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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 Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill funding the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, calling public broadcasting an "outdated system"...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...
Saving The Crumbling Adobe Mission Churches Of New Mexico
"(In Spanish colonial days,) villagers … filled chapels with elaborate altarpieces made of local wood and varnished with pine sap. Today, threatened by dwindling...
Vox Media Has Made A Major Bet On Podcasts, And It’s Starting To Pay...
Acquiring Esther Perel's Where Should We Begin? "has shown that Vox Media's podcast ambitions extend beyond the digital media company's brand of publications, which...
Could The City Of Paris Actually Make The Seine Safe To Swim In?
"A swimmable Seine would be a major turnaround for a busy urban waterway once notorious for its filth, allowing Paris to stage (Olympic) aquatic...
This Cambodian Dance Company In Massachusetts Has Come Out Of The Pandemic Stronger Than...
The Angkor Dance Troupe in Lowell was founded by refugees from the Khmer Rouge who were determined to keep Cambodian classical dance from being...
The Bay Area Children’s Theater Has Been Selling Out Shows. It Still Needed An...
"The campaign, Save Our Stage, … seeks to raise $750,000 by July 1. The cause for the emergency campaign isn't declining demand but increased...
Check Out Some Of The Best Signs From The Writers’ Guild’s Picket Lines
"Hey, Amazon, free delivery is your job, not ours." "Give up just ONE yacht." "Without writers, Succession is just The Apprentice (and look how...
Library Funding Has Become Another Weapon In The Culture War Over Books
In Missouri and Texas, state lawmakers have been considering laws that would remove funding from libraries that host drag queen story hours or don't...
Illinois Passes A Law Banning Book Bans In Libraries
"Illinois lawmakers greenlighted a bill Wednesday that says libraries in the state must adopt an anti-book banning policy to receive state funding, in a...
In Charles III, The UK Will Have A King Who Genuinely Loves The Arts
"Throughout his life, King Charles III has involved himself in British cultural life, not only a maker of art but as an avid spectator...
Post-Pandemic, Theaters In Boston Find Their Way Toward The New Normal
"Audiences have been slow to return. National conversations about race put the internal practices of local theaters under a microscope. Many theater artists moved...
Why The San Francisco Conservatory Of Music Bought Two Management Agencies And A Record...
In just over two years, the school acquired Opus 3 Artists, Pentatone Records, and the major London agency Askonas Holt. SFCM president David Stull...
France’s Economy Minister Publishes An Erotic Novel. Mockery And Anger Ensue.
As inflation persists, the country is roiled by protests against President Macron's pension reforms, and Fitch downgrades French bonds, Bruno Le Maire has drawn...
Considering Cancellation Comedy
"Cancellation comedy permits comedians to recycle their controversies into a staged performance. A distant cousin of reality TV, the genre lets celebrity humorists reflect...
When Jerry Springer Met The Creator Of “Jerry Springer, The Opera”
Writer-composer Richard Thomas (not to be confused with the actor) remembers how he forgot to ask for Springer for rights clearance, how the host...
This Radio Station Tried AI-Generated Programming For A Day. The Audience Did Not Go...
On April 27th, Switzerland's Couleur 3 aired all-AI programming for 13 hours: the music was selected by algorithm, the scripts written by chatbots, the...
After Choreographing Broadway Musicals And Winning Tony Awards, Christopher Wheeldon Comes Back To Abstract...
"Returning to New York City Ballet now, after working on Broadway and on Like Water for Chocolate for the more theatrically oriented Royal Ballet...
