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Professional Dance As Pure Silliness
"(With performers) wearing colourful inflated suits and roaming across streets, parks and city centres, La Grande Phrase (The Big Phrase) is a dance-work series...
Decorating Deities: How A Hindu Temple Artist Does His Work
The idols themselves are typically made of plain stone or metal alloy, but part of Hindu worship is adorning the statues with clothing, flowers,...
A Book Critic Defends Prince Harry’s Memoir As Literature
Laura Miller: "At its best, (Spare) reads like one of those popular late-1990s novels about British singletons blundering their way out of solipsistic immaturity...
Film Festivals These Days Are Treating Controversial Movies As Radioactive
"For many in the indie film world, the drama surrounding Jihad Rehab (now titled The UnRedacted) marks a new status quo. ... (There's) a...
“A Justin Peck Ballet Doesn’t Look Like Anything Else”
"He is mathematical like Balanchine, but there's more of a lightness, an everyday quality that feels playful, even when the steps are technically arduous....
Keeping Aztec Sacred Dance Alive In Los Angeles
"Twenty-two Indigenous dancers move as one in a circle with a man dancing in the middle. They call him 'el general.' Lazaro Arvizu has...
UNESCO Is Training Law Enforcement To Spot And Intercept Looted Ukrainian Art
"The United Nations cultural organization is training law enforcement and judiciary officials from countries on Ukraine’s western borders, seeking to prevent the trafficking of...
New York City’s PBS TV Station Is Buying A Radio Station On Long Island
WNET, one of the flagships of the entire PBS system, will pay $100,000 for WEER, an FM station in Montauk on the eastern tip...
Philly Pops Gets An Eviction Notice From The Kimmel Center
"(The venue) has told the Philly Pops that unless it immediately comes up with rent from its just-finished holiday run, as well as advance...
Alec Baldwin Will Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter In On-Set Shooting
"Actor Alec Baldwin, who fatally shot a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie Rust in 2021, and the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez...
Performers In London’s West End Threaten A Major Strike
"Equity is calling for a pay increase of 17% in year one, and a further 10% in year two. Other demands include a five-day...
A Well-Known Tech Site Used AI Bots To Write Lots Of Features. Now It’s...
"It turns out the bots are no better at journalism — and perhaps worse — than their would-be human masters. On Tuesday, CNET began...
Jonathan Raban, Who Rejected The Label Of Travel Writer, Is Dead At 80
"He agreed with his fellow writer Bruce Chatwin, who famously turned down the Thomas Cook Award, that the term was too limiting. … When...
The Only New Broadway Shows That Seem To Be Selling Well Are The Ones...
Six productions — including A Strange Loop, Topdog/Underdog, and Death of a Salesman — closed last weekend, having struggled at the box office despite...
What Do You Get When You Cross An Opera With A TV Series?
While most US opera companies have returned to performing live and pulled back from the streaming video they offered at the height of COVID,...
Existing Podcasts May Be Doing Okay, But Development And Release Of New Ones Is...
"The number of new shows created dropped by nearly 80 percent between 2020 and 2022. Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic...
Meta’s Advisory Board Says Facebook And Instagram Should Stop Banning Breasts
"More than a decade after breastfeeding mothers first held a 'nurse-in' at Facebook's headquarters to protest against its ban on breasts, Meta's oversight board...
Dalia Stasevka Combines A Growing Career As Conductor With Ukraine Activism
In addition to speaking out regularly in the media, the 38-year-old native of Kyiv devotes time to raising money for relief efforts and gathering...
Three Defendants Confess To Dresden Jewel Heist
Rabieh Remmo, one of six men — all from a notorious crime family — on trial for the multimillion-dollar theft from Dresden's "Green Vault"...
Professor Fired For Showing Medieval Image Of Muhammad Sues Hamline University
"In her lawsuit, Erika López Prater alleges that Hamline University — a small, private school in St. Paul — subjected her to religious discrimination...
Hamline University Tries To Walk Back Its Criticism Of Professor Who Showed Image Of...
"Ellen Watters, the board chair, and the school’s president, Fayneese S. Miller, said Hamline’s initial stance on the incident was a 'misstep.' The usage...
Meet Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s New Artistic Director
"Adam McKinney, a Milwaukee native who has danced with numerous companies around the country, succeeds Susan Jaffee, who departed in December to become artistic...
A Most Unusual AM Talk Radio Station
"A talk outlet owned by a billionaire businessman for whom radio is a hobby. ... A station that airs an improbable patch-quilt of block...
An Old Military Air Base Becomes A New, And Affordable, Hub For Creative Arts...
"Old Jet sits inside a former fighter-jet operations building. Like most rural hubs, it houses a unique mixture of people who live locally and...
Dutch Old Master Judith Leyster, And Why She Matters
She was a rarity, a professional female painter, in the Dutch Golden Age; her work has been admired ever since — although, for centuries,...
