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Hildur Guðnadóttir On Her Scores For “Joker”, “Tár”, And “Hedda” — And What Women Composers...
“I’ve been asked, straight up, if I could ‘handle’ composing for a big film because I’m a woman. I was asked that after I won the...
Akram Khan Talks About His Last Work For His Dance Company Before It Dissolves
After 25 years, the Bangladeshi-British choreographer is closing down his touring troupe to pursue new creative directions. In a Q&A, he discusses the Akram...
Louis CK Defends His Decision To Appear At Saudi Arabia’s First Stand-Up Comedy Festival
“There’s a woman who’s a lesbian and Jewish, who did a show (at the Riyadh Comedy Festival), and she got a standing ovation. …...
Future Of Chicago’s Only Arts-Focused Public High School Is Suddenly In Doubt
Citing “unsustainable” deficits, the board that oversees the Chicago High School for the Arts has decided not to renew its contract with Chicago Public...
How TikTok Gets Its Users Addicted, Scrolling Ever Longer For Content
“(We) collected TikTok watch histories from 1,100 users. We created a database of roughly 15 million videos served up to them in a six-month period last...
The Chairs Frank Lloyd Wright Designed For The Guggenheim’s Café Have Finally Been Fabricated
“Now, nearly seven decades later, the Museum of Wisconsin Art has commissioned a pair as part of a new exhibition that reframes Wright’s furniture...
Seamus Heaney’s Unpublished Poems Will Now See Print
“The Poems of Seamus Heaney will feature his 12 collections interspersed with poems published in magazines, journals and newspapers, plus 25 poems selected from...
France’s Major Museums Worry That Trump Will End Tax Deduction Crucial To Their American...
The concern is a possible change to the ‘equivalency determination,’ through which a foreign organization can be deemed equivalent to a public charity in...
Major Chain Of U.S. Regional Daily Newspapers Ends Monday Print Editions
As of November 3, Lee Enterprises is ceasing seven-day-a-week print editions at all of its papers that hadn’t already done so. Those titles include...
BBC Execs, Facing Steep Cuts, Want Defense Budget To Help Pay For World Service
“BBC executives are hoping to ease the burden on the stretched Foreign Office budget (which usually funds the World Service) by classifying some of...
Ivan Klíma, Most Prolific Of Czech Dissident Authors, Has Died At 94
“Over a career that spanned more than six decades, Mr. Klíma emerged as one of Central Europe’s most distinctive literary voices, chronicling what it...
Did The Postwar Modernists Ruin The Whole Idea Of New Classical Music For Everyone...
Countless casual classical listeners will tell you they hate the “new stuff.” When asked for an example, they’ll cite some highly dissonant music written...
Bari Weiss Is Now Editor-In-Chief Of CBS News
“Paramount said Monday that it has bought the news and commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss” — a long-controversial...
Martha Graham’s Work Is Finally Getting Serious Attention In Britain
“I was thinking, she’s the mother of modern dance,” said English National Ballet artistic director Aaron S Watkin. “She’s so iconic and famous, but...
Here Are The Finalists For The 2025 National Book Awards
Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by Yiyun Li are among … five nominees in each of five competitive...
Broadway Shows Have Started Choosing Baltimore To Launch National Tours
“There are various reasons why, including Baltimore’s proximity to New York, the city’s revered venues and history as a theater town. ... More recently,...
One Of Georgia’s Biggest Opera Stars Is Leader Of Protests Against Government
Paata Burchuladze, a 70-year-old bass who had a major international career, has become a leader of mass opposition to the government of the pro-Putin...
With No Warning, Cleveland State Univ. Hands Its Student-Run Radio Station Over To Local...
WCSB, which opened in 1975, had offered an extremely wide range of programs (classical, reggae, jazz, talk, hip-hop, etc.) typical of student-run university stations....
Unknown Music By Henry Purcell Discovered
“A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard...
Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Closes Education Department
The move, attributed by management to financial challenges, comes as the museum is set to open a $22 million public sculpture park this week....
National Gallery Of Art In D.C. Closes Due To Government Shutdown
“It is the first major museum in D.C. to shutter because of the shutdown. The Smithsonian Institution, which runs an array of museums in...
Megahit Novelist Jilly Cooper, 88
“The novels were robust, and full of comic observation – she had a caricaturist’s eye for telling contrasts of detail, a handsome sleek horse...
The History Behind Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
Swift’s satirical suggestion that Ireland’s poor breed their children as food for elites wasn’t really an attack on the English (even though he suggested...
Chicago Makes Another Try At A Period-Instrument Baroque Orchestra
The city has had notable trouble keeping such a group. The long-established Newberry Consort performs earlier repertoire; Baroque Band folded in 2016; Haymarket sticks...
Amiri Baraka’s Most Incendiary Play, Staged In An Actual Sauna
Dutchman, written in 1964 (when Baraka was still LeRoi Jones), is set in a sweltering subway car years before air-conditioning. Recently, for the second...
