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Prosecutor Says Alec Baldwin And Others Could Face Charges In “Rust” On-Set Shooting
In a request for more funding to pursue the case, the district attorney for Santa Fe County stated that "we will be potentially charging...
Universal Isn’t Even Going To Bother Releasing The Gay Rom-Com “Bros” In The Middle...
"It's still unclear exactly what markets in the region will be affected, but it's likely to include Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt...
Joseph Thompson, Former Director Of MASS MoCA, Found Not Guilty In Fatal Driving Accident
Thompson, co-founder of the North Adams, Mass. museum, who stepped down as director in 2020 after 32 years, was charged with motor vehicle homicide...
Dustin Lance Black Reports Suffering A “Serious Head Injury”
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk and creator of the recent TV miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven didn't reveal the nature of the injury,...
In Florida, Three Orchestral Players Fired For Refusing To Get COVID Vaccines Are Suing
The three musicians, who were dismissed from the Naples Philharmonic as of June 30 and have filed suit against the orchestra's parent organization, claim...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Staffers Are On Strike
The 180 unionized members of the museum's 350-strong workforce walked out after two years of negotiations failed to yield agreement on a contract. The...
Guggenheim Museum Ends Its $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize
The museum instituted the biennial award in 1996 to honor "outstanding achievement in contemporary art." Asked why the prize is being discontinued, Guggenheim chief...
Choreographer Ralph Lemon Wins The Whitney Biennial’s Top Prize
"An influential choreographer and conceptual artist, (Lemon) won the Whitney Museum's $100,000 Bucksbaum Award, which goes to one artist in the Whitney Biennial every...
Melissa Barak, Los Angeles Ballet’s New Artistic Director, Talks About Her Plans
"I want us to do everything from experimental work to some story ballets or reimagined classics. There are certain neoclassical choreographers I would like...
Is Unboxed (The “Festival Of Brexit”) A £120 Million Waste Of Taxpayers’ Money? Or...
On the waste-of-money side are several MPs, including one who's asked the National Audit Office to investigate the festival. Unboxed's chief creative officer insists...
“If We Want To Preserve It, We Need An Intervention”: Five Suggestions For Repairing...
Is it too expensive? Too inaccessible for performers without money? Too crowded? Too concentrated? Just too damned big? With so many people saying the...
Are There Now So Many Podcasts That The Format Has Simply Turned Into On-Demand...
"It's difficult to cement a medium's sense of identity, culture, and meaning if hardly anybody is talking about the same thing — and that...
TikTok Is Cracking Down On Political Videos
"Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, TikTok announced Wednesday it is banning of campaign fundraising on its platform. It also announced new policies for...
Can Pay-What-You-Wish Concerts Bring New Audiences To Classical Music? Yes.
Price isn't the only barrier for a classical newcomer, but it's a big one, and the few American organizations that have tried pay-what-you-wish —...
Does Getting Banned Really Help A Book Sell Better? Very Rarely, And Here’s Why.
"A staggering 82 to 97 percent of book challenges go unreported on. That means these books, the overwhelming majority, don't even make it beyond...
Minnesota Orchestra’s Musicians Have A New Four-Year Contract
"Effective immediately, the new contract replaces a two-year deal signed during the pandemic in September 2020, which required a 25% pay cut for the...
Author Hilary Mantel Has Died Suddenly At Age 70
The tremendous success of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy (Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light) led to a reassessment...
$100K Nasher Prize For Sculpture 2023 Goes To Senga Nengudi
"Working across sculpture, installation, performance, dance, film, and photography, Nengudi is best-known for her R.S.V.P. series. ... These pantyhose sculptures are often filled with...
What Ballet Hispánico Looks For In Its Dancers
Artistic director Eduardo Vilaro: "I need their personalities to reach the highest heights of a theater. I don’t like deadpan dancers. And musicality —...
A New Hemingway Archive At Penn State Has Just Been Opened To Researchers
"The material includes four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts, hundreds of photographs, bundles of correspondence and boxes of personal effects that experts say...
Marlene Dietrich And The Art Of Creating A Persona
"Dietrich learnt from von Sternberg exactly how lighting could accentuate every hollow and curve in her face.... She would sometimes refer to herself in...
Machine Translation Still Isn’t Perfect, And Expecting Too Much Of It Could Be Dangerous...
"Ordering a coffee in a foreign country or translating lyrics can only do so much harm, but think about emergency situations involving firefighters, police,...
Sussing Out The Earliest History Of The Printing Press In Europe And Asia
For instance, was there any connection between Gutenberg's first printing of the Bible in 1455 and the first known document ever printed, 77 years...
George Lucas’s Museum Of Narrative Art Keeps Postponing Its Opening, But It’s Buying Plenty...
"This week, (the MNA) in Los Angeles announced that its opening has again been delayed, this time to 2025. ... But with the announcement...
The New International African American Museum Will Be About Slavery, But It Won’t Be...
"We have a real emphasis on cultural-competency training and cultural-empathy training with our staff," says the director, Dr. Tonya Matthews. "But ... there is...
