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Lucinda Childs Named Resident Choreographer Of Gibney Company
The 85-year-old contemporary dance pioneer has accepted a five-year appointment with the company. She will begin with restaging her 2015 work Canto Ostinato and...
Composer John Luther Adams Writes About Why He Has Emigrated To Australia
“The real reason I’ve left (the U.S.) is deeper than politics: it’s the culture. The culture creates the politics. … The relentless commercialisation, rising...
The Guardian’s Chief Classical Music Critic, Andrew Clements, Has Died At 75
“Clements joined the Guardian arts team in August 1993, succeeding Edward Greenfield as the paper’s chief music critic. His appointment was clinched by a personal recommendation...
Erich von Däniken, Whose Books Spread The Idea That Aliens Established Earth’s Early Civilizations,...
“(He) rose to prominence in 1968 with the publication of … Chariots of the Gods, … (which) was followed by more than two dozen...
Savannah’s Telfair Museums Lay Off 15% Of Staff
“While the museums offered severance, the layoffs were announced without warning on a (Friday) afternoon Zoom call, according to former employees. Museum representatives (said) that the...
PBS Cancels Its Saturday And Sunday Newscasts
“PBS News Weekend signed off Sunday, ‘at least for the foreseeable future,’ anchor John Yang said. ... Starting Saturday, PBS will air the weekly...
Adelaide Festival’s Writers’ Week Cancelled After Writers Withdraw And Board Resigns
In response to the festival board’s earlier intervention to disinvite Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah, more than 180 writers and speakers cancelled their appearances at...
Again, Louvre Completely Closes Due To Strikes
Last week the museum was partially closed due to the ongoing walkouts over inadequate pay, staffing and building maintenance, but public access to the...
How Does This Professor Get Students To Read Complete Books? With A Class Called...
The professor is Justin McDaniel, chair of the religious studies department at Penn. The class meets once a week for seven-to-eight hours, reading one...
Could Japan’s Highest-Grossing-Ever Live-Action Film Revive Interest In Kabuki?
In the movie Kokuho, a epic covering five decades in the life of a fictional kabuki actor, we see the traditional theater slowly fade...
First Designs Released For 2032 Olympic Stadium In Brisbane
The design, by the Australian firms Cox Architecture and Hassell in collaboration with the Japanese practice Azusa Sekkei, is inspired by the wraparound verandas...
One Of America’s Top Luthiers Is Still Picking Up The Pieces After Last Year’s...
Mario Miralles has made violins and cellos for everyone from Yo-Yo Ma and Anne Akiko Myers to principals in the Los Angeles Philharmonic to...
San Diego Museum Of Art At 100
“After starting out with ... mostly borrowed and donated items a century ago, the museum today boasts a collection of more than 39,000 items,...
Dance Theatre Of Harlem In Court Battle With Its Former Archivist
“The court conflict involves Dance Theatre of Harlem; its former archivist, Judy Tyrus; and ChromaDiverse, a nonprofit Tyrus founded to preserve the records of...
Ron Protas, Martha Graham’s Heir And Controversial Custodian Of Her Work, Has Died At...
"Graham … died in 1991 at 96. Tensions between her company and Protas then simmered for a decade before boiling over in a court fight starting...
“A Cold Dose Of Reality”: Atlanta’s Public Radio And TV Face A Future With...
With Congress’s defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its subsequent dissolution this week, WABE in Atlanta and jazz station WCLK-FM have seen...
Frank Gehry-Designed Concert Hall For Wimbledon Will Go Ahead
The local council governing the London suburb, along with the trust created for building the venue, have confirmed that planning and construction of the...
An “Existential Question” For Scotland’s National Orchestra?
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra's chief executive says that government funding of the group is the same amount as in 2009 — amounting to,...
Most Arts-Vibrant Communities In The US 2025
“This year marks a decade of measurement. In celebration, we’re releasing our most comprehensive analysis yet: rankings for the top 100 communities nationwide and all 50 states.” -...
How To Assemble A Film Cast And Crew While Hiding The Entire Project From...
And this project — Jafar Panahi’s Cannes-winning It Was Just an Accident — was extra-sensitive, since it’s about torture victims hunting down a man...
At Florence’s Uffizi Galleries, Temp Workers Protest: “No More Precarious Lives”
“Some temporary workers at the museum — assigned to roles in security, reception, ticketing, the bookshop, and the coatroom — lost their jobs following...
Kurt Vonnegut Estate Joins Lawsuit Against Utah For Banning Books In Schools
The estate of the author of Slaughterhouse-Five (one of the banned books) joins three (living) novelists and two anonymous high school students as plaintiffs,...
French Researchers Have Used AI To Write A Molière Play
Mind you, this script wasn’t just spit out by a bot after one prompt. The French AI collective Obvious spent two years developing the...
Broadway Production Will Rework “The Fantasticks” As Gay Love Story
“In the re-envisioned Fantasticks, the central romantic pair – traditionally Matt and Luisa – are now Matt and Lewis, reinterpreting the story’s ‘allegory of love,...
Béla Fleck Talks About Why He Canceled His Kennedy Center Concerts
“As this thing became more and more charged, it wasn’t any longer something where I’m under the radar playing this gig. I am actually...
