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Cultural Tourism Adds $11.4 Billion To Ontario’s Economy: Study
"The report, titled the Ontario Arts and Culture Tourism Profile, is based on data from Statistics Canada. A key takeaway from the document is...
Behold A 6,400-Square-Foot 4th-Century Mosaic Recently Uncovered In Turkey
"The villa (that contained the floor mosaic) has roots in the Roman and Byzantine eras and was used long after the Turks arrived in...
Sarah Palin’s School District Sued By ACLU, Parents, and Students Over Book Bans
"On November 17, eight local plaintiffs joined by the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska and advocacy group the Northern Justice project filed suit...
Award-Winning Palestinian Writer Who Was Arrested In Gaza Has Been Released
"Palestinian poet/essayist Mosab Abu Toha, whose 2022 poetry collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza won an American Book...
Two Former Dancers Sue Richmond Ballet For $21 Million Over Eating Disorders
"In a pair of lawsuits filed in Richmond Circuit Court, the dancers say the company required them to maintain a 'dangerously unhealthy weight' to...
Forbidden By The Taliban To Attend School, These Afghan Girls Are Being Taught By...
Lucy Ferriss: "Asma is one of 120 students whom I and a dozen other college professors, spread across four continents and five academic divisions,...
This Black Woman Composer Achieved Success In The 1950s Before Ill Health Claimed Her
"For (Julia) Perry, who died in 1979 at age 55, the 1950s and ’60s were replete with success, the summit of a career that...
Author Herbert Gold, 99
"(His) verbal inventiveness and keen eye for complicated emotional transactions ... or struggling to connect the world of their Jewish immigrant parents with the...
Now That These Mosaics Have Been Repatriated To Lebanon, A Scholar Says They’re Fake
"Eight out of nine mosaic panels that the US authorities recently … are not what they seem, according to claims made by Djamila Fellague...
Garth Fagan Is Stepping Away From The Leadership Of His Dance Company
After 53 years at the helm, he is turning Garth Fagan Dance over to principals Natalie Rogers-Cropper (executive director) and Norwood “PJ” Pennewell (artistic...
The Oscar-Winning Playwright-Screenwriter Running The Geffen Playhouse
Tarell Alvin McCraney (who wrote Moonlight) calls it "your friendly neighborhood playhouse": "I really want to make sure L.A. artists or artists who call...
Don’t Worry, We’re Not Out Of Clay For Our Claymation, Say Makers of “Wallace...
"After reports that the manufacturers of Aardman’s favoured modelling clay had gone out of business, meaning the animators had enough supplies for only one...
Joss Ackland, Versatile Actor With A Seven-Decade Career, Is Dead At 95
"A self-described workaholic, (he) brought a mellifluous voice and commanding presence to more than 200 movies and television shows, in addition to starring in...
Meet NPR’s New Top Arts Editor
"Ciera Crawford has been promoted to Chief Arts and Culture Hub Editor at NPR. (She) has been working with the culture desk since 2021...
“Hallucinate” Is Cambridge Dictionary’s Word Of The Year — But Not For The Definition...
"It now has an additional meaning, relating to when artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT, which generates text that mimics human writing, 'hallucinates' and...
For The First Time, The Guggenheim Will Have A Woman As CEO And Director
"The Guggenheim Museum announced that Mariët Westermann, currently vice chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi, will be the next director and CEO of the Solomon...
“De-PiSisation”: Poland’s Incoming Government Looks To Undo The Politicizing Of Cultural Institutions By The...
"PiS" is the Polish acronym for the Law and Justice Party, which ruled the country for eight years before losing last month's elections. So...
The Coming Realignment Of Hollywood Post-Strike
Radio Atlantic's Hanna Rosin talks with correspondents David Sims and Shirley Li about where the industry is headed. "The term 'river of junk' comes...
At DC’s Arena Stage, The New Director Bravely Faces A Leaner, More Challenging Time
Hana S. Sharif: "The institutions that will survive and thrive in the next 10-to-15 years are the ones that are able to be adaptive,...
Americans Are Consuming More News On TikTok, Less On Other Social Media
"In just three years, the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has more than quadrupled, from 3% in...
Author A.S. Byatt Is Dead At 87
"Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, who wrote under the name AS Byatt, authored complex and critically acclaimed novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Possession and her...
Cambodia Is Doing Mass Evictions Of Families Living At Angkor Wat
"Amnesty International … (has) charged that the evictions of an estimated 10,000 families by Cambodian authorities violated international and national law. It said the...
Valery Gergiev Named General Director Of Bolshoi Theater As Well As Mariinsky
"Izvestiya reported that Gergiev will become the intendant of the Bolshoi Theatre (in Moscow) and will remain in the same position at (St. Petersburg's)...
Art Institute Of Chicago’s Ex-Payroll Manager Sentenced To Prison For Embezzling $2.3 Million
Michael Maurello will serve three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He had pled guilty to falsifying the Institute's financial...
Alvin Ailey Company Artistic Director Robert Battle Resigns
"'I am going to spend more time with my family, and I am going to focus on my health,' he wrote, but he did...
