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Was This Antarctica’s First-Ever Professional Outdoor Dance Performance?
Probably. Earlier this week, members of the Ballet Folklórico Nacional Argentino and Compañía Nacional de Danza Contemporánea traveled from Buenos Aires down to Argentina's...
Remember The Guy Who Streaked At The Oscars? He Did A Hell Of A...
"Who was Robert Opel, and why did he do what he did? ... Even as Opel's fifteen minutes ticked down, his quest for exposure...
Meet The Most Media-Friendly Of Maria Von Trapp’s Great-Grandchildren
"(He's) not one of the von Trapps you'd occasionally see performing 'Edelweiss' on Oprah or The View in years past. But ... when journalists...
Her Uncle Writes Plays, And She Turns Them Into Operas
Composer Emma O'Halloran had had her Uncle Mark adapt two of his scripts, Mary Motorhead and Trade, into librettos to which she's written one-act...
As A Black Man Running The Pasadena Playhouse For 20 Years, George Epps Has...
"There were years when it was me shouting into the wind and nobody was really listening. There are more voices now. They've been voices...
Translating Franz Kafka’s Diaries Was A Total Head Trip
"(I was) groping and straining to make sense of Kafka's groping and straining to make sense. Not only could I not always — or...
“Enshittification” — How TikTok Is, Inevitably, Ruining Itself (And Us)
Cory Doctorow: "Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for...
It Would Have Been America’s Biggest Solar Farm. It Was Killed For The Sake...
The 14-square mile project was to be on Federal land in eastern Nevada — on the way to Michael Heizer's 1970 work Double Negative,...
A Statue Of A Roman Emperor Pretending To Be Hercules Is Discovered In A...
"The marble sculpture, showing a Hercules-like figure with the hero's trademark lion skin and club, was unearthed on Jan. 25 (in) the Appian Way...
Brexit Has Cost The Arts In Britain $200 Million In Funding
"Work by the UK Trade and Business Commission found that ... had Brexit never happened, the UK's creative industries would have received an additional...
Chicago Budgets $11 Million In New Arts Funding
"Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events on Thursday announced $11 million in grants for nonprofit arts organizations,...
You Know What Led To Impressionism? Smog, That’s What.
"While this monumental shift has long been attributed to shifting stylistic preferences, a new study ... argues that it was also due to a...
Meet The Hottest Talents In Dance Who Don’t Go Onstage
"A lot of people work behind the scenes to put dance on stage. Here are some of the current talents, new and established, who...
Hollywood Glommed Onto Documentaries. That’s A Problem — Several Problems, Actually.
"All this has left the documentary world suffering an identity crisis. What even is a documentary anymore? There is more money than ever, but...
Germany’s “All Quiet On The Western Front” Has Nine Oscar Nominations. The Germans Hate...
"They're right. They're right to take issue with the mangling of Remarque's timeless narrative into what is essentially a grisly picaresque, a high-budget Black...
Lost Play By “The Spanish Shakespeare” Identified By AI
"Artificial intelligence technology used to transcribe anonymous historic works at Spain's National Library has uncovered a hidden gem — a previously unknown play by...
Russian Culture Ministry Orders Tretyakov Gallery To Conform To “Spiritual And Moral Values”
"The Russian Ministry of Culture reportedly sent a letter to Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery demanding that it change its exhibits to be in line with...
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Declares Hunger Strike To Protest His Unlawful Imprisonment In Tehran
"(The award-winning dissident filmmaker) has announced a hunger strike to protest his continued incarceration in Iran's Evin prison, even after the country's courts voided...
California’s Next Proposed Budget Cuts $1.2 Billion From Arts Education. That’s Not Quite As...
$22.5 billion budget shortfall. However, the loss of that $1.2 billion) block grant money can be largely offset with the nearly $1 billion earmarked...
Tony Award Voters Won’t Have To See Every Show In A Category To Cast...
"The rule change, put in place for the 2022-2023 season only, will allow a voter to still vote in a category if they have...
Gawker Is Closing Down. Yes, Again.
"Gawker, the snarky pop-culture site rebooted in mid-2021, is shutting down — for a second time, with the CEO of parent company Bustle Digital...
Evicted From The Kimmel Center. The Philly Pops Find A New Concert Hall
For the orchestra's February program, at least, the venue will be the Met Philadelphia, a former opera house on Broad Street north of Center...
Considering “Schoolhouse Rock” at 50
"Unlike the dutiful news interstitials that vitamin-fortified other Saturday-morning cartoon lineups, Schoolhouse Rock harnessed the power of comedy and ear worms. The facts and...
Donatello Was The First (More-Or-Less) Openly Gay Artist In Western History
That's not only because he made the first life-sized male nude statue in Europe since the Romans. It's not only because of his David's...
Lorraine Hansberry’s Other Play Gets Its First New York Revival In 50 Years
Why has The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window been neglected? "It's not a play about Black people. She was seen as going out of...
