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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...
Family-Friendly San Jose Theater Company Is Closing. Its Owners Blame City Government
“Scott Guggenheim, who with his wife Shannon Guggenheim owns 3Below Theaters, cited an ongoing landlord dispute as one major factor in what he called...
Can UNESCO Heritage Status Help Preserve England’s Tradition Of Choral Evensong?
You can make a solid argument that, except for the particular music being sung (and, today, the inclusion of girls and women), the practice...
Marcel Duchamp Was Anything But Reverent. Are We Being Too Reverent Of Him?
“Marcel Duchamp is an enigma that art history swallowed and got stuck in its throat. What do we do with him now? I left the Museum...
U.S. Court Of Appeals Rules That Iowa’s School-Library-Book-Banning Law May Stand
“In a blow to the freedom to read in the United States, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth...
Big Hollywood Studios Aren’t Much In The Lineup At Cannes This Year
There will be famous actors in the competition, certainly, but they’re in indie-studio productions. Indeed, artistic director Thierry Fremaux said openly, “The United States...
LACMA Spent $724 Million On Its New Building. Here’s How That Money Got Spent.
For 25 years, people have been arguing about whether that this project was a good idea or a terrible one. Here’s a look at...
Disney Is Preparing To Lay Off 1,000 Staffers: Report
The Walt Disney Co. “is expected to lay off as many as 1,000 employees through role eliminations in the coming months, Variety has learned. Many of...
Trump Administration Abandons Appeal, Gives Up Attempt To Dismantle Institute Of Museum And Library...
“A federal court granted the administration’s request to withdraw its appeal of a federal judge’s earlier ruling that struck down Trump’s attempt last year...
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...
