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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...
The Power Of 100 Black Orchestral Musicians On One Stage: The Gateways Festival At...
The event began in 1993 as a three-day symposium in North Carolina: "Gateways: Classical Music and the Black Musician." Now based in Rochester, the...
The Guardian Fires A Longtime Cartoonist For An Ill-Considered Panel About The Gaza War
This isn't the first of Steve Bell's cartoons to draw accusations of anti-Semitic imagery in 40 years with The Guardian, but it could be...
Another Prominent New York Dealer Charged With Trafficking Stolen Antiquities
"A recent announcement by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of the return of 19 antiquities to Italy disclosed charges against veteran New York antiquities...
Italy’s Ruling Party Is Doing To RAI What The Tories Are Trying To Do...
Deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini announced that the annual license fee that supports the country's national broadcaster (as with the BBC) will be cut...
Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Really Is Working
"Netflix on Wednesday disclosed summertime subscriber gains that surpassed industry analysts’ projections, signaling the video streaming service’s crackdown on password sharing is converting former...
The Most Produced Playwrights of America’s 2023-24 Season (Excepting Shakespeare)
For the second year running, Lynn Nottage tops the list, which includes nine women out of 20. (Lauren Gunderson, once the perennial leader, is...
America’s Ten (Really Twelve) Most Produced Plays Of The 2023-24 Season
For those who keep count, works by female creators make up almost half the list (definitely half if you count Carole King), and three...
Hillary And Malala Are Co-Producing A Broadway Musical About Suffragettes
Shaina Taub's show Suffs, which had a sold-out but critically-mixed premiere run Off-Broadway last year, will open on Broadway next April with a largely...
La Scala Opens Its New 17-Story Tower, Designed By Mario Botta
There are new rehearsal spaces for the ballet and orchestra (the latter equipped for studio recording), a big space for unloading and assembling sets,...
Can This New Director Stabilize Germany’s Biggest, And Most Beleaguered, Ballet Company?
The Staatsballett Berlin, an amalgamation of three pre-1989 companies, went through three artistic directorships in less than a decade while also dealing with recalcitrant...
How Far Apart Are SAG-AFTRA And The Studios? Nearly Half A Billion Dollars
"That’s the difference between what SAG-AFTRA wants in a new streaming residual formula — $500 million — and what the Alliance of Motion Picture...
How The Scholastic Book Fair Made Itself A Target For Both Sides In The...
The children's-book publisher and its beloved school sales events were already getting attacked by the right for the usual reasons. Then, this year, Scholastic...
The Very Meticulous, Very Determined Architect Of The New Arts Center At Ground Zero
"He’s very smart, really rigorous, and really inflexible," says former-boss-turned-colleague Rem Koolhaas of Joshua Ramus, "which in certain conditions is extremely useful." Says Harvard...
Royal Albert Hall’s Archive Rescued From Flood Damage In £1 Million Project
"The archive had been stored in four different locations across the building, with the basement store repeatedly flooding and threatening to destroy some of...
Cairo Film Festival Is Canceled
"While no reason was given, the announcement comes less than a day after a blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital reportedly left hundreds of...
Barnes & Noble Is Reviving Business By Dropping Something Chains Almost Never Drop: Visual...
Individual stores develop their own looks. "Any design agency would have a heart attack if they could see what we’re doing,” said CEO James...
Half A Dozen More Stolen Paintings Get Delivered To Dutch Art Detective Arthur Brand
"Brand was sitting at home on Friday night watching football when the doorbell rang and a man in a van asked for help to...
Jazz Pianist Carla Bley, 87
"Bley was a force in jazz even before she made her first albums, her compositions recorded by notable modernists of the 1960s. … (She...
The Textual Version Of Junk Food? The Selfie Of Grammar? No! In Defense Of...
"For hundreds of years, writers enjoyed the punchy power of a well-placed !, wielding its mighty sword of 'here be feelings!' with aplomb and...
Watching Jesse Green Review A Broadway Show
New York Times editor and culture writer Sarah Bahr tags along with the paper's chief critic to a preview of Gutenberg! The Musical and...
She Was Majoring In Dance When She Had To Have Her Leg Amputated. She...
Kara Skrubis recounts how she was diagnosed with bone cancer while in college. It was a long road to recovery, but when she got...
This Fancy New Arts Venue Is Right Across From The Eiffel Tower. It’s Meant...
The Grand Palais Éphémère, at the south end of the Champ de Mars in Paris, opened in 2021 as a short-term replacement for the...
“Barbenheimer” Was So Much Work, It’s Been Driving Movie Theater Workers To Unionize
"'That really pushed us to the edge,' says Maggie Quick, a guest attendant. 'It was just the constant understaffing and the emotional exhaustion.'" Union...
