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How To Memorialize Dawn Powell When We Can’t Find Her Grave?
"She now inspires the kind of devotion that might include pilgrimages to her gravesite — had her body not wound up in an unmarked...
Was Christian Thielemann A Wise Choice To Succeed Daniel Barenboim In Berlin?
"Thielemann's personal canon consists of a handful of German-speaking composers, mostly from the mid-19th to the early-20th centuries, all of whose music benefited massively...
Life As A Dancer At The Moulin Rouge
"There aren’t many jobs in which a cartwheel can make or break your dreams." - The Independent (UK)
A Surprise Candidate Beat Damien Hirst As Last Year’s Bestselling Artist At Auction
"Aboudia, aka Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, 40, whose art is inspired by street culture in his hometown of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, heads the Hiscox Artist...
Major Financial Mismanagement Uncovered At Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio As University Takes Over Control
California State University Sacramento, the official licensee for CapRadio's two outlets (news/talk KXJZ 90.9 and classical KXPR 88.9), has assumed control of the stations...
Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio Nearly Went Bust And Shut Down. What Happens To It...
Cal State U. Sacramento came to the rescue with a cash infusion this summer as CapRadio's unpaid bills, rent and NPR dues piled up....
This Museum Employee Committed An Unusually Brazen Theft
The unnamed, now-former collections management staffer at the Deutsches Museum in Munich took one painting right off the gallery wall, replaced it with a...
Founder Of Philly Fringe Festival Is Stepping Down After 27 Years
Nick Stuccio established the Philly Fringe in 1997, inspired by a visit to the Edinburgh Fringe. Over the years, the festival has grown from...
This Family Has Been Making Bronze Bells For More Than 1,000 Years
"The Marinellis have been handcrafting bronze bells (in the mountains of southern Italy) since at least the 11th century, although archaeological findings at nearby...
Now That Breakdancing Is A Competitive Sport, Team USA Has Fallen Behind
"As ambassadors of the country where breakdancing originated 50 years ago, members of Team USA have something to prove — and potentially to lose...
Leading Avant-Garde Theater Directors Are Turning To The Musicals Of Andrew Lloyd Webber (?!?)
Ivo van Hove is bringing his video-heavy style to Jesus Christ Superstar in Amsterdam. Jamie Lloyd (loves Pinter, hates scenery) is staging Sunset Boulevard...
How Asian-American Parents Teach Their Kids Heritage Languages They Themselves Can Barely Speak
"In the U.S., bringing a heritage language back into a family usually comes down to the efforts of individuals. The parents I spoke with...
England’s Second City Is Bankrupt. Arts Groups Fear It Might Sell Off Its Cultural...
"After Birmingham city council declared itself in effect bankrupt this month, there has been growing speculation about what assets could be sold to help...
Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland Sues Poland’s Minister Of Justice For Defamation
"The three-time Oscar-nominated Polish director is going ahead with her defamation suit against minister Zbigniew Ziobro after Ziobro refused to apologize for public comments...
Agnieszka Holland On Her Award-Winning Refugee Film, “Green Border”, And Why Poland’s Government Is...
"The decision to do the film the way I did (came from) working in a country that uses police, and its military forces to...
Archaeologist Helping Manhattan DA Identify Looted Antiquities Complains That His Work Never Gets Credited
“They are taking my work and presenting it as theirs,” said Christos Tsirogiannis. “They are showing off with my academic work and not giving...
Juilliard’s Acting MFA Program Will Become Tuition-Free
The change, which takes effect in fall 2024, "follows other acting programs that have stopped charging tuition, including the Yale School of Drama, which...
Actor Michael Gambon Is Dead At 82
"(His) extraordinary acting career took him from Laurence Olivier’s nascent National Theatre to screen roles in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films....
Daniel Barenboim’s Successor In Berlin Will Be —
— the man everyone presumed it would be. Christian Thielemann will become general music director of the Berlin State Opera, and chief conductor of...
Think Our Politicians Indulge In Too Much Performance? Consider The Emperor Nero
"For a start, the boundary between the emperor and his acting parts was a significantly blurry one. … The awful black hole at the...
Google Search Is Arguably The Internet’s Most Important Innovation. Now It’s Also A Tragedy.
"Unlike its streamlined, efficient former self, Google Search is now bloated and overmonetized. It's harder now to find answers that feel authoritative or uncompromised....
At 88, Yvonne Rainer Is Touring Her Final Choreographic Work
"'I just don’t have any more choreographic ideas,' she said. She went on to describe dancing Trio A in her 80s, when getting up...
Some US Regional Theater Companies Are Bouncing Back Well From The Pandemic. Here’s Why.
How the Barter Theatre in rural southwestern Virginia, Signature Theatre in metro DC, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, Arkansas kept up contact...
New York Public Radio Will Lay Off 12% Of Its Staff
"LaFontaine Oliver, New York Public Radio's president and chief executive, said in a memo to employees that a 'free fall in the advertising market'...
One Of Ethiopia’s Most Sacred Objects, Looted 155 Years Ago, Is Returned
"A sacred tablet that was stolen by British troops during the 1868 Battle of Maqdala in Ethiopia was restituted in a service at a...
