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Orbán Government Fines Budapest Bookstore $36,000 For Displaying A Gay Young-Adult Graphic Novel
"Hungary’s right-wing government has fined a bookstore nearly €32,000 (12,000,000 forints) for displaying the award-winning young adult graphic novel Heartstopper in the children's section...
Translating A Stately, Centuries-Old Confucian Ritual Dance Into 21st-Century Performance
For their US debut, Seoul Metropolitan Dance Theater and stage director Kuho Jung have adapted the "il mu" dance from the royal Jongmyo Shrine,...
A Ukrainian Nonprofit Collects The Graffiti Invading Russian Soldiers Have Left Behind
"The cultural nonprofit Mizhvukhamy is documenting these findings in Wall Evidence, an open archive created for future research (on) the Russian invasion." Some samples:...
Why Did Dürer Paint Himself Into An Altarpiece? Spite, According To New Research
"The Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer took revenge on his patron" — Jacob Heller, a wealthy Frankfurt merchant — "after a bitter row over pay...
Nearly A Fifth Of Staff Laid Off At New York’s Public Theater
Says artistic director Oskar Eustis, "Our audience is down by about 30 percent, we have expenses up anywhere from 30 to 45 percent, and...
Disney May Sell Off Its Television Holdings, Including ABC (But Not ESPN), Says CEO...
"Disney is going to be 'expansive' in its thinking about the traditional TV business, leaving the door open to a possible sale of the...
The Fledgling Festival That’s Helping Revive Boston’s Jazz Scene
"The Charles River Jazz Festival started (in 2021) as a slapdash (post-pandemic) passion project with a $2,000 budget, four local acts and 500 attendees....
No Promotional Work Allowed During The SAG-AFTRA Strike
"SAG-AFTRA members will not be able to attend premieres, do interviews for completed work, go to awards shows, attend film festivals or even promote...
To Elevate Its Reputation, Miami Beach To Spend Nearly $100 Million On Arts And...
"The $97.6 million in bonds will be backed by property taxes, which surged in recent years as the city became a magnet for the...
IATSE Ratifies Contract Covering Touring Productions
"The so-called Bus & Truck Touring Agreement pertains to IATSE crew members working on tours presented by (four corporations which) are not Broadway League...
The Whitney Museum Is Having A Lot Of Fun On Its New Threads Account
Quite a few museums have started communicating with the public on Meta's new Twitter alternative, but none (so far) with quite the enthusiasm or...
You Can’t Tell Much From A Person’s Handwriting, But You Can Tell This
It's how people have been socialized to present themselves. "Doctors have a culture of sloppy writing; teen girls have a culture of dotting their...
Mary Ann Hoberman, One Of America’s Great Poets For Children, Is Dead At 92
Described by the Poetry Foundation as "a consummate channeler of children's sensibilities," she wrote more than 50 books for young readers, starting in 1957...
Why Has The Hong Kong Arts Centre Been Hemorrhaging Staff?
"Management’s attempt to overhaul the Hong Kong Arts Centre has triggered a mass walkout at the 46-year-old non-profit institution, with former employees reporting that...
When COVID Shut Down Performance Venues, One L.A. Dance Artist Had A Clever Idea...
Named after the one lightbulb that stays on in unoccupied theaters, the Ghost Light Residency gave a single dance artist (to maintain social distancing)...
Considering All The Conflicted Feelings About The Surprise Success Of “Fast Car”
Now that Tracy Chapman's 1988 classic is becoming one of the biggest hits of Luke Combs's career, there are uneasy, complex emotional responses, especially...
Thirty Years Ago, Des McAnuff Staged “The Who’s Tommy” For Broadway. Now He’s Giving...
"In 2023, McAnuff argues, Tommy’s transformation from catatonic schoolboy to a charismatic cult leader resonates more strongly when considering modern-day celebrity worship. And the...
Things Are A Mess At The Israel Museum
The institution itself is strange, neither public nor private: still, after nearly 60 years, funded largely by contributions from abroad, yet located in a...
SAG-AFTRA Has No Deal With Producers; Final Strike Vote Will Happen Today
The union's negotiating committee unanimously recommended that its National Board declare a work stoppage, and the Board will meet Thursday at 9 am Pacific...
Three Pulitzer Winners Laid Off In One Day As McClatchy Drops All Editorial Cartoons
The casualties are Jack Ohman of the Sacramento Bee, Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer. The newspaper...
The Shed Hires A Separate CEO: Meredith Hodges Of Boston Ballet
"The position was initially held by Alex Poots, who founded the Manchester International Festival and served as the artistic director of the Park Avenue...
Every Two Years, Indigenous Peoples Of Northeastern Australia Gather Together And Dance
"Since its inception in the early 1980s, the Laura Quinkan Indigenous Dance Festival has brought together Indigenous communities from across Cape York, the Torres...
A Literary Translator Leads Us Through Her Process, Line By Line
"A word can be a perfect fit until something I try in the next clause introduces a clumsy repetition or infelicitous echo. Meaning, connotation...
Here’s One Case Where AI Translation Seems To Work Well: Ancient Cuneiform
"A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and computer scientists has developed an artificial intelligence that can translate Akkadian almost instantly and unlock the historic record...
Another Culture War Over Spain’s Bullfights — And This One’s Not About The Bulls
This particular struggle is over the tradition of comic bullfights, often before the main corrida, featuring performers with dwarfism. Traditionalists see it as Spanish...
