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It Seems We Are Not The Only Primates Who Dance
Researchers in Germany and France have analyzed the stylized movements of some female gibbons, and they've found that, defining dance as "an intentional movement...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Gives Status Of Possible “The Warriors” Musical
This project started, as Hamilton did, as a concept album, which is being released next month. Miranda said that he won't proceed with creating...
Federal Court Rules That Big Bird Is Not Racist
Five Black and Hispanic families sued the Sesame Place theme park in suburban Philadelphia, alleging that their children were ignored by costumed performers there...
Soprano Lucine Amara, Met Opera Mainstay For Four Decades, Is Dead At 99
She sang 748 performances in 56 roles at the Met between 1950 and 1991. Many of those performances were last-minute: for many years she...
Newspaper Giant Axel Springer Is Separating From The Private Equity Firm That Owns It
The finance firm KKR bought the controlling interest in Axel Springer — which owns German news outlets Bild and Die Welt along with US...
San Francisco Symphony Cancels Season Opener As Chorus Goes On Strike
"More than 150 musicians and patrons joined the Symphony Chorus, which formed a picket … in front of Davies Symphony Hall an hour and...
Frick Collection Names New Director As It Prepares To Return Home
The incumbent, Ian Wardropper, announced last year that he would be retiring in 2025 as the museum returns to its now-renovated Manhattan mansion home....
New York Philharmonic Players Get 30% Raise In New Contract
"The deal with Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians calls for raises of about 15% in 2024-25, and 7.5% each in 2025-26...
Hans Haacke, The First Artist To Confront American Museums With Politics
Before Haacke, museums were considered … 'genteel and politically marginal.' Robber barons might have donated to them to enhance their social clout, but such...
It’s A Brave Actor Who’ll Play Abraham Lincoln At Ford’s Theatre
Yet that's exactly what Scott Bakula will be doing when he assumes the title role in Herbert Mitgang’s 1979 solo play Mister Lincoln at...
How New York’s Jam-Packed Fall For Dance Festival Gets Programmed
Stanford Makishi, vice president and artistic director of dance at New York City Center: "We literally have companies written on Post-it notes on a...
How Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” Has Remained An Important Book For 50 Years
"Half a century after its publication, (this) epic biography of urban planner and city-destroyer Robert Moses needs no revival. From the moment it was...
Black Artists And Artisans In South Carolina Return To A Crop That Once Made...
As with the Lowcountry's other 18th-century cash crop, rice, slavers deliberately abducted Africans skilled in growing and working with indigo and transported them to...
Classical Music Really Can Help With Depression, Finds Neuroimaging Study
"By using advanced brainwave measurements and neural imaging, the scientists identified that music engages a circuit connecting the auditory cortex and parts of the...
Comparing Tim Walz And J.D. Vance On Arts Issues
Vance has spent little effort in the Senate on the arts: his only notable action was introducing a Consequences for Climate Vandals Act, which...
“The West Wing” At 25: The Politics Were Beside The Point, Says Aaron Sorkin
“I thought, ‘What if there were a show about our leaders where these people are as competent and committed as the doctors and nurses...
Six Academic Publishers Targeted In Antitrust Lawsuit
"A group of scientists and scholars … filed a class action lawsuit against Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Taylor and...
LACMA Calls Off Plans For Satellite Museum In South L.A.
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has officially ended plans to establish a satellite campus at the South Los Angeles Wetlands Park in...
Elias Khoury, Among The Greatest Of Arabic Novelists, Is Dead At 76
"As a novelist, (he) was often compared with the American writer James A. Michener, who … attempted to capture epic swaths of history in...
The Great Bells Of Notre Dame Cathedral Return To Paris
"A convoy of trucks bearing eight restored bells — the heaviest of which weighs more than 4 tons — pulled into the huge worksite...
Richard Pettibone, Progenitor Of “Appropriation Art,” Has Died At 86
"Nearly 60 years since his gallery debut, Pettibone remains best known for his works copying modern art superstars like Andy Warhol and Frank Stella....
Choreographer Silas Farley Takes On The Largest Project Of His Career
Four Loves, a 30-minute ballet with a cast of more than 20, is inspired by C.S. Lewis's book The Four Loves, which examines storge...
“Arts For Us All”: A New Plan From Britain’s Oldest Socialist Organization
The report from the Fabian Society, founded in 1884 and one of the progenitors of today's Labour Party, calls for removing the "class ceiling"...
Two Suspects Charged With Theft Of Banksy From London Gallery
"London's Metropolitan Police said Friday that Larry Fraser, 47, and James Love, 53, are alleged to have taken (a limited-edition print of) Girl with...
Hundreds Of Violent Threats: Why Toronto Int’l Film Festival Canceled Documentary “Russians At War”
"In emails and phone calls, TIFF staff received hundreds of instances of verbal abuse," said festival CEO Cameron Bailey. "Our staff also received threats...
