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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...
The Traffic Facebook Sends To News Outlets Is Way, Way Down
"For 1,350 global publishers included in Chartbeat’s data, 27% of page views coming from external, search and social in January 2018 came from Facebook...
The Met Museum Gets Serious About Locating And Restituting Looted Art In Its Collections
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... announced a major new effort ... toward returning items it finds to have problematic histories. The core feature...
After 36 Years, MTV News Is Shut Down
"What launched as a single show in 1987 (The Week in Rock, led by correspondent Kurt Loder) eventually became a bona fide news outlet...
Love At First Sight? Kansas City Symphony Names Matthias Pintscher Its Next Music Director
"His appointment on a five-year contract (beginning in 2024) was announced Tuesday. The 52-year-old (conductor and composer) had not led the orchestra or been...
A Dance Critic Considers The Careful Choreography Of Charles III’s Coronation
Roslyn Sulcas: "As with the funeral rites for Queen Elizabeth II in September, the choreography of ritual surrounding the coronation was extraordinarily powerful. Almost...
Is Colonial Williamsburg Going “Woke”? No, Says Its CEO
Absolutely, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is expanding the stories being told there to include Blacks, Native Americans, and even LGBTQ people. CEO Cliff Fleet...
They Didn’t Light The Sydney Opera House For The Coronation, And Some Aussies Are...
"Citing a cost of between $80,000 and $100,000, Premier Chris Minns, whose Labor Party defeated the conservative Coalition government in a state election in...
Long-Rumored, Unfinished Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez Novel To Be Published Next Year
Penguin Random House will release En agosto nos vemos (We'll See Each Other in August) throughout Latin America in 2024. The roughly 150-page book...
Liverpool And Manchester Are “Really Strong Contenders” For English National Opera’s New Base, Says...
"Stuart Murphy, who steps down later this year, said three potential bases would be selected by the end of May and a winner chosen...
Lost Art Deco Murals From The Empire State Building Have Re-Emerged
The two oval-shaped murals, nearly eight feet tall, are part of a set of eight painted by artist Winold Reiss in the 1930s for...
Angry Right-Winger Sprays Purple Paint On Artwork At Paris’s Palais De Tokyo
A visitor described as an "elderly person" vandalized Miriam Cahn's painting fuck abstraction!, which the artist and museum say is a response to human...
Oklahoma’s Governor Defunds The State’s Public TV Network
On the last day of April, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill funding the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, calling public broadcasting an "outdated system"...
“Omar” By Rhiannon Giddens And Michael Abels Wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize For Music
The opera is based on the memoir of Omar Ibn Said, a scholar who was abducted in Senegal in 1807 and sold into slavery...
2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Goes To “English” By Sanaz Toossi
"Sanaz Toossi’s English has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Set in an English language class in Karaj, Iran, the drama quietly unpacks...
Carl Phillips’s “Then the War” Wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize For Poetry
"Washington University professor Carl Phillips has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his most recent book, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020....
New York Magazine’s Andrea Long Chu Wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
She was honored for five essays, among them "Hanya's Boys," about how author Hanya Yanagihara (A Little Life) tortures her gay male characters so...
2023 Book Pulitzers Go To Barbara Kingsolver, Hernan Diaz, “G-Man”, “His Name Is George...
For the first time, two winners split the fiction prize: Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead, and Diaz's Trust. Also honored were Beverly Gage's J. Edgar Hoover...
A YouTube Channel Helps Revive Qawwali, The Ecstatic Sufi Music Of Pakistan
"The Dream Journey aims to promote traditional, Sufi-style music, the popularity of which has declined in recent decades" due to the spread of militant,...
Watch The Centuries-Old Musical Game Played by Inuit Women
"In traditional katajjaq, also known as Inuit throat singing, two women stand face to face and perform a duet that doubles as something of...
