Instead, the students opened their own show. “Seeds of Solidarity was organized to support Students for Justice in Palestine’s ongoing general strike and boycott against the New School, w...
https://hyperallergic.com/916337/striking-parsons-students-withdraw-artwork-from-thesis-exhibition/
Franz Rogowski, “who plays a key role in Bird, British director Andrea Arnold’s contender for the top Palme d’Or prize, said this weekend that the proliferation of chaperones and intimacy...
“If the aesthetic interest in nuns is an enduring one, it’s also true that every few years, like fashion trends or viral flus, nuns have a particularly concentrated cultural moment. We’re ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/t-magazine/nuns-film-immaculate-doubt-new-boy.html
When Munro won the Nobel Prize in 2013, the Swedish Academy called her “a master of the contemporary short story.” The queen of subtly intense psychological stories about the ways rural pove...
That is, the actors playing the costumed characters at California’s Disneyland have voted to join Actors’ Equity. The workers “often endure injury and discomfort due to the physical nature...
That’s the one in the grain silo. Why not? Like the Tate Modern’s building, the former power station, the silo wasn’t being used for its original purpose. – The Guardian (UK)
Stunt workers’ tough situation: “Their work is often flashy, which has contributed over time to the misconception of them as daredevils, making it hard for them to be taken seriously. And th...
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/05/fall-guy-hollywood-stunt-community/678423/
That is, the ones with more ghosts. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/theater/bebe-neuwirth-cabaret.html
The UNC system and the School of the Arts will pay 65 alumni a total of about $12.5 million for abuses that lasted “during most of the school’s history.” – Raleigh News & Observer (Yahoo...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/unc-school-arts-settles-lawsuit-170000739.html
“All of TikTok’s potential suitors would be facing an uphill battle to close a deal. The first challenge will be raising enough money. Only a small number of the world’s largest companies ...
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktoks-suitors-face-an-uphill-battle/
From “ecstatic reminders” to paparazzi shots that became court cases, these photos altered the world’s conception of at least some of their subjects’ lives. – The Guardian (UK)
The researcher wrote, “Over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.” – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24159095/openai-jan-leike-superalignment-sam-altman-ai-safety
“The kind of people who deign to sit for portraits think of themselves, to quote a Shakespearean sonnet, as ‘lords and owners of their faces,’ and they tend be riled if they don’t see th...
For one thing, “the U.K. is notoriously more favorable to libel plaintiffs than the U.S., where the First Amendment protects a broad range of insulting and offensive speech.” – Variety
Alta started Shameless Hussy Press in her garage. “She was having trouble getting her own brash and sensuous free-form poetry published by the mainstream companies, as were her friends, and wh...
The thing is, “Stereophonic’s cast recording is not pretending to bring the album from the show’s universe into the real world. It delivers finished versions of the songs sparking intense ...
https://www.vulture.com/article/album-review-stereophonic-original-cast-recording.html
Netflix isn’t about flicks anymore. Nor are most of the other streaming services. Instead, they’re all about shows – scripted, reality, and live. – Wired
https://www.wired.com/story/netflix-isnt-about-flicks-anymore/
By a human, that is. “I did an event with Leila Slimani where she said she thought her translators know her better than her family. She puts most of her consciousness and her life into her boo...
Witherspoon: “When there’s a big economic shift in the media business, it’s not the superhero movies or independent films we lose out on. It’s the middle, which is usually where women li...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/books/reese-witherspoon-book-club.html
Kathy Schuman, Vice-President & Artistic Director of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, talks about the importance of setting when presenting the arts.
Auction prices were once thought to be reliable indicators of an artwork’s fair market value—defined by the IRS as “the
The public nature of Xue’s allegations has shaken the classical music world in China. And while these allegations are unproven, they highlight structural issues that make abuse of power and co...
https://van-magazine.com/mag/corruption-chinese-music-conservatories/
Seven times more buildings of 150 metres or taller have sprung up since 2000 than were constructed in the entire 20th century. Five decades ago, the height of the tallest building completed each...
https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/13/skyscrapers-jason-barr-opinion/
“Over the years, I have felt many things in the world’s most-visited, and arguably most-famous, museum — irritation, exhaustion and some wonder, too. This time, I felt joy.” – The New ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/world/europe/france-paris-olympics-louvre.html
By rejecting the distinction between observer and observed, subject and author (at least to a degree, and more so in the arts and culture back of the paper rather than the newsy, investigative f...
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/village-voice-new-york-book-review
You see a lot of this on TikTok now: videos that describe ordinary life using the language of television. Scroll through, and you’ll find users charting the different “seasons” of their li...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/tv-jargon-tiktok.html
Stereotypes come about when we stop looking. Why we stop looking is something we all need to discern for ourselves. When we stop looking, we erase the particularness of how humans present them...
That foreign accent students sometimes come home with after studying abroad isn’t (or isn’t only) an affectation. – The Atlantic (MSN)
A small cottage industry of DJs, musicians and producers have been twiddling with TTPD since its release last month, and adding their own twists. – Washington Post
It’s happened numerous times: famous archaeologists (or those looking for fame) claim they’ve finally found the resting place of the legendary ancient Egyptian queen. Yet they might be right...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-hunt-nefertiti-2454703#new_tab
“In any industry what matters is not what you’re making, but how many followers you have. Do you want to do something, do you want to make an album, put out a book? Okay, but who is your aud...
“It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo — whatever was ...
Contrary to the walkback last week by Apple marketing communications vice president Tor Myhren — “We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry” — the commercial for the new iPad...
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/15/column-why-the-stink-of-that-bad-bad-ipad-ad-wont-go-away/
“Spring 2024 saw a frenzy of new shows opening in the face of two formidable obstacles: costs that have nearly doubled over a decade and an audience almost 20% smaller than it was pre-pandemic...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/we-ve-hit-peak-theater/ar-BB1mv0Dz#new_tab
A 2016 retrospective study that tracked injuries in a professional ballet dance company over a 10-year period found that most dancers experience a new injury every year. Researchers are paying...
“In the past, there seemed to be more movement from L.A. and the Bay Area to OSF, especially in terms of artists, so it’s an exciting moment to have a greater conversation and relationship b...
Here’s his argument. He’s wrong, of course. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/lets-chill-out-about-apostrophes.html#new_tab
Here’s an explanation of the origins of the arts branch of the Games, a timeline history, and a preview of some of what will be seen in Paris through this summer. – Euronews
The glass-clad church, perched on an oceanside bluff in Los Angeles County, has suffered severe structural damage as the ground underneath it shifted due to the heavy rains of recent years. It w...
To put it bluntly, a subsidy meant to support commercially risky work like A Strange Loop or Stereophonic or a revival of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People shouldn’t be going to Phantom and The...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/nyregion/broadway-tax-subsidy-credits.html#new_tab
While it’s too late to restore the first of the string quartet’s scheduled performances there, the second, for Saturday night, was reinstated with additional security measures and an earlier...
These raises were part of the museum’s first union labor agreement, which was negotiated in 2022. Even so, the issue isn’t settled: there’s a binding arbitration case about it that’s now...
Many of the network’s reporters believe that this extra layer, called the “Backstop,” was put in place only because of right-wing pressure over allegations of bias and will only cause bott...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/business/npr-editing-backstop.html#new_tab
His entire body is bathed in a sea of crimson, so his face appears to be floating.
https://www.artsjournal.com/2024/05/king-charles-official-portrait-really-really-red.html
A brochure issued in July 2021 on the OCI website says that if the status is cancelled for any of the reasons stated, the person would also be blacklisted, preventing their entry into India. The...
YouTube is consistently the most watched streaming service in the U.S. on a TV in the U.S. every month, even beating Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video since February 2023, according to Nielsen....
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-05-16/youtube-tv-coachella-nfl-shorts
What Munro did was not so much write about women as write from inside them. When her characters don’t understand exactly what they’re feeling, she expresses it in such a way that you can...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/deborah-treisman-postscript-alice-munro
Claire Bishop argues that our smartphone-induced state of distraction can also be generative. The art work, she writes, “is less self-important, less total; it grants us the space to be mobile...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/who-wins-and-who-loses-when-we-share-a-meme
Gina Rinehart, a mining magnate with a knack for attracting controversy and a lack of awareness of the Streisand Effect, is unhappy with her likeness in a series of portraits by Vincent Namatjir...
So strong are the associations between Munro and her origins in southwestern Ontario that for some, the area around Huron County came to be known as “Alice Munro Country.” – The Conversati...
“(The $3 million per production credit) has been lauded as a lifeline for the struggling theatre industry, … (yet) funds often do not arrive until at least 18 to 24 months after the applicat...
In this episode, we review findings from a study of postsecondary degree-holders in the arts, with a focus on career outcomes, including satisfaction with jobs and training. A transcript is avai...
The new work, which uses games to improve AI, stands in contrast to past approaches, which measured an AI program’s success via its mastery of games. – Quanta
https://www.quantamagazine.org/game-theory-can-make-ai-more-correct-and-efficient-20240509
“Projects that would previously have flown off the shelves domestically just don’t have the same immediate pulling power. And according to one source, it’s the lack of post-theatrical wind...
For the one-week, eight performance engagement at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA (May 7-12, 2024), the play grossed $2,286,768.75, setting a record for highest grossing week of a play on tour ac...
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/TO-KILL-A-MOCKINGBIRD-National-Tour-Sets-New-Records-20240514
Two architects, both graduates of Wright’s School of Architecture at Taliesin West in Arizona, have designed nine kit houses based closely on Wright’s designs, but with higher ceilings, larg...
“Within hours, Brent became the focus of a high-profile police investigation, reverberating across a horrified international art world that revered him. The murder weapon, a santoku knife, was...
“Across cultures, (an international team of 75) researchers found, songs share certain features not found in speech, suggesting that Darwin might have been right: Despite its diversity today, ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/science/universal-music-evolution.html#new_tab
Artistic director David Hallberg and others are indignantly rebuking The Sydney Morning Herald, saying that “critique of dancers’ bodies” is “not acceptable.” The sentence in question:...
While there have been brief bursts of attention to the issue before, France had been notably resistant to the movement. In 2018, Catherine Deneuve and others published an open letter in Le Monde...
https://apnews.com/article/metoo-cannes-judith-godreche-8015d6dc14efd6c00912f8dd824f9985#new_tab
Number Five: Macho Androgyny. “Fond of elaborate costumes that question traditional gender roles (flamboyant Freemason, tap-dancing satyr), Barney has worn skirts and dresses in his art — wa...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/t-magazine/matthew-barney-influence.html#new_tab
“In April, KQED instituted a voluntary buyout program. CEO Michael Islip said a small amount of buyout packages were accepted, but not enough to offset the need for further cuts to the station...
Lorenzo Prendini of the American Museum of Natural History in New York had been detained at Istanbul’s airport with 15,000 samples of (dead) endemic spiders and scorpions. He argued that he ha...
“What does it mean to defend writers amid a polarizing war? When should a group that promotes free expression for all take sides? And at a time of extreme humanitarian crisis that some see as ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/arts/pen-free-expression-gaza.html#new_tab
The Canadian-born soprano/conductor will begin, as of August 2026, a three-year term as chief conductor and artistic director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. She remains principal guest condu...
The aggressive studio expansions signal New York’s continued determination to double down on the film business and compete with its main rival, Los Angeles, for a bigger slice of the Hollywood...
Peter’s goal, per him, was to have one idea, at least, per sentence. His best mentoring, he said, came from journalists, which makes sense. His reviews have an urgent quality. Breaking news! �...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/looking-at-art-with-peter-schjeldahl
Do you consider yourself more of a music person or a lyrics person, and why? – Dirt
Once a repository of amateur videos, the service owned by Alphabet’s Google has grown into a streaming behemoth with full-length films, highly produced series, sports highlights and live eve...
When it comes to not falling for misinformation, being aware of our human fallibilities, such as our quickness to believe what we want to believe, is a good first step. – BBC
It was not immediately clear whether it is only the public-facing website that is affected, or whether any client information was at risk. Christie’s did not immediately answer an email reques...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/experts-react-christies-website-hack-offline-2486213
“Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector jokes that if his satire Best Available had a trigger warning, it would be ‘realistic portrayals of working in nonprofit theater.’ … To write the sho...
Tung Crystal is currently the artistic director of Theater Mu, the largest Asian American theater company in the Midwest, as part of its first female co-leadership team with Managing Director An...
“Rather than exams and essays, the studio classes that make up the bulk of BFA programs evaluate students on less tangible benchmarks like artistry, technique, and performance. How much weight...
“Music labels, even if they’re small, still have such a hold over artists who can’t afford to pay for production themselves. You’re always owing someone something.” – The Guardian
You’d expect any controversy to be over his decision to have dancers leave the auditorium and perform around the building while cameras transmit their movement to an onstage screen. But no, di...
The performances that work best for both haptic tours and live audio descriptions are dance and theater productions that offer a mix of visual and auditory elements. – San Francisco Classical ...
Today’s “executive butlers,” who service the ultra-wealthy (who aren’t just old-line nobility anymore) at England’s grand country houses, are a cross between chief housekeeper, maître...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/style/executive-butlers-country-houses.html#new_tab
“It feels like another sign that A.I. is not even close to living up to its hype. In my eyes, it’s looking less like an all-powerful being and more like a bad intern whose work is so unrelia...
https://www.artsjournal.com/2024/05/it-sure-seems-like-ai-is-not-living-up-to-the-hype.html
“‘We’ve been trying to program Hockney’s Turandot for 30 years,’ said Rupert Hemmings, vice president of artistic planning for L.A. Opera, which … has spent $80,000 to rent the produ...
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/34-years-david-hockneys-magnificent-100059341.html#new_tab
“It’s a rough road, one that requires creative and focused marketing strategies and the willingness to do all the work a studio would normally do. But at a time when the once-buzzy acquisiti...
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/going-alone-indie-filmmakers-getting-130000174.html#new_tab
“The Kirkland (Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts) will become a curatorial department to the Denver Art Museum,” explains DAM director Christoph Heinrich. “The unique situation is, of cours...
The concert hall (not to be confused with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, a separate organization) called off the performances in the wake of demonstrations against Israel’s war against Ham...
“In her response, (Patricia de Stacy) Harrison cited the Public Broadcasting Act’s requirement that CPB facilitate the development of ‘high-quality’ programming from ‘diverse sources�...
“On Tuesday, 97% of Condé Union members voted ‘yes’ on a three-year deal” settled after 18 months of negotiations. “The agreement, which averted a threatened strike from workers at th...
“A French court on Tuesday acquitted film director Roman Polanski of defaming British actress Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when she was a teenager. … She sued for defa...
The Executive Director will advance the mission of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, maintain its fiscal resiliency, and oversee WSO’s management team.
https://www.artsjournal.com/2024/05/executive-director-wichita-symphony-orchestra.html
Thinking of memory as an adaptive trait has a less obvious and perhaps more interesting corollary: “Viewed through this lens, it is apparent that what we often see as the flaws of memory are a...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/why-we-remember-charan-ranganath-book-review
They call it “filler,” and it’s hard not to regard it as something bordering on the sublinguistic, an almost intolerable torturing of the magnificent instrument bequeathed to us by Shakesp...
https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing-character/articles/like
Sanborn was known for luxurious saxophone melodies on songs including “Maputo,” but his sound — informed by R&B and global funk— and his legacy extended far beyond his jazz roots. Often ...
This broader vision of theatrical choreography is worth noticing and applauding. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/arts/dance/tony-award-nominees-for-choreography.html
My staff of thousands is curious to know whether the music is actually being played or dubbed.
https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2024/05/here-to-entertain-you.html
Ms. Battle was greeted with an immediate and prolonged standing ovation—the first of many—from her eager audience as she walked onstage in a black dress with a long, turquoise-colored wrap.�...
A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died Monday at home in Port Hope, Ontario. Munro had been in frail health for y...
“The videos often begin with … a person ripping the covers off a book. They are not vandals, however; they are bookbinders, taking part in a growing trend for replacing the covers of favouri...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/12/bookbinding-rejuvenated-tiktok#new_tab
It used to be an underground hobby. People did it, but nobody talked about it—not only because it was embarrassing to admit that you coveted Charlton Heston’s slave collar from Planet of th...
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/super-expensive-hollywood-props/
We’ll never know what scripts by the great playwright disappeared forever because they were never printed and their manuscripts didn’t survive. Yet there is solid evidence, including titles,...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-hunt-lost-shakespeare-plays-2452383#new_tab
TV commercials have long stood as the cornerstone of modern advertising. This dominance was owed, in part, to TV’s capacity to reach vast and diverse audiences through ads that leverage sound,...
“It’s true that developers’ motives are rarely altruistic: Many have found tax and other benefits to pairing up with dance companies. And not all of these unusual developer–company marri...
Krishna Thiagarajan, president and CEO of Seattle Symphony, said the Symphony’s search for Dausgaard’s successor began in earnest between one-and-a-half and two years ago, and today, it’s ...
“Lorenzo Prendini, an expert on arachnids at the New York-based museum, was held by police at Istanbul Airport while allegedly trying to take about 1,500 samples out of the country. … Prendi...
That signed Stravinsky photo will set you back £1,850. For a collection of eight lavishly illustrated Ballets Russes souvenir programmes or a copy of Porgy and Bess signed by George and Ira...
“The Times checked in with multiple writers of varying experience levels spanning film and TV. … All said that they or their colleagues have struggled to find work for at least 12 months ami...
“The complaint, dated April 23 and made public this weekend in Italian newspapers, alleged that staff faced health and security risks due to cost-saving and apparent profit-generating initiati...
“The Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof has secretly fled Iran after he was sentenced to prison amid pressure over his latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which is due to premiere at...
“Wagner, who turns 46 on May 21 and is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, became co-head of the festival in September 2008, along with her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier. Katharina then...
https://apnews.com/article/germany-bayreuth-festival-wagner-bba2093d2d00c8f4d5b353876eb0bbcd#new_tab
“(Two octogenarians) entered the British Library in London on Friday morning and ‘smashed the glass enclosure that surrounds the Magna Carta.’ After this, the pair glued themselves to the ...
John Catsimatidis, the supermarket mogul and perennial New York state Republican candidate who owns news/talk radio station WABC-AM, canceled Giuliani’s one-hour weekday radio show after he re...
She leaves the foundation, which she started in 2000 with then-husband and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, three years after the pair announced their divorce. Bill is giving her $12.5 billion f...
Incidentally, it’s my birthday today. So, hey – I have the perfect gift all figured out. Just click on any ...
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director, available in the summer of 2024. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale ht...
Rooted in the thinking of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and David Brower, this idea influences people who love wild places as well as those who consciously avoid them. �...
https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing-character/articles/preserving-the-wilderness-idea
Classical music has lost a generation’s worth of music lovers beginning in the late-90s with the rise of file-sharing and Napster. A significant part of the reason might be: metadata. Metadata...
“To me this highlights something sometimes missed about musical expression: AI doesn’t need to experience emotions and life events to successfully express them in music that resonates ...
Since the era of Napster, digital music has lacked robust metadata frameworks, leaving compositions vulnerable to misattribution and exploitation. I believe we urgently need comprehensive datab...
“I still don’t believe any important work is done on mobile, I think an excess of this is a very clear signal of a distracted team looking to fill time, look busy and feel important. You ...
https://www.hottakes.space/p/your-mobile-device-is-ruining-your?s=03
After downloading a variety of pictures, Carina Popovici discovered that a supposed Monet, titled Forest With a Stream and with a price of $599,000, was almost certainly counterfeit. – Artne...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fake-paintings-renoir-monet-2483098
With the institution now in a state of crisis, the administration and the board face a crucial test: They must stabilize the organization, reassure worried donors like me and set a clear, positi...
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2024/05/11/san-francisco-symphony-financial-crisis/
As widely loved as Impressionism remains today, its overexposure has some rolling their eyes at museums now rushing for the opportunity to spotlight what skeptics tend to reduce to “pretty pic...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/impressionism-150-review-2475151
Over the next week, more than 1,700 modern and contemporary artworks are expected to come under the hammer through the three dominant houses – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips. Between t...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/12/christies-cyberattack-new-york
Pretty soon the majority of Americans, and of people in other, industrialized nations, will be living in vast suburban tracts … our old downtown areas will become tourist attractions, probably...
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/the-limits-of-utopia/678339/
Given a 10 percent decline in the art market — from $30.2 billion in 2022 to $27.2 billion in 2023 — and general concern about the long-term financial health of museums, questions have becom...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/arts/design/young-collectors-museum-donors.html
“Some actors avoid playing objectionable people, concerned about being pigeonholed into villainhood, or that in the audience’s impressionable minds, their character’s likability might blur...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/theater/sarah-paulson-appropriate-broadway.html
OK, bring back the 18th century: “Cordelia gets a romance. … She gets her love, Edgar. King Lear gets to rule. The bad people are punished. The good people get rewarded.” – Happy Dancing
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/shakespeares-king-lear-had-a-happy-ending-for-140/
“People wept in the street when the magnificent Mackintosh building was nearly destroyed by two fires. So why, 10 years on and despite overwhelming support for restoration, is there still no p...
“For clearly one of the hardest workers in show business with one of the longest resumes I’ve ever seen, it’s hard to believe that rejection is still ever-present for Leguizamo. ‘They w...