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The Vermont Symphony Names A Music Director After A Three-Year Search
"After a three-year search, seven finalists' concerts; and extensive surveys of musicians, audiences and board members, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra finally has a new...
Ontario’s Conservative Government Eliminates One-Time Arts Grants
"The Ford government says it will maintain its $60-million in base funding for the Ontario Arts Council in next week’s budget but will not...
How Do Choreographers Come Up With Names For Their Works?
"It's a precarious task that needs to carefully shape the audience's experience but not smother it. A title should be just enough of a...
Ai Weiwei Recreates Monet’s Water Lilies With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Legos
The exiled Chinese artist's Water Lilies #1 is 50 feet long and incorporates 650,000 Lego bricks in 22 colors. The first public display of...
Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Struggles On Through Invasion And War
"The number of titles published in Ukraine was cut almost in half last year, dropping from 17,000 in 2021 to just under 9,000. …...
How Aaron Sorkin Is Remaking The Script Of “Camelot” Into Something Today’s Audiences Can...
The songs "How to Handle a Woman" and "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" haven't aged well, and the book of the Lerner &...
NPR And WHYY Will Make 40 Years Of “Fresh Air” Archives Available To Paid...
"Subscribers to Fresh Air+ will also get more recent exclusives, such as unaired excerpts from recent interviews and behind-the-scenes content that pulls back the...
Perhaps For The First Times, A Prominent Podcast Company Is Sold To Its Employees
Jesse Thorn, host/producer of the public radio show Bullseye and founder/owner of Maximum Fun, which produces several other podcasts, worried about the fate of...
Yet Another Director Of A Major Moscow Museum Is Ousted
Just a month after the director of the Tretyakov Gallery was forced to resign after being pressured to make the exhibits "in line with...
Virginia Zeani, Soprano And Teacher Revered By Colleagues, Is Dead At 97
"The conductor Richard Bonynge ranked her among the top four sopranos of the 20th century. And according to Ms. Zeani, Maria Callas's husband,...
Timbuktu Isn’t The Only West African City With Libraries Full Of Priceless Medieval Manuscripts
The oasis town of Chinguetti in north-central Mauritania, a major trans-Saharan trading stop in centuries past, has 13 libraries housing more than 6,000 manuscripts....
How Does A Public Radio Star Cope With Hearing Loss? Ask Mary Louise Kelly
"When I'm anchoring, I never have trouble, because the NPR studio is soundproof — there's no background noise to distract you, and I wear...
A Shostakovich Operetta About Australia’s Housing Crisis
"What could be more pressing than an operetta about the housing crisis? This is something that everybody in Australia is grappling with at the...
Iranian Women Are Posting Protest Videos On TikTok, Dancing Without Headscarves
Earlier this month a video of five teen girls dancing -- bareheaded, outdoors -- to the Rema/Selena Gomez hit "Calm Down" went viral. The...
Can Streaming Broadway Shows Help Sell In-Person Tickets? Very Possibly, If It Can Be...
"While the general consensus among industry experts is that digital access provides an opportunity for Broadway to reach new audiences and tap new revenue...
Playwrights Sarah Ruhl And Samuel D. Hunter On Religion And Theater
Hunter: "I think people have been really reticent to talk about spirituality or religion in these kinds of 'secular spaces.'" Ruhl: "For me, theater...
The Met Museum Is Reclassifying Some Formerly “Russian” Works As Ukrainian. It’s Not Going...
For a start, one of the artists reclassified as Ukrainian was, in fact, an ethnic Armenian, as New York's Armenian-American community was very quick...
Yes, Negative Headlines Work, But They Don’t Have To Be Angry Or Frightening: Study
A large survey of click stats from Upworthy.com (!) found that headlines with negative words had a higher clickthrough rate than those with positive...
Is The Indoor Plaza At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Is Finally Becoming A Genuine Public...
"The Kimmel Center was trumpeted as Philadelphia's fifth public square — an 18-hour-per-day, seven-day-a-week arts center where you could show up anytime and find...
Contractors Renovating A Kitchen Uncover 17th-Century Friezes
The murals, believed to date from between 1635 and 1699, are in a one-bedroom apartment in the old walled city of York in northern...
After 41 Years, Beloved NPR Veteran Sylvia Poggioli Is Retiring
"Sylvia's wide-ranging, often hard-hitting and always rich storytelling helped NPR distinguish itself in its early years as a news organization with deep interest in...
Why The Exclamation Point Started Fading Away, And How It Came Roaring Back!
Mid-20th-century writing guides taught that this emphatic punctuation mark should be used sparingly -- not least because advertising and marketing overuse it. But !...
Scientists Working On Notre-Dame’s Reconstruction Have Found Something They Had Never Anticipated
"Scientists working on the scorched interior of Notre-Dame de Paris have found iron was used in the cathedral's construction in the mid-12th century. It's...
Amazon Stops Selling Periodical Subscriptions For Kindle And Print
"Amazon hasn't shared its exact reason for the change …, but one obvious explanation is that relatively few people are buying these subscriptions and...
How Broadway Was Tied Up With Signature Bank
The New York-based institution is the favored bank of many Broadway theaters, producers, and related businesses; when New York state regulators closed Signature last...
