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Judge Denies Convicted Armorer For “Rust” A New Trial
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted of manslaughter for the accidental shooting of the film's cinematographer by star Baldwin, who presumed that a prop gun would...
This Guy Evidently Found A Picasso In Somebody’s Basement
A junk dealer found the painting when cleaning out a deceased homeowner's basement on the island of Capri. The dealer took it home and...
Cincinnati Opera Postpones Production Of New Afrofuturist Piece
Lalovavi, set in the year 2119 and with a score by composer Kevin Day, was to premiere next June but has been postponed one...
Broadway Star Gavin Creel Dead At 48
A beloved musical theater performer, singer-songwriter and activist who won a Tony for Hello, Dolly! (opposite Bette Midler) and an Olivier for The Book...
Harriet Martineau, The Now-Forgotten 19th-Century Novelist Who Changed Far More Than We Realize
"A shocking number of advances in Anglo-American culture — everything from realist fiction to ecology to economic policy — would look different, or might...
Saying “Like” All The Time Serves A Legitimate Purpose
And that legitimate purpose is, to put it one way, imprecision, which is precisely why all the constant "like"-ing so irks sticklers. Sociolinguist Valerie...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Throw Soup At Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” Again
To protest the prison sentences given today to the original climate-protesting art vandals, three of their comrades went to the National Gallery in London...
Assessing The State Of The Arts In Maine
At Creative Portland’s biennial Arts and Culture Summit, the conversation kept returning to the financial needs of a sector that still hasn't fully recovered...
This Poor Cellist’s Instrument Was Just Stolen For The Second Time
Ophélie Gaillard's 1737 Francesco Goffriller cello and antique bows were taken at knifepoint in 2018; the thief later returned them, smashing a car window...
A Theater Critic Watches A Show From Backstage. Fittingly, It’s “The Play That Goes...
Lily Janiak writes that she was reminded — very gladly — of just how many things go right to pull off a farce like...
Why Did Houston Public Media Spike A Podcast It Had Promoted The Heck Out...
The series, titled The Takeover, covers the overhaul of the Houston Independent School District by state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles. The lead reporter's long-term partner...
Maggie Smith, 89
Considered by many the greatest British actress of her formidable generation, she won widespread admiration for such stage and screen performances as The Prime...
In A Metro Atlanta Town That’s Half Hispanic, A Theater Company Goes Bilingual
Merely Players Presents was founded in Doraville, a DeKalb County suburb whose population is 45% Hispanic, in 2018. This year, for the first time,...
Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Prosecution For Manslaughter Was Thrown Out. What Happens To The Armorer...
The case against Baldwin, who accidentally shot the movie's cinematographer because the prop gun he was handling turned out to have live ammunition in...
Art Historian Left His Rembrandts To Museum. His Heirs Want Them Back. The Law...
Abraham Bredius was director of the Mauritshuis in The Hague 1889-1919, and he bequeathed 25 Rembrandts and other Old Master paintings to the museum...
Lloyd Macklowe, Major Dealer In Art Nouveau, Is Dead At 90
He and his wife started in 1965 with one Tiffany ceramic vase, purchased for $55 (roughly $548 today). By 1971, they opened Macklowe Gallery...
“Unprecedented” Threat To Sudanese Culture From Civil War
At least one performing arts center has been destroyed, cultural and heritage sites are being looted, and the 2,000-year-old ruins at Naga as well...
Why I’ve Reset Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” In 20th-Century Ireland
Annilese Miskimmon, English National Opera's artistic director and a native of Northern Ireland, sees enough similarities between the original story (a young 17th-century woman...
Atlanta’s Terminus Modern Ballet In A New Phase As Founding Members Depart And New...
Terminus was founded in 2017-18 by five dancers who left Atlanta Ballet after longtime artistic director John McFall was forced out. Now four of...
Scripts About Politics Lead List Of Most-Produced Plays In U.S.
For the second year running, Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me is the country's most-produced play, and in fifth place is Selina...
Film And TV Productions Are Leaving California For Places With More Tax Incentives. Will...
"Reversing the slide will require a whole suite of changes to incentivize studios to return to California. … Some labor leaders tell TheWrap that...
This Painting Might Be A Velázquez — And It Might Upend Spain’s Art Market...
The owners of this 1623 portrait want to sell it abroad, where it can command a much higher price than in Spain. On the...
World’s First Museum Of AI Art Will Open In Downtown Los Angeles (Fitting, Right?)
Refik Anadol, a leader in the development of AI-generated artwork, will place his museum, to be called Dataland, in the Frank Gehry-designed Grand L.A....
U.S. Court Of Appeals Hears Case With Enormous Stakes For Public Libraries
The case, Little v. Llano County, involves local citizens who sued a Texas county on First Amendment grounds for ordering certain titles removed from...
He Came To The Rescue For Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Now He’s Its Music...
Last fall, David Hayes stepped in as conductor on 48 hours' notice when then-music director Dirk Brossé ran into visa trouble. So the orchestra...
