“The original "Fidelio" took place in 18th-century Spain and explored the vindictive nature of a tyrannical prison governor. Heartbeat Opera's rendition takes place in modern-day Ameri…
“Wise Fool, founded in Santa Fe almost 20 years ago as both a performing arts and social justice advocacy organization, combines clowning and circus artistry with storytelling in its p…
The survey of more than 1,000 shoppers was carried out for Radio 4’s You and Yours by consumer analysts Savvy Marketing. It found that 54% of 18-to-34-year-old beauty buyers were…
From a critical remove, streaming is a strangely liminal space, one not yet secure in its place in the media landscape. It’s a land of opportunity and nonsense, a media format beyond i…
All eyes are now on France. Despite the legal hurdles, restitutions are possible but only through a drawn-out process. President Macron's decision earlier this month to return 26 plundered i…
Our deepest anxieties about the future of where we live are embodied in other cities " in Portlandification, Brooklynification, Manhattanization. The comparison is seldom a compliment. You d…
The end result is similar to a trick often used in Hollywood. Superheroes, aliens, and the simians in Planet of the Apesmovies are animated by placing markers on actors' faces and bodi…
One day in December, Katherine Luber, director of the San Antonio Museum of Art, two curators and a museum trustee wandered around a rock yard in China that looked more like a moonscape than…
The BBC has promised to replace Film with another show, but the challenge is how do you cover movies for a BBC One audience? The problem the BBC has is that movie broadcasting has been subje…
The recent marriage of neuroscience with the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence that have really strengthened this perspective. Work at this interface has shown that a br…
The IRS "proof of claim" filings entered Dec. 12 and 19 say the amount owed is cumulative, beginning with an unpaid assessed balance of $1,305,403 in December 2012 and including $552,718 due…
Pantone’s color of the year for 2019 is “living coral”. And in case 2018’s color slipped by your notice, it was ultra violet. – The Guardian
Even though the stranglehold of bro country has given way to various softer, smoother gestures, the men of the format still dominate terrestrial, satellite, and streaming playlists. But it's…
The new Broadway adaptation from Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin made Broadway history for the week ending December 23, taking in $1,586,946 at the box office, shattering the house record at the S…
It is hard to read the abuse Gay gets for her size. If there is anything useful in the experience it is, she has said, in the way it engenders empathy, for other lives, for difficult lives, …
That would mark a healthy 2.7% gain from last year, with most of that hike coming from North America. Year-end projections released Thursday by Comscore predict that domestic grosses will hi…
The shows are a phenomenon in the Middle East and Latin America, and have become such a symbol of Turkish soft power that they have been used as counters in political disputes. On March 1, f…
Television, already bursting at the seams with peak programming and lots of filler, finally blew apart this year, fragmenting into a dizzying constellation of nearly 500 new original series …
The artist"critic war of attrition is boring. It's a cliché " and if there's a common enemy that all artists and all critics should share, then cliché is that enemy. When people give me th…
Any creative illustration "fixed in a tangible medium" is eligible for copyright, and, according to the United States Copyright Office, that includes the ink displayed on someone's ski…
The vast majority"47 of the World Heritage Sites studied"were found to be potentially threatened by coastal erosion or storm surges by the end of the century. Specifically, 37 of the sites w…
In one sense, “the end of Rookie represents another nail in the coffin of small, independent internet publishing. But in another sense, it is an object lesson in how voraciously creati…
"Every Christmas I sit down to watch Carols from Kings, which is broadcast around the world, and every year I wonder where the girls are," Lesley Garrett said in a telephone interview. "S…
More and more artists across all media are addressing pressing social issues in their work. “What struck me in compiling this year-end reading list on socially engaged art in Oregon is…
Chart Data reported that "All I Want for Christmas Is You," released in 1994, was played 10.8 million times on Spotify on Monday. The song bested the record set by rapper-singer XXXTentacion…