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Who Was William Shakespeare? William Shakespeare, And The People Who Argue Otherwise Are “Truthers”
Isaac Butler gives a hearty smackdown to the "anti-Stratfordians" he calls "Shakespeare Truthers," pointing out how they use the same techniques that 9/11 Truthers,...
This Librarian Who Was Shushed By A Patron Argues That It’s Fine For Public...
"These days libraries are bustling community centers, where being at least somewhat noisy is the new normal, especially when kids are involved. As someone...
Even Onstage In 2023, “Brokeback Mountain” Is Still A Tragedy Of The Closet
A new play based on Annie Proulx's story (not the 2005 film adaptation), starring Lucas Hedges as Ennis and Mike Faist as Jack, is...
Harry Bass Jr. Foundation Gives $40 Million For New Arts School At University Of...
"The school will be known as the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities and Technology. The largesse of the Bass Foundation follows...
Jacob’s Pillow Reveals Design To Replace Burned-Down Doris Duke Theatre
"The former 216-seat theater of about 8,500 square feet will be reimagined as a nearly 20,000-square-foot, 230-seat, multiuse theater with the same name and...
Fledgling San Antonio Philharmonic Announces Ten-Program Season
The 2023-24 season for the orchestra, founded to fill the void left by the now-closed San Antonio Symphony, will feature two performances of one...
Paris’s Pompidou Center To Close In 2025 For Five-Year Renovation
"Although the museum previously announced a long-term shuttering, it was expected to begin this year and last only through 2027. ... During the closure,...
This French Tycoon Will Try Almost Anything To Get Regular Folks Interested In Arts...
"To Frédéric Jousset, our most irrational ideas can sometimes be our finest. That thinking has led the 52-year-old thrill-seeker ... to build a giant...
Ethereal Words: Famous Writers Huffing Solvents In Late-19th-Century Paris
"The strands of medicine, consciousness expansion, intoxication, addiction, and crime were tightly entangled in fin-de-siècle Paris, where ether and chloroform circulated among bohemian demi-mondaines"...
A Visit To The World’s Largest Museum Of Latin American Art
The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), in the city's wealthy and artsy Palermo neighborhood, opened during Argentina's 2001 currency crisis...
Bollywood Film About ISIS And “Love Jihad” Provokes Firestorm In India
The Kerala Story, set in the southwestern state but produced by Mumbai's Hindi-language industry, purports to tell the story of three out of an...
The Beaches Of Barcelona Are Washing Away (But They Were Mostly Artificial Anyway)
They're a big business, attracting Barcelonans and tourists alike, but, thanks to rising sea levels and heavier storms, the city's beaches are eroding fast....
Why Egyptians Are Flipping Out Over Casting A Black Actress As Cleopatra (Maybe It’s...
"The show is dragging an ancient queen into Western debates in which she has no place, they argue, … and they would like Afrocentrists...
Putin’s Government Arrests Director And Playwright For Crime Of “Justifying Terrorism”
"Investigators opened a case this week against Yevgenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, alleging that Petriychuk's Finist, the Brave Falcon, which premiered in...
Despite The War, A New Ukrainian Opera Takes The Stage In Lviv
"Based on Gogol's short story 'The Terrible Revenge,' the opera (by composer Yevhen Stankovych) was directed by Andreas Weirich. ... 'We did some of...
The Old Barnes Foundation Has Become A New Museum
"The original Barnes Foundation building in Lower Merion, which the foundation left in 2012 to move to the (Benjamin Franklin) Parkway in Philadelphia, is...
How Is Broadway Choreography Changing? (A Critics’ Roundtable)
"Jesse Green, chief theater critic, was joined by the dance critic Brian Seibert and the contributor Elisabeth Vincentelli in a discussion about some of...
Documents Reveal Tug-Of-War Between British Museum And Government Over Parthenon Marbles
"The Foreign Office was dismissive of the British Museum's efforts to retain the Parthenon Marbles in 1983. The question of where the marbles should...
Prop 28 Has Funded Arts Instruction In All California Schools. Now They Have To...
"While an estimated 15,000 new arts teachers are needed statewide, (fewer) than 5,000 are currently credentialed in music, dance, theater, visual arts and media...
British Theatre Is Surprisingly Reluctant To Be Critical Of The Monarchy
"Where modern theatre takes bold, controversial steps in some directions, on the matter of the monarchy, dissenting voices rarely make their way to a...
Cartoonist Sam Gross, Who Cracked Readers Up At Both The New Yorker And National...
"(His) outrageous, sometimes shocking and occasionally — by today's standards — cancel-worthy cartoons are considered some of the funniest single-panel gags to ever appear...
How Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” Became Both A Canonic Text And A Culture-War Battleground
"The decades-long transition from a comic originally serialized in the pages of an alternative magazine to a mainstream, foundational, and even, yes, educational book...
Smithsonian’s National Museum Of African Art Is Looking For A Director — Again
"Ngaire Blankenberg, a museum and cultural consultant who took up the post in July 2021, left the museum at the end of March, a...
Now That Tucker Carlson’s Out At Fox News, Advertisers Are Coming back To His...
"'We have had over 40 new advertisers come into the hour since we launched the new program, including some of the largest in the...
Dance Data Project Finds A Third Of Resident Choreographer Positions Worldwide Are Held By...
As of 2023, the tally, which includes some contemporary as well as ballet-based companies, is 36% women and 64% men. (Among US companies, the...
