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Berlin Film Festival Works To Make Up For Its Inherent Disadvantage — Timing
“It takes place in the dead of winter, ... when the awards season race … is nearly over. Perhaps as a result, the festival...
Collection Of One Of South America’s Leading Museums Has Just Doubled In Size
“One of the world’s most important collections of Latin American art will double in size following the acquisition of over 1,000 new works. Museo...
San Antonio Philharmonic Says It Will Perform This Season’s Remaining Concerts At Its Current...
“The San Antonio Philharmonic is planning regular concerts at the Scottish Rite (Cathedral and Auditorium), despite the cancelation of holiday events and reports the...
With Post-Soviet Elan, Lithuania’s National Ballet Celebrates Its Centennial
“Average seat occupancy is 97 percent, among the highest in Europe. … Now with confidence in its survival skills” — and an adept, energetic...
Donald Trump Sues BBC For $10 Billion
“The US president alleged the broadcaster 'intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively' edited his 6 January speech before the insurrection, in an episode of Panorama just...
“Slop” Is Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word Of The Year
“’It’s such an illustrative word,’ said Greg Barlow, Merriam-Webster’s president. ... ‘It’s part of a transformative technology, AI, and it’s something that people have...
Louvre Closed As Threatened Strike Begins
“The world's most-visited museum was closed on Monday after workers walked out on strike in protest against working conditions and other complaints, dealing another...
Off-Broadway Parody “Titanique” Gets A Surprise Broadway Transfer
A Céline Dion jukebox musical dressed up as a spoof of James Cameron’s blockbuster movie retold from the pop diva’s point of view, Titanique...
An Ethnomusicologist Analyzes Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby”
Prof. Michael O’Brien discusses why we listen to so many of the same songs year after year, the unusual appeal of “Santa Baby,” and...
The Collective Who’s Transforming Ballet In France’s Second City
“(LA)HORDE is a choreographic collective running the National Ballet of Marseille and rewriting the ballet rulebook for a new era. Their work blends classical...
World’s Third-Busiest Public Library Withdraws “Restructuring” Plan After Outcry
Many of Australia’s most prominent writers and artists, along with thousands of ordinary citizens, expressed outrage over the proposal to eliminate 39 jobs —...
Director Of Britain’s Tate Galleries To Step Down
“Maria Balshaw is to (depart) in 2026, after a challenging nine-year tenure when she steered the organisation through the COVID-19 pandemic and had to...
A Wave Of Unionization At Chicago’s Cultural Institutions
In the last four years, AFSCME’s Cultural Workers United organizing campaign has helped 2,500 Illinois cultural workers form unions at such sites as the...
Novelist Joanna Trollope Is Dead At 82
“When popular fiction written by, and mainly for, women tended to be classified either as ‘romantic novels’ or ‘historical sagas’, Joanna” — a great-great-great-grandniece...
Director Convicted Of Defrauding Netflix For Series Which Was Never Finished
Carl Rinsch was convicted of wire fraud, money laundering and making illegal transactions in a case where he took $11 million in funding from...
D.L. Coburn, Playwright Of “The Gin Game,” Has Died At 87
He was in his late 30s when he wrote the play, his first. It premiered in Los Angeles in 1976; it reached Broadway the...
The Louvre’s Security Cameras Caught The Entire Jewel Heist — But The Security Guards...
“(The museum’s) security control room was not equipped with enough screens to watch every camera simultaneously, so the break-in was not watched in real-time....
Arkansas Becomes First State To Sever Its Public Television’s Ties With PBS
“The eight-member Arkansas Educational Television Commission, made up entirely of appointees of the governor, announced … that it planned to disaffiliate from PBS effective...
Broadway Had Its Second-Highest Attendance In History Last Season
More than 14.7 million seats were filled in 2024-25, according to the latest audience-demographics report from The Broadway League. Among other findings is that,...
Judi Dench On The State Of Her Memory And Her Eyesight
The 91-year-old acting legend, who has age-related macular degeneration, stopped performing because she can’t see her way around a set or read a script...
Why Does It Seem Like Every Major Cultural Institution In Melbourne Is Named After...
Well, because that person, Ian Potter, was extraordinarily generous, as his widow and his foundation continue to be. But when your sister gets angry...
Poetry And Politics In The U.S., Then And Now
Verse was used as a political tool going back all the way to the Revolutionary War. Walt Whitman considered poetry to democracy, which “waits...
How Do You Keep “Nutcracker” Costumes Looking Fresh For 30 Years?
The National Ballet of Canada’s costumes, designed by Broadway mainstay Santo Loquasto, have absorbed a lot of wear, tear, and sweat over three decades....
Disney Will License Its Characters To OpenAI’s Video Platform And Invest $1 Billion In...
“The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos using Sora, OpenAI’s short-form AI video platform, of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars...
Broadway Attendance From New York’s Suburbs Is Lowest In 30 Years
“According to data released ... on Wednesday, less than 13% of admissions in (2024-25) came from the surrounding New York suburbs, which was the...
