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Philanthropist Morton H. Meyerson, Of Meyerson Symphony Center In Dallas, Has Died At 87
“His quiet civic leadership covered everything from the arts in Dallas to the National Park Foundation, where he was a vice chairman emeritus. He...
Why “King Of The Hill” Is The Most Significant Work Of Texan Culture Of...
“Hank is trapped between his state’s past and present, between the egotism and insecurity that is the Texan’s peculiar yin and yang. He is...
The “Naked Gun” Reboot May Be Bringing Spoof Movies Back From The Dead. But...
The prime suspects are generally considered to be the writing-directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, none of whose films have ever scored...
A Classical Record Label Like No Other: ECM New Series At 40
Many listeners know it as the label which introduced the Western world to Arvo Pärt, though its catalog ranges from Keith Jarrett playing Bach...
The World Capital Of Knockoff Van Goghs And Rembrandts Has To Find A New...
Dafen, a village near Shenzhen, was for 30 years the source of up to 70% of the global supply of painted replicas of famous...
London’s Royal Ballet School Will End Boarding School And Full-Time Instruction For Preteens
In a statement, the school said: “(Research) has led us to conclude that, in our specific context, young dancers may benefit from more time to...
Intoxicated Raccoons And Malaria Ponds: Actors’ Tales of Shakespeare in Central Park
“Covered in blood, soaked by rain, adorned with crowns and capes: … ‘There’s nothing more magical,’ Oscar Isaac said. We spoke to actors, directors...
Yet More Untruths Uncovered In Travel Memoir “The Salt Path”
“The bestselling memoir, recently adapted into a film, was presented as a true story by its author, Raynor Winn. But a recent investigation by The...
New York Post To Launch A California Counterpart
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. plans to run the California Post as a conservative tabloid with an irreverent streak, a robust online presence and a...
Studio Museum Of Harlem Sets Firm Opening Date
“After the Museum closed its doors for renovations in 2018, it would take seven years and a $300 million capital campaign that nearly doubled its...
Chicago Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya Announces That She’s Leaving The U.S.
Said the former music director of Chicago Opera Theater, “I want to be sure that my children grow up feeling like they can always express...
Britain’s Royal Ballet And Opera Cancels Production Rental To Israeli Company
Following an open letter signed by nearly 200 staffers — a letter which explicitly referenced the house’s recent rental of its staging of Turandot...
What The Marshmallow Test Misunderstood About Children’s Development
“It wasn’t so much that we’d failed to replicate (the study’s) famous longitudinal results. It was more that our study confirmed a nagging message that...
One Of America’s Busiest Audiobook Narrators Fights For Better Pay For Her Colleagues
Julia Whelan: “The only reason I was doing 70 books a year was because that’s how many books you have to do when you’re...
Remembering Peter Sellers At 100: The World’s Greatest Comic Actor?
Christopher Guest: “I can do a voice, but Sellers was embedded in those characters, and that commitment made it very different.” Michael McKean: “I...
We’re Seeing More Male-Male Love Depicted In Ballet. Why Not More Female-Female Couples?
Lily Hyde: “They have appeared in contemporary ballets, such as Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games and Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, but are by no means at the heart of...
Ancient Gold Artifacts Stolen From Dutch Museum May Still Be Recoverable
“While the whereabouts of these gold treasures — three Dracian bracelets dating from 50 B.C.E. and the 2,500-year-old Cotofenesti helmet — remain unknown, Dutch...
A Wave Of Closures And Cutbacks At China’s Private Art Museums
“The current crisis in China is a result of corporate backers tightening their budgets, consumers curtailing their discretionary spending, and rising costs, people working at...
The Art That Homeland Security Is Posting To Instagram? It’s Intended To Piss People...
Ben Davis: “It’s smug provocation. And there’s no particular love for classic art here; the aesthetic sensibility is totally internet-brained. These specific paintings are...
What The New Chief of New York City Opera Has Planned For Reviving The...
Constantine Orbelian, now both Music Director and Executive Director: “The main thing for me at this point is getting a home. ... I believe...
How One Arts Group Managed To Get Its Cancelled NEA Grant Restored
“Through a complicated process, Three Bone Theatre received the remaining $13,000 from its three-year, $20,000 grant to help put on a trilogy of plays that retell...
Time For The Annual Cleaning Of The Metropolitan Opera’s Spiky Crystal Chandeliers
“The chandeliers are wood-and-metal spheres that have been called ‘sputniks’ ever since the Met opened in 1966. Legend has it that a prototype was...
How Do You Spot Text Written By AI Bots? It’s Not Just About The...
Many readers (especially on Reddit) think that the regular use of em dashes and relatively unusual vocabulary (“delves” or “crucial”) is a big sign...
Dance And Science Have Been Intersecting For Around 200 Years Now
“The nineteenth century (was) this tumultuous period of emergence in the arts, sciences, in education, politically, culturally. … Something that came to the fore was...
New York State’s $400M Broadway Tax Credit Has Already Run Out Of Money
“Tax credits ran out quickly this year, both due to demand, and as productions had been conditionally approved for the credit before the (law...
