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Evidence For A Putin War Crimes Trial In A New Report On Destruction Of...
"(The briefing) by the NGO Blue Shield International has tentatively made the claim that the Putin regime has premeditatively, systematically — and provably —...
The Dude Endowment: $40 Million Gift To New York Philharmonic To Fund Gustavo Dudamel’s...
"The 42-year-old Dudamel has been music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, a tenure that will end after 17 seasons when he...
Pulitzer Board Opens Arts And Literature Prizes To Non-US Citizens
"The prestigious award for books, drama and music, which had previously been open to just US citizens, will now consider permanent residents of the...
The US Military’s Long History With Drag (Which The Pentagon Has Now Banned)
While soldier-led cross-dressing shows go as far back as the late 19th century, "drag in the military really took off during World War I...
The Real-Life Man Who Was, And Was Not, Uncle Tom
Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her 1853 book A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote that the autobiography of Josiah Henson was one of her...
What The Upcoming Broadway Revival Of Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” Has Done To...
Though the musical recounts, in reverse, the dissolution of a close personal and professional friendship, the work of re-creating the central characters has brought...
A Stolen Van Gogh Is Returned, Hidden In A Pillowcase Inside An Ikea Bag
The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884) was taken from the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam in March 2020. A culprit was convicted...
The Last Remnant Of Radio Disney Is Sold Off
"The last Walt Disney Co.-owned radio station is officially in the hands of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, which has closed on the $5...
Metropolitan Opera Commissions A New Work About Ukrainian Children Abducted To Russia
"The (opera), which will be written by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets, with a libretto by the American playwright George Brant, tells the story...
Earthquake Leaves Much Of Medieval City of Marrakech In Ruins
"The Medina district dates back centuries and is enclosed by walls built of red sandstone. ... Long sections are showing deep cracks and parts...
Cleveland Orchestra’s Franz Welser-Möst Has Had A Cancerous Tumor Removed
While he's still scheduled to conduct the orchestra's season opener on Sept. 28, he has cancelled all performances from late October through the end...
Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, David Henry Hwang Sue OpenAI For Copyright Violation
"A group of authors… have filed suit in federal court against OpenAI, alleging the company unfairly used their copyrighted works to teach its chatbots...
Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Are Without A Contract As Management’s Offer Is Rejected
"The orchestra members voted definitively Sunday to reject the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc.'s 'best and final offer,' which came after three full...
“Swan Song” — Filming The Tumultuous Gestation Of “Swan Lake”, Karen Kain’s Farewell To...
"'Nothing was going well!' (director Chelsea) McMullan recalls. 'Sean (O'Neill, the writer and producer) and I were terrified: 'We're filming Karen Kain's production as...
Queen Anastasia Alexander Leads Us Behind the Scenes At A Chattanooga Drag Show
A young Knoxville man named John takes a reporter through his preparations to perform — as Anastasia, his drag persona — in a sort...
Afghan Musicians Keeping Their Art Form Alive In Exile
"The stories of repression, resistance, and activism that follow are those of three young Afghan musicians who now live abroad and who continue to...
The Art World Frets About New York’s Armory Show Now That It’s Been Bought...
"(The acquisition) raised one uncomfortable question that remains unanswered: how Frieze would juggle both the Armory Show and Frieze Seoul, which run concurrently, in...
A Visit With Charles Busch, “The Celebrated Male Actress”
Ben Brantley visits the "Chinese-red living room" and "blindingly white boudoir" of the award-winning performer-playwright. "It felt like the natural setting for someone who...
Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland Threatens To Sue Poland’s Justice Minister
"Controversy over Venice (Festival) title Green Border continues to heat up as director Agnieszka Holland gave an ultimatum to Poland's Minister of Justice Zbigniew...
Disney Narrows Its Lawsuit Against Ron DeSantis
"Disney (has) amended its suit to drop Contracts Clause, Takings Clause and Due Process Clause violations. It will focus on allegations … that the...
Anchor Books Will Be Shut Down As A Separate Imprint
"Vintage/Anchor publisher Suzanne Herz will leave Penguin Random House in December. Anchor Books will gradually be phased out, starting with its hardcover program next...
Laurene Powell Jobs And A Group Of Arts Leaders Want To Buy The Defunct...
"We are working to see that the Art Institute is preserved for aspiring artists to advance their work," said SF Conservatory of Music president...
A New Arts Center In South Florida Will Be Designed by Renzo Piano
"The Center for Arts and Innovation … plans for six adaptive performance and event spaces — indoor and outdoor — ranging in seating capacity...
America’s Longest-Running Jazz Festival Names Its Next Artistic Director, Only The Third In Its...
The Monterey Jazz Festival was founded in 1958 by Jimmy Lyons and has been run for 32 years by Tim Jackson. Next year he...
Rotten Tomatoes Has Never Been More Important — Or More Compromised
"Now, it can make or break them — with implications for how films are perceived, released, marketed, and possibly even green-lit. The Tomatometer may...
