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Israel Will Not Be Disinvited From Venice Biennale, Says Italy’s Culture Minister
"In a tersely worded statement sent out earlier today, (Gennaro) Sangiuliano called (an open letter calling for Israel to be excluded) 'shameful' and claimed...
Jaap van Zweden’s Next Band Will Be L’Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France
As he finishes up his terms as music director of the New York and Hong Kong Philharmonics and begins a new tenure at the...
Edinburgh Fringe Frustrated As Its Bid For Long-Term Funding Is Rejected
In fact, the enormous theatre festival hasn't been on Creative Scotland's list of "regularly-funded organisations" (those with three-year "core funding" grants) since 2018, and...
England’s Local Governments Are Flat Broke, And Arts Are Among The First Things They’re...
"More than half the councils that responded to a survey said they were likely to be unable to balance their books in the next...
Literary Festivals Are Now Having To Worry About Safety And Risk Management
For instance, moderators at the Perth Festival Writers’ Weekend in Australia were sent a memo titled "Facilitator safety tips." Among those tips: discussing with...
For Its 30th Anniversary, An Oral History Of “Schindler’s List”
"Speaking to those who labored to get the film onscreen — including stars Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes, composer John Williams, agent...
The Photographer Whom Kirill Serebrennikov Calls “A Russian Cartier-Bresson”
"(Dmitri Markov's) subjects were always the most vulnerable in society: orphans, alcoholics, addicts, homeless people, the very old and dying, conscripts and children. It...
North Carolina Theatre In Raleigh Cancels Season And Files For Bankruptcy
"The theater’s board announced the decision Friday, citing 'external forces during and after the pandemic,' including higher production costs, the loss of corporate and...
John Waters Is Making His First Movie In 20 Years
The film, set to begin shooting in Baltimore (of course) later this year, is an adaptation of Waters's 2022 novel Liarmouth (subtitled "A Feel-Bad...
Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig Pleads Guilty To Soliciting Sex From A Minor
Prosecutors say the 70-year-old was chatting, first on an dating app and then directly on WhatApp, with someone he believed to be a 15-year-old...
Simone Young Extends Contract As Chief Conductor Of Sydney Symphony
She began her initial term in 2022, and it was set to expire at the end of this year. With her contract ending in...
Looking At The Financial State Of Dance In the U.S.
"Multiple reports published since last summer have shed long-awaited light on the fiscal health of the country’s dance sector. What those numbers say isn’t...
Another Week, Another Gérard Depardieu Sexual Assault Allegation
"(A) 53-year-old (set) decorator alleges that Depardieu grabbed her and kneaded her waist, stomach and breasts during filming for Les Volets verts, or The...
West Virginia Bill Would Let Museums Be Prosecuted For Displaying “Obscene” Artworks
House Bill 4654, now in the state senate, would "remove exemptions for criminal liability from schools, libraries, and museums, allowing them to be criminally...
Texas High School Cancels Student Production Of “The Laramie Project”
When notifying parents, school district leaders in the Fort Worth suburb of Keller gave no reason for cancelling the docudrama about the 1998 murder...
“Harassment” And “Governance Concerns” Lead Ontario Region’s Arts Fund To Suspend All Activity
"The activities of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund have been paused effective immediately, with the region saying the move was necessary due to...
City of Winnipeg Cuts — No, It Reassigns — Coming Year’s Funding For Public...
While some artists and observers are criticizing the zeroing-out of Winnipeg Arts Council money for public art, that annual $500,000 will go instead to...
News Website DCist Shut Down By NPR Outlet WAMU; 15 Staffers Laid Off
As with (still-operational) local news sites Gothamist, LAist, and others, DCist was acquired by its nearby public radio station when the -ist sites' parent...
Royal Scottish National Orchestra To Be Stripped Of All Local Government Funding
"The RSNO (has been) told it will lose all of its local authority support over the next three years. It is expected to cut...
The Outsider Queer Trio Running — Entirely Together — The Ballet National De Marseille
"(Marine) Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel are the trio behind (La)Horde. They met 14 years ago on Paris’s queer club scene and ......
“The Real Tragedy Of This Play Is That Everyone’s Right All The Time”
That's what one cast member said, during rehearsals at New York's Public Theater, about Itamar Moses's The Ally, in which the characters hash out...
Middle School Teacher Accused Of Copying Students’ Art Onto Mugs And Tote Bags For...
"(Mario) Perron allegedly asked his class to create artwork in the style of Jean-Michel Basquiat for a 'creepy portraits' project … (at) the Lester...
France’s Film Industry Enters A New Phase Of #MeToo
"Actors who allege they were teenage victims of sexual and physical abuse by directors decades older than them are shining the light on the...
San Francisco Symphony Is Knocking Scents Into Scriabin
"Prometheus: The Poem of Fire … has an element of synesthesia in its score, which calls for a color organ along with a full...
Vice Media Is — Well, If It’s Not Completely Dead, It’s A Zombie
"Several hundred of Vice’s remaining 900 employees will soon be laid off in a restructuring that essentially kills off the editorial brand. … No...
