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Six Elite Ballet Dancers On What They Did After Retiring From The Stage
One became a kindergarten teacher and social worker; another became a midwife. One lucky fellow got to be artistic director of a company; another...
The Struggle To Protect Mauritania’s Medieval Library Town
Chinguetti developed as a trading post on the trans-Sahara caravan route to Timbuktu — and, as in Timbuktu, over the centuries Chinguetti families came...
Pay-To-Play: Rich People Are Hiring Themselves Orchestras To Conduct
“These experiences allow people with money but little musical ability to roleplay composer and conductor — for a price. This development flows naturally from...
An August Wilson Play In Italian? Yes, And With African-Italian Actors
“Renzo Carbonera, an Italian filmmaker, is making his theatrical directing debut with a production (of Jitney) that he says will be the first Italian-language...
Check Out The Plans For Putting An Actual Park In The Middle Of Park...
“A century ago, the median down ... Park Avenue was much more welcoming than it is today, a place with seating and substantial plantings...
City Of San Francisco Names Its First-Ever Arts And Culture Czar
“Longtime arts and city government veteran Matthew Goudeau has been named San Francisco's first executive director of arts and culture. … To that end, Goudeau will oversee...
Another Judge Throws Another Wrench Into The Onion’s Takeover Of Alex Jones’s Infowars Website
“The Onion’s plan to take over the Infowars platforms that Alex Jones built into a bullhorn of conspiracy theories and turn them into parody sites was in...
Artist Georg Baselitz Dead At 88
“Baselitz pushed figuration beyond recognizable form into abstraction — ultimately, and famously, flipping the medium itself: his experiments culminated in his signature upside-down portraits...
Streaming And Cable Subscribers Sue To Stop Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
“Paramount subscribers, in a lawsuit filed on Thursday in federal court, allege the acquisition will substantially reduce competition in streaming, news and theatrical distribution...
Money Troubles And Layoffs At California Academy Of Sciences In San Francisco
“The museum and research center … plans to lay off 53 employees and scale back some programs as it grapples with a growing budget deficit driven...
The Entire Venice Biennale Jury Has Resigned
“(The move was made) just nine days before the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair opens, amid tensions over Russia’s participation and the panel’s...
The English Heiress Who Masterminded The IRA’s Biggest Art Heist
“By her mid-30s, Rose Dugdale had burned every bridge to the world that made her. She gave away her inheritance, stole money from her...
Louisville Ballet CEO Steps Down After 3½ Years Of Turning The Company Around
When Leslie Smart took the helm in early 2023, the company’s existence post-COVID was in doubt. She undertook both cost-cutting and fundraising campaigns, and...
Well, At Least The Australian Ballet Lost Fewer Millions Than It Did The Year...
The company’s operating loss for 2025 was AU$4.7 million, down from AU$6 million in 2024. Losses are due to the costs of a temporary...
Belarus Free Theatre Begins Residency At Venice Biennale
“(Their) show, titled ‘Official. Unofficial. Belarus.,’ (explores) how art is ‘made, censored, and experienced under authoritarian power and constant surveillance.’ … It’s a provocative...
The Guardian Now Has More American Readers Than The Washington Post Has
“(The Guardian) has found a lane in the U.S. news market as a progressive alternative to institutional American media, … backed by a voluntary...
The Trump FCC’s Threats To Disney/ABC’s Broadcast Licenses Are Legally Doomed
“That is the technical legal term for this: batshit crazy. … Legally there is no basis for removing a broadcast license because you don’t...
“Shattered Moral Compass”: Whistleblower Alleges Malfeasance At Palm Springs Museum Of Art
“The whistleblower claims that the museum improperly moved funds between various accounts in order to meet severe cash crunches. The whistleblower alleged that a...
Has A Valuable Stradivarius Looted By The Nazis Been Hiding In Plain Sight?
“In 1944 during the German army’s retreat, the 1719 ‘Lauterbach’ Stradivari violin was looted from the Warsaw Museum in Poland. … The violin’s value...
Boston’s Mayor Wants To Cut City’s Arts Budget By More Than One-Fourth
“(Mayor Michelle Wu’s) approximately 27% cut leaves the city’s budget for arts and culture with a total of $3,365,057 for fiscal year 2027. While still above...
Buffalo AKG Art Museum Director Janne Sirén To Step Down
The move comes almost three months after news broke of a six-figure loan the museum made to Sirén for buying a house; the loan...
Hampshire College, Soon To Close, Will Sell Off Campus Of Pay Off Debt
“The college has around $25 million in debt, between loans and a private partner. It was primarily taken in 2010 and 2016.” - MassLive
In Defense Of Liam Scarlett, Five Years After His Suicide
Clarissa Hard argues that, with no hard evidence of serious sexual misconduct ever revealed, the gifted young choreographer should not have been made a...
A Change To Portland’s Widely-Disliked Arts Tax
“’We’ve not identified a way to make (the tax) not annoying,’ said Council President Jamie Dunphy, the architect of the new policy. ‘But we’ve found ways...
Lost Copy Of Oldest Surviving English Poem Turns Up In Rome
“Scholars from Trinity College Dublin uncovered the manuscript that contains Caedmon’s Hymn at the National Central Library of Rome. Bede, the medieval theologian revered...
