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As much as it sounds like something out of Isaac Asimov, we have to say it: we can't surrender our discernment to the computers. What we need now " what will make our social media feeds and …
The passive celebrity interview is over. Now celebrities must work for their press " or, at worst, they have to be interviewed by another celebrity. These practices makes sense in the social…
The deadline for submitting applications has just passed, reportedly with few candidates showing interest in a position seen as a "poisoned chalice." Right now, a new BBC director general wi…
The Brazilian-born star will become, along with Sofiane Sylve of San Francisco Ballet, principal dancer and ballet master of the Semperoper Ballett in Dresden. In late 2017, Gomes was pressu…
Amid the worries on Wall Street, stock prices have tumbled for Orlando-based SeaWorld Entertainment, which operates 12 theme parks across the country. The stock, previously trading above $35…
"There is no question that Broadway shows should be closed," Racaniello said. "Any large gatherings of people, especially here in NYC where we know the virus is circulating, need to stop." J…
The quote is what composer Jeanine Tesori told bass Ken Kellogg about taking his role (the young man's father, a police officer himself) in Blue, which Tesori wrote with librettist Tazewell …
If the future is unclear for arts organizations, it's even scarier for individual artists, backstage artisans and stage hands, many of whom survive job to job. Those who are union members ma…
Here's the 20,000 foot summary: Your brain's most important job is not thinking or feeling or even seeing, but keeping your body alive and well so that you survive and thrive (and eventually…
As was the case during the AIDS crisis and in the months following the Sept. 11 atrocities, "regicide, civil strife and anarchy" tend to be replaced with great writers musing on the existenc…
Apparently, the show must go on even if it kills us. While the country is staring down the barrel of a public health catastrophe, theaters are up against a different enemy: their ragged bala…
I've written a special "Sightings" column for The Wall Street Journal in which I consider the potentially devastating effects of coronavirus on theater in New York"and suggest a remedy. H…
TEFAF, held in the Dutch city of Maastricht and the world's leading fair for art and antiques, opened last Saturday and closed Wednesday evening (four days early), just hours after an exhibi…
Neither producers nor performers and crew nor patrons want to suspend all performances until COVID-19 is under control (whenever that may be), so the theatre owners and producers of the Broa…
Justin Davidson: "It's easy for me to call for a shutdown. I'm not the one who'll be hemorrhaging millions every night or facing months of unemployment. … [But] the evidence suggests that …
"At the recent ALA Midwinter meeting in Philadelphia, Macmillan CEO John Sargent told librarians that he would come back in March with potential alternatives to the publisher's controversial…
Until late 2017, he was one of the most admired comedians working, seen as something of an auteur of stand-up. Then reports emerged of, er, unprofessional behavior with younger female collea…
The Albertina Modern " housed in the newly-renovated 1868 Künstlerhaus on the Ringstrasse, the site of the Nazis' notorious 1939 "Degenerate Art" exhibit " will focus on postwar Austrian ar…
The next overall budget for the Department for Digital, Media Culture and Sport (DCMS) will increase by £100 million to £1.7 billion; it will include £250 million to support local l…
"Pop culture imagery and canonical works from art history were frequent subjects of Leirner's painting and collages; think Velázquez's court ladies swarmed by flies or a football stadium …
German Culture Minister Monika Grütters promised government financial help to cultural institutions and artists whose livelihoods are threatened by the coronavirus as theatres and concert h…
"We were talking about old age and he said that nothing could be done about it, and that he had a very strong feeling that people died at the right moment, and that the greatness of a person…
James Klosty's book is big in several ways. (Try lugging it to a sunny spot; it weighs about six pounds.) I'm in love with it. " Deborah Jowitt
Consumer spending on digital home entertainment surged to $48.7 billion last year, up 24% from 2018, according to a new report from the Motion Picture Assn. Worldwide theatrical ticket sales…
"I know of numerous composers who suffer from tinnitus " that ringing or other sound in the ears which never shuts off. And even violinists tend to end up with hearing damage in the left ear…
