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He Couldn’t Choose Between Dance And Visual Art. He’s Ended Up Putting Dancers In...
Meet Brendan Fernandes, whose latest work, Score for the Murphy Auditorium at Chicago’s Driehaus, deploys seven dancers executing semi-improvised steps within a dodecahedron of...
The Shady, Underpaid Gig Work That Makes Video Clips Go Viral
“Everything you’re watching on the feeds could, potentially, be an ad programmed to make someone a Discourse Topic and/or Zeitgeist Definer, made famous thanks to...
Study Confirms: English National Opera’s Breathing Therapy Program Brings Major Improvements For Long COVID...
“Published in The Lancet Digital Health, a new study looked at 1,438 participants and found that 80% reported improved levels of breathlessness, with 61%...
Arthur Miller Opens Up About Being Married To Marilyn Monroe On Newly-Released Tapes
“Miller had felt ‘death was always on her shoulder – always’ … (and) that if he did not ‘take care of her life’ she...
Parliamentary Report Proposes To Sweeping Cuts To France’s Public Broadcaster
Right-wing lawmakers have issued a report following a five-month inquiry into the “neutrality, workings and financing” of French public broadcasting. The paper’s recommendations include...
A Manifesto From The Battle Front Of French Literature’s Latest Culture War
“A publishing house is not meant to be a propaganda machine. It is a place where conflict, doubt and nuance can, and should, coexist....
Louvre’s New President Outlines His Plans For Museum Post-Heist
“With the search for France’s crown jewels still ongoing, … plans are afoot for a new display of Empress Eugénie’s diamond-and-emerald crown. … In time, Christophe...
San Francisco’s Notorious Brutalist Fountain Bursts Into Flames As It’s Being Disassembled
“A small fire broke out Wednesday during the removal of San Francisco's Vaillancourt Fountain, sending flames and dark smoke from a section of the massive...
As City Of San Diego Prepares To Slash Arts Funding, County Sets Up $2.75...
This despite the fact that the San Diego County government is facing a budget cliff of its own, just as the city is. -...
Of Course They Did: Pussy Riot Stormed Russian Pavilion At Venice Biennale
“Wearing pink balaclavas, the protesters ran towards the Russian pavilion where they gathered outside and lit pink, blue and yellow flares while playing punk...
Due To Fire, Broadway’s “The Book Of Mormon” To Be Closed For Two Weeks
“The long-running Broadway hit … will close its doors through May 17 as its theater undergoes repairs. … The blaze, which began May 4...
People Pray For Hot Concert Tickets At This 1,000-Year-Old Tokyo Shrine
For many pop concerts in Japan, “fans enter (a lottery) for the chance to buy tickets and can only purchase them in limited quantities...
“The Devil Wears Prada” And The Rise And Fall Of Chick Lit
“Before it was a movie, Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada, published by Broadway Books in 2003, marked the absolute high point of that once-ubiquitous...
“Death Of A Salesman” Director Joe Mantello On Working With Disgraced Broadway Producer Scott...
“I would be lying if I said … I didn’t grapple with making that decision. … I will say I do believe in accountability, and...
For Her Second Choreography Commission From NY City Ballet, Tiler Peck Is Going Big
It’s George Balanchine’s company, after all, and he had a special gift for coordinating and synchronizing large casts. Peck particularly admires that achievement and...
At Last, Berlin’s Pergamon Museum Has A (Partial) Reopening Date
“Traditionally one of the German capital’s top tourist attractions, (the Pergamon) will reopen next year after the first part of a painstaking restoration effort....
María Nieves Rego, Co-Creator Of Worldwide Hit “Tango Argentino,” Has Died At 91
“With her dance partner and onetime husband, Juan Carlos Copes” — described as the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers of tango — “(she) formed...
L.A.’s Holocaust Museum To Reopen As Part Of New Cultural Center
“The Holocaust Museum LA, the first survivor-founded and oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, will reopen after a 10-month closure as part of...
Having Canceled Most Of Its Concerts, San Antonio Philharmonic Schedules A Couple Of New...
In mid-February, the precarious orchestra called off the remainder of this season and lost its music director. In what may be a surprising development,...
A Visit To Russia’s Exhibition At The Venice Biennale
“There weren’t any paintings or sculptures in Russia’s pale green building, which dates to before the Revolution. Instead, … the Toloka Ensemble, a folk...
Publishers And Authors Sue Meta And Mark Zuckerberg (Personally) For AI-Related Copyright Infringement
Five large publishing houses, along with Scott Turow representing authors as a class, allege in their filing that Zuckerberg himself “personally authorized and actively...
James Murdoch Is Looking To Buy New York Magazine And Its Podcasts
“Media investor James Murdoch is in advanced talks to buy Vox Media’s New York magazine and podcast division, according to people familiar with the...
A Visit To Africa’s Largest Contemporary Dance Festival
“Founded in 1997, the African Dance Biennial has spent three decades rotating across African cities — most recently Maputo, Mozambique, in 2023 — with...
Conductor Fired From Venice’s Opera House Speaks Out
Beatrice Venezi’s appointment as music director of Teatro La Fenice was greeted with an avalanche of criticism that she was unqualified, hired only because...
Leon Botstein To Retire As Bard College’s President Following Epstein Revelations
The 79-year-old music historian and conductor will step down in June after 51 years leading the small liberal arts college in New York’s Hudson...
