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Australia’s National Cultural Institutions Get Big Funding Boost After A Decade Of Neglect And...
"The arts minister, Tony Burke, and the finance minister, Katy Gallagher, will make the $535m pre-budget announcement on Wednesday, throwing a financial lifeline to...
Bill Zehme, Dead At 64, Was The Absolute Master Of The Celebrity Profile
"(His gift was) to elevate the formulaic celebrity profile with humor, a literary voice and the polish of a short story. That was the...
A New Program To Get More Literature From The Indian Subcontinent Onto English-Language Bookshelves
Almost all of the South Asian books known internationally were written in English, but there's an extremely vibrant literary scene in the subcontinent's own...
Every Year There Are Big New TV Shows During Ramadan, And Every Year There...
"It may partially be due to the fact that Ramadan is a religious holiday, which makes associations with socially controversial subjects, and standard soap...
Choreographing Dance Scenes For Movie Stars Who Maybe Can’t Dance
"Leading industry choreographers Chloé Arnold, Marguerite Derricks and Mandy Moore share their experiences on what it's really like to create dances for the stars."...
A Superstar Of Electronic Dance Music Turns To Composing For Symphony Orchestra
"After spending more than 20 years in public behind shiny, opaque robot-style helmets as half of the pathbreaking dance-music duo Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter...
Houston’s Leading Theatre Cancels Cancels A Major Production Because It Just Can’t Get The...
Said artistic director Rob Melrose in his announcement calling off Derek Walcott's adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, "We knew going into this production the scope...
Actors’ Equity Threatens Strike Against Touring Broadway Productions
"The union … has been bargaining with The Broadway League, which represents industry producers, presenters and general managers, since mid-January to create a new...
The Doofus Who Broke Off And Stole The Finger Of A 2,000-Year-Old Terra Cotta...
To avoid a charge that could have sent him to prison for up to 30 years, Mihcael Rohana — who did the deed at...
US Federal Judge Blocks Texas County’s Banning Of Library Books
"A federal judge in Austin, Tex., has found that a library board in Llano County likely infringed the constitutional rights of readers in the...
Venice’s Expensive New Floodgates Are Doing Their Job Well. That May Not Be Enough.
"After all of the effort to get the barriers up, the future challenge will be finding ways to keep them down. Venice is already...
Regal Cinemas’ Parent Company Has A Deal To Emerge From Bankruptcy
"Movie theater giant Cineworld … said it still expects to emerge from its Chapter 11 cases during the first half of 2023, even though...
How On Earth Did A Spice Cabinet Survive For 500 Years At The Bottom...
It's the cold waters of the Baltic that kept intact the remains of the wrecked Gribshunden, the flagship of King Hans of Denmark and...
The Gay Cherokee Playwright Who Wrote The Source For Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”
Lynn Riggs rode a cattle train, worked in New York as an extra in cowboy movies and in Hollywood churning out studio screenplays, wrote...
How Poster Design Helped Reshape Japanese Society After World War II
"Curator Erin Schoneveld breaks down five seminal posters from the exhibition (at New York's Poster House Museum) that reveal how art reflects history —...
Dispelling Some Myths About Hilma af Klint
Julia Voss, author of the first-ever biography of Europe's first abstract artist, talks about the influence which the 19th-century scientific revolution had on the...
“Shucked” On Broadway: Why The Preview Grosses Are Low But The Seats Are Sold...
"Lead producer Mike Bosner … and his team enacted the old-school practice of preview pricing: selling tickets for a show's pre-opening period at a...
There Was Some Backsliding In Diversity Last Year, Finds UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report
"As Hollywood emerged from the pandemic, its biggest film productions dipped in diversity after years of incremental progress. … Opportunities were notably greater for...
The BBC Is About To Cut A Lot Of Programming
"The BBC is set to slash its annual output by 1,000 hours worth of shows to cope with savings requirements that have shot up...
Mark Russell, Piano-Playing Political Satirist And PBS Perennial, Is Dead At 90
"From the waning years of Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration through the presidencies of 10 succeeding chief executives, Mr. Russell poked fun at the foibles...
The Texas Observer Is Saved By An 11th-Hour Crowdfunding Effort
"Three days after voting to cease publication and lay off its journalists, the nonprofit publisher of the Texas Observer said on Wednesday that it...
The “Festival Of Brexit” Actually Met Its Targets — Once Those Targets Were Greatly...
"The final evaluation has found that the Unboxed festival, commissioned by Theresa May in 2018 and named a 'festival of Brexit' by Jacob Rees-Mogg,...
Police Seize 1,800-Year-Old Bronze Statue From Met Museum
New York investigators say that the seven-foot-tall, headless nude statue, believed by scholars to be of Roman emperor Septimius Severus, was looted from the...
Dancing Against Pension Reform In The Streets Of Paris
"Mathilde Caillard's energetic dance became a meme for young activists opposing the reform. The slogan chanted in the clip, "Retraites, climat: même combat! Pas...
How A Gruesome Caravaggio Inspired One Of Samuel Beckett’s Most Notorious Monologues
On a 1971 visit to Malta, the playwright saw the painter's Beheading of St. John the Baptist, and the horrified face of an elderly...
