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The Choreographer Behind The Ecstatic Shakers Dances In “The Testament Of Ann Lee”
“The night before we started filming, I was sleeping and, literally, the ghost of Ann Lee was over my bed with angels around and...
A Gay Cultural Critic Resistant To “Heated Rivalry” Explains Why He Finally, Happily Succumbed
Wesley Morris: “Why wouldn’t I have wanted this? A six-episode show that’s exemplary as romance, as physical intimacy, as banter, as athlete psychology, as conversation, confession...
Rena Bransten, Pillar Of San Francisco’s Gallery Scene For 50 Years, Has Died At...
“Rena Bransten Gallery was known as one of the pioneering contemporary art programs in San Francisco. She helped the gallery develop a long tradition...
Venues Hosting Shen Yun Dance In Australia Get Bomb Threats
The theatre presenting the controversial Falun Gong-associated troupe in the Gold Coast had to be evacuated; the venues where the group will perform in...
Public Radio’s Young-Musician Show “From The Top” Acquired By KERA Dallas
“We're not spending a dollar on this acquisition. They're essentially folding into KERA,” said station CEO Nico Leone. “We feel really good about our...
Nadia Boulanger’s Little-Known Opera Revived
Her opera La Ville morte was set to premiere just when World War I broke out; she never returned to it and only a...
France’s Controversial Culture Minister Steps Down To Run For Mayor Of Paris
Rachida Dati, a member of ex-President Sarkozy’s right-wing party Les Républicains (she was once his Justice Minister), is running to succeed outgoing mayor Anne...
DePaul Art Museum In Chicago To Shut Down This Summer
Announcement of the closure, which is effective June 30, comes two months after DePaul University laid off 114 full-time and part-time staff. Administrators cited...
BBC Radio 3 Fires Norman Lebrecht Over Email To Yuja Wang
The broadcaster’s decision to end its long relationship with Lebrecht — the widely-read, controversial critic and blogger who has hosted several interview programs on...
35 Rembrandt Etchings Rediscovered After A Century In A Safe
Charlotte Meyer’s grandfather, who had a sharp eye, picked them up inexpensively back when etchings weren’t highly valued, and they remained in her family’s...
Cellist Steven Isserlis On Composer György Kurtág, Now Aged 100
“Playing to him is transformative in every way. His imagination is boundless; he will produce startling, unexpected images – or point out connections, musical...
A Reporter Starts A “Book Club” For Newspaper Articles
At a St. Petersburg bookstore, Lauren Peace, an enterprise equity reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, moderates conversations about a selected story among its...
Should Young Girls Really Have To Wear Makeup For Dance Class? Or Even Competitions?
“The question of whether children should be encouraged to break out the grease paint has been pressing on parents and dance teachers alike. …...
Why Daniel Radcliffe Is Doing An Audience-Participation Play — Gladly, No Less — On...
“The audience interaction is central to Every Brilliant Thing, … about a man processing his mother’s attempted suicide and his own depression. … It’s an exciting...
Podcasts Have Now Have More Listeners In The U.S. Than Talk Radio
“Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States, according to Edison Research’s Share of...
Ann Godoff, Founder Of Penguin Press And Legendary Editor, Has Died At 76
After a dozen years as Random House, where she was executive editor and then editor-in-chief/publisher, she was fired in a corporate restructuring. When she...
Nova Scotia’s Arts Sector Hit Hard By “Unprecedented” Provincial Budget Cuts
“Nearly half of all Nova Scotia Museum sites closed. The elimination of a fund supporting local publishers. A 100% cut to funding for programs...
As The Bidding War For It Began, Warner Bros. Discovery Lost A Quarter-Billion Dollars
In the last quarter of 2025, as Netflix and Paramount Skydance began their attempts to buy it, WBD lost $252 million. Overall revenue was...
Paris’s Other Wildly Popular Museum, The Musée d’Orsay, Also Has A New Director
The home of the city’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works will be led by 57-year-old Annick Lemoine, currently director of the Petit Palais....
Refresher: What To Know About The Louvre As It Changes Directors And Navigates Crises
Why the resignation of director Laurence des Cars hit so hard, the background of new director Christophe Leribault, the long list of problems which...
Is This, Scientifically, The Best Way To Learn A New Language?
A correspondent tries a method designed by professors of cognition to mirror language-learning in the real world. The tasks basically simulate how we would...
How One Dance Spread An Indigenous Movement Across The American West
On New Year’s Day 1889, a young Paiute man named Wovoka had a vision in which God taught him a ceremony. The Ghost Dance...
Composer Éliane Radigue, Pioneer Of Musique Concrète And Drone Music, Has Died At 94
While on a guest residency at NYU, she discovered the ARP 2500 synthesizer, which would be her tool for three decades before she turned...
CBS News Insiders Worry That “60 Minutes” As We’ve Known It Is Doomed
“As Bari Weiss seeks to reimagine CBS News, staffers are preparing for … 60 Minutes, arguably the most influential news program in all of TV, to...
The Volunteer Army Documenting Museum And Park Wall Texts Before The Trump Administration Rewrites...
A group called Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian has taken photos of every wall text in the Institution’s museums before they were changed. Other...
