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City of Winnipeg Cuts — No, It Reassigns — Coming Year’s Funding For Public...
While some artists and observers are criticizing the zeroing-out of Winnipeg Arts Council money for public art, that annual $500,000 will go instead to...
News Website DCist Shut Down By NPR Outlet WAMU; 15 Staffers Laid Off
As with (still-operational) local news sites Gothamist, LAist, and others, DCist was acquired by its nearby public radio station when the -ist sites' parent...
Royal Scottish National Orchestra To Be Stripped Of All Local Government Funding
"The RSNO (has been) told it will lose all of its local authority support over the next three years. It is expected to cut...
The Outsider Queer Trio Running — Entirely Together — The Ballet National De Marseille
"(Marine) Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel are the trio behind (La)Horde. They met 14 years ago on Paris’s queer club scene and ......
“The Real Tragedy Of This Play Is That Everyone’s Right All The Time”
That's what one cast member said, during rehearsals at New York's Public Theater, about Itamar Moses's The Ally, in which the characters hash out...
Middle School Teacher Accused Of Copying Students’ Art Onto Mugs And Tote Bags For...
"(Mario) Perron allegedly asked his class to create artwork in the style of Jean-Michel Basquiat for a 'creepy portraits' project … (at) the Lester...
France’s Film Industry Enters A New Phase Of #MeToo
"Actors who allege they were teenage victims of sexual and physical abuse by directors decades older than them are shining the light on the...
San Francisco Symphony Is Knocking Scents Into Scriabin
"Prometheus: The Poem of Fire … has an element of synesthesia in its score, which calls for a color organ along with a full...
Vice Media Is — Well, If It’s Not Completely Dead, It’s A Zombie
"Several hundred of Vice’s remaining 900 employees will soon be laid off in a restructuring that essentially kills off the editorial brand. … No...
Previously Unknown Cézanne Mural Uncovered In His Childhood Home
"The mural is the tenth to have been discovered on the walls of the house (in Aix-en-Provence), having been found last August in the...
“Not Every Giselle Has To Be Fragile And Petite”: New English National Ballet AD...
"A lot of people in the culture have grown up with a certain physical ideal. The more traditionally minded are bound to the idea...
With Two Of L.A.’s Major Film Festivals Now Gone, A Streaming Company Launches A...
Though this is arguably a great time for SoCal's cineastes, there's been trouble sustaining big events: Outfest collapsed last year, and the Los Angeles...
Berlin Taxi Drivers Put On A Makeshift Film Festival In The Backs Of Their...
The TaxiFilmFest is in part a protest against the august Berlin Film Festival, currently in full swing, which signed an exclusive agreement with Uber...
How One Of Metro DC’s Best Stage Directors Came Back From A Catastrophic Highway...
After midnight on Nov. 30, 2022, Synetic Theater co-founder Paata Tsikurishvili was sitting in traffic when another car rear-ended his and knocked it into...
“The City Hall Powerhouse Shaping London’s Cultural Landscape”
Meet Justine Simons, Mayor Sadiq Khan's deputy mayor for culture. - The Standard (London)
Why The Neighbors Are Not Happy That The Burned Herculaneum Scrolls Are Being Deciphered
The news that a team of students, using AI on digital scans, has deciphered the text on one of the scrolls carbonized in the...
When And Where Did The First Indo-European Language Develop? There’s A New Argument About...
"Most linguists think those speakers were nomadic herders on the steppes of Ukraine and Russia about 6,000 years ago. Yet a minority put the...
Finally We’ve Gotten Around To Recognizing That Some of The “Monuments Men” Were Women
"The Dallas-based foundation honoring the group updated its name ... to recognize their contributions, highlighted their work in a new exhibit ..., and is...
Did A Moscow Auction House Just Sell A Painting Looted From A Ukrainian Museum?
The work in question, sold for roughly $1 million early this week, is Ivan Aivazovsky's painting Moonlit Night. Ukraine's prosecutor-general tweeted that the item...
Dallas Arts Groups Nervously Hope Voters Will Approve Ballot Measure With New Arts Funding
"Dallas residents will vote on a $1.25 billion bond package in May, which includes one of the largest allocations for cultural facilities in decades....
Cash-Strapped Metropolitan Opera Has Cut Back On Productions
"(The company) will present 18 productions in 2024-25, matching the current season and pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in strike-shortened 1980-81." There's...
Explaining The Censorship Scandal At The Hugo Awards
The controversy is over nominations for the 2023 awards: the ceremony was held for the first time in China, in Chengdu. Memos leaked afterward...
A First: Man On Trial For Streaming Music Fraud
"A Danish man has gone on trial in the city of Aarhus over accusations that he fraudulently made 4.38m kroner (more than $635,000) in...
Smart Glasses Provide Live Captioning For Plays
Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Co. is offering hearing-impaired patrons the use of high-tech eyewear that displays real-time captions, adjustable for placement, size and color. People's...
Russia Arrests Los Angeles Ballerina, A US Citizen, On Charge Of Treason
Ksenia Karelina (also known as Ksenia Khavana), a 33-year-old native of Yekaterinburg who holds both Russian and US citizenship, had been visiting her hometown...
