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If Your Musical Flops On Broadway, Why Not Just Restage It – At The Met?

Especially if you are, let’s say, a wealthy celebrity musician. "For Sting, 74, this is a chance to play in one of New York’s most storied halls for a second time, and to break a barrier in the process.” - The New York Times

How The Internet Became A Misery Machine

“Sometimes you gotta use the dark arts, right? In benevolent ways, and just get people to care.” Ouf. - The Atlantic

Netflix House Is Temu Disneyland, In A Mall

“Let’s say you are a Netflix fan, as anyone making a pilgrimage to Netflix House is sure to be. What, then, are you a fan of? … Netflix has been on a relentless campaign to become a fandom hub, a never-ending Comic-Con celebrating itself.” - Slate

The Return Of A Night At The Natural History Museum

“Children ran, some of them in stocking feet, through the displays, with abandon. (Running had been discouraged in the safety lecture, but this did not dissuade a young boy who shouted ‘I have to look for the animals that will hunt us in the night.’)” - The New York Times

Man Who Stole A Banksy Print To Pay Off Drug Debt Sentenced To Prison

He “was seen on CCTV waiting outside the gallery for about 10 minutes on 8 September last year, before repeatedly smashing the glass door with a heavy blunt object.” - The Guardian (UK)

The Palm Springs Art Museum Trustee Revolt: Just What The Heck Is Happening Here?

Basically, “without consideration of multiple outside candidates, the search committee had in effect become simply a hiring committee for an in-house nominee.” That in-house nominee might be great - but that doesn’t fix the hiring process. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

The Musician Who Played The Trumpet For 25 Hours Straight

“It was relentless. But I love the trumpet, and that love carried me through.” - The Guardian (UK)

Writers On The Gulf Between Books And Screen

Viet Thanh Nguyen: “When poets write, the only thing that it costs a poet is their life. ... But when you make a TV show or a film, it costs tens of millions of dollars, and then everybody cares.” - Los Angeles Review of Books

Marina Lewycka, Author Of A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian, Has Died At 79

The author was born in a German refugee camp after the war, and her tragicomic first novel was an unexpected literary hit. - The Guardian (UK)

SAG Awards Are Now, Simply, Named The Actor Awards

It’s a very clear, and useful, switch. “The union said on its website that it hoped to make clearer for its domestic and global audiences what its show entailed. The show has reached a much wider audience since Netflix began streaming it in 2024.” - The New York Times

Does ‘Sinners’ Have A Path To Win Some Major Oscars?

“Making the case for Sinners as Oscar-worthy isn’t hard. For one thing, it had a massive audience — at $297 million domestic, it’s the fifth-highest-grossing movie of the year — and pretty much everybody who saw it loved it.” But, vampires. - Vulture

As Poet Andrea Gibson Was Dying At Home With Their Wife, A Filmmaker Recorded Nearly Everything

Gibson was “interested in chronicling their cancer experience in a way that was beautiful and artistic. They were writing, podcasting and even performing when their health allowed, yet they were having trouble being creative.” - The New York Times

How To Find Music You Love – Hopefully Written And Performed By Humans – Without Relying On The Algorithm

“Just like everything else on the internet, music has its influencers.” - The Verge (Archive Today)

Yvonne Brewster, One Of Black British Theatre’s Godmothers, Has Died At 87

In Britain, she was told she’d never succeed because of her race. So she started theatre companies in Jamaica, and also in London. “In her focus on all-Black casts and re-workings of classics, … Ms. Brewster’s motivation was always artistic, she said.” - The New York Times

AI Is Dominating Streaming Services

Disgusting. “What you have here is 50,000 tracks a day that are competing with human musicians. You have a new, hyperscalable competitor and, moreover, this competitor that was built by exploitation.” - The Guardian (UK)

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