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On Broadway, It Really Is The Best of Times And Worst Of Times
"In many ways Beetlejuice, which closed Jan. 8, encapsulates life on the bifurcated Broadway of 2023 — a place where the hits are still...
Artist Alfred Leslie, America’s Leading Ex-Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead Of COVID At 95
"A second-generation Abstract Expressionist and filmmaker, (he) turned his back on nonrepresentational art in the early 1960s to lead a revival of figurative painting."...
He Bought A Chandelier In An Antique Shop For $309. Turns Out It’s a...
"In 1960, British painter John Craxton was passing by the store when he recognized the Alberto Giacometti light fixture as a piece once owned...
The Drag-Queen-Story-Hour Culture Wars Have Spread To Britain’s Museums
"In an open letter to the Tate's board of trustees, a controversial politician in the United Kingdom denounced Tate Britain's decision to invite a...
Pasadena Symphony’s Ex-Music Director, Fired For Refusing Vaccine, Sues For Religious Discrimination
"(David Lockington), who is a member of Church of Christ, Scientist, is suing the association, alleging he was wrongfully stripped of his job in...
HarperCollins To Lay Off 5 Percent Of Its North American Staff As Strike Continues
"The news of the layoffs comes a few days after HC said it had agreed to work with a mediator in an attempt to...
UK Museum Workers Announce A Strike
"Security and visitor services staff at the British Museum in London and civil servants at the (culture ministry) said they would refuse to continue...
Popular Music Has Become An Asset Class
Justin Bieber selling his catalogue for $200 million is just the latest example. Investment funds have been paying big money for rights to pop...
“Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera”: Figaro In A South Side...
Baritone Will Livermore and DJ King Rico have adapted Rossini's Barber of Seville into a work called The Factotum, "blending operatic writing with a...
Teachers In A Florida County Cover All Books In Their Classrooms, Fearful Of Felony...
"The Manatee County School District directed teachers to remove all books that had not yet been approved by a specialist from their classroom libraries....
American Artists Are Worried About AI And Copyright. American Policymakers, Not So Much.
"While the UK and the European Union have released more specific guidelines around AI development, such as the Digital Single Market Directive and the...
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Appoints Choreographer Aszure Barton Artist-In-Residence
"The appointment follows a long vacancy after resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo's departure in 2018. ... (While) Cerrudo lived in Chicago full-time and, until 2015,...
US Museums And Universities Have Thousands Of Indigenous People’s Remains, Three Decades After A...
"Our reporting, in partnership with NBC News, has found that a small group of institutions and government bodies has played an outsized role in...
Do Not Send That Disputed Van Gogh Back, Federal Court Orders Detroit Institute Of...
"Federal appeals court judges Wednesday ordered (museum) officials to hold onto a long-missing multimillion-dollar painting by Vincent van Gogh" — The Novel Reader —...
Facial Recognition Software Helps Identify A Raphael
"Researchers from the (UK) used facial recognition technology to identify the author of a painting known as the de Brécy Tondo. ... The researchers...
Artistic Director Of London’s Donmar Warehouse Announces His Planned Departure
Michael Longhurst, who took the top job at the small and extremely successful theatre in 2019, will depart when his five-year contract ends in...
Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director of New York’s Primary Stages, Is Dead At 53
For 21 years he led Primary Stages, one of New York's most prominent Off-Broadway companies, producing works by such playwrights as Theresa Rebeck, Terrence...
On That Viral Video Brawl Starring The Michelle Yeoh Of Waffle House
"It's a miracle how she dispenses with the chair. 'Dispenses' isn't even the right word: She repels it. She parries it like an anime...
How Edith Wharton Foresaw 21st-Century America
"Undine Spragg of The Custom of the Country ... can be conceived of as (a) social media influencer conscious of her brand. For Undine...
Fighting The Good Fight Against Focal Dystonia
At USC in Los Angeles, faculty at the Thornton School of Music are working with neurologists, otolaryngologists, psychologists, physical therapists, and other health care...
Complete Roman-Era City Unearthed At Luxor, Ancient Egypt’s Capital
"On Tuesday, Egyptian archaeologists announced that they had uncovered a complete 1,800-year-old residential Roman city. … Most archaeological work in Luxor, a city that...
Rennie Harris Has Created A Curriculum To Train Dance Teachers In Hip-Hop
"Over the course of his decades-long career, Harris ... has been a guiding force, ushering hip-hop and street dance into new spaces and championing...
Israel’s New Far-Right Government Tries To Claw Back Funding For Two Documentaries About The...
"The (culture) minister, Miki Zohar, of Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, has pledged to 'revoke funding that promotes our enemy's narrative' and withhold grants...
Dallas Theater Center’s Renovation Plans Cause Sticker Shock On City Council
"Dallas Mayor pro tem Omar Narvaez brought up the issue of 'sticker shock' at the very start of the meeting early Tuesday. In 2010,...
More Fallout From Images-Of-Muhammad Controversy: Hamline University Faculty Call For President To Resign
"On Tuesday, during an all-faculty staff meeting at the Saint Paul, Minnesota-based private liberal arts college, 92 full-time professors voted in favor of officially...
