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How Did A Giant Water Pistol Get To Be The Symbol, And Preferred Weapon,...
It started as a joke, of course. The first really angry protest on the issue happened on a hot summer day in Barcelona, and...
Met Opera Attendance This Spring Was Down, Probably Due To Reduced International Tourism
The company sold 72% of capacity this past season, the same as 2023-24 but below projections. General manager Peter Gelb said that attendance was...
Trump Administration, Having Shut Down Voice of America’s Persian Service, Races To Restart It...
“The U.S. Agency for Global Media told employees placed on administrative leave to immediately return to their roles providing counter-programming to Iranian state media...
Publisher Releases Facsimile Edition Of García Lorca’s Secret Homoerotic Sonnets
While “Sonnets of Dark Love” was once published in translation in France, it had never appeared in the poet’s homeland or native language because...
Paramount Global Is Now In “Active Settlement Discussions” Over Trump’s “60 Minutes” Lawsuit
The new was revealed in a motion by Trump’s attorneys requesting a deadline extension in his lawsuit against Paramount Global, parent company of CBS,...
Leonard Lauder, Major Philanthropist And Art Collector, Has Died At 92
The billionaire chief of the Estée Lauder cosmetics company had special relationships with the Whitney Museum (he was a former board chairman) and the...
Huge Crowds Protest Overtourism In Spain, Portugal, And Italy
In Barcelona, Palma de Majorca, Lisbon, Venice, Genoa, and other cities, crowds marched through the streets, brandishing signs and water pistols, angrily demonstrating against...
Louvre Abruptly Shut Down By Workers Protesting Overcrowding And Understaffing
“The Louvre’s spontaneous strike erupted during a routine internal meeting, as gallery attendants, ticket agents and security personnel refused to take up their posts...
Miami City Ballet Appoints A New Artistic Director, Only The Third In Its History
Following the early departure of Lourdes Lopez at the end of this past season, the company has appointed 45-yeard-old Gonzalo Garcia, a former principal...
In Defense Of The Dream Ballet, The Most Mocked Ingredient Of Stage Musicals
Going right back to the original, Agnes DeMille’s “Laurey Makes Up Her Mind” in Oklahoma!, the power of the dream ballet lies in ‘being...
Why World’s Fairs Are Still Worth Having, Even If They’re Not Cool Anymore
Historian Charles Pappas argues that, from the first World Expositions in Paris and Chicago in the 19th century through the groundbreaking 1939 World’s Fair...
50 Years After It Was Canceled By CBS, “Gunsmoke” Is Still A Hit
“Since wrapping production 50 years ago, … the western drama starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon … has never gone away, finding fans on cable...
Ocean Vuong Recounts The Death Of His Mother And Taking In His Young Brother
“It had been more than a decade since we lived together … a straight man with an affinity for collectible sneakers, basketball, sports cars,...
London’s Most Admired Theatre Producer Says Broadway’s Business Model Is Broken
Sonia Friedman, the producer behind, among many others, last season’s game-changing revival of Merrily We Roll Along, the revival of Sondheim’s Company with a...
The Resurrection of Lapham’s Quarterly Begins
“The literary journal Lapham’s Quarterly is relaunching its website and podcast this summer under the editorial guidance of the writers Donovan Hohn and Francine Prose — a fortuitous...
Mayhem At World Cafe Live In Philadelphia: Staff Walkout, Firings, Picket Lines
“Employees continued to picket on the day after Wednesday night’s walkout when, during a Suzanne Vega concert, they protested ‘an unacceptable level of hostility and mismanagement’...
Daniele Gatti Appointed Music Director Of Florence’s Opera House And Festival
Gatti, currently chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden and formerly music director of the Rome Opera and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, is...
Peru Reverses Decision To Shrink Protected Area Around Nazca Lines
“Peru’s culture ministry (is) reinstating with immediate effect the protected area covering 5,600 sq km (2,200 sq miles), that in late May had been...
How Healthy Is New York’s Theatre? Here’s A Look At The Data
“How are New York City’s theatres really doing in the wake of pandemic disruption, economic instability, and social upheaval? (This report) dives deep into this...
Yes, No, And We Give Up: The Verdicts In Harvey Weinstein’s New York Retrial
After what were reported to be extremely contentious deliberations, the jury found the disgraced producer guilty of one count of sexual assault and not...
“The Simpsons” Is A Wholesome, Fundamentally Moral Show. Really.
“What critics of the prime-time cartoon either fundamentally misunderstood (or conveniently overlooked) was its core truths. Bart loved his parents. He went to church...
Why Were The Early Seasons Of “The Simpsons” So Good? The Show Got Something...
And that’s almost no interference from network executives. Fox was the first new broadcast TV network in decades; new execs were intimidated by multiple...
Chicago Symphony Cancels Next Season’s MusicNOW Series
“The orchestra has informed subscribers that the contemporary music series will be ‘paused’ for the 2025-26 season. There was no public announcement or acknowledgement....
Why MAGA, The #Resistance, Trump Himself, And Almost Everybody Else Identifies With “Les Mis”
Venezuelans suffering through the worst of Maduro saw themselves in the show, but so did committed Chavistas. Same for anti-Lukashenko protesters in Belarus, Occupy...
Günther Uecker, Who Made Art With Hammer And Nails Rather Than Paint, Has Died...
“In his art work, seemingly endless numbers of nails, which would by themselves perhaps be perceived as potentially aggressive and hurtful, turned into harmonic,...
