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Jazz Pianist Carla Bley, 87
"Bley was a force in jazz even before she made her first albums, her compositions recorded by notable modernists of the 1960s. … (She...
The Textual Version Of Junk Food? The Selfie Of Grammar? No! In Defense Of...
"For hundreds of years, writers enjoyed the punchy power of a well-placed !, wielding its mighty sword of 'here be feelings!' with aplomb and...
Watching Jesse Green Review A Broadway Show
New York Times editor and culture writer Sarah Bahr tags along with the paper's chief critic to a preview of Gutenberg! The Musical and...
She Was Majoring In Dance When She Had To Have Her Leg Amputated. She...
Kara Skrubis recounts how she was diagnosed with bone cancer while in college. It was a long road to recovery, but when she got...
This Fancy New Arts Venue Is Right Across From The Eiffel Tower. It’s Meant...
The Grand Palais Éphémère, at the south end of the Champ de Mars in Paris, opened in 2021 as a short-term replacement for the...
“Barbenheimer” Was So Much Work, It’s Been Driving Movie Theater Workers To Unionize
"'That really pushed us to the edge,' says Maggie Quick, a guest attendant. 'It was just the constant understaffing and the emotional exhaustion.'" Union...
Arundhati Roy Criminally Charged In India For A Speech She Gave 13 Years Ago
The author of The God of Small Things gave a speech about Kashmir and the Indian government's counterinsurgency campaign there at a conference in...
One of Iran’s Leading Filmmakers And His Wife Found Murdered Outside Their Home
Dariush Mehrjui, 83, one of the founders of Iran's "new wave," and his wife/co-screenwriter/costume designer, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were discovered by their daughter with knife...
Oops! We’ve Lost Our Rodin …
A plaster version of The Burghers of Calais, now thought to be worth £3 million, is one of 1,750 works owned by the museums...
“The Problem Child Of International Orchestras”? Serious Issues In Philadelphia As Management And Musicians...
Contract negotiations drag on. Players say they want salaries that can attract top talent. Management says it wants to pay better but the cash...
Bomb Threats At Louvre And Versailles Lead To Tight Security At Paris Art Museums
Both venues were evacuated on Saturday after the threats came in. Heightened security will remain in place at least through the opening of Paris+...
Maryland Lyric Opera Has Shut Down
"In an internal memo, … the group’s founder and artistic director, Brad Clark, has announced he will end the operations of Maryland Lyric Opera,...
Why Does Ukraine’s National Ballet Perform For Only 400 People At A Time?
Because that's how many people the bomb shelter at their home theater in Kyiv can hold. (No, this is not a joke.) - Toronto...
The Block On Enforcing Florida’s Anti-Drag Law Remains In Place For Now, Rules Appeals...
"A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s granting of a preliminary injunction stopping the law...
AI Has Helped Read The First Word Deciphered From Ancient Scrolls Carbonized By Mt....
The scrolls, intact but carbonized and impossible to unroll, came from a library in Herculaneum destroyed by the 79 AD eruption that both wiped...
New York’s Under The Radar Festival, Canceled By The Public Theater, Is Revived By...
The January festival of new and experimental theater has been reassembled by founder/director Mark Russell, indie production company ArkType, and over a dozen theater...
Painting Stolen From Glasgow Museum 30 Years Ago Has Been Returned
In 1989, a group of thieves disabled an alarm system and broke into the Haggs Castle Museum of Childhood and stole a cache of...
Kharkiv’s Opera House Has Been Wrecked By Russian Missiles, But Its Company Continues To...
"In this, the 148th season of the company, the tiny core of remaining artists" – most of them escaped to Lithuania and are touring...
Chicago Seems Unable To Keep A Period-Instrument Orchestra. So It’s Adopting Cleveland’s.
The city's own Baroque-instrument ensembles seem to run out of energy and money after no more than ten years. (The venerable Music of the...
“Extraordinary. And Exhausting.” How The Staff Is Coping With Management Chaos At Sacramento’s Capital...
"An audit showing unpaid bills. More than half of CapRadio’s board later resigned. Potential conflicts of interest came to light. News from competitors ......
PBS’s Fall Schedule Is Almost Completely Unaffected By The Strikes. How Did They Pull...
"In fact, according to PBS’s chief programming executive, … just one program on its fall lineup was impacted by the strikes: John Leguizamo’s American...
The Gettysburg Review Is Abruptly Shut Down By Gettysburg College
The college's president granted that the Review is "a superb literary journal, does really extraordinary work … (but) its purpose is not the education...
Scrotum-Nailing, Bank-Burning Russian Refugee Artist Sentenced To Prison In France For Leaking Sexts
Pyotr Pavlensky was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined €20,000 for broadcasting sex videos of politician Benjamin Griveaux, this driving him out of...
A Queer Cowboy Ballet? Yup.
Okay, not ballet, strictly speaking. For the tenth anniversary of his company, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, artistic director Joshua L. Peugh has re-investigated his...
These Are Hard Times For Arts Organizations, And Even Harder For Small Ones
Their small staffs have more tasks to juggle, they depend more on volunteers (meaning unpaid labor), the size of foundation grants is based on...
