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Cleveland Orchestra’s Tour Of Israel Is Canceled
The orchestra, with conductor Daniel Harding filling in for Franz Welser-Möst, was to have performed in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem during the last...
Changes At The National Museum of Women In The Arts
"Following several years of planning, a pandemic closure, a temporary reopening and a $67.5m makeover, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington,...
The American Library System Is Under Attack, And Not Just By Right-Wing Censors
"Book bans are at record levels, and libraries across the country are facing catastrophic budget cuts. … In a separate line of attack, library...
As Breakdancing Becomes An Olympic Sport, Some Worry About A Drift From Its Hip-Hop...
"Now breaking is preparing for its biggest international spotlight yet when it bows as an Olympic sport at the Paris Games in 2024. …...
Writers Guild Members Officially Approve The Agreement That Ended The Hollywood Strike
"Hollywood writers have voted almost unanimously to approve the contract agreement reached by their union leaders that ended a strike after nearly five months,...
U.S. Theater Is In Crisis? Not In Branson, Missouri. Maybe There’s A Lesson To...
"Approximately eight times a week, 40 weeks a year, Broadway-sized crowds watch (the musical) Queen Esther in a town of 12,000 people in the...
How Lisa Simone Made Peace With Brilliant, Tormented (And Tormenting) Mother Nina
"Sometimes she despised the woman who bullied, rubbished, physically abused and neglected her. At other times she adored the woman who could be fun,...
American Tourist Attacks Two Ancient Roman Statues In Jerusalem
"Police identified the suspect as a radical 40-year-old Jewish American tourist and said initial questioning suggested he smashed the statues (at the Israel Museum)...
Revisiting The First Book Banned In The United States
Okay, strictly speaking, it wasn't the United States yet, but the Puritan government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony suppressed Thomas Morton's book The New...
The Gay Neo-Hula Master Of San Francisco Who Just Won A MacArthur “Genius Grant”
The MacArthur Foundation's citation for Patrick Makuakāne called him a "cultural preservationist," but it's not that simple. "I don’t take traditional dance elements and...
Meet One Of Hollywood’s Most Revered, Most Ingenious, And Most Obsessive Set Designers
Jack Fisk is also one of the most difficult to recruit, going years (and, at one point, two decades) between films. And once a...
UNESCO Is Developing A Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
"Developed with Interpol, whose database of cultural objects stolen from museums, collections and archeological sites worldwide lists more than 52,000 artefacts, the $2,5 million...
Dallas Theater Center’s “Rocky Horror Show” Is Now Part Of The Resistance
Intentionally or not, the stage version of the polymorphously perverse cult classic, produced by North Texas's flagship theater company, has become a standard-bearer of...
Industry Leaders In Theater, Dance, And Music Talk About What’s Changed In New York...
"(WNYC's Sean) Carlson spoke to Casey York of the Off-Broadway League, Anna Glass of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Jake Rosenthal of Elsewhere in...
Sexual Harassment Has Lessened In Hollywood, But It’s Definitely Not Gone: Survey
"The latest WIF survey found 59% of respondents agreed the culture around sexual abuse, harassment and misconduct in Hollywood workplaces had improved in the...
Nasher Prize For Sculpture 2023 Goes To Otobong Nkanga For Work That “Resonates Across...
The 49-year-old Nigerian is the first winner from Africa and the first since the award changed from annual to biennial. The $100,000 prize is...
New York City Ballet Has Paid Peter Martins Over $2.8 Million Since He Was...
"Martins, who resigned as the organization’s ballet master in chief in January 2018 in the wake of sexual harassment and physical and verbal abuse...
The Writers’ Strike Is Over, But Writers For This Show Are Refusing To Return...
"Following controversy surrounding (The Drew Barrymore Show's) return to production amid the writers’ strike — a choice that Barrymore said she 'owned' — Chelsea...
Now London Has To Deal With Climate-Protesting Musical-Theatre Vandals
Activists with the British group Just Stop Oil, which started the climate-protesting art-vandalism trend, disrupted a West End performance of Les Misérables during (of...
The Met Opera Brings “Dead Man Walking” To Sing-Sing
"But the opera, with music by Jake Heggie and a libretto by Terrence McNally, had never been performed in a prison until last week...
Facing Staff Turnover, Arts Nonprofits Are Starting To Increase The Pay Of Administrative Workers
"The arts and culture sector has long been able to hire administrative staff at below market rates on account of their employees’ passion for...
“Worth The Suffering” — Peter Zumthor On His Experience Designing LACMA’s New Building
The Pritzker-winning architect at one point said that the troubled project led him to decide never to work in the US again. In fact,...
How Putin’s War Has Upended Ukrainian Literature
For more than two decades after Ukraine's independence, Russian-language titles accounted for more than four-fifths of the country's book market. That began to change...
Julia Ormond Sues Harvey Weinstein For Sexual Assault And CAA, Miramax, and Disney For...
The assault took place in 1995 after a business dinner between the producer and the actress. She is suing CAA, then her agency, for...
A Death On The Premises Closes London’s Courtauld Gallery
"'Yesterday afternoon, a tragic event occurred at The Courtauld Gallery premises that led to a fatality,' the museum said in a statement on Tuesday....
