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Huge Crowds Protest Overtourism In Spain, Portugal, And Italy
In Barcelona, Palma de Majorca, Lisbon, Venice, Genoa, and other cities, crowds marched through the streets, brandishing signs and water pistols, angrily demonstrating against...
Louvre Abruptly Shut Down By Workers Protesting Overcrowding And Understaffing
“The Louvre’s spontaneous strike erupted during a routine internal meeting, as gallery attendants, ticket agents and security personnel refused to take up their posts...
Miami City Ballet Appoints A New Artistic Director, Only The Third In Its History
Following the early departure of Lourdes Lopez at the end of this past season, the company has appointed 45-yeard-old Gonzalo Garcia, a former principal...
In Defense Of The Dream Ballet, The Most Mocked Ingredient Of Stage Musicals
Going right back to the original, Agnes DeMille’s “Laurey Makes Up Her Mind” in Oklahoma!, the power of the dream ballet lies in ‘being...
Why World’s Fairs Are Still Worth Having, Even If They’re Not Cool Anymore
Historian Charles Pappas argues that, from the first World Expositions in Paris and Chicago in the 19th century through the groundbreaking 1939 World’s Fair...
50 Years After It Was Canceled By CBS, “Gunsmoke” Is Still A Hit
“Since wrapping production 50 years ago, … the western drama starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon … has never gone away, finding fans on cable...
Ocean Vuong Recounts The Death Of His Mother And Taking In His Young Brother
“It had been more than a decade since we lived together … a straight man with an affinity for collectible sneakers, basketball, sports cars,...
London’s Most Admired Theatre Producer Says Broadway’s Business Model Is Broken
Sonia Friedman, the producer behind, among many others, last season’s game-changing revival of Merrily We Roll Along, the revival of Sondheim’s Company with a...
The Resurrection of Lapham’s Quarterly Begins
“The literary journal Lapham’s Quarterly is relaunching its website and podcast this summer under the editorial guidance of the writers Donovan Hohn and Francine Prose — a fortuitous...
Mayhem At World Cafe Live In Philadelphia: Staff Walkout, Firings, Picket Lines
“Employees continued to picket on the day after Wednesday night’s walkout when, during a Suzanne Vega concert, they protested ‘an unacceptable level of hostility and mismanagement’...
Daniele Gatti Appointed Music Director Of Florence’s Opera House And Festival
Gatti, currently chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden and formerly music director of the Rome Opera and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, is...
Peru Reverses Decision To Shrink Protected Area Around Nazca Lines
“Peru’s culture ministry (is) reinstating with immediate effect the protected area covering 5,600 sq km (2,200 sq miles), that in late May had been...
How Healthy Is New York’s Theatre? Here’s A Look At The Data
“How are New York City’s theatres really doing in the wake of pandemic disruption, economic instability, and social upheaval? (This report) dives deep into this...
Yes, No, And We Give Up: The Verdicts In Harvey Weinstein’s New York Retrial
After what were reported to be extremely contentious deliberations, the jury found the disgraced producer guilty of one count of sexual assault and not...
“The Simpsons” Is A Wholesome, Fundamentally Moral Show. Really.
“What critics of the prime-time cartoon either fundamentally misunderstood (or conveniently overlooked) was its core truths. Bart loved his parents. He went to church...
Why Were The Early Seasons Of “The Simpsons” So Good? The Show Got Something...
And that’s almost no interference from network executives. Fox was the first new broadcast TV network in decades; new execs were intimidated by multiple...
Chicago Symphony Cancels Next Season’s MusicNOW Series
“The orchestra has informed subscribers that the contemporary music series will be ‘paused’ for the 2025-26 season. There was no public announcement or acknowledgement....
Why MAGA, The #Resistance, Trump Himself, And Almost Everybody Else Identifies With “Les Mis”
Venezuelans suffering through the worst of Maduro saw themselves in the show, but so did committed Chavistas. Same for anti-Lukashenko protesters in Belarus, Occupy...
Günther Uecker, Who Made Art With Hammer And Nails Rather Than Paint, Has Died...
“In his art work, seemingly endless numbers of nails, which would by themselves perhaps be perceived as potentially aggressive and hurtful, turned into harmonic,...
For The First Time In 40 Years, A Dance Company In Dallas-Fort Worth Has...
In contrast to the mess at Dallas Black Dance Theatre last year, when dancers voted to join a union and were promptly fired, leading...
Facebook Banned Rebecca Solnit After Her Essay About Los Angeles Riots
The author and activist reported on Bluesky last week that her Facebook account on Facebook was suspended, later adding that she was told the decision...
After Two-Year Restoration, Tintoretto’s Monumental “Crucifixion” Is Back On View
The 17-foot-by-40-foot painting is back in the board room of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, “painstakingly liberated from thick yellowed varnish,...
Wikipedia “Pauses” AI-Generated Summaries Of Entries
“The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of...
National Endowment For The Humanities Lays off Almost Two-Thirds Of Its Staff
“Approximately 100 employees were dismissed in a broad ‘reduction in force’ on Tuesday, June 10. … Fewer than 60 staff members remain at the...
Brian Wilson, Creative Mastermind Of The Beach Boys, Is Dead At 82
“There was an abiding pathos in his best records — not merely the idealized scenes the songs depicted, but also that they were created...
