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At Last, New York City Schools Get An Increase In Arts Funding
After years of either cuts or stagnant funding, the New York City Council has allocated $4 million for arts instruction and programming in 239...
Meet The Next Artistic Director Of The Dutch National Ballet
Ernst Meisner began his career with London's Royal Ballet before returning home to join DNB. When he left the stage in 2013, he became...
The Exotic Dancers Of Minneapolis Are Unionizing
“The Stripper Guild was created by the Sex Workers Outreach Project of Minneapolis, which received a … grant in 2022 to start building a...
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Is Moving To Los Angeles
The group’s primary concert venue has been in Glendale in L.A. County rather than in the city proper, but starting next season, LACO will...
M. Paul Friedberg, Landscape Architect Renowned For Urban Mini-Parks, Has Died At 93
In radical breaks from the traditions of his profession, “his playgrounds and landscapes emphasized abstract, elemental forms for play and exploration, inserted into gritty...
“Emilia Pérez” Had A Disappointing Oscar Night But Did Very Well At France’s César...
The unconventional movie musical only won two Academy Awards out of the 13 it was nominated for, but two evenings before that, in Paris,...
Missing Fragment Of Bayeux Tapestry Turns Up In Germany
The piece was removed from the tapestry’s underside by SS officers in Nazi-occupied France in 1941 and sent for remeasurement to the Schleswig-Holstein State...
Harper Lee’s Unpublished Short Stories To Appear In Print This Fall
“The Land of Sweet Forever compiles short fiction Lee wrote in the years before the 1960 release of her classic novel (To Kill a...
Pritzker Prize For 2025 Goes To Architect Liu Jiakun
“In China’s era of architectural excess, Liu has instead quietly thrived by letting each site — and the history, nature and craft traditions surrounding...
2025 Olivier Award Nominations: “Fiddler”, Imelda Staunton, Adrien Brody, John Lithgow, Romola Garai (Twice)
Garai received nods as best supporting actress (play) for both The Years and Giant, which led the dramas with five nominations each. A revival...
When The Bauhaus Took On Ballet
Revisiting Triadic Ballet, Oskar Schlemmer’s 1922 experiment with applying Bauhaus aesthetic and design principles to a very dissimilar art form. - Colossal
Interjections — Those Little Junk Words We Toss Into Conversation — Serve An Important...
“For many decades, linguists regarded such utterances” — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — “as largely irrelevant noise, the flotsam and jetsam that accumulate on the margins...
Bong Joon Ho Intends To Destroy Yet Another Genre
As the Oscar-winning director/screenwriter (Parasite, Snowpiercer, Okja) once told an interviewer in his native South Korea, “Whatever genre I choose, I intend to destroy...
The Case For Playing Tchaikovsky With Period Strings And Bows
David Faber, cellist of the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: “In the early days of recorded classical music, string players exclusively used gut strings. Musicians like...
Artist Hal Hirshorn, Who Used Old-Fashioned Means To Make Unearthly Images, Has Died At...
“An artist known for his ubiquity around New York City’s cultural scene, (he) nevertheless managed to exist outside its manic commercial hustle, using antique...
New David Byrne Immersive Theater Piece To Set Up In Historic Chicago Landmark
The piece, titled Theater of the Mind and based on current research in neuroscience, will be housed in a 19,000-square-foot space inside the Reid...
Chicago’s Brand-New Social Change Theater Festival
“All of the performances (are) staged readings, with actors working from scripts without the costumes and sets of a full production. The goal is...
Writing Opera For Children Is Serious Business (And It Can Be Lots Of Fun)
“For contemporary classical composers, writing children’s opera (is) like casting a spell that lets them be both big and small. Artists with highly experimental...
Holland’s Famous Art Detective Locates Brueghel Stolen 50 Years Ago
“Woman Carrying the Embers vanished from the National Museum in Gdansk, Poland in 1974. Journalists from the Dutch culture magazine Vind spotted what they...
French Government Cuts Funding For Culture Pass By Half
“The French Government has announced a 50 percent cut in their lauded Culture Pass, four years after its nationwide launch for young people aged...
See Video Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Being Stolen
“The heist of artist Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 million gold toilet from a British palace was caught on video that was just revealed to the...
Change And Continuity At The World’s Oldest Active Theatre Company
A new director (formal title: general administrator) will soon be taking up his position (one appointed by no less than the French President) at...
Can Saudi Arabia Successfully Market Its Pre-Islamic Past After Decades Of Suppressing It?
The kingdom’s status as the birthplace of Islam is the very basis of its identity; as such, its pre-Islamic past was largely taboo. Yet...
Doubleday Launches New Imprint Of Literary Trade Paperbacks
“Outsider Editions plans to reissue underappreciated literary works of all genres — including novels, story collections, memoirs, and essay collections — in an effort...
“The Hunger Games” Is Now A High-Tech Immersive Play
A new 1,200-seat venue in London’s Canary Wharf is being purpose-built to house the production, with a script adapted by playwright Conor McPherson (The...
