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92NY Puts Its Entire Literary Events Series On Hold
"92NY, one of the city’s leading cultural organizations, announced Monday that it was putting its prestigious literary reading series on pause, following an outcry...
Could This Documentary Finally Convince People That Nonprofits Need Unencumbered Donations For Covering Basic...
“I hope that it becomes the equivalent of An Inconvenient Truth to the conversation about climate change,” says Dan Pallotta, main subject of the...
Tired Of Being A Culture Wars Target, LSU Professor Resigns The Day After Louisiana’s...
“My reasons are simple: The person who will be governor in January has already asked LSU to fire me,” tweeted journalism professor Robert Mann....
On Very Little Money, Belfast Has Developed A Lively Little Dance Scene
"Everywhere I go in Belfast people tell me there’s no lack of talent here, just opportunity, infrastructure and funding. There’s been no executive committee...
British Tour Of “The Merchant Of Venice 1936” Forced To Hire Security Guards
The production, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play set in the days of Oswald Mosley's Union of British Fascists, stars Tracy-Ann Oberman as a single-mother...
A Wave Of Contemporary Operas Is Taking On Black Experiences In America, Past And...
The highest-profile recent examples have been the Metropolitan Opera productions of Terence Blanchard's Champion and Fire Shut Up in My Bones, but there are...
The Met Museum Is Spending $2 Billion To Do Major Capital Projects Without Closing...
"By the end of this, more than a quarter of our galleries will have changed,” said CEO Max Hollein. “It’s open-heart surgery and the...
National Theatre In London To Try Early Weeknight Curtain Times
After surveying more than 8,000 audience members, who expressed desires for more time for post-show dinner, discussion, and/or catching the last train home, the...
Cleveland Museum Of Art Sues Manhattan DA To Get Its $20 Million Roman Statue...
"The museum has filed suit against Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg over the August seizure of “Draped Male Figure,” which has been part of the...
Vincent Patrick, Author Of “The Pope Of Greenwich Village”, Is Dead At 88
"The son of a Bronx pool-hall owner and numbers runner, Mr. Patrick was raised in a milieu sprinkled with the grifters, hustlers and mobsters...
So Just What Is This $150 Million Offer George Clooney Made (And The Union...
The heart of the offer, also backed by Scarlett Johannson, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry and others, is to remove the cap on actors' pay...
The UK’s Best New Building: A Retirement Community In London Wins The 2023 Stirling...
"In its arrangement of spaces, carefully judged details and tactile material qualities, (the John Morden Centre) is a model for how to create a...
Misadventures In Museum Marketing: Van Gogh Museum Drops Its Pokémon Cards, Victims Of Their...
"Pokémon-hungry crowds descended upon the museum for the van Gogh–inspired merchandise that placed the brand’s most popular creatures in the context of van Gogh’s...
Arabic, Even Classical Arabic, Has A Rich Vocabulary Of The Erotic. It’s Been Erased...
Ahmed Naji, the only writer in Egypt ever to be sent to prison for the crime of offending public morality: "These words haven’t vanished...
At 89, What Keeps Wole Soyinka Going Strong? Being A “Closet Masochist”
“I should be slowing down, I know, but each time I try to slow down something happens, and I have to get on the...
The Nine-Year, £240 Million Journey To Opening Manchester’s Big New Arts Center
"When the venture was first announced in December 2014 ... the building was due to be called the Factory." Now the organization running it...
The Power Of 100 Black Orchestral Musicians On One Stage: The Gateways Festival At...
The event began in 1993 as a three-day symposium in North Carolina: "Gateways: Classical Music and the Black Musician." Now based in Rochester, the...
The Guardian Fires A Longtime Cartoonist For An Ill-Considered Panel About The Gaza War
This isn't the first of Steve Bell's cartoons to draw accusations of anti-Semitic imagery in 40 years with The Guardian, but it could be...
Another Prominent New York Dealer Charged With Trafficking Stolen Antiquities
"A recent announcement by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of the return of 19 antiquities to Italy disclosed charges against veteran New York antiquities...
Italy’s Ruling Party Is Doing To RAI What The Tories Are Trying To Do...
Deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini announced that the annual license fee that supports the country's national broadcaster (as with the BBC) will be cut...
Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Really Is Working
"Netflix on Wednesday disclosed summertime subscriber gains that surpassed industry analysts’ projections, signaling the video streaming service’s crackdown on password sharing is converting former...
The Most Produced Playwrights of America’s 2023-24 Season (Excepting Shakespeare)
For the second year running, Lynn Nottage tops the list, which includes nine women out of 20. (Lauren Gunderson, once the perennial leader, is...
America’s Ten (Really Twelve) Most Produced Plays Of The 2023-24 Season
For those who keep count, works by female creators make up almost half the list (definitely half if you count Carole King), and three...
Hillary And Malala Are Co-Producing A Broadway Musical About Suffragettes
Shaina Taub's show Suffs, which had a sold-out but critically-mixed premiere run Off-Broadway last year, will open on Broadway next April with a largely...
La Scala Opens Its New 17-Story Tower, Designed By Mario Botta
There are new rehearsal spaces for the ballet and orchestra (the latter equipped for studio recording), a big space for unloading and assembling sets,...
