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The Trump-As-Jesus Image Conveyed More Than He Realized: Philip Kennicott
“Among those messages: a palpable sense of desperation. In the rapid and angry response to the meme, one sensed a coalition beginning to crack,...
Performing “A Streetcar Named Desire” In “Found Spaces” All Across The U.S.
“Featuring four actors, a sparse set, and no props, … this production has been performed since 2023 on all manner of improvised stages. An...
LGBTQ Bookstores Had Been Slowly Disappearing For Years, Now There’s A New Generation Of...
“The number of LGBTQ+-focused bookstores in the U.S. has slowly but steadily increased over the past five years. While this new generation of booksellers...
Australia’s Most Controversial Exhibition Of Indigenous Art Opens After Three-Year Delay
The major exhibition “Ngura Puḻka – Epic Country,” was supposed to open at the National Gallery in Canberra in 2023. It was almost entirely...
Sid Krofft, Co-Producer Of “H.R. Pufnstuf” And A Slew Of Other Children’s TV Shows,...
A puppeteer since childhood, Sid, with his younger brother Marty (who died 2½ years ago), produced H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, The Bugaloos,...
To This We’ve Come: The Trocks Say Some US Presenters Are Now Afraid To...
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, to use the full name, has been popular all over the country and overseas for decades. Now some...
What Paramount Is Planning For Its New Publishing House
“The new imprint will develop new publishing content based on properties from Paramount’s various divisions, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, ... Star Trek, and Yellowstone,...
Sony Pictures Entertainment Is Laying Off Hundreds Of Employees
“(The corporation) is restructuring its operations with plans for hundreds of layoffs across its film, TV and corporate divisions. Sources tell Variety the layoffs … are...
Should Music Directors Spend More Time In Their Orchestras’ Hometowns And Stop Juggling Multiple...
One the one hand, you have the Buffalo Philharmonic’s JoAnn Falletta and the South Dakota Symphony’s Delta David Gier, both thoroughly embedded in their...
Federal Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against Wall Street Journal Over Epstein Report
“U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Florida wrote in the order that Trump had failed to make the argument that the article was...
Arts Council England Distributes Extra $176 Million For Venues’ Infrastructure Projects
“More than 100 cultural venues, museums, and libraries will share £130 million extra funding as part of the largest cash injection into the arts...
Japan Struggles With What Some There Call “Tourism Pollution”
“As the country’s economic malaise deepens, officials are eager for the economic boost of increased tourism, even as local communities find themselves entirely unprepared...
Translating “Swan Lake” Into Cambodian Classical Dance
In Lowell, Mass., a center of America's Cambodian diaspora, the Angkor Dance Troupe has worked hard to preserve the dance traditions nearly wiped out...
One Of France’s Most Prominent Writers Had A Past As A Failed Antiquities Looter
André Malraux went on to fight in the WWII resistance, write celebrated novels, get nominated repeatedly for the Nobel Prize, and serve as de...
She Built Russia’s Only Major Contemporary Art Museum Outside Moscow. Then She Was Chased...
Nailya Allakhverdiyeva turned PERMM (in Perm, 700 miles from Moscow) into one of the country’s most respected museums. She tried to cooperate with authorities...
Do All The Tax Breaks And Subsidies That States Hurl At Hollywood Really Create...
Some local jobs, yes, but probably not enough for the amount of money states are spending, according to recent research. The exceptions appear to...
Dallas Symphony Raises $50 Million For Endowment
“The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is adding $50 million to its endowment fund, thanks to donors matching a $25 million challenge grant from the O'Donnell Foundation. …...
$100 Million To Turn Studio 54 Into A Proper Broadway Theater
“Roundabout Theater Company moved into the building in 1998 and kept its disco-era name. Now Roundabout has a $100 million plan for the first...
Louisiana State Museums’ Reaccreditation Put On Hold
“The LSM system, comprising ten museums across the state — including the New Orleans Jazz Museum, Louisiana Civil Rights Museum and historic houses —...
Paramount Pictures Launches Its Own Book Publishing Imprint
“Operating under the products & experiences division, Paramount Global Publishing ‘will develop complementary publishing content inspired by its iconic portfolio of brands and franchises...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Expands Season, Hires Sondra Radvanovsky As Artistic Advisor
While the company isn't back to the schedule it had before COVID, there will be six full productions plus one opera-in-concert, longer runs, a...
Maine’s Portland Museum Of Art Buys New Building
“The building, previously owned by MaineHealth, … was sold for $14 million. The plan is for the PMA to move its administrative offices to...
Considering The Tap Shoe
“You’ll never say you didn’t hear them coming.” - AP
Sean “Diddy” Combs’s Attorneys Argue His Prostitution Conviction Should Be Reversed On First Amendment...
“Combs’s lawyers repeated claims they made before the trial judge, including an assertion that Combs’ films of sexual encounters between his girlfriends and male...
The Fight To Keep A Collection Of Landmark Art From Leaving Mexico And Going...
“One of the world’s most important collections of 20th-century Mexican art, including works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, is set to be exported to Spain...
