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Rape Charge Against Filmmaker Luc Besson Dismissed By French Court
After a 3½-year judicial investigation in Paris, and in accordance with the prosecutor's recommendation, the case brought against Besson by actress Sand van Roy...
Suddenly The Best Documentary Short Oscar Race Is Interesting, Thanks To Two Old Titans...
Time was, that was a low-stakes category for obscure indie directors. Ten years ago, HBO was the only major competitor. Now several legacy media...
Association Of American Publishers Sues To Stop States’ Library E-Book Laws
The trade group says that a Maryland law (along with a similar one pending in New York) requiring publishers who sell e-books to individual...
Rolando Villazón Had Thought His Voice Was Fried For Good — But He’s Singing...
Following a meteoric rise in the '00s, the Mexican tenor suffered more than one vocal crisis, changed repertoire, and finally gave up. But, he...
Dutch Government Set To Spend €150 Million To Buy A Rembrandt From The Rothschilds
The Standard-Bearer, once owned by George IV of Great Britain, is one of the very few Rembrandts still in private hands. The Rothschilds are...
Circus Oz, Australia’s World-Renowned Troupe, Is Closing Down
The government agencies that provide 75% of Circus Oz's budget told the company that it must revamp its board and governance or lose funding....
Doom Metal Organist Picketed By French Catholics Who Call Her Music “Satanic”
One critic describes Anna von Hausswolff's music as "where post-rock, doom metal, modern classical and high church music all coexist." Her concert at a...
In Germany, Stage Directors Rule, But It’s The Actors Who’ve Been Keeping The Theaters...
"One of the main reasons theater here has been able to rebound after repeated closures is that Germany effectively has a standing army of...
Now *This* Is How To Design Attractive Affordable Housing
Critic Oliver Wainwright says that the architects of this east London project, called A House for Artists, have found a way to follow local...
How “Squid Game” Has Transformed International TV
Better, perhaps, to say that the Korean hit marks a transformation that has been happening for several years now: the gradual acceptance by anglophone...
Ebook And Audiobook Stats From UK Libraries Have A Few Surprises
The sleeper among audiobooks — ahead of Michelle Obama and Kazuo Ishiguro, behind only J.K. Rowling — is mystery writer Brenda Chapman's Cold Mourning....
The Venue For New York’s Shakespeare In The Park Is Getting Its First Overhaul...
The structure of the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is deteriorating, and the renovation had been expected, before the pandemic, to run from 2020...
Fort Worth Symphony Names Kevin John Edusei Principal Guest Conductor
The 45-year-old German-Ghanaian, now in his final season as chief conductor of the Munich Symphony, joins incoming music director Robert Spano at the FWSO...
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee Statue Will Be Melted Down And Made Into New Black...
In a project called "Swords Into Plowshares," the Confederate monument that was the excuse for the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017 will...
Carnegie Hall Starts A Streaming-Video-On-Demand Network
The $7.99-a-month service, called Carnegie Hall+, isn't all, or even mostly, performances at the New York venue itself (where video recording is unusually expensive):...
Britain Makes Masks Mandatory For All Indoor Venues
With infections of the Delta and Omicron variants rising, the government has instituted what it calls "Plan B": audiences and staff at theatres, concert...
Filmmaker Lina Wertmüller Dead At 93
A protégée of Federico Fellini, she won critical acclaim internationally for such films as The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, and Swept Away;...
Literary Translators Are Finally Demanding The Recognition They Deserve — On The Book Cover
"For decades, translators in the U.S. have been ... working in the back rooms of literature even as they play a central role in...
A Museum On The Border Between North And South Korea (What Could Go Wrong?)
Unimaru, as it's called, opened in September in a former customs clearinghouse in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Visitors must get a permit from the...
Can Newly-Won Artistic Freedom In Sudan Survive Post-Coup?
After longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019, the country saw "the flowering of an artistic community that had long been harassed, censored...
Greg Tate, Cultural Critic And Pioneering Writer On Hop-Hop, Dead At 64
He made his mark as a staff writer for The Village Voice, covering everything from rap to Black hardcore, African-American identity to Michael Jackson....
Sondheim’s “Assassins” And American Gun Culture
"In Assassins, the gun serves not as a tool of self-defense … but as an instrument of self-expression and self-realization. The assassins, who saw...
The Sondheim Musical The Tributes Haven’t Been Mentioning
Assassins — "It wasn't exactly a flop, but it's not exactly celebrated, either. … The songs are just as catchy, melodic, and surprising as...
Can Anna Wintour, The Very Avatar Of Old-Style Condé Nast, Remake Its Titles For...
This year she's been focused on turning seven of Condé Nast's biggest publications into global brands, each under one leader. She is also ensuring...
Justin Peck May Have Been The Perfect Person To Choreograph The Remake Of “West...
He grew up watching Jerome Robbins's original choreography in the film, and he's danced it himself in the West Side Story Suite Robbins created...