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Controversies Over Research Into One Cambridge College’s Ties To Slavery Turn Ugly
"What happened at (Gonville & Caius) demonstrates the collision between two different worldviews: one that sees research into the history of slavery as a...
Hollywood’s Commercial Choreographers Have Formed A Union of Their Own
"After forming in 2022, the Choreographers Guild started accepting members this spring. The labor organization plans to tackle a host of issues: It aims...
Unreleased Live John Coltrane Recordings Rediscovered In New York Public Library
The recordings of joint concerts with Eric Dolphy at New York's Village Vanguard were stumbled on by a Bob Dylan researcher. They've now been...
How The Smithsonian Has Helped Rebuild Mosul’s Cultural Museum, Wrecked By ISIS
Dr. Richard Kurin, founder of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, writes about how the Washington museum complex, along with the Louvre, the World Monuments...
Salman Rushdie’s Next Book Will Be About His Getting Stabbed Onstage
"It will be a relatively short book, a couple of hundred pages. It's not the easiest book in the world to write but it's...
Oklahoma Legislature Overrides Governor’s Defunding Of State’s Public TV Network
"Cheers broke out in the Oklahoma House of Representatives as lawmakers approved the bill that reauthorizes OETA (the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority) as a...
Texas Ballet Theater Names Tim O’Keefe (Permanent) Artistic Director
The dancer-turned choreographer joined the Fort Worth company as associate artistic director in 2002 and was appointed acting artistic director last summer when Ben...
Fresno, California Is About To Spend Millions On The Arts. The City’s Arts Community...
Fresno voters approved a ⅜-cent local sales tax, with 12% earmarked for arts and culture, in 2018; the city awards the first grants this...
This Dave Eggers Project Lets Young Readers Edit Books-In-Progress Written For Their Age Group
"'We started cooking up this idea of showing students or classes written manuscripts and saying, 'What do you think?' To show them the process...
Even Peter Weir Had No Idea Just How Prescient “The Truman Show” Would Be
"Released in 1998, the film about one man living in a fabricated reality concocted by TV producers made an impact, but ... in subsequent...
Figuring Out The Rules Underlying Conceptual Art, Which Was Invented To Get Rid Of...
"There's an underlying logic and set of constraints that constitute specific choices as meaningful. While the materiality of these works is all over the...
The Winner Of This Year’s Tony Award For Teachers Has His Students Perform Both...
"The special Tony Award that honors educators will go this year to Jason Zembuch-Young, a drama teacher in Florida who has closed the gap...
What’s Holding Broadway Back From A Full Audience Recovery? The Burbs.
"Grosses are down about 13% from the record 2018-19 season but only 7% from the (previous) year. The remaining gap is largely caused by...
Florida Art Dealer Who Sold Bogus Basquiats And Warhols Gets More Than Two Years...
"After pleading guilty in February to money laundering for selling cheap reproductions of works purportedly by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Roy Lichtenstein at...
Disgraced Donors The Sackler Family To Pay $6 Billion And Lose Purdue Pharma In...
"The Sackler family will pay out $6 billion to fight the ongoing opioid epidemic and give up control of their company Purdue Pharma in...
Jonathon Heyward Named Music Director Of What Was The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
"This summer, Louis Langrée wraps up his 21-year run as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival and its orchestra. Next year, the 30-year-old...
A Desperate Maggio Musicale, Florence’s Opera House, Looks To Sell Off Its Archives To...
"The Maggio Musicale in Florence may sell its large archive in a desperate attempt to find €8.5m by July, part of a huge debt...
At Brooklyn’s Very Own Superfund Site, Herzog & de Meuron Turn A Derelict Building...
"Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed the restoration and conversion of … the remains of a 115-year-old power plant" along the...
The Lead Producer Of “Shucked” Talks About What May Be Broadway’s Most Unlikely Hit
"After years of development, Shucked ... became what it is today, an irreverent comedy that both delights in its Dogpatch characters and knows full...
Turkey’s Arts World Is Feeling Anxious Following Erdoğan’s Re-Election
"Turkey's creative community fears Erdoğan could now intensify a long-running crackdown that has intimidated artists, musicians, filmmakers and other cultural activists. Kurdish, female and...
Dancer Brian Henry, Aka HallowDreamz, Is “The Face Of Krump In New York”
"It's not just that he's commandingly large and muscular, with a Moses-like beard. ... Standing in profile with his chest angled forward, he could...
Italy’s New Right-Wing Government Is Disrupting The Country’s State Broadcaster
"Eight months after Italy took a sharp turn to the right, the government headed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ... is wreaking havoc at...
Here’s The Story Of That Other Classical Music Organization In San Antonio
Over the past few years, as the San Antonio Symphony slowly fell apart and the new San Antonio Philharmonic was born, firefighter-turned-administrator Paul Montalvo...
A City’s Nearly 40 Public Sculptures Get Their Yearly Baths
"Zach Tatti, an art conservator, (has) made his annual trek to Philadelphia to clean and restore sculptures throughout the city. It's been a tradition...
The Resurrected MoviePass Has Now Launched Across The U.S.
"(The $10-monthly) Basic level gets you one to three movies a month. ... A $40 Pro account will get 30 movies a month —...
