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Culture Warrior Jordan Peterson Is Having Trouble Selling Tickets In San Francisco
In fact, he's already cancelled half a dozen West Coast tour dates. Imagine that. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
UNESCO Has Completed Reconstruction Of Historic Landmarks In Mosul
The $144 million project was to rebuild the Great Mosque of Al-Nouri and other structures in Mosul's old city which were destroyed during the...
Chicago’s Cultural Commissioner Under Fire For Skipping Meetings And Bullying Staff
Leaders in the city's arts scene say that Commissioner Clinée Hedspeth has postponed meetings and has little communication with them. Meanwhile, about a quarter...
Stephen Petronio Will Close Down His Dance Company This Summer
"What doesn’t work anymore, (he) said, is what he has been doing for decades: sustaining a company of dancers through touring and grants." The...
Harvard Art Museums Receive Major Gift Of Edvard Munch Works
The bequest by the late collectors Lynn and Phillip Straus includes two paintings and 62 prints — raising the total number of Munch works...
Daniel Barenboim Reveals That He Has Parkinson’s Disease
"The 82-year-old musician has been in failing health for some years, and in January 2023 resigned from his position as the general music director...
Deciphering A 1,900-Year-Old True Crime Tale
This papyrus, dating to roughly 130 CE, had been catalogued as written in Nabataean, the language once spoken at Petra. But researcher Hannah Cotton...
The Anger Behind Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-Winning Comedy “English”
The Iranian-American playwright says she was inspired "by a lifetime of seeing people treat my parents, who speak English as a second language, as...
What You Get When You Cross Crystal Pite And Simon McBurney
You get Figures in Extinction, a trilogy which choreographer Pite and director McBurney have been creating for Nederlands Dans Theater. "The idea was to...
BBC Asked Minority-Group Members What The Network Could Do Better. Their Answers Were Quite...
"(Researchers) gathered a group of 15 to 20 people monthly for six months to talk about how they viewed news in general and the...
After Two Years In Germany, Kyiv Symphony Musicians Wonder If Their Exile Will Ever...
"More than 1,000 days after she and her fellow musicians were first displaced, (violinist Tetiana) Martyniuk-Bahrii said she had grown accustomed to the uncertainty....
San Francisco Opera Announces Another Abbreviated Season
Before COVID, the company typically offered eight productions per season, but, as with the current season, there will be only six productions plus a...
Ron DeSantis Wants To Restore Florida’s Arts Funding — With Strings Attached
"A year after (he) controversially vetoed $32 million in arts grant funding, he wants most of it back. But he … wants language in...
Bass Paul Plishka, Whose Met Opera Career Spanned 50 Years, Has Died At 83
Though he also sang with the great companies of London, Paris, Milan, Munich, San Francisco, and other cities, he's best known for his long...
Art Collector Who Bought $6.2 Million Banana Sues David Geffen Over Giacometti
Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency mogul who earned international notoriety when he purchased Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian (the banana duct-taped to a wall) and ate it,...
Researchers Discover Portrait Hidden Beneath Titian’s “Ecce Homo”
"The newly discovered work shows an unidentified man with a thin moustache, quill in hand, standing next to a stack of papers or books...
Giller Prize Ends Relationship With Its Lead Sponsor Following Months Of Protests
"The Giller Prize has parted ways with its lead sponsor Scotiabank more than a year after members of the literary community began protesting the...
A Cantonese Opera About Donald Trump
A Hong Kong troupe specializing in the traditional form (a sort of cousin to the better-known Beijing opera) has produced a modern-dress piece based...
Why Alexei Ratmansky Is Not Recreating Petipa’s “Paquita” This Time Around
Back in 2014 in Munich, he and historian Doug Fullington did a full reconstruction of Petipa's 1881 version of the piece for the Imperial...
David Pountney Is 77, And He Plans To Be Directing Operas For A Long...
Not only is he directing, he writes librettos and does translations; in fact, he still hates supertitles and thinks opera should be in the...
Meet British Theatre’s New Crop Of Artistic Directors
The leaders of four London theatres, including the National Theatre and the Young Vic, along with theatres in Sheffield, Liverpool, and Wales, talk about...
Malaysia Promotes Abroad Films It Censors Or Bans Domestically
"Even as the Malaysian government lauds local films that win praise and prizes abroad, some of the most-celebrated ones are either not shown in...
Sales Of Two Fiction Subgenres Are Soaring Thanks to BookTok
"Sales of science fiction and fantasy books rocketed last year, with their value increasing by 41.3% between 2023 and 2024. The booming popularity of...
Chrysler Building Has Been Repossessed by Cooper Union
The art/architecture/engineering school, which owns the land under the midtown Manhattan landmark 35 blocks uptown, had been leasing the building to real estate developer...
Temple University Buys Main Academic Building Of Now-Shuttered University of The Arts
"Terra Hall at Broad and Walnut Streets, just a few blocks from (Philadelphia's) City Hall, is the second UArts building to complete the sales...
