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Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Says He’ll Go Home To Iran Despite Latest Prison Sentence
On Monday, while in New York to accept three Gotham Awards for his latest film, It Was Just an Accident, Panahi was sentenced to...
New York Times’s New Chief Theater Critic: Helen Shaw Of The New Yorker
“The (Times) has been publishing reviews by a number of writers since predecessor Jesse Green was reassigned earlier this year. That list notably did not include...
Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi To Retire After 44 Years
The conductor joined the company back in 1982 and helped build it into an impressive operation for a city of Sarasota’s size and a...
Bringing The Musical-Theater Version Of “La Cage Aux Folles” Home To Paris
The property was born in the French capital, first as a play, then as a hit film (followed later by the big US remake)....
Whistleblower Alleges That CEO Of Chicago’s Black History Museum Misused Funds, Abused Staff
The now-former vice president of education and programs at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center is suing the institution and its CEO, Perri...
A Great Big New Film Studio In A Grim New Jersey Brownfield?
Hedge fund manager Arki Busson is hoping to ride a wave in production studio construction generated by state-government subsidies. His goal: 1888 Studios, the...
World’s Third-Busiest Public Library Faces Job Cuts, Accusations Of “Digital Vanity Projects”
The State Library of Victoria in Melbourne is Australia’s busiest, yet a restructuring is eliminating 39 jobs — including reducing the number of public-facing...
Two More Of Abu Dhabi’s Extravagant New Museums Have Opened
The Zayed National Museum, designed by Norman Foster’s architecture firm, is one of the five museums planned for Saadiyat Island, the emirate’s purpose-built cultural...
The Takács Quartet To Lose Its Last Founding Member
Cellist András Fejér has been with the famed string quartet since its founding exactly 50 years ago. As of next September, Fejér will retire;...
How Did The Ancient Assyrian Library Of King Ashurbanipal Survive For 2,600 Years?
Oddly enough, the collection —well, the cuneiform clay tablets, not the papyrus — has come down to us today precisely because the Babylonians and...
Luigi Pirandello Was Once Considered One Of Europe’s Great Writers. Why Was He Forgotten?
His plays were produced and his books were read all over the Western world, and he won the Nobel for literature in 1943. How...
Choreographer Tere O’Connor Explains His Famously Baffling Dances
“As with other artistic attempts to track the mind more accurately — like the stream-of-consciousness of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce — O’Connor’s coexistence-of-everything...
Why Trump Won’t Go After “South Park”, No Matter How Ferociously It Lampoons Him
None of the late-night hosts Trump repeatedly attacks have said anything nearly as outrageous as what the animated series does, depicting the President having...
This Major New Arts Center Is Almost Finished, On Time And On Budget. Even...
Kanal, on the edge of central Brussels, will feature a large museum, multiple performance venues, and an architecture center. It’s 95% complete and scheduled...
Baby Jesus Is Stolen Amid Controversy Over Creche At Brussels’ Main Christmas Market
The Nativity scene by artist Victoria-Maria Geyer (herself a practicing Catholic) is the first new one on the Grand-Place in 25 years, and she...
Starchitect David Adjaye Makes First Public Comments Addressing Sexual Harassment Allegations
While he called the reporting of the allegations “unfair,” Adjaye didn’t address directly the substance of the charges (which he denied when the first...
Royal Shakespeare Co. To Cut 11% Of Staff
Company management expects to reduce its base expenses by £2.8 million ($3.7 million) annually with layoffs as well as pay cuts for some remaining...
Iran Sentences Filmmaker Jafar Panahi To Prison While He’s Abroad Accepting Awards
As he was in New York receiving three Gotham Awards for his Cannes-winning It Was Just an Accident, a Tehran court sentenced Panahi to...
Britain’s National Gallery Is Making A Billion-Dollar Move Into Modern And Contemporary Art
In London, until now, post-1900 Western art was Tate territory, but the National has launched “Project Domani,” a £750 million ($998 million) plan to...
Russia Prepares To Declare Pussy Riot An “Extremist” Organization
“Russia's prosecutor general opened a case against the feminist art group on Friday, November 28. The ‘extremist’ label, commonly deployed by the government as justification for stifling political...
A New Contemporary Art Prize Is The UK’s Largest — £200,000
“The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize, as it will be called, will be awarded every other year to an international artist who will...
Royal Danish Ballet Returns To The Classic Choreographer Who Made The Company Great
August Bournonville directed the company in the mid-19th century, and his works and style became thoroughly identified with the institution. Yet for some years...
Suddenly The Anti-Gay Slur “F******” Is All Over New York Theater
Erik Piepenburg: “This year at least six theater productions have used “f*****” in their titles. … Why is a slur that a stranger hurled...
Reddit Forum r/Art Goes Completely Off The Rails (And, For Now, Offline)
The subreddit, on which thousands of artists post images of their work, has strict rules against anything resembling marketing, sales or self-promotion. When one...
Kevin Spacey’s Legal Troubles Are Not Over Yet
The actor, who was artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London from 2004 to 2013, was acquitted on nine sexual assault charges...
