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Norman Lear, Whose Sitcoms Revolutionized American Television, Is Dead At 101
"In an astonishingly prolific career that spanned more than six decades, Lear created or developed some of the most seminal comedies in television history,...
Membership Of SAG-AFTRA Votes To Approve Contract Deal Which Ended Strike
"The 78% yes result in voting that began Nov. 13 and ended Tuesday was a far cry from the near-unanimous approval and widespread enthusiasm...
Turner Prize 2023 Goes To Jesse Darling
"Darling is a 41-year-old Oxford-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, drawing and performance; he also released a collection of poetry, Virgins, last...
Spain’s Newspapers Sue Facebook/Meta For Half A Billion Euros
"The AMI media association, … a group representing 83 Spanish media outlets has filed a 550 million euro ($600 million) lawsuit against Facebook owner...
Syracuse City Ballet Placed On Administrative Leave After Striking Dancers Are Fired
After all eight of the company's dancers went on strike over what they called unsafe working conditions under artistic director Caroline Sheridan, two returned,...
Robert Lepage Is Staging A Full-Length Ballet Adaptation Of “Hamlet”
The famed experimental theatre director and his company, Ex Machina, are collaborating with National Ballet of Canada star Guillaume Côté and his company, Côté...
The Librarians Who Helped Win World War II
"These librarians adopted technology from other fields to photograph an array of documents, including rare and/or archival documents, and found means of sending them...
Nicholas Cage Says He’s Ready To Stop Acting in Films
"This would amount to a stark shift for Cage, who has appeared in at least one feature film for 37 consecutive years and …...
Burglars Got At An Anselm Kiefer Sculpture And Stole $1 Million Worth Of Parts...
The thieves broke into a warehouse in suburban Paris, cut through the metal guard fence around Kiefer's The High Priestess/Zweistromland, a large lead sculpture...
$100,000 Grawemeyer Award For Music Composition Goes To Aleksandra Vrebalov For “Missa Supratext”
"The six-movement work, written for Kronos Quartet and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, was conceived as a wordless celebration free of any connection to...
Broadway May Be Coming Back, But Off- And Off-Off-Broadway Are Still Struggling
"'This is the hardest season yet,' said the president of the Off-Broadway League, citing the combined effects of smaller audiences, shifting philanthropic patterns, rising...
CBC To Eliminate 600 Positions And Reduce Programming Budgets
"The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Radio-Canada, the French-language version, said the bulk of the layoffs will come from its corporate divisions such as technology...
English National Opera Confirms That It’s Moving To Manchester
"The company had a shortlist of five places where it was considering setting up a new headquarters, with Manchester, the biggest city in Europe...
Ending Turbulent Period, Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints New Director For Its Famed Music...
Julian Wachner, who made the historic church into a major force in New York's concert life, was fired in March 2022 for behavior "inconsistent...
The Quest To Recreate Tyrian Purple, Once The Most Expensive Pigment On Earth
"In a small garden hut in north-eastern Tunisia, just a short distance from what was once Carthage, one man has spent most of the...
To This The Book-Banners Have Come: Boycotting Froot Loops
The right-wing account Libs of TikTok claims "Kellogg's wants to indoctrinate your children with breakfast cereal." The Dank Night tweeted "Would you like a...
Complexions Contemporary Ballet On The Cusp Of Turning 30
"On the cusp of celebrating their company’s milestone anniversary, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, who co-founded the New York-based (company) in 1994, still have...
Has The Philadelphia Orchestra’s “Musical Diplomacy” To China Really Made A Difference?
In a Q&A, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns says that yes, it has — even the recent visit by only 14 musicians (following...
Gwyneth Paltrow — Is She Really A Performance Artist?
"Parking the new-age woo-woo momentarily (the seven-day detoxes, the walking barefoot to cure depression, the vagina-steaming), there is a provocation here or at the...
Can The Oscars Telecast Solve Its Dwindling Viewership Problem By Starting Earlier? We’ll Find...
"The 96th Oscars will begin one hour early, with the official show starting at 7 p.m. Eastern for the first time, ABC said Thursday....
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Emergency Fundraising Campaign Was More Successful Than It Dared Hope
In August, the Bay Area's third-largest theater company announced that it needed to raise $3 million by November or it would have to cancel...
Now It’s Official: Valery Gergiev Is The General Director Of The Bolshoi Theater (As...
After Izvestiya reported this story two weeks ago, both Gergiev himself and outgoing director Vladimir Urin backed away from it, though without an outright...
Federal Judge Blocks Montana’s TikTok Ban
"Montana’s first-in-the-nation law banning the video-sharing app TikTok in the state was blocked Thursday, one month before it was set to take effect, by...
The Abrupt, Unexplained Departure Of The CEO At Newfields/Indianapolis Museum Of Art Has Alienated...
"They are expressing shock that Colette Pierce Burnette would serve just 15 months in the role, especially since they said the Indianapolis newcomer was...
“No Opera On A Dead Planet!”: Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Disrupt The (Other) Met
On Thursday (Nov. 30), during Act II of Wagner's Tannhäuser, as the characters were singing about a natural spring, activists on each side of...
