Yearly Archives: 2023
San Diego City Council Votes To Double Arts Funding
"(Members) unanimously voted to recommend the city use nearly 10% of its annual Transient Occupancy Tax revenue to fund arts and culture, nearly double...
Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts Is Repatriating 44 Ancient Artifacts Confirmed As Looted
"New York authorities will facilitate the return of the objects to officials of their origin countries" — Italy, Egypt, and Turkey. "The works include...
Three Congressmembers Introduce Bill To Combat Book Bans In Schools
"Introduced by Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-FL), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the Fight Book Bans Act would offer school districts funding to...
Another Actress Accuses Gérard Depardieu Of Sexual Assault
Hélène Darras filed a complaint with law enforcement in Paris alleging that the veteran actor repeatedly groped her when she was an extra on...
UNESCO Gives Italian Opera Singing “Intangible Cultural Heritage” Status
In its citation, the United Nations cultural agency defined the practice as "a physiologically controlled way of singing that enhances the carrying power of...
Art Basel — Where The Super-Rich Buy Art
I’d understood that rich people could buy lots of art, but I hadn’t realized until this moment that my definitions of rich and lots were off by many...
How Norman Lear Changed TV
If anyone knew how to watch, it was Lear. His great appreciation for the work of making television reflected his commitment to the less glamorous...
How Martha Graham Redefined Dance
Martha understood that movement was melody. Her insistence that she was creating art rather than a diversion often bewildered audiences, who wanted to be...
The Point Of Decorating Buildings
What is the function of all that bric-a-brac? they would ask. Why all the fuss when a flush door with a thin steel frame...
New Yorker Drops Andy Borowitz
Borowitz wrote on Facebook that “because of financial difficulties, The New Yorker has been forced to cut costs. As a result, it has decided...
BIS Recordings Is 50 Years Old. Here’s the Key To Its Success
'There have been times when we have stopped a recording if an artist isn’t prepared' von Bahr's exacting standards have built a 2,750-strong catalogue...
When Keats Was Under Investigation By The Roman Police
That's what happens when you don't tell your landlady you have tuberculosis (and streptomycin won't be invented for another 120 years). - The Guardian
How A Brussels Theatre Remains Relevant To Its City
“We represent the city – we are a city theatre. We want to be a crossroads where people can meet and share emotions and...
The Big, Crazy Dream Of Rudolf Laban, The Pioneer Of Dance Notation
"In an essay that has been unearthed some 65 years after his death, Laban wrote of his 'dream' to stage dance in a 'kilometre...
Gaza’s Cultural Institutions Are Being Destroyed By Israel
Amid all the destruction, residents have barely had the opportunity to grapple with the loss of the densely populated enclave’s few cultural institutions that...
Architect Yasmeen Lari Found The Ideal Material For Building Flood-Resistant Homes For Dirt-Poor Pakistani...
That would be bamboo. It grows quickly in the hot climate; it sequesters plenty of carbon; it's inexpensive; it withstands floodwaters well. And Lari's...
Seattle Area Passes Tax Increase To Add $100 Million Annual Funding For The Arts
Nearly two decades in the making and hailed as a game changer, the program and its steady stream of funds will be transformative for...
Chinese Standups Overseas Have Developed An Entire Comedy Circuit In The Diaspora. Even There,...
It's not just that they fear that authorities back home are keeping eyes and ears on them. Among most of the comedians themselves, there...
Theatre’s Year Of Struggle
Large and small venues alike were shrinking before our very eyes. Concern grew that the fabulous invalid, as the theater has long been dubbed,...
It Had To Happen Eventually: A Jewish Christmas Pantomime Takes The Stage In London
Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Pig is "the first professional stage production to merge two great traditions: Jewish storytelling and festive panto....
No, Hanukkah Is Not Jewish Christmas — But There Are Good Reasons It Came...
"Assimilation to the United States’ Christian-majority culture has played a role in Hanukkah’s modern transformation. That said, the story of how Hanukkah came to...
Philly Pops Agrees To Finally Give Musicians The Pay It Owes Them. But Will...
A judge approved a stipulation that the organization pay $300,000 it owes musicians for 2022's Christmas show. But this year's holiday program is performed...
She’s Just Choreographed For Six Of America’s Greatest Companies, But She’s Never Danced In...
The half-dozen troupes for whom Amy Hall Garner has been making dances in the past year or so include Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, and...
Norman Lear, Whose Sitcoms Revolutionized American Television, Is Dead At 101
"In an astonishingly prolific career that spanned more than six decades, Lear created or developed some of the most seminal comedies in television history,...
Membership Of SAG-AFTRA Votes To Approve Contract Deal Which Ended Strike
"The 78% yes result in voting that began Nov. 13 and ended Tuesday was a far cry from the near-unanimous approval and widespread enthusiasm...
