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San Diego City Council Votes To Double Arts Funding
"(Members) unanimously voted to recommend the city use nearly 10% of its annual Transient Occupancy Tax revenue to fund arts and culture, nearly double...
Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts Is Repatriating 44 Ancient Artifacts Confirmed As Looted
"New York authorities will facilitate the return of the objects to officials of their origin countries" — Italy, Egypt, and Turkey. "The works include...
Three Congressmembers Introduce Bill To Combat Book Bans In Schools
"Introduced by Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-FL), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the Fight Book Bans Act would offer school districts funding to...
Another Actress Accuses Gérard Depardieu Of Sexual Assault
Hélène Darras filed a complaint with law enforcement in Paris alleging that the veteran actor repeatedly groped her when she was an extra on...
UNESCO Gives Italian Opera Singing “Intangible Cultural Heritage” Status
In its citation, the United Nations cultural agency defined the practice as "a physiologically controlled way of singing that enhances the carrying power of...
When Keats Was Under Investigation By The Roman Police
That's what happens when you don't tell your landlady you have tuberculosis (and streptomycin won't be invented for another 120 years). - The Guardian
The Big, Crazy Dream Of Rudolf Laban, The Pioneer Of Dance Notation
"In an essay that has been unearthed some 65 years after his death, Laban wrote of his 'dream' to stage dance in a 'kilometre...
Architect Yasmeen Lari Found The Ideal Material For Building Flood-Resistant Homes For Dirt-Poor Pakistani...
That would be bamboo. It grows quickly in the hot climate; it sequesters plenty of carbon; it's inexpensive; it withstands floodwaters well. And Lari's...
Chinese Standups Overseas Have Developed An Entire Comedy Circuit In The Diaspora. Even There,...
It's not just that they fear that authorities back home are keeping eyes and ears on them. Among most of the comedians themselves, there...
It Had To Happen Eventually: A Jewish Christmas Pantomime Takes The Stage In London
Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Pig is "the first professional stage production to merge two great traditions: Jewish storytelling and festive panto....
No, Hanukkah Is Not Jewish Christmas — But There Are Good Reasons It Came...
"Assimilation to the United States’ Christian-majority culture has played a role in Hanukkah’s modern transformation. That said, the story of how Hanukkah came to...
Philly Pops Agrees To Finally Give Musicians The Pay It Owes Them. But Will...
A judge approved a stipulation that the organization pay $300,000 it owes musicians for 2022's Christmas show. But this year's holiday program is performed...
She’s Just Choreographed For Six Of America’s Greatest Companies, But She’s Never Danced In...
The half-dozen troupes for whom Amy Hall Garner has been making dances in the past year or so include Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, and...
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...
