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Supercool Film Studio A24 Has Moved Into Off-Broadway Theater
Two years ago A24 bought the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village for $10 million; following a thorough remodeling, the house has reopened...
National Ballet Of Cuba’s Expert Dancers Are Fleeing The Country’s Collapsing Economy
“Many from the Ballet Nacional are quietly choosing to leave behind difficult conditions: Blackouts that make rehearsal spaces and exercise rooms swelteringly hot. Scarce...
Owner Of Miami-Dade’s Public Radio Station Sues Nonprofit That Operates It
The Miami-Dade County School Board, owner of the broadcast license for WLRN, argues that South Florida Public Media Group, which manages the station, violated...
Appeals Court Upholds Order To Pause Trump’s Dismantling Of Institute Of Museum And Library...
“The Court noted throughout their decision that the defendants did not provide sufficient evidence that they weren’t creating harm or overstepping Constitutionality in implementing Trump’s...
Arvo Pärt, Aged 90, Has Ended His Composing Career
The confirmation is tucked into a profile of the wildly popular composer, who has been in poor health and is reportedly developing dementia. -...
How Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli Style Works
A music scholar explains how the artistic formula — famously described by the composer’s wife, Nora, as “1+1=1” — gets translated into the notes...
U.S. Copyright Chief Can Keep Her Job For Now, Rules Court Of Appeals
“By the order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Shira Perlmutter remains the register of copyrights and the...
A Genuine Rubens, Long Forgotten, Turns Up In Paris
“A magnificent, dramatized crucifixion scene made in around 1614-15 has been found among the possessions of a late Parisian homeowner and is set to...
A Landmark For Deaf Cinema: The First Sign-Language Thriller
“Retreat is billed as ‘the world’s first deaf thriller.’ It is written and directed by Ted Evans, also deaf, and features an all-deaf cast, set...
Historic Palace In Kathmandu Burned Out During Violent Anti-Government Protests
The nationwide protests against government corruption and a new social media ban turned violent in Nepal’s capital on Monday; on Tuesday, rioters ransacked and...
Daniel Day-Lewis Says He Didn’t Mean It When He Said He Was Retiring
“It just seems like such grandiose gibberish to talk about. I never intended to retire, really. I just stopped doing that particular type of...
Return Of Renaissance Altarpiece To Slovenia Sparks Political Uproar In Italy
Vittore Carpaccio’s Madonna and Child Enthroned with Six Saints (1518) was painted for a Franciscan church in Piran, a seaside town then ruled by...
A Crowdsourced Archive Of Video From The 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks
The footage was taken on the day of the disaster by over 100 people who then responded to an ad in The Village Voice....
Kennedy Center Fires Its Chief Of Jazz Programming
The victim of the latest staff defenestration (a frequent phenomenon since Trump took over the arts center in February) was Kevin Struthers, whose title...
East London To Get A Big New Two-Theatre Venue
Troubadour Theatres, which already has locations at Wembley Park and Canary Wharf (opening next month), is building the Troubadour Greenwich Peninsula Theatre, which will...
Vancouver To Get A Third Ballet Company
Choreographer Joshua Beamish is the founding director of Ballet Vancouver, which, like Ballet BC and Goh Ballet, will focus on contemporary choreography. The company...
Cultural Olympiad Of L.A.’s 2028 Olympics Is Way Behind Schedule
“Arts leaders in Los Angeles say that, three years out, (there is) no cultural plan yet announced, just two people assigned to the effort...
Ojai Music Festival Names Teddy Abrams Artistic And Executive Director
The composer/conductor/pianist — who will remain in his main position as music director of the Louisville Orchestra — succeeds Ara Guzelimian at the southern...
Metropolitan Opera Extends Peter Gelb’s Contract Through 2030
The news comes shortly after Gelb, who has been the company’s general manager since 2006, announced a $100 million deal for the Met to...
How Salvador Dalí Got Thrown Out Of The Surrealists’ Group, Got His Nickname, And...
André Breton’s official reason for expelling Dalí was that he was racist and fascist, but Breton also despised the Spaniard’s flamboyant bravado and unapologetic...
Choreographer Trajal Harrell On Working In A Subsidized European Theater
“I was at the Schauspielhaus Zürich … as the new artistic director. I didn’t have to write a proposal for a piece, and I...
Rufus Wainwright On Seeing His Musical Become A Notorious West End Flop
Opening Night (based on the John Cassavetes film) was directed by Ivo van Hove and starred Sheridan Smith — yet it tanked so badly...
A Look At The Codex Gigas (“Gigantic Book”), The World’s Largest Surviving Medieval Manuscript
Sometimes called “the Devil’s Bible,” it’s 3-feet-by-1⅔-feet and 165 pounds and contains the complete Bible, writings by historian Flavius Josephus and theologian Isidore of...
Sally Mann On Being A Target Of The Culture Wars From Two Sides
“Either the ‘Black Men’ or the pictures of the children, I just didn’t see that it should be so big a deal. I’m acclimated...
CBS News’s New Ombudsman Is Going To Be Doing The Job Differently Than Usual
Traditionally, the ombudsman at a news organization looks into complaints from the public. Yet Kenneth Weinstein will have no public-facing role. Formerly president of...
