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Book Publishing’s Latest Demographic Category: “New Adult”
“Young Adult” fiction, despite its name, is aimed at teenagers; the "New Adult” category covers actual young adults, 18 to 24 or so. Four...
Algeria’s Leading Author Says He’s Been Sentenced To Prison For His Prize-Winning Novel
Kamel Daoud, who lives in France, said that a court in Oran fined him five million Algerian dinars ($38,000) and sentenced him to three...
Michael Tilson Thomas Is Dead At 81
“He was widely considered one of the most distinguished American conductors of his generation” — most notably for his 25 years as music director...
Pianist Ruth Slenczynska, Rachmaninoff’s Last Surviving Student, Has Died At 101
She gave her first recital at four and performed her first concerto at seven, going on to tour with the Boston Pops, play for...
Tiktok’s Biggest Star Had A Nearly-Billion-Dollar AI Deal. How Did It Fall Apart?
This past January, Khaby Lame, a Senegalese-Italian who has 160 million followers for his Chaplin-esque silent TikTok shorts, signed a $975 billion deal with...
What The Kennedy Center’s Chief Showed Journalists To Prove The Building Really Does Need...
“A theme emerged at virtually every stop: The water damage was real, apparent in some places through discoloration and pooling. Some pieces of equipment,...
San Francisco’s Broken-Down Brutalist Fountain Will Be Hauled Away Starting Next Week
“The first phase — removing grout from the massive concrete sculpture and cataloging the pieces for future reassembly — will take at least a week,...
Yet Another Tourist Climbs On The Statuary In Florence And Breaks It
A 28-year-old visitor caused thousands of euros in damage when she climbed the fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della Signoria because her friends...
He Wrote The Hit Torch Songs of The Elizabethan Age
“(John) Dowland was well regarded; (he) was also well-connected, cosmopolitan and at times unusually well-remunerated for his work. Yet his musical expression was dominated...
The Independent Philanthropist Changing The Future Of Brazilian Filmmaking
The Brazilian film industry has plenty of infrastructure for film production, but there was almost none for the early stages of development. So Olga...
“A River Runs Through It” At 50
“In getting to its exalted place, the book had to navigate a tricky set of rapids. Though it sailed through them, a question lingers....
A Visit To Africa’s Number-One Dance Training Center
“The main studio of the École des Sables (in) Senegal defies every convention of what a professional dance space should be. It has no...
What Does It Mean That Some Respected Creatives In Hollywood Are Okay With AI?
“It may not be realistic to expect lockstep agreement with Guillermo del Toro’s perspective that he would ‘rather die’ than use AI on his films. …...
Turns Out Florence Price Wasn’t The Only Black Female Composer The Vienna Phil Slighted...
The arrangement of Price’s Rainbow Waltz the Vienna Philharmonic played at its New Year’s concert in January has been criticized for bearing almost no...
Cape Cod Is Losing A Professional Theater Company
After 42 years, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) is suspending its operations as of June 1. The director cited “steadily rising costs in an...
Nashville Reveals Plans For New Performing Arts Center
Construction on the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, in the redeveloping East Bank neighborhood, begins next year; opening is expected in 2030. The complex, with...
National Gallery Of Art In Washington Gets $116 Million Gift For Loaning Works Nationwide
“(The donor is) Mitchell Rales, the 69-year-old billionaire art collector and co-founder of health care company Danaher. The contribution is the largest programming-related donation...
Desmond Morris, Author Of “The Naked Ape”, Zoologist And TV Host (And Artist), Has...
Over 60 years he wrote or co-wrote more than 50 books and fronted several hundred hours of television, starting in 1956 with the British...
Smithsonian American Art Museum Names New Director
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, who begins her term after Labor Day and who is currently CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, in...
Vancouver Finally Has A Company Focused On Classical Ballet
Ballet BC is an impressive troupe, but it has long specialized in contemporary work; it’s been more than a decade since there was a...
How Will Hungary’s Arts World Recover From 16 Years Of Viktor Orbán?
“A wave of leadership changes is widely expected across major museums and cultural bodies, which could lead to the return of (figures) who were...
Lost Poem By García Lorca Discovered
“A previously unknown verse attributed to Federico García Lorca has been discovered 93 years after the celebrated Spanish poet and playwright is believed to have jotted...
Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre Finally Has A Single Venue — In Another Company’s Underused...
“Porchlight Music Theatre, an Equity-affiliated, nonprofit Chicago company founded in 1994, will stage its full upcoming 2026-27 season at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre,...
Legal Struggle Over Possession Of “Sistine Chapel Of Romanesque Art”
A set of 13th-century murals from the Sijena Monastery in Spain were taken to Barcelona for safekeeping during the Spanish Civil War and are...
Obamas Will Take Their Production Company Independent After Netflix Contract Ends
“Barack and Michelle Obama‘s production company Higher Ground is transitioning to an independent operation following eight years at Netflix.” - The Hollywood Reporter
