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What’s Happening With, And To, The Russian Language In Ukraine
Ten years ago, almost half of Ukrainians said Russian was their first language; now, 21% say so (or, at least, admit to it). These...
George Benjamin’s New Opera Is About, Believe It Or Not, Happiness
Not that it's cheerful, mind you: Picture a Day Like This is about a mother whose child has died. Yet, after Benjamin's brilliant-but grim...
Ireland’s Government Begins “Root And Branch” Double Inquiry Into Scandal-Rocked National Broadcaster
"The first strand will focus on (RTÉ's) governance and culture. A second review will examine contractor fees, human resources and other matters. … The...
Washington Ballet’s Post-Julie Kent Transition Won’t Be Easy
As Kent is leaving the company's artistic directorship, nearly a quarter of the dancers are leaving with her, with five of them (all men)...
MIT To Launch A Music Education Center At The Dallas Symphony
The Jeanne R. Johnson Education Center, opening next year in Dallas, is a joint project of the DSO and Tod Machover's Opera of the...
How An Enterprising Little Website Rescued Arts Coverage In Atlanta
In 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution dropped its arts section altogether, and the region's cultural community was aghast. So a couple of the AJC's laid-off...
Poor Drama Teachers Are Having To Worry About Political Battles Every Time They Put...
"Around the country, in blue states as well as red, theater teachers say it has become increasingly difficult to find plays and musicals that...
New Curator Of African Art At New Orleans Museum Of Arts Is White, And...
In response to criticism on social media, the museum said in a statement, "While we can't speak about others considered for this post, (Amanda)...
Architect David Adjaye Accused Of Sexual Misconduct, Steps Away From Major Projects
In a report in the Financial Times, three women employed in the Accra, Ghana office of Adjaye's firm accused him of sexual harassment, a...
Robert Sherman, A Fixture At Classical Radio Station WQXR For 68 Years, Is Dead...
"For nearly 70 years, Bob Sherman worked his radio magic at WQXR, wearing almost every imaginable hat along the way. … In addition to...
Teaching Rohingya Children To Read And Write Their Language For The First Time
"The Rohingya language remained an oral tradition until the 1980s, when scholar Mohammad Hanif developed a script based on Arabic letters" — only to...
Maxine Peake’s New Theatre Company Is Staging An Artists’ Dystopia In A Manchester Library
Kay Dick's 1977 novel They depicts a world in which any painter who creates beyond an official limit is blinded, any musician deafened, etc....
The Chicago Symphony Brass Section Is A Hotbed Of Period Instruments (Who Knew?)
We're not talking valveless Baroque trumpets or 16th-century sacbuts, mind you, but several of the CSO's musicians are serious collectors of trumpets and trombones...
Actor Alan Arkin, 89
"(His) background in improvisation and knack for comic drama were cornerstones of his genre-hopping career that yielded enduring characters from the 1960s comedy The...
In Some Cities, Libraries Are Remaking Themselves As Locations For Remote Workers
"In addition to resources such as free internet and printer access, they're building up offerings aimed at small-business owners and professionals, renovating to include...
In US Contemporary Dance Companies, The Leadership Is Largely Female: Dance Data Project
"Clearly, the contemporary and modern dance world offer far more leadership opportunities for women than classical dance. However, as noted in the first report,...
If The Actors In SAG-AFTRA Go On Strike Next Week, This Is Why
"Despite tensions, guild leaders said that talks with the studios have been 'extremely productive.' But key differences remain, and the union is under heavy...
As The Legislative Session Ended, Oregon Lawmakers Shortchanged The Arts
"A 2023 session that began hopefully for the state's arts and cultural industries ended in deep disappointment, with many requests rejected outright or funded...
For The Second Time This Year, British Museum Workers Will Go On A Weeklong...
"Visitors services and security staff in the Public and Commercial Services union have announced that they will walk off the job July 11-16. The...
Union Accuses Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Management Of Reneging On Pay Raises In Contract
"Less than a year after a bitter, nearly three-week long strike, the (museum) and its workers are again locked in a dispute — this...
Going Virtual During COVID Turned Into A Major Success For Dallas Black Dance Theatre
"(Executive director Zenetta) Drew said the theatre's (online) programming has continued to net six figures each year and has also brought in new audiences...
Why Wisconsin’s Arts Funding Is So Low
"Arts groups say Wisconsin ranks last in the nation in per-capita funding for the arts and want to see some of the state budget...
Jeremy O. Harris Gets 36 Minutes On “Fresh Air”
The playwright talks about producing Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, the awkward conversation with a straight guy that inspired Slave Play,...
Fledgling San Antonio Philharmonic Appoints Its First Executive Director
The new chief of the orchestra — formed last year by the musicians of the defunct San Antonio Symphony — is Roberto Treviño, a...
With San Francisco Art Institute Bankrupt And Closed, Its Diego Rivera Meta-Mural Is For...
SFAI attempted to sell the work, titled The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, in 2021, hoping to save the...
