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US Ballet Companies Are Performing Fewer Works By Women Than Last Season, Researchers Find
"Of 1075 announced works for the 2022/2023 season amongst the Largest 150 U.S. ballet and classically influenced companies, 27% are choreographed by women, which...
Author Dominique Lapierre Dead At 91
His books — some nonfiction, some historical novels, several with co-author Larry Collins — sold 50 million copies. Among them are Is Paris Burning?...
Group “Concerned With Slavery Justice” Sues Smithsonian To Stop Repatriation Of Benin Bronzes
A New York-based nonprofit called the Restitution Study Group is asking a US federal court to undo the ownership transfer of the Smithsonian's 29...
Lula Promises He Will Reopen Brazil’s Culture Ministry, Shuttered By Bolsonaro
Outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro dissolved the Ministry of Culture on his first day in office, slashed arts funding by half or more and politicized...
Ukraine’s Culture Minister Asks Other Countries To Boycott Russian Culture (Even Tchaikovsky And Chekhov)...
"Oleksandr Tkachenko argues that such a 'cultural boycott' would not amount to 'cancelling Tchaikovsky', but would be 'pausing the performance of his works until...
Here’s The Ukrainian Culture Minister’s Essay Calling For A Boycott Of Russian Culture
"Russia isn't just physically attacking Ukraine; it is also trying to destroy our culture and memory. ... The Kremlin (has) made clear that culture...
Pantone’s Color Of The Year Gets The Assessment It Deserves
The color company used AI to create an "endless new ecosystem to be explored, called 'the Magentaverse'." Well. As the subhed puts it, "Say...
Timbuktu Isn’t The Only Place With Badass Librarians. They’re Heroes In Ukraine, Too.
"The brutal material horrors of the struggle, might make any cultural reading of the conflict seem fantastical or glib. But at its core, and...
When Good Oral History Demystifies Hollywood, What Do We Really Learn?
"For all the clouds of publicity, moviemaking is an artisanal business with a craft base. How you light, shoot, edit, even make deals —...
A Battle Over Whether John Neumeier’s “Othello” Is Racist Rocks The Royal Danish Ballet
Neumeier's adaptation includes a dream sequence which takes the Venetians' stereotypes of Othello to their limit, with the Moorish general doing an "African hunting...
Revisiting The History-Making Obscenity Trial Of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
D. H. Lawrence's novel had been banned in Britain since it was first printed privately in 1928, but in 1960, Penguin UK published the...
Adrienne Kennedy Is A Revered Playwright. She’s 91. Why Is She Only Now Being...
Her theory: "It's because I'm a Black woman." But there's more than that: her plays are more avant-garde than those of Lynn Nottage or...
With Its Leading Arts Philanthropists Leaving The Scene, Can Boston’s Arts Ecosystem Keep Thriving?
Many of the wealthy individual donors whose regular gifts have kept the region's institutions running are passing away, and their heirs may not have...
A New $100 Million Arts Complex For Boulder, Colorado? Let’s Not, Says The Arts...
A series of surveys and workshops has evidently found a consensus that "the big, 700-ish seat theater is kind of the least needed thing"...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Threaten To Start Slashing Paintings If We Don’t All Do...
Comparing their campaign to that of the suffragettes — one of whom attacked a Velázquez at London's National Gallery with a meat cleaver in...
Vienna State Opera Will Abolish Its Music Director Position
When conductor Philippe Jordan steps down from the job in 2025, it will be eliminated, announced superintendent Bogdan Roščić. "Historically, the State Opera has...
Emmy-Winning Actor Kirstie Alley Dead At 71
"Though she had an impressive body of work," — most notably, lead roles in the sitcoms Cheers and Veronica's Closet and in the surprise...
South Asian Novels Have Been On An Awards Streak Lately. Will That Help South...
This year's Booker Prize was won by a Sri Lankan, and the International Booker went to an Indian novel. And there's always Salman Rushdie. ...
Frederick Swann, Master Of The Mammoth Pipe Organ, Is Dead At 91
He was famous for his posts at the Riverside Church and the Crystal Cathedral, but he was most admired among colleagues for quickly figuring...
South Asian-Americans Are Trying To Reclaim The Swastika
The equilateral cross with arms bent at right angles has been a symbol of good fortune for Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains for millennia, and...
The Washington Post Is Closing Its Sunday Magazine
"The newspaper has eliminated the positions of the magazine's 10 staff members, according to the Post. There's no guarantee the staffers will be offered...
Check Out The Huge New Mosaics By Yayoi Kusama And Kiki Smith At Grand...
The artworks, four by Smith and one by Kusama, are in the soon-to-open Grand Central Madison, an addition to the historic train terminal built...
Sydney’s Big New Contemporary Art Museum Has More Works By Women Than By Men
"Fifty-three percent of works on display in Sydney Modern's exhibition spaces, its corridors and terraces are made by women. Five of nine site-specific art...
Looks Like Actors’ Equity And The Broadway League Have Settled On A New Contract
"The details of the agreement have not yet been released and remain subject to ratification by Equity members who have recently worked on these...
The Right-Wing Twitter Mob Comes For The Washington Post’s Theater Critic
Last week, a review by the Post's Peter Marks of Bruce Norris's Downstate carried an eye-catching headline: "Downstate is a play about pedophiles. It's...
