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Is The Historical Performance/Period Instrument Movement Still Controversial?
“Nearly half a century on, although performances on period instruments (let alone fortepianos) are hardly the norm, historically informed performance has increasingly moved toward...
Wallace Shawn On Reviving His Monologue “The Fever” In The Trump Era
“When I did it before, nobody was really explicitly saying the opposite of what I was saying. I was attacking implicit assumptions, unthought-through assumptions...
Denver’s Arts District Is Thriving. Here’s Who Keeps It Running And How.
“As of January, the RiNo Art District has split from the business and infrastructure groups it once operated alongside. Now, three separate entities share...
University Partnership Gives This Ballet Company’s Dancers 80% Off Tuition
After being in the company for a full year, any full-time member of Boston Ballet can take courses toward a degree from Northeastern University,...
“The Dawn Of The Three-Minute Heist”: Considering The Fallout From The Latest Museum Robbery
“How and why is this incident different from the Louvre theft, which targeted the royal jewels? How will investigations play out? Perhaps most importantly,...
The “South Park” Guys Have A Successful AI Company. They Named It Deep Voodoo.
“If a studio or production house needs something shape-shifting or face-switching, chances are they’ll call Parker & Stone. And chances are something strange —...
Last Year Rome’s Cinecittà Studios Hemorrhaged Money. Hollywood Has Saved Them.
“Italy’s Cinecittà Studios are back in the black with a small but significant €1.1 million ($1.2 million) operating profit for the fiscal year of 2025,...
Jeremy O. Harris Was Quite Productive During His Three Weeks In A Japanese Prison
In a paywalled essay in Vanity Fair, the playwright/actor/screenwriter/impresario writes that he read 23 books, finished an outline he owed to a film studio,...
Lara St. John Says She Paid No Damages To Settle Jonathan Carney’s Defamation Lawsuit
“No monies were paid to settle the litigation or to secure Mr. Carney’s signature,” the violinist wrote. “There has never been a personal campaign...
America’s First Fully Nonprofit Newspaper Is Dropping Its Online Paywall
“The Salt Lake Tribune is in a unique position among American newspapers, having converted to nonprofit status in 2019. In the years since, it’s achieved financial stability and...
2,500-Year-Old Golden Helmet Stolen Last Year Has Been Found
A gang of robbers used explosives to break into the Drents Museum in the northern Netherlands in January of last year. They smashed display cases and...
Lego Set To Release Its Largest-Ever Set, Of Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia In Barcelona
News of the upcoming set, part of the company’s Architecture series, was leaked by a long-time leaker known as Chief Wiggum, whose predictions have proven...
50 Years Ago, This Fairuz Song Became Lebanon’s Great Anthem Of Hope. Now The...
Through year after year and decade after decade of turmoil, Fairuz’s “Bahebak Ya Lebnan” (“I Love You, Lebanon”) inspired hope and pride in the...
Why Are Arguments About “Project Hail Mary” All Over Social Media?
“With the movie’s release came a flurry of social media posts, as audiences debated everything one could possibly imagine to be a potential topic for debate....
Melvin Edwards, Influential Sculptor Of Steel Assemblages, Has Died At 88
“Working primarily with found steel objects, Edwards created masses of hooks, chains, and beams, some of which were abstracted beyond recognition. His titles …...
The First Dance Artist Robert Rauschenberg Ever Choreographed Is Being Revived
Pelican, as it’s titled, will be staged on a roller-skating rink — just as the original was in 1963 and 1965. - Artnet
Wait, George Clooney Made How Much For His Broadway Run???
Between his roles as producer, co-playwright, and star of Good Night, and Good Luck, about CBS newscaster Edward R. Murrow, Clooney himself took in...
The “South Park” Guys Never Wanted “The Book Of Mormon” To Be Offensive
“Matt Stone and Trey Parker, having grown up around church members in Colorado, did not want to make fun of them or their religion....
Dalí’s Largest Painting Acquired By Dalí Museum In Florida
The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg paid $293,240 for his 13-panel, four-canvas, 65’x100’ set for Bacchanale, which he called his first “paranoiac-critical ballet” and which premiered...
“That Damned Baby”: The New Ending To The Met’s “Tristan And Isolde” And What...
During the opera’s final minutes, rather than simply having the titular lovers embrace death, director Yuval Sharon has Isolde birth a child. Thus, writes...
Two Crucial Documents From U.S. History Placed With Declaration Of Independence In National Archives’...
For the 250th anniversary of the USA’s founding document, the Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution (the one which gave women...
The Guardian Launches Its First Experiment With Substack
“(The paper) has decided to experiment with Substack by recreating its weekly food newsletter Feast on the platform. The Substack play is part of Project Berger,...
Sacramento Ballet Appoints A New Artistic Director
Tiit Helimets, an Estonian dancer and choreographer who was a principal at San Francisco Ballet from 2005 to 2023, will take up his new...
This Canadian Province Is Increasing Arts Funding To An All-Time High
The Alberta government’s provincial budget includes a record C$40.1 million allocated to the arts, including C$38.1 million (up C$3.5 million from last year) to...
As US Publishing Deals With Its First AI Scandal, Industry Folk Are Unsure What...
“One week after Hachette Book Group pulled Mia Ballard’s Shy Girl for strong suspicions of AI use, the industry is reeling — and struggling to contend...
