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Trying To Figure Out The Sexual-Abuse Scandal At Boston Ballet (Which Doesn’t Involve The...
The accusations are by ex-students of former principal ballerina Dusty Buttons and, especially, her husband. Gretchen Voss spent months investigating the case: "I made...
Europe’s Radio Orchestras Mustn’t Be Allowed To Disappear
"Public service radio orchestras have been one of the great civilising forces of the last century. That may be an unsexy proposition but ......
Barrington Stage Company, One Of The Berkshires’ Major Theatres, Names Its New (And Only...
"Alan Paul, the associate artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, will ... (take) over the nonprofit theater company in Western Massachusetts...
Finally, A TV Series About American Indians, By Indians, For Indians
David Treuer (Ojibwe) meets the creators and writers of Reservation Dogs and explains the ways in which the FX series is wildly, blessedly different...
Larry Josephson, A Public Radio Pioneer Several Times Over, Is Dead At 83
In the mid-1960s, with his daily morning show at New York's WBAI, Josephson helped invent freeform radio. In the 1980s, he pioneered the job...
Reinventing San Francisco’s Business District, Where The Office Culture May Never Fully Return
Office occupancy downtown is still less than a third of what it was before COVID arrived, so the public-private "community benefits district" for the...
Outsider Artist Henry Darger’s Distant Cousins Sue His Old Landlady Over Rights To His...
After Darger died in 1973, his landlords began promoting the art he'd made for 40 years and left behind in his apartment. (Darger had...
Bernard Marson, The Man Who Made SoHo Artists’ Lofts Legally Possible, Is Dead At...
In the late 1970s, artists were settling, illegally, in vacated factory space in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood. Marson, an architect and developer, spotted a...
Documenta Is Hit With A Second Anti-Semitic-Imagery Controversy
On display at one of the art festival's venues is a facsimile of a 1988 brochure about the PLO; inside the brochure are drawings...
Has New York City Ballet’s Summer Season In Saratoga Shrunk Permanently?
The amphitheater at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center was built as the summer home of the company, which, not so long ago, had a...
South Korea’s New President Orders Billions To Be Spent On Arts And Culture
"Not even two months after taking office, Yoon Suk-yeol has made a huge investment in the country's culture: a $3.7 billion fund for film,...
The British Museum’s Deputy Director Suggests A “Partnership” With Greece Over The Parthenon Marbles
"(We) want to change the temperature of the debate ... (and) find a way forward around cultural exchange of a level, intensity and dynamism...
Researcher Says He’s Begun To Decipher One of The World’s Most Mysterious Ancient Scripts
Linear Elamite is a set of characters that was used in and around the ancient city of Susa (in modern-day Iran) around 4,000 years...
Gay Soap Operas Are Helping Revive Thailand’s Pandemic-Battered Tourism Industry
"A recent wave of Thai dramas known as 'boys' love' (BL) ... has attracted a large following across Asia," especially among women around age...
Taiwan’s National Palace Museum Is Preparing To Hide Its Collection In Case Xi Jinping...
"With China stepping up military pressure on the self-ruled island, the institution ... which boasts one of the world's finest collections of Chinese imperial...
Teodor Currentzis Is Forming A New Orchestra, This One Not Funded By Russia
"The ensemble, to be called Utopia, will bring together 112 musicians from 28 countries, many of them soloists and principal players in renowned orchestras,...
More “Paradise Square” Drama As Director And Choreographers Sue For Unpaid Compensation
"The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society is seeking to enforce payment of (more than $140,000 in) owed royalties, fees and pension and health contributions...
French Government Declares That Notre-Dame Will Reopen For The 2024 Paris Olympics
Culture minister Rima Abdul-Malak: "We're all quite confident that 2024 will be the year of completing a large part of this reconstruction site and...
Actress Pat Carroll Dead At 95
From the 1950s through the '70s she was star of TV comedies and game shows before reinventing herself, at 50, as a classical stage...
Qin Yi, Last Of China’s “Four Great Actresses” And Whose Career Spanned Chinese Cinema...
"She weathered the ups and downs of 20th-century Chinese history, and thrived under different political realities. ... Her remarkable onscreen life spanned the Chinese...
Melbourne Will Go Three Years With Little Or No Large-Scale Ballet Or Opera
The State Theatre at Arts Centre Melbourne, the city's venue for the Australian Ballet and Opera Australia, is closing in March 2024 for three...
On Stand-Up Comedians And Their Water Bottles
"Their purpose seems obvious — to quench thirst, duh — but stage actors get dry mouths, and no Hamlet puts down his sword to...
Restoring The Cree Language To Everyday Use
"In Maskwacîs — an area with four First Nations reserves on the Alberta prairie between Edmonton and Calgary — Cree, the most widely spoken...
Plans For A New Art Gallery Of Nova Scotia Have Been Put On Ice
"The new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia planned for the Halifax waterfront is on hold. Premier Tim Houston said his government had decided the...
In US Ballet Companies, Far More Men Than Women Are Artistic Directors, but More...
In both positions, though, men are paid more than women in the same job — and for artistic directors at the 50 largest ballet...
