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Turkish President Erdoğan Says The Eurovision Song Contest Is A Danger To The Traditional...
"In a speech following a Cabinet meeting, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described participants at the contest as the 'Trojan horses of social corruption' and said...
Hong Kong’s Major Arts District Warns That It Could Shut Down Without More Funding...
"Henry Tang, chairman of (the) West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, told the government that it must address the district’s funding crisis by August if...
Russian Playwright And Director Now On Trial Over Production Which Allegedly “Justifies Terrorism”
Playwright Svetlana Petriychuk and director Zhenya Berkovich have been imprisoned for a year for their staging of Finist, the Brave Falcon. Putin's government argues...
Fraud Trial Begins For Ozy Media Co-Founder Carlos Watson
The former MSNBC morning news anchor created the digital news media company Ozy in 2013. Prosecutors allege that, as it failed to make money,...
Penguin Random House Lays Off Publishers Of Two Of Its Most Prominent Imprints
"The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a Penguin Random House division, announced Monday the dismissals of Alfred A. Knopf publisher Reagan Arthur and Pantheon/Schocken publisher...
Remember The Choreographer Who Attacked A Critic With Dog Poop? Now There’s A Play...
To be more precise, there is a play about creating a play about the incident, which made headlines worldwide and got the choreographer fired...
Harlem Crypts And Brooklyn Catacombs And Classical Music By Candlelight
Andrew Ousley decided to present his concert series Death of Classical in the crypt of Harlem's Church of the Intercession not only because the...
Donald Trump Threatens To Sue Makers Of Biopic “The Apprentice.” They Aren’t Terribly Worried.
Trump spokesperson: "We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction which...
OpenAI Hits “Pause” On A ChatGPT Voice After Scarlett Johansson Points Out How Much...
The actress, who voiced the title character of the Spike Jonze movie about a guy falling in love with a chatbot, says OpenAI approached...
Orlando Museum Of Art, In Financial Trouble, Asks Court To Modify Bequest Dedicated To...
Reeling with a $1 million budget deficit on a $4 million budget due largely to "the Basquiat fiasco," the museum wants to re-allocate the...
Artist Kehinde Wiley Accused Of Sexual Assault By Ghanaian Colleague
"British-born, Ghana-based artist Joseph Awuah-Darko accused star artist Kehinde Wiley of sexual assault in an Instagram post published Sunday and said that he is...
Accents Can Be Contagious
That foreign accent students sometimes come home with after studying abroad isn't (or isn't only) an affectation. - The Atlantic (MSN)
In Search Of Nefertiti’s Tomb
It's happened numerous times: famous archaeologists (or those looking for fame) claim they've finally found the resting place of the legendary ancient Egyptian queen....
A Dance Style Invented In Rio 20 Years Ago Has Been Declared “Intangible Cultural...
"It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing,...
We Have Now Reached Peak Theater, And It’s All Downhill From Here
"Spring 2024 saw a frenzy of new shows opening in the face of two formidable obstacles: costs that have nearly doubled over a decade...
We Should All Just Relax About Apostrophes, Says John McWhorter
Here's his argument. He's wrong, of course. - The New York Times
The Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad: An Explainer
Here's an explanation of the origins of the arts branch of the Games, a timeline history, and a preview of some of what will...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers’ Chapel In California Will Be Dismantled
The glass-clad church, perched on an oceanside bluff in Los Angeles County, has suffered severe structural damage as the ground underneath it shifted due...
There’s Another Problem With That New York State Tax Credit For Producing Broadway Shows
To put it bluntly, a subsidy meant to support commercially risky work like A Strange Loop or Stereophonic or a revival of Ibsen's An...
After Industry-Wide Criticism, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Un-Cancels Jerusalem Quartet Concert
While it's too late to restore the first of the string quartet's scheduled performances there, the second, for Saturday night, was reinstated with additional...
After A Yearlong Standoff, Philadelphia Museum Of Art And Its Staffers Resolve Their Pay...
These raises were part of the museum's first union labor agreement, which was negotiated in 2022. Even so, the issue isn't settled: there's a...
NPR Adds An New, Extra Layer Of Editing, And Journalists There Are, Um, Concerned
Many of the network's reporters believe that this extra layer, called the "Backstop," was put in place only because of right-wing pressure over allegations...
Australia’s Richest Person Demands That National Gallery Take Down Her Portrait
Gina Rinehart, a mining magnate with a knack for attracting controversy and a lack of awareness of the Streisand Effect, is unhappy with her...
New York State’s Tax Credit For Broadway Shows Is Taking Too Damn Long To...
"(The $3 million per production credit) has been lauded as a lifeline for the struggling theatre industry, ... (yet) funds often do not arrive...
Even With Big Stars, Some Indie Movies Are Having Trouble Getting U.S. Distribution
"Projects that would previously have flown off the shelves domestically just don’t have the same immediate pulling power. And according to one source, it’s...
