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Bollywood Film About ISIS And “Love Jihad” Provokes Firestorm In India
The Kerala Story, set in the southwestern state but produced by Mumbai's Hindi-language industry, purports to tell the story of three out of an...
The Beaches Of Barcelona Are Washing Away (But They Were Mostly Artificial Anyway)
They're a big business, attracting Barcelonans and tourists alike, but, thanks to rising sea levels and heavier storms, the city's beaches are eroding fast....
Why Egyptians Are Flipping Out Over Casting A Black Actress As Cleopatra (Maybe It’s...
"The show is dragging an ancient queen into Western debates in which she has no place, they argue, … and they would like Afrocentrists...
Putin’s Government Arrests Director And Playwright For Crime Of “Justifying Terrorism”
"Investigators opened a case this week against Yevgenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, alleging that Petriychuk's Finist, the Brave Falcon, which premiered in...
Despite The War, A New Ukrainian Opera Takes The Stage In Lviv
"Based on Gogol's short story 'The Terrible Revenge,' the opera (by composer Yevhen Stankovych) was directed by Andreas Weirich. ... 'We did some of...
The Old Barnes Foundation Has Become A New Museum
"The original Barnes Foundation building in Lower Merion, which the foundation left in 2012 to move to the (Benjamin Franklin) Parkway in Philadelphia, is...
How Is Broadway Choreography Changing? (A Critics’ Roundtable)
"Jesse Green, chief theater critic, was joined by the dance critic Brian Seibert and the contributor Elisabeth Vincentelli in a discussion about some of...
Documents Reveal Tug-Of-War Between British Museum And Government Over Parthenon Marbles
"The Foreign Office was dismissive of the British Museum's efforts to retain the Parthenon Marbles in 1983. The question of where the marbles should...
Prop 28 Has Funded Arts Instruction In All California Schools. Now They Have To...
"While an estimated 15,000 new arts teachers are needed statewide, (fewer) than 5,000 are currently credentialed in music, dance, theater, visual arts and media...
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 García 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...
