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The English National Opera Laid Off Singers And Musicians While They Were In Mid-Performance
“Many of the performers only saw details of their redundancy during the interval, when they opened the notification backstage. Despite this, they went back...
It Took Years, Nearly 50 Million Dollars, And Sweat Equity To Turn A 40-Year...
When a couple bought the Bridgeport, Illinois space for $1, they weren’t, perhaps, thinking it would take quite this much. "When asked if the...
Miyazaki Won In London, But At The Annies, It’s All Spidey
The Annies hand out prizes in animation for series and film - and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse cleaned up, beating The Boy and the...
In The West Bank, Palestinian Artists Mount A Show With A Backdrop Of Despair
The exhibition, "showing at the Palestinian Museum in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a collection of protest that is as much about the art...
Israeli Forces Raid, Destroy Publishing Houses In The West Bank
"IDF raids on Palestinian publishing houses are nothing new. Seven Palestinian publishing houses were raided or destroyed over a six-month period in 2016-2017, and eleven more were...
Duke’s Herbarium Is One Of The Best In The World, And A Donor Offered...
So of course the university in North Carolina is closing it, to the outrage of the scientific community. - Inside Higher Ed
What Can Movies Teach About Marriage?
Perhaps it’s not ideal to take Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as marriage advice, but movies, including that one, have a lot to teach,...
Chileans Start Social Media Campaign To Get Easter Island Statue Back From The British...
"The online campaign began after an influencer encouraged his followers to ‘spam' the museum's Instagram posts with 'return the moai' comments. The British Museum...
The Life Of A Pro Whistler, Including Her New Album And Her ‘Barbie’ Fame
Molly Lewis: "People often don’t have a reference for whistle music apart from a jingle or a riff in a bad pop song. …...
This Year’s New Hollywood A-Lister Is A Real Dog
That star is Messi - not the soccer player, but the border collie who won the Palme Dog at Cannes. - The Guardian (UK)
The BAFTAs, Including Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s British Acting Roots
Randolph started her career in London’s West End. After she won her BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Holdovers, she...
This Artist Emerged From COVID’s Early Days Of Isolation With An Instagram Following, And...
Danielle Mckinney had "spent her entire professional life pursuing photography without showing in a commercial gallery, but soon she had dealers on both coasts,...
The U.S. Is Mired In The Who Can Be A Country Singer Debate Again
Remember Lil Nas X and “Old Town Road” (2018) or, gosh, Beyoncé and “Daddy Lessons” (2016)? The discussion rages on as country music stations...
New Biographies Of Recently Deceased Celebrities Are Coming From – You Knew It –...
This is a "macabre new publishing subgenre: hasty, shoddy, A.I.-generated biographies of people who have just died." - The New York Times
What’s The Matter With Public Art In New Hampshire?
"If the residents of Littleton vote to limit public art, as one Board of Selectmen member has suggested, the statue will have to be...
We Need To Talk About Goodreads
Goodreads appears to be somewhat innocently letting “the public” tell other members of the public what is worthwhile. "For the well-reviewed author, this is...
How The Met Is Bringing The Harlem Renaissance Back Into The Spotlight
The last Harlem show at the Met, in 1969 (!), contained no Black artists. This one is going to be different. Some works were...
All Of The BAFTAs, As They Happen
A live feed mixing fashion commentary and media reporting, the way the internet was intended to give us our awards news. - The Guardian...
Reddit Has A Deal To Train AI With Its Many Years Of User Info
Yes, longtime users, Reddit ITA, to the tune of $60 million a year. “It’s not known what company Reddit made the deal with, but...
The ‘Glass Church’ In LA, Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright’s Son, Shuts Amid Landslide...
The Wayfarers Chapel "sits on the Palos Verdes peninsula, which is prone to landslides. Cracks had begun to appear in the structure, and several panes...
Turns Out Live TV Isn’t Dead
And it can thank streaming for that: "With streamers raising prices and adding commercials, maybe the urgency of watching something as it’s happening has...
Choreographer Fatima Robinson Says The Dance World Has Changed Dramatically In Her Time
That includes, in recent years, TikTok trends. “I find it so much fun. It’s an inspiring place to go to find out how young...
A White Singer Rejects A State Honor For Her Grammy Because The Legislature Chose...
"Paramore singer Hayley Williams decried a Tennessee House of Representatives dustup this week where a Republican lawmaker blocked a resolution honoring the Grammy win of Black...
Queer Literature Is On The Rise Across The Continent Of Africa
One Nigerian author: “I knew I wanted to write characters who are queer. That’s the only way I am going to show up on...
Sure, The New J-Lo Movie Is A Celebrity Vanity Project
But why aren’t more celebrities using their money for this kind of baffling, joyous, wacky creative venture? “It is genuinely exciting to see an...