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“I Still Can’t Look At My Nonfiction Shelf Without Flinching A Little” — Ed...
"When you’re searching for excellence, even books you might have enjoyed under normal circumstances start looking mediocre, and the process quickly becomes a slog...
When Art Institute Of Chicago Students Put Henri Matisse On Trial
"In 1913, on the last day of the history-making Armory Show, … displeased with ... Matisse’s Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra), the students accused...
Want To Know Why There’s Really No Oscar For Best Stunts?
Critic Bilge Ebiri, who's been advocating for such an award for years, walks through, and takes down, the arguments that have for decades been...
Audience Member Sues Madonna And Live Nation For Ambushing Him With “Pornography”
While he's also angry that the concert started late, the arena was hot, and Madonna was lip-synching, his legal complaint says, "During the performance...
The Fight To Save Louisiana’s Only French-Language TV Programming
With funding from the state, Télé-Louisiane has been airing, on Louisiana Public Broadcasting, a weekly news-and-culture program called La Veillée and a children's cartoon,...
How A Self-Help Book With No Publisher And No Brick-And-Mortar-Bookstore Presence Sold Over A...
TikTok, that's how. With The Shadow Work Journal, Keila Shaheen has become "perhaps the first self-published nonfiction author to break out in a big...
Colombia Bans Bullfighting
"The bill calls for ... making the tradition illegal by the start of 2028. The new law now needs to be signed by President...
Canada’s National Ballet School May Be Forced To Rescind Offers To Overseas Students
"Canada’s National Ballet School says it may be forced to rescind or defer offers for its competitive teacher-training program because its status as a...
Foundation Plans A 100,000-Square-Foot Arts Campus In A Working-Class Philadelphia Neighborhood
"The Forman Arts Initiative, an arts organization that awards grants to local creatives and arts nonprofits, plans to renovate four buildings on American Street...
Edinburgh Int’l Book Festival Also Gives Up Baillie Gifford Sponsorship (Also Under Pressure)
The decision comes just a week after the Hay Festival cut funding ties with the investment firm. Both festivals cite "intolerable pressure," referring to...
The Freaky, Fetishistic, Ferocious, Fascinating Flamenco Of Rocío Molina
"She moves in jaw-dropping ways: unexpected, angular, sometimes comical, intense, mesmerising, with blistering technique. … That’s just her dancing. Then there are the productions...
How Director Mary Friedman Solved The Riddle Of Sondheim’s Notoriously Challenging “Merrily We Roll...
"Casting, casting, casting is the obvious answer," writes Charles McNulty, "though there’s a bit more to it than that." Friedman and star Jonathan Groff...
Why San Francisco Opera Is Getting Trauma Counselors For Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence”
"(The company) has developed trauma trainings, a symposium, and post-performance discussions to help guide people through the heavy subject matter" — a mass shooting...
Kaija Saariaho’s Harrowing Final Opera Arrives In The U.S., Where It Will Be Even...
Innocence, as the work is called, has been hugely impressing (and depressing) audiences and critics in Europe since its 2021 premiere at the Aix-en-Provence...
Hollywood’s Tech Crew Members Are “In Panic Mode” As Aftereffects Of Strikes Linger
The volume of film and video being produced in Southern California is still far below what it was before last year's writers' and actors'...
Harvey Weinstein Will Likely Face New, Separate Sexual Assault Charges In New York
Manhattan prosecutors, preparing for retrial after Weinstein's 2020 conviction was overturned by New York state's highest court in late April, say they'll try to...
Drag Now Has Its Own National Advocacy And Service Organization
"Qommittee says it hopes, among other things, to connect drag performers and communities lacking in local support to resources including legal aid and therapy....
London’s Evening Standard To End Daily Print Edition And Become Free Weekly
The Standard, which has suffered six straight annual losses (most recently, £16.4 million through October 2022), hopes to repeat the successful switch to digital-only...
Sotheby’s To Lay Off 50 Staffers In Its UK Office: Report
"The house is reportedly set to cut around 50 employees based in London, and … similar layoffs may follow in New York and at...
It’s True: Audra McDonald Will Play Mama Rose In “Gypsy” On Broadway This Fall
“It’s one of the great roles in musical theater, and I’ve always thought maybe some day I could try it,” she said. “It scares...
La Scala’s Departing Superintendent Leaves The House, And Its Opera And Ballet Companies, In...
Despite beginning the job just as COVID shut down live performance, Dominique Meyer has increased corporate sponsorships to €38 million and has seen both...
What One Finds In Alice Munro’s Notebooks
"In them one finds a little bit of everything: fragments and false starts, alternate endings, even drawings. The notebooks were where Munro tinkered and...
Investigation Into Competition-Fixing In Irish Dance Is Dropped, And Everyone is Angry
Because one key witness is ill and has stopped cooperating, the investigation has collapsed, the accused get no chance to clear their names, reformers...
Co-Producers To Be Barred From Crowding Onstage To Accept Tony Awards
Co-producers meaning, in this case, the many individuals who provided or raised money to run the production — and these days, it takes a...
Jaap Van Zweden’s Strange, Abbreviated Tenure At The New York Philharmonic
He departs this month after only six seasons, three of those cut short by the COVID pandemic. And, while proud of his work there,...
