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With Carnival About To Start, Rio De Janeiro Declares A Public Health Emergency
The declaration was made because of a severe outbreak of dengue fever, a potentially lethal mosquito-borne disease which causes high fever, rashes, nausea, and...
Now That He’s Under Indictment, Italy’s Controversial Junior Culture Minister Resigns
"Vittorio Sgarbi has stepped down amid a rising tide of controversies. He is currently being investigated over allegations that he laundered stolen art. Last...
What The No-Longer-Mostly-Mozart-Festival-Orchestra Is Up To For Its First Season
"While the ensemble will remain the same in size and membership, it has a new name, a new music director and a program aimed...
Andrew Scott’s Secret For Onstage Sex Scenes That Aren’t Embarrassing
It's "one neat trick" that he learned while playing all the parts in an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in London's West End last...
Seattle Dance Company Whim W’Him Buys And Builds Itself A New HQ
Given the costs of new flooring, lighting, and sound systems, director Olivier Wevers says, "'investing in a space you don’t own seems perilous.' When...
Anne Edwards, 96, Prolific Biographer And Novelist
"(She was) a prodigious and peripatetic author who published best-selling books about the actresses Vivien Leigh and Katharine Hepburn as well as 14 other...
A New Movie Version Of “The Master And Margarita” Is A Smash Hit In...
Says one source, “The propagandists are both envious and also hateful that a movie with an anti-censorship, anti-totalitarian, anti-war message is getting so much...
Visitor Falls To His Death Inside London’s Tate Modern Gallery
"(Ambulances) didn’t arrive quickly enough to revive the man, who was pronounced dead around 10:45 a.m. local time. Few other details about the fatal...
World Monuments Fund Hands Over Management Of Three Angkor Sites To Cambodian Government
"This new chapter for the Ta Som and Preah Khan Temples, alongside the Churning of the Ocean of Milk Gallery in Angkor Wat, coincides...
Stanford Undergrads With Mental Health Problems Are Being Prescribed A Dose of The Arts
"As a supplement to more traditional offerings such as one-on-one counseling, support groups or medication, students can now get a referral to attend a...
San Diego Does Its First-Ever Study Of What The Arts Contribute To Its Economy...
"San Diego County's arts and culture nonprofit sector generated $1.37 billion in economic activity in 2022. … A parallel study of the city of...
Radio Giant Audacy Lays Off One Quarter Of Its Podcast Division
"Audacy has laid off … a quarter of the staff at (Pineapple Street Studios,) the division that produces shows such as the recent hit...
The Brooklyn Museum Prepares To Celebrate Its 200th (Yes, 200th) Anniversary
"This year, the museum will sing a song of itself" (the reference is to noted Brooklynite Walt Whitman) "for its 200th anniversary, with a...
Washington State Legislature Advances Bill To Block School Book Bans
"The bill would make it so that school boards cannot implement policies that intentionally remove or restrict materials in the library or in classrooms...
Disabled Actors On Claiming The Role Of Richard III
As controversy continues over Michelle Terry, artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe (and able-bodied), casting herself as Shakespeare's only explicitly disabled character, actors with disabilities...
Is An Old Romantic Ballet Like “Giselle” Too Dated To Take Seriously Today?
Having seen audience members, viewing an admired staging considered as close as possible to the 19th-century original, laugh and applaud at inopportune times, Matthew...
Why “Dr. Strangelove,” At 60, Is Still The Greatest Of Movie Satires
"It hews so closely to the real-life absurdities of the Cold War, with two saber-rattling superpowers escalating an arms race that could only end...
Just Who Exactly Was The Real-Life Inspiration For Dr. Strangelove?
Edward Teller? John von Neumann? Herman Kahn? Wernher von Braun? "Despite all the speculation, Kubrick never clarified the character's origins. So did he base...
“Future Presence” — Inside The Mahler Chamber Orchestra’s Immersive Virtual Reality Installation
"The trumpet soloist materialized in different parts of the virtual room … Flutists appeared and vanished. … At one point, when I tried giving...
In Search Of England’s Biggest Pop Hits Of The 17th Century
"London-based ballad publishers commissioned, bought and distributed songs which were performed in ale houses, markets and town squares, hoping that people would buy the...
Saudi Arabia Plans To Build An Arts Destination From Scratch In The Desert. The...
"Amr al-Madani, the chief executive officer of the Royal Commission of AlUla, … is accused of personally benefiting from contracts (worth $55 million) given...
The Hallmark Channel’s March Toward Cultural Domination
"Hallmark rose from the sixth-most-watched cable network at the top of October to the third-most-watched the week of Nov. 20, when it won out...
Gordon Rogoff, 92, Theater Critic, Dramaturg, And Professor
"No critic since Kenneth Tynan was better able to capture in vivid, richly metaphoric language the unique brilliance of a stage performance." Charles McNulty...
Alabama’s Public Libraries Withdraw From American Library Association
"The Alabama Public Library Service has voted not to renew its American Library Association membership. This comes after some in the state have accused...
New Jersey Legislature Prepares Anti-Book-Banning “Freedom To Read” Law
"Following legislation introduced in states like Massachusetts, Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico, legislators in New Jersey introduced a newly revised Freedom to Read Act...
