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Why The Onion Is Going Ahead With Its Infowars Parody Even Though The Case...
Basically, if Alex Jones can play dirty, then The Onion can play dirty, too. - Law and Chaos
Even Award-Winning Indie Filmmakers Make Shockingly Little Money
Brady Corbet, who made The Brutalist, earned, he says “zero dollars” for his work on the movie. The five directors who agreed to be...
As Other Small Colleges Shrink Non-STEM Programs, These Four Are Adding New Dance Majors
“To get a new major approved, faculty must demonstrate that there’s a genuine hunger for more dance on campus. They must lay out the...
Attendance At Pittsburgh Symphony’s Classical Concerts Is Back Up To 50%
The average audience at Heinz Hall for the flagship classical series is roughly 1,450, just over half of the venue’s capacity and up 14%...
Too Many Books, Too Quickly: Australia’s Publishing Industry Is Too Prolific For Its Own...
“Talk to authors, talk to prize judges, talk to critics and to editors and you hear versions of the same story. ... What might...
Why Are New Musicals On Broadway So Scarce This Year?
“How did the new musical — long Broadway’s fundamental building block — become so scarce that the New York Drama Critics’ Circle opted to...
How Arts Philanthropist Christophe De Menil Ended Up Isolated During Her Final Years
The daughter of the founders of Houston’s Menil Collection, Christophe herself had a glittering social life filled with the arts and artists, and she...
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s First Full Musical Since “Hamilton” Will Arrive On Broadway Next Spring
The show is Warriors, an adaptation of the 2024 concept album by Miranda and Elsa Davis. The source material is Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel...
Museum Curator In San Francisco Terminated After His Arrest For Secret Bathroom Video
“The Cartoon Art Museum has parted ways with Andrew Farago, the longtime curator and public face of the San Francisco institution who was arrested this month...
Manhattan’s Borough President Directs His Entire Discretionary Budget — $50 Million — To The...
“Fifty-five cultural institutions and 28 schools will benefit from grants ranging from $60,000 to $2 million,” with much of the money designated for buildings...
Kansas City Symphony Extends Music Director Matthias Pintscher’s Contract
The 55-year-old German composer-conductor has only been there for two seasons (he started in fall 2024), but the orchestra likes him well enough to...
At Henry Louis Gates’s “Finding Your Roots,” How They Handle Finding A Bombshell Piece...
Gates: “If ... we found out that, let’s say, your daddy wasn’t your daddy but your daddy didn’t know, I have an ethics protocol;...
After 25 Years, Choreographer Lucy Guerin Leaving Her Dance Company
She is creating a final solo work for herself — her first time onstage in 13 years — as a farewell, and she officially...
Next-Generation Tech Lets Producers Of Musicals Shrink Pit Bands Even More
“Orchestral software from the German company KeyComp threatens to inflict the deepest cuts yet on what has traditionally been a steady gig for professional...
Laurie Anderson Awarded $600,000 Kyoto Prize For Arts And Philosophy
The multimedia artist will receive the ¥100 million prize — given annually by the Inamori Foundation in three fields: advanced technology, basic science, and...
Benjamin Franklin’s Library Given 1,500 Rare Books About Sex
The collection is the latest donation to the Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Franklin in 1731, by Charles Rosenberg, a now-retired historian of...
With Book Reviews Disappearing From Newspapers, This Bookstore Decided To Start Doing Its Own
“The Porter Square Review of Books launched this month. The (Cambridge, Mass.) store’s booksellers and writers-in-residence have begun publishing weekly(ish) book reviews on its website, on...
New Chief Conductor At BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Antony Hermus, a 53-year-old Dutchman who is just finishing his tenure as chief conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra, will succeed Ryan Wigglesworth at...
Google Invests $75 Million In A24 Studios To Develop AI Filmmaking Tools
“Google’s DeepMind AI unit and A24 are aiming to create new tools for movie production and distribution. … Though Alphabet unit Google is a...
Lonnie Bunch Works To Keep Smithsonian Independent And Functional Amid Trumpist Turmoil
“Bunch has been cast by many of his admirers as something of a resistance figure — one of the only high-profile leaders standing up...
Stolen Picasso Discovered During Drug Trafficking Raid Near Paris
“Officers in the Brigade des Stupéfiants discovered the artwork on 15 June while carrying out a routine search of a house owned by the...
Germany And The Netherlands Will Return 2,000 Artifacts To Ghana
The repatriation was announced by Ghana’s foreign minister during a conference in Accra, but no information on the types of artifacts or the timeline...
What Might Have Been: Gaudí’s Design For A New York Skyscraper
A supertall skyscraper, no less, topping out at 360 meters/1180 feet. The great Barcelona architect did a speculative design of a hotel complex in...
Gaudí Was A Superstar. Why Didn’t He Have More Influence On Future Architects?
Architectural history and Antoni Gaudí just weren’t headed in the same direction. - Dezeen
A New Center For Playwrights On Cape Cod Bay
“Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel has teamed up with former Huntington Theatre Managing Director Michael Maso and philanthropist Grace Nordhoff on a new center for playwrights and theatrical composers that...
