Despite Injury And Long Recovery, Ian McKellen Does Not Intend To Retire: “I shall just keep at it as long as the legs and the lungs and the mind keep working,” says the 85-year-old actor. As for his film role as Gandalf, “I’m not letting anyone else put… https://t.co/vGmY26RdK2
Today’s AJ Highlights: Good morning: Every day we send you a list of 20 stories. But we realize some of you want to cut right to the top stories, so today we’re trying out a new feature – a list of highlights from across what we found. You can still jump… https://t.co/Q3eRayrFwd
The Kinds Of Shows Audiences Are Looking For Now: In a world that’s bleak enough already, feel-good, heartfelt comedy feels like more of a salve; earnest sitcoms seem to counteract the vitriol of the real world. But the dark comedies, by their very… https://t.co/FCM1Ni0RKi
How Should Traditional Museums Think About Immersive Experiences?: What we found leads us to believe that, when it comes to immersive art, established art museums are stuck between staying on the sidelines of a potentially lucrative market or having to… https://t.co/U3nb8GTNbH
Opera Philadelphia’s Big Ticketing Experiment: How the math nets out in the end remains to be seen. Last season’s production of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, for instance, had a higher average ticket price, but sold just 51% of available seats. Even if all… https://t.co/PG5vDBkq1x
Staatsballett Berlin Director Christian Spuck Reflects On His First Year On The Job: “We’re the only company in the world that performs in three different opera houses (in one city). … One-hundred-and-twenty people work at this institution. When I… https://t.co/fjTZzpeV03
Douthat: Why We Don’t Build Beautiful Buildings Anymore: “We don’t necessarily need to repeal the laws of economics or solve Baumol’s cost disease to build as beautifully as our ancestors once did. We just need to see the world more humanistically and… https://t.co/lh8J9i2RAy
CDs Have Always Had A Flaw. Streaming Could Fix It: The majority of your CDs have probably been downsampled perilously from studio to disc. And streaming has now righted that wrong; we can indeed enjoy ‘studio-quality’ music from the streams of the… https://t.co/1pmU4ydHVL
Simon Verity, 79, Master Stone Mason Who Led Work At New York’s St. John The Divine: “As a sculptor he contributed to cathedrals both old and young, from survivors of the Middle Ages such as Exeter and Wells to the unfinished 19th-century behemoth of St… https://t.co/PvWrp3VQSo
Another Semester Of ChatGPT Havoc At Universities: “If the first year of AI college ended in a feeling of dismay, the situation has now devolved into absurdism.” – The Atlantic https://t.co/8EC30vobzs
Good Investment? I Paid My Kid $100 To Read A Book: My daughter is a whip-smart kid, definitely smarter than I was at 12. But until I resorted to bribery, she’d never read an entire chapter book for pleasure. – The New York Times https://t.co/xgpqqtLcQZ
Academic Publisher Wiley Sells AI Rights For $44 Million, Won’t Permit Authors To Opt Out: “Wiley has already earned $23 million from AI deals and confirmed … that it is set to make a further $21m this financial year. A spokesperson confirmed that Wiley… https://t.co/htKGDQB65R
The Successful Musician: An AI Advantage: “AI-generated songs lack the fluidity of music created by humans. But musicians who experiment with AI can give themselves an edge in an evolving industry. AI can expedite their own creative work and provide… https://t.co/yn9vzgzwfs
This Fall On Broadway: Bring On The Divas: Theater stages are the diva’s holy playground, where complex characters and powerful performances ask audiences to question their received ideas. A new slate of shows this fall promises both rapture and… https://t.co/nWAAS6Ikpl
More Trouble For Shuttered UArts As Bondholders Demand $51.7 Million Repayment: The Philadelphia school, which closed down without warning on June 7, was notified two weeks later by “successor trustee” UMB Bank that, due to the university’s cessation of… https://t.co/lZzDIvbbjs
Ousted Melbourne Symphony CEO Tried To Overthrow Board Chair After He Questioned Her Spending: Sophie Galaise, the orchestra’s now-former managing director, reportedly attempted, along with the board’s deputy chairman, to oust MSO chairman David Li after… https://t.co/1mR7IeQbPB
Florida Family Was Sold Dozens Of Fake Warhols, Claims Lawsuit: Matthew, Judy and Richard Perlman of Miami realized they had a problem when they brought some of the pieces to Christie’s to sell and the auction house said they were probably inauthentic.… https://t.co/7xwb4U2dqd
Artistic Director – Dallas Children’s Theater: As a leader of Dallas Children’s Theater, the Artistic Director will lead through collaboration, model a strong work ethic, and exhibit passion, dedication, and knowledge of Theatre for Young Audiences’… https://t.co/GB6NDXBvwM
Disney Pulls All Its Channels, Including ESPN And ABC, From Satellite Provider DirecTV: “ESPN and other Disney-owned channels have gone dark on DirecTV” — on the first weekend of college football season and halfway through US Open tennis — “after the… https://t.co/oGSwKqyjK8
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s Sweet Deal To Move Into Building Part-Owned By Trump: Thw two-year-old museum is moving from the Dogpatch neighborhood into “The Cube,” a modernist landmark downtown owned 70% by Vornado Realty Trust and 30%… https://t.co/GpBlBplnau