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The Recipe That’s Made “Yellowstone” The Best-Rated Drama On American TV
"(They) crossbred throwback Western with modern antihero drama, grazed on the myth of the West and hormone-injected it with rural-vs.-urban culture war. ... Yellowstone...
Pakistan Bans Its Own Entry For The International Film Oscar
"The Pakistan government has banned Joyland, the film that will be its Oscars contender, after pressure from hardline Islamic groups who called its depiction...
Choreographer Sean Dorsey’s Work Takes A Major Turn
"His four previous works, each two or three years in the making, have combined dance, music and storytelling to preserve LGBTQ history and illuminate...
A New Giacometti Museum Is Coming To Paris
"The Giacometti Foundation will take up residence in the former Gare des Invalides, better known in postwar years as the former headquarters of Air...
Boston’s Handel And Haydn Society, America’s Oldest Musical Group, Names New Artistic Director
Jonathan Cohen, a 44-year-old cellist, harpsichordist and conductor from Great Britain, begins his term next season. He currently leads his own London-based ensemble, called...
Roberta Flack, Stricken With ALS, Can No Longer Sing
The 85-year Grammy winner, whose biggest hits were "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song," has...
Jay Leno Hospitalized With “Serious Burns”
The former longtime host of NBC's The Tonight Show, who is now 72, reportedly suffered burns to his face in a gasoline fire which...
Leveling Up? Who Are You Kidding? Say Tory MPs About England’s Arts Funding
"A Tory revolt has emerged over 'patronising' claims that funding for established cultural institutions contributes to the government's levelling up pledge, amid concerns from...
“Symphony Of Sirens”: The Mammoth, Raucous 1922 Concert That Would Have Made The Italian...
Arseny Avraamov's work, written and performed in Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan for the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution, "included the entire Caspian flotilla, cannons,...
The Plays Of Henrik Ibsen, Where Women, Philosophy, And Theater Intertwine
"The male philosophers in Ibsen's plays do not fare well. In fact, they are a bunch of ramshackle figures – either adding sheer comedy...
Philadelphia’s Merriam Theater Was, Well, Problematic. As The Miller Theater, It’s Getting Fixed
Well, partially fixed: even the planned $30 million renovation can't address all the issues from decades of deferred maintenance. But leaks will be fixed,...
Julie Kent Has Made A Huge Difference For The Washington Ballet
"When Kent arrived in Washington, she brought a radiant star power that was undeniable. ... While praise for Kent is uniform in the dance...
Watching The Decline Of Social Media
"Mark Zuckerberg's empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people. ... Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has...
The Reason Deaf People Were Historically Excluded Wasn’t That They Couldn’t Hear
"Speech, rather than hearing, has been at the heart of deaf exclusion throughout history. People who were born deaf, or were deafened before they...
California Voters Approve Major Arts Education Ballot Initiative
"With the overwhelming approval of Proposition 28, California will now lead the nation in funding for the arts in every classroom. ... The passage...
Jury Finds Filmmaker Paul Haggis Liable For A Rape In 2013
"The jury deliberated for nearly six hours and the unanimous panel of four men and two women awarded the plaintiff, Haleigh Breest, $7.5 million...
HarperCollins Workers Are Officially On Strike
"Some 250 copy editors, marketing assistants and other employees at HarperCollins Publishers went on strike Thursday, with the two sides differing over wages and...
Museum Directors Warn Climate-Protesting Art Vandals: The Art Is Much More Fragile Than You...
"Climate activists targeting masterpieces around the world are not fully aware of how delicate the artworks are, the directors of almost 100 galleries have...
Now The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Coming After Classical Music
At the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam last week, members of the activist group Extinction Rebellion interrupted Verdi's Requiem, shouting "We are in the middle of...
China’s 400-Year-Old Women-Only Script Is Having A Revival
Nüshu, a phonetic, syllabic script (as opposed to the standard Chinese ideogram characters) used by and between women, developed in a rural area of...
Margaret Atwood And Wayne McGregor Make A Ballet Out Of “MaddAddam”
Atwood says, "I just want to know how you are going to get around the giant blue penises." McGregor's only response (other than laughter)...
Anselm Kiefer’s 200-Acre Gesamtkunstwerk In The South Of France
Michael Heizer's "City" isn't the only massive art installation out in the boondocks that took decades and millions of dollars to build. For 30...
“Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?” And The Age Of “Hagsploitation” Cinema
"In the years following its release, Hollywood started producing a string of (movies) which, like Baby Jane, provided veteran actresses including Barbara Stanwyck, Tallulah...
Classical Music Radio In Britain Is Losing Lots Of Listeners, Even Though Classical Music...
Data indicate that interest in classical music itself is growing, but BBC Radio 3, the more populist Classic FM, and newish Scala Radio have...
At 108, This Woman May Be The World’s Oldest Active Dancer
Eileen Kramer started dancing professionally in 1939 and lived in India, Europe, and the US before returning to Australia at 99. She now lives...
