Step For This Soprano
Before she took on roles in Italian operas at the Met, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen "soft-launched the Italian side of her voice” in recitals...
This Law May Deem Many Journalists, And Regular People Online, To Be Hackers
“Some laws operate like hidden trap doors — everyone walks across the trap at one point or another, but only a handful of us actually...
Kumar Shahani, Leader Of India’s Arthouse Parallel Cinema Movement, Has Died At 83
Shahani "was known for his formalist style of filmmaking and his landmark films include Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990).” He also...
Nearly Every Best Picture Nominee Could End Up With Some Sort Of Trophy
Why not be more, shall we say, even-handed with the winnings? There’s a path forward for nearly every Best Pic nominee to win something....
When Artists Can’t Go Home Again, All That’s Left Is The Art Itself
"To live as an artist in exile is among the most glorious triumphs of human will: a spiritual victory.” But the cost is tremendously...
College Students Discover That Even On Vending Machines, Facial Recognition Cameras Track Our Every...
“The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, ‘Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe,’ displayed after the...
Investigators Say The Art Institute Of Chicago Is Clinging To A Nazi-Looted Schiele Drawing
“The institute’s decision to continue to fight the efforts by Manhattan prosecutors to retrieve its Schiele work makes it a lone holdout among the...
As The BT Tower Becomes A Hotel, What Will Change About London’s Futuristic Landmark?
“With its slender vertical fuselage and long-stalled revolving restaurant, it speaks of the hopeful futurism of the 1960s, of the white heat of technology,...
As ‘The Outsiders’ Makes Its Way To Broadway, The Young Cast Visits Its Oklahoma...
The cast and crew took a “granular, history-flecked tour of the place where, about 60 years earlier, S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age story was written and...
Why Aren’t We Talking About Robert De Niro’s Best Performance?
This actor we all know so well has done something that, for him, is entirely new - at 80 years old. “Rather than the...
The Heartbreak At The Center Of Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron
“Many scenes and images in The Boy and the Heron echo those from his earlier films, only this time they’re rendered in service of a story...
In The UK, Galleries And Museums Fight For Younger Audiences
"We have to make our galleries welcoming and accessible, and to make it clear they are not just about the past and full of...
Why Is Second City Moving To First City?
In Brooklyn, “on the site of an old record shop and club, the company has built a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage,...
Steve Paxton Of The Judson Dance Theatre Has Died At 85
Paxton "helped radically upend ideas about dance as a member of the 1960s collective Judson Dance Theater in New York City, and ... developed...
Chicago, And Its Artists, Are Obsessed With The So-Called Rat Hole
Honestly, the memes are everywhere on social media - and now there’s rat hole art for sale. Why enshrine a rat (or more likely...
Hollywood’s Musicians Reach A Tentative Deal With The Studios
The musicians’ union calls it “a major win” and “a watershed moment.” Next up: The “below the line” workers - that is to say,...
The Berlin Film Festival Stays Different
The Golden Bear goes to … a one-hour documentary about the return of some artwork? Yes. And “by awarding the top prize to Dahomey,...
Do Historically Black Colleges And Universities Provide An Edge For Their Theatre Alumni?
Says one HBCU alum, Broadway director and theatre founder Kenny Leon, “I was trained to believe in myself and know that anything is possible....
Can We Still Write Good Climate Fiction If We’re In Despair?
American fiction has some problems, including an inability to focus on something so big, it encompasses everything. - LitHub
Let’s Talk About Chilean Artist Cecilia Vicuna
"Her magically vibrant and simultaneously mournful and vulnerable painting expresses the dualism at the heart of her vision — and perhaps at the heart...
We Can Now Be Pretty Sure What, And Who, Is Going To Win Each...
Sorry, Paul Giamatti! Cillian Murphy and Oppenheimer are her. Lily Gladstone seems to have the edge over Emma Stone in the Best Actress category...
The Sound Duo Behind The Ely Cathedral Scene In Maestro Had Quite A Job
"Normally they would pre-record the music and run playback while musicians and conductor Leonard Bernstein (as played by Bradley Cooper), mime along. But that’s...
Lunchtime Theatre, With A Pint? How Very British
Actually - how very Scottish. A Play, A Pie, and A Pint premiered in Glasgow in 2004 and hasn’t stopped (aside from the early...
Two Gaming Champions Say The Gaming Company Is A Monopoly
Before 2019, other companies held Call of Duty tournaments. Then things changed. "The lawsuit claims that at one point, Activision Blizzard required teams to...
The Paintings British Artists Love At Their National Gallery
The beloved paintings come from many places, but not any of the countries that make up the United Kingdom. - The Observer (UK)