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Carlos Kalmar Sues The Cleveland Institute Of Music
The suit accuses CIM staff of "illegal disclosure of Maestro Kalmar as the target of a federal Title IX investigation, including false and defamatory...
Jennell Jaquays Made Gaming A Richer, Deeper, More Beautiful Experience With Her Art
The artist, who died at 67 after nearly five decades of illustration and creation for D&D and other games, was so influential that “her...
The British Museum Has Decided To Put Some Of Its Stolen Items On Display
Stolen - and recovered, that is. “They are made of stone or glass, variously coloured and tiny - often barely the size of a...
Is This The Future Of Print Media?
The University of Iowa’s independent school newspaper, The Daily Iowan, just bought two nearby small-town weekly papers. The two community papers will keep their...
Past Lives Wins Best Foreign Film, Zone Of Interest Wins Best Film At London...
Best Actor for Andrew Scott, for All of Us Strangers, was impressed by its status at number one in Ireland and the UK. "'For...
We Need To Talk About Theatre Critic Gordon Rogoff
Rogoff, who died last week at 92, was "able to capture in vivid, richly metaphoric language the unique brilliance of a stage performance. Rogoff...
Warming Temperatures Shut Down Minneapolis Art Shanties After One ‘Zany’ Weekend
The story played out after the first gloriously thick ice weekend with increasingly dire warnings on Instagram, over text, and on the Art Shanties’...
Boston’s Theatres Fight For Survival
In Boston as in many other places, "financial struggle has become a grim common denominator among theaters with different aesthetic identities and sense of...
Everything You Need To Know About Tonight’s Grammys
Beyoncé needs three wins to tie - or four to beat - Georg Solti’s total. - The New York Times
Pay Phones Are For The Birds
One old pay phone booth in Maryland is for bird calls, thanks to a musician and audio producer. Of the calls, he says, “Some...
The Theatre Director Who Likes To Go Too Far
“No one like Milo Rau exists in American theater, because commercial producers need to make money, and no government body is willing to match...
Lisa Hunt, Who Transformed Gold Leaf In Her Art, Has Died At 55
Hunt "often marked her works with 24-karat gold leaf, which she attributed to the gilded artworks of the African diaspora, the Art Deco movement,...
The Violinist Fighting For The Rights Of Hollywood’s Musicians
In a suprise to no one, one of the American Federation of Musicians' "biggest concerns is the film and TV industry’s transition to streaming,...
The Young Filmmaker Who Lived A Fairytale At Sundance
Sean Wang, 29-year-old director of Didi, "has been preparing for his Sundance moment since he discovered Spike Jonze’s skater videos as a teenager before heading off...
Issa Rae Might Be A Bit Too Smart For Hollywood
What other conclusion can be drawn from (HBO) Max’s decision to cancel Rap Sh!t? But: "Rae is ... bidding on land in her stomping...
A Man Has Died After Falling From Tate Modern’s 10th Floor
“The Met said the man's death was being treated as 'unexpected but not thought to be suspicious.’" - BBC
Hulu And Disney Are Next On The Great Password Sharing Crackdown
Well, it sure was fun to watch Andor and Love, Victor and Only Murders in the Building, etc., while password-sharing lasted. Cram it all...
Mark Gustafson, Director Of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, Dies At 63
Gustafson won an Oscar last year for the stop-motion animation he and Del Toro co-directed. He "upheld a tradition of craftsmanship at a time...
The Bejart Ballet Lausanne Dumps Its Artistic Director For Cause
The artistic director at the prestigious ballet invited a former production director, who had been fired after a massive investigation into harassment, to a...
Why Are Tech Bros Trying To ‘Disrupt’ Books, Which They Don’t Even Like?
Stop with the bullet points, already, dudes! Leave books alone. - LitHub
Adapting Don Quixote For The Stage Means Taking Inspiration From Texas
"You need to pry that book from cold dead fingers and make it yours,” the artistic director of the California Shakespeare Festival told...
Ad-Free Streaming Is Nearing Its End
Why? Advertising makes a lot more money than subscribers can pay. (Hence, you know, the original channels.) - CBC
Alice Mackler, Sculptor Discovered In Her 80s, Has Died At 92
"After taking up art as a teenager at boarding school in the 1940s, Ms. Mackler spent a lifetime supporting herself with low-level office jobs...
The Point Of Writing Is Writing
“A book’s quality is not dispositive—or sometimes even relevant to book sales. The publisher isn’t going to be able to charge more for my...
Universal Music Group Pulls All Its Music From TikTok
Users are now considering Instagram once again. - The New York Times