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Revisiting The History-Making Obscenity Trial Of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
D. H. Lawrence's novel had been banned in Britain since it was first printed privately in 1928, but in 1960, Penguin UK published the...
Adrienne Kennedy Is A Revered Playwright. She’s 91. Why Is She Only Now Being...
Her theory: "It's because I'm a Black woman." But there's more than that: her plays are more avant-garde than those of Lynn Nottage or...
With Its Leading Arts Philanthropists Leaving The Scene, Can Boston’s Arts Ecosystem Keep Thriving?
Many of the wealthy individual donors whose regular gifts have kept the region's institutions running are passing away, and their heirs may not have...
A New $100 Million Arts Complex For Boulder, Colorado? Let’s Not, Says The Arts...
A series of surveys and workshops has evidently found a consensus that "the big, 700-ish seat theater is kind of the least needed thing"...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Threaten To Start Slashing Paintings If We Don’t All Do...
Comparing their campaign to that of the suffragettes — one of whom attacked a Velázquez at London's National Gallery with a meat cleaver in...
Vienna State Opera Will Abolish Its Music Director Position
When conductor Philippe Jordan steps down from the job in 2025, it will be eliminated, announced superintendent Bogdan Roščić. "Historically, the State Opera has...
Emmy-Winning Actor Kirstie Alley Dead At 71
"Though she had an impressive body of work," — most notably, lead roles in the sitcoms Cheers and Veronica's Closet and in the surprise...
South Asian Novels Have Been On An Awards Streak Lately. Will That Help South...
This year's Booker Prize was won by a Sri Lankan, and the International Booker went to an Indian novel. And there's always Salman Rushdie. ...
Frederick Swann, Master Of The Mammoth Pipe Organ, Is Dead At 91
He was famous for his posts at the Riverside Church and the Crystal Cathedral, but he was most admired among colleagues for quickly figuring...
South Asian-Americans Are Trying To Reclaim The Swastika
The equilateral cross with arms bent at right angles has been a symbol of good fortune for Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains for millennia, and...
The Washington Post Is Closing Its Sunday Magazine
"The newspaper has eliminated the positions of the magazine's 10 staff members, according to the Post. There's no guarantee the staffers will be offered...
Check Out The Huge New Mosaics By Yayoi Kusama And Kiki Smith At Grand...
The artworks, four by Smith and one by Kusama, are in the soon-to-open Grand Central Madison, an addition to the historic train terminal built...
Sydney’s Big New Contemporary Art Museum Has More Works By Women Than By Men
"Fifty-three percent of works on display in Sydney Modern's exhibition spaces, its corridors and terraces are made by women. Five of nine site-specific art...
Looks Like Actors’ Equity And The Broadway League Have Settled On A New Contract
"The details of the agreement have not yet been released and remain subject to ratification by Equity members who have recently worked on these...
The Right-Wing Twitter Mob Comes For The Washington Post’s Theater Critic
Last week, a review by the Post's Peter Marks of Bruce Norris's Downstate carried an eye-catching headline: "Downstate is a play about pedophiles. It's...
The Critics’ Poll Has A New Greatest Movie Of All Time — And It’s...
The once-a-decade list of the top 100 films from Sight and Sound magazine has nudged 2012's champion, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, down to runner-up status...
Money Troubles At NPR Bring A Hiring Freeze And $10 Million In Budget Cuts
"The cuts, CEO John Lansing says, are due to a sharp drop in sponsor revenue and represent approximately 3% of NPR's current annual budget." ...
The Washington Post Lays Off Dance Critic Sarah L. Kaufman
The Pulitzer Prize winner, who has been at the newspaper for 25 years and was one of only two full-time dance critics in the...
What Exactly Is Geopolitics, And Who Invented It? (Losers, That’s Who)
"Do the politicians and pundits who speak of geopolitics really know what they are talking about? Geopolitics is a classically ambiguous or nebulous term,...
For Her Final Full-Length Work, Choreographer Sally Silvers Is Reworking Her First One
For her 40th anniversary season, the 70-year-old dancemaker returned to Pandora's Cake Stain, which premiered in 1996. Pandora's New Cake Stain features 12 dancers...
How Do You Put A 1957 Radio Documentary About Gay Men On The Stage?
The Homosexual Condition, the BBC's first-ever documentary about the lives of gay males, was believed lost until the script and other documents were located...
A Brief History Of “Y’all”
Some linguists suggest that the word comes from Scots-Irish; others think it originated among enslaved Igbo-speakers. In any case, the OED says "y'all" was...
What Brendan Fraser’s Comeback Says About Hollywood, Him, And Us
"Everyone seems happy to have Brendan Fraser back. Which prompts a question: Why? He never actually went away. The truth is that we've come...
American Bookstores Are Offering More Spanish-Language Books
"Driven by language-immersion schools and bilingual families, many stores are now specializing in bilingual books for young readers. Others serve heritage-language customers who want...
Funding Cuts To Two Small London Theatres Could Have Big Effects
Not only do the Donmar Warehouse and Hampstead Theatre regularly send productions out into the commercial theatre world (including the West End and Broadway),...
