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The Artist Behind The Banana On The Wall And The Golden Toilet Is Now...
Maurizio Cattelan has set up a hotline where folks from anywhere can “confess their sins.” Those the artist/father-confessor considers most in need of repentance...
In The Bay Area, Earlier Curtain Times Are Catching On
From ACT in San Francisco to Berkeley Rep to Stanford Live, producers and presenters are moving starting times from 8:00 to 7:30, 7:00 or...
Nathan Lane On Being Half-Outed By Oprah On Live TV
“In those days, you might as well say: ‘And by the way, I love cock,’” he said about his 1996 interview to promote The...
Dance Theater Of Harlem Revives Its “Firebird” For The First Time In Over 20...
The company hadn’t produced its beloved staging of the Stravinsky ballet, with sets and costumes by Geoffrey Holder, since it went on hiatus in...
The Redemption Of Speedy Gonzales
By the end of the 1990s, the “fastest mouse in all Mexico” had been pulled from US television amid concerns about stereotyping and racist...
Does There Even Need To Be A Separate New York Times Magazine Anymore?
In ink-on-dead-trees print, sure. But a large majority of the newspaper’s readers consume the Times online or on an app, where the difference between...
Regional Governments In Madrid And Basque Country Are Fighting Over Picasso’s “Guernica”
The town whose bombing the painting depicts is in the Basque region, and politicians there want to borrow Picasso’s canvas and display it in...
Dean Of Juilliard’s Drama Division Will Move To Lead Yale School Of Drama
“Evan Yionoulis, who has been dean and director of The Juilliard School’s drama division since 2018, will take over the post at Yale starting...
L.A. Phil Creates New Position, Conductor-In-Residence, For Anna Handler
The Colombian-German conductor, who turns 30 next week, is a former Dudamel Fellow at the Phil and currently assistant conductor at the Boston Symphony;...
Salzburg Festival Appoints Interim Artistic Director
Less than two weeks after summarily firing director Markus Hinterhäuser, the festival’s board has named Karin Bergmann, most recently director of the Salzkammergut Festwochen...
Britain’s National Gallery Selects Architect For New $464 Million Modern Art Wing
The annex, being built for Project Domani, the museum’s expansion of its collection into 20th- and 21st-century art (which has traditionally been left to...
Fact-Checker Jasper Lo On His Illegal Firing From The New Yorker
“Why me? I wondered. I had finished my three-year term as the first vice chair of the New Yorker Union the week prior. Condé...
Original Dancers In Pina Bausch’s “Kontakthof” Revive The Piece After Half A Century
“Nearly 50 years since that first performance in 1978, Meryl Tankard is getting the Kontakthof band back together. Now a choreographer, she has assembled nine of...
Vocal Cortex, A Choir For Recovering Survivors Of Stroke And Brain Injury
“The choir is part of a wellness program at (a D.C.) hospital that uses music to stimulate neurologic change in the brain and help patients with...
UK Bans Ye (Kanye West) From Entering Country
“The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was barred Tuesday from entering the U.K., where he was scheduled to headline the Wireless Festival in July, after a backlash...
How Larry McMurtry Convinced E. Annie Proulx To Let Him Adapt “Brokeback Mountain” For...
“Proulx (said) she had already gotten ‘a couple of anything-you-want film tenders.’ But Larry had said the magic word: ‘West.’ Some would-be producers saw...
Betty Buckley, Broadway’s First Grizabella In “Cats”, Writes About The New Drag-Ball Production
“Cats has always been a ballroom: Distinct personalities enter the floor, presenting their style and story, and a community watches to see who commands...
Major Arts Institutions In Minneapolis-St. Paul Are (Mostly) Bouncing Back
After some very challenging years, the Walker Art Center, Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Minnesota Opera have all posted budget surpluses; while...
Can This New Theater For Magic Revive Chicago’s Magnificent Mile?
“There are a lot of maybes involved in The Hand & The Eye, the 36,000-square-foot magic-themed entertainment and dining complex set to open this...
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Proactively Changed Material After Trump Returned To Office
“Unlike his posture toward the Smithsonian, Trump has not publicly commented on the USHMM’s content. … But two former museum employees who left amid...
Temple University’s Next Arts Partner: Opera Philadelphia
“Students will sit in on Opera Philadelphia rehearsals and attend master classes by opera artists, and emerging vocalists will have the opportunity to audition...
Trump White House Says Halting Construction Of Ballroom Is National Security Risk
“In a motion filed on Friday, US National Park Service lawyers say that the federal judge’s order to suspend construction of the new facility...
Clowns March Through Bolivia’s Capital To Protest New School Law
“The (fully-costumed) clowns gathered in front of the Ministry of Education in La Paz to oppose a decree published in February. The new mandate...
When Does Bach Cease To Be Bach? Or, What The Hell Did Jean Rondeau...
Next month the hipster harpsichordist is doing the cycle three different ways: the usual manner, for solo keyboard; arranged for strings, flute and continuo...
For Better And (Definitely) For Worse, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Life Reflected His Architecture
“As the architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable once noted: ‘There is a kind of collective schadenfreude in the revelation of defects in great buildings and flaws...
