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Revered Taiwanese Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien Has Dementia And Has Retired From Filmmaking
A statement from his wife and two children, all collaborators, said that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's pre-pandemic and a recent bout of COVID...
Eurovision Song Contest Added An Extra $66.4 Million To Liverpool’s Economy
"More than 300,000 people attended Eurovision-related events in Liverpool in May, giving the local economy a £54.8m boost. … In total, 306,000 people visited...
Breakdancing, In The 2024 Olympics, Is Out For 2028 Games
"The incredible feeling of recognition on the highest event stage has caused a glow through (the World DanceSport Federation) since its unveiling — but...
Shadow Puppet Production Stolen In San Francisco Is Found In East Bay
Early Monday morning, thieves stole a U-Haul containing the hundreds of puppets, costumes, and equipment used in Hamid Rahmanian's Persian-style shadow-puppet show Song of...
Is The Frank Gehry-Designed Museum In Arles Having The Desired “Bilbao Effect”? And Is...
"The Luma Foundation … has relit a cultural fire in Arles, bringing the delights of the international modern art world to a debt-laden, struggling...
Can A Redesign Bring More Vibrancy Back To Philadelphia’s “Avenue Of The Arts”?
The development of South Broad Street into a performing arts destination has been widely considered a success, but in 2023, visitor numbers remain roughly...
Museum of Censored Art Opens In Barcelona
"The Museu de l’Art Prohibit … aims to explain how censorship works by exhibiting artworks that have been subject to prohibitions (successful or merely...
A New High Schoolers’ Prize From Penguin Random House To Help Combat Book Bans
"The Freedom of Expression Award invites applicants to write about one banned book that changed their life and why. The $10,000 (£8,168) prize will...
A Chicagoland School District Canceled The High School’s Musical Because It Had An LGBTQ...
Hampshire High School in the Chicago suburbs had been planning to stage "The Prom" — about, ironically, a school that tries to cancel a...
Scholastic Reverses Course, Won’t Segregate Diverse Titles For Kids At Book Fairs
"The educational company, which both publishes and distributes books, waded into hot water last month after it confirmed that it was changing its policy...
The Director Who Transformed Boston’s Institute Of Contemporary Art Announces Retirement
Jill Medvedow, who in 1998 took over a small museum in a former police station with 20,000 visitors a year and turned it into...
How Much Does It Matter Whether Fiction Is Written By A Human Or A...
"In moments of doubt, I think of Gertrude Stein’s infamous line, “A rose is a rose is a rose.” Isn’t a word a word...
Where Did The Looted Sculptures Recently Returned To Nepal Go? This 11th-Century Monastery
Itumbaha, one of the oldest monasteries in Kathmandu, has not only received statues returned from the Rubin Museum and the Met. The Rubin is...
To Solve Social Media’s Content Moderation Crisis, Go Back To The Old 1990s Way...
"Decisions about the spaces people gathered in online were often made by members of the community. Our examination of the early history of online...
One Of England’s Leading Regional Theatres Is Giving Up The Artistic Director Model
At the Royal Exchange in Manchester, "the new creative director will not be expected to direct shows but will take on a more strategic...
Alessandra Ferri Will Be The Next Director Of The Vienna State Ballet
The former prima ballerina at La Scala and international star will succeed Martin Schläpfer (who decided not to renew his three-year contract) at the...
Dayton Ballet’s New Artistic Director At Work
"It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and 18 dancers are leaping, jumping and twirling in the Dayton Ballet studio. … 'Reach, reach, good!'...
State Of Florida Turns To U.S. Supreme Court To Protect Anti-Drag Law
"Florida officials filed an application with the nation’s highest court on Friday asking that the prohibition against enforcing the anti-drag show law only be...
Dallas Museum Of Art Lays Off 20 Employees And Reduces Opening Hours
The redundancies, along with closing the museum to the public on Tuesdays as well as Mondays, come as the DMA plans over $200 million...
Chicago Opera Theater Music Director Lidiya Yankovskaya Is Stepping Down
She will complete her seven-year term at the end of this season, though she will remain director of the company's Vanguard Initiative for emerging...
Intimacy Coordination Comes To Spain For The First Time, At Barcelona’s Opera House
Ita O'Brien, who helped launch the profession in Great Britain, is at the Gran Teatre del Liceu working on the European premiere of John...
Richard Roundtree, Star Of “Shaft”, “Man Friday”, And “Roots”, Is Dead At 81
"Dubbed the first Black action hero, Roundtree became one of the faces of the 1970s blaxploitation movement when he starred as the street-smart New...
Why Does The California Arts Council Keep Changing Its Funding Guidelines Without Warning?
Since 2021, the agency has given general operations funding only to organizations with budgets under $250,000. In March, the CAC lifted that cap —...
I Reviewed The Most Popular Artist On Social Media. His Followers Came After Me....
Devon Rodriguez, known for his live drawings of subway riders, has millions of fans on Instagram and TikTok. Ben Davis reviewed Rodriguez's first solo...
The Wealthy San Francisco Matron Who Transformed Modern Study Of The Aztecs
"(Zelia Nuttall) was the first to decode the Aztec calendar and identify the purposes of ancient adornments and weapons. She untangled the organization of...
