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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...
Washington Ballet Names A New Artistic Director
"Edwaard Liang comes to Washington after spending the past decade as artistic director of BalletMet, an esteemed midsize company in Columbus, Ohio. He is...
Why Investing In A Broadway Production Is Like Investing In A Tech Startup
The Indicator podcast from NPR's Planet Money features a tech exec-turned-Broadway producer who says that "the industry fully functions like venture capital. If you...
Steven Lutvak, Composer Of “A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder,” Is Dead At...
"Over the years, Mr. Lutvak wrote several musicals that were staged in regional theaters and Off-Off-Broadway. But none were nearly as successful as A...
Israeli Government Tries To Ban Al Jazeera From The Country
Communications minister Shlomo Karhi pushed for the authority to unilaterally shut down the Qatar-based network's Israeli reporting operations (and, presumably, those, of other foreign...
North American Opera Companies Offer Reciprocal Discounts Through A New “Opera Passport”
The initiative by Opera America, described as a discount exchange for traveling audience members, has 85 participating companies across the US and Canada offering...
An Entire Touring Production Is Stolen From A San Francisco Parking Lot
"The stolen U-Haul truck contained 500 shadow puppets, props, costumes, projectors and other items used to stage puppet master Hamid Rahmanian’s Persian epic Song...
Ancient Scythian Gold Stolen From Ukraine Found In Spain
"Police said the 11 ancient gold pieces were smuggled out of Ukraine in 2016 to be resold in Spain. The bracelets, necklaces and earrings,...
92NY Puts Its Entire Literary Events Series On Hold
"92NY, one of the city’s leading cultural organizations, announced Monday that it was putting its prestigious literary reading series on pause, following an outcry...
Could This Documentary Finally Convince People That Nonprofits Need Unencumbered Donations For Covering Basic...
“I hope that it becomes the equivalent of An Inconvenient Truth to the conversation about climate change,” says Dan Pallotta, main subject of the...
Tired Of Being A Culture Wars Target, LSU Professor Resigns The Day After Louisiana’s...
“My reasons are simple: The person who will be governor in January has already asked LSU to fire me,” tweeted journalism professor Robert Mann....
On Very Little Money, Belfast Has Developed A Lively Little Dance Scene
"Everywhere I go in Belfast people tell me there’s no lack of talent here, just opportunity, infrastructure and funding. There’s been no executive committee...
British Tour Of “The Merchant Of Venice 1936” Forced To Hire Security Guards
The production, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play set in the days of Oswald Mosley's Union of British Fascists, stars Tracy-Ann Oberman as a single-mother...
A Wave Of Contemporary Operas Is Taking On Black Experiences In America, Past And...
The highest-profile recent examples have been the Metropolitan Opera productions of Terence Blanchard's Champion and Fire Shut Up in My Bones, but there are...
The Met Museum Is Spending $2 Billion To Do Major Capital Projects Without Closing...
"By the end of this, more than a quarter of our galleries will have changed,” said CEO Max Hollein. “It’s open-heart surgery and the...
National Theatre In London To Try Early Weeknight Curtain Times
After surveying more than 8,000 audience members, who expressed desires for more time for post-show dinner, discussion, and/or catching the last train home, the...
Cleveland Museum Of Art Sues Manhattan DA To Get Its $20 Million Roman Statue...
"The museum has filed suit against Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg over the August seizure of “Draped Male Figure,” which has been part of the...
Vincent Patrick, Author Of “The Pope Of Greenwich Village”, Is Dead At 88
"The son of a Bronx pool-hall owner and numbers runner, Mr. Patrick was raised in a milieu sprinkled with the grifters, hustlers and mobsters...
So Just What Is This $150 Million Offer George Clooney Made (And The Union...
The heart of the offer, also backed by Scarlett Johannson, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry and others, is to remove the cap on actors' pay...
The UK’s Best New Building: A Retirement Community In London Wins The 2023 Stirling...
"In its arrangement of spaces, carefully judged details and tactile material qualities, (the John Morden Centre) is a model for how to create a...
Misadventures In Museum Marketing: Van Gogh Museum Drops Its Pokémon Cards, Victims Of Their...
"Pokémon-hungry crowds descended upon the museum for the van Gogh–inspired merchandise that placed the brand’s most popular creatures in the context of van Gogh’s...
Arabic, Even Classical Arabic, Has A Rich Vocabulary Of The Erotic. It’s Been Erased...
Ahmed Naji, the only writer in Egypt ever to be sent to prison for the crime of offending public morality: "These words haven’t vanished...
At 89, What Keeps Wole Soyinka Going Strong? Being A “Closet Masochist”
“I should be slowing down, I know, but each time I try to slow down something happens, and I have to get on the...
The Nine-Year, £240 Million Journey To Opening Manchester’s Big New Arts Center
"When the venture was first announced in December 2014 ... the building was due to be called the Factory." Now the organization running it...
