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“Bronze Blond Bombshell” Joyce Bryant, Jazz-Pop Star Turned Missionary Turned Opera Singer, Dead At...
Dubbed "the Black Marilyn Monroe," she was a huge sensation in the 1950s — until overwork and Seventh-Day Adventist guilt (over her sexy persona)...
Why Do People Keep Willingly Humiliating Themselves In Interviews With The New Yorker’s Isaac...
Many have seen how the foolish and unwary "intellectually self-immolate under the pressure of his polite prodding. ... This raises a question that many...
In And Around Charleston, History Tourism Is Moving Away From “The Hoop-Skirt Experience”
The soon-to-open International African American Museum will be the flagship of efforts, beginning in the 1990s, to stop trying to ignore the history of...
Filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub Dead At 89
"Straub ... and his wife, Danièle Huillet, worked together as filmmakers for more than 30 years. Straub-Huillet, as they were often called by French...
Singing And Playing Wind Instruments May Spread COVID Less Than Speaking Does
A Princeton University study involving singers and orchestral players from the Met found that "musical professionals have such fine control over their breath that...
With An Immersive Theater Piece, Irina Brook Emerges From The Huge Shadows Cast By...
After a lifetime "blindly" following the path of her parents — director Peter Brook and actress Natasha Parry — Irina realized she was in...
Leader Of Notre-Dame Cathedral Restoration Says We’ll Be Shocked When We See The Cleaned...
Yes, "a shock" is the term used by the army general overseeing the project for visitors' anticipated reaction to the interior stonework once centuries'...
Best International Feature Oscar Gets A Big Change In Its Nomination Process
In previous years, participating Academy members would rate the films they saw on a point scale ranging from 7 to 10. Now they'll rank...
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” And “Tár” Lead 2023 Independent Spirit Award Nominations
Everything Everywhere All at Once received eight nods: best feature, director, screenplay, and editing, as well as four acting nominations. Tár garnered seven nominations:...
Lucerne Festival Artistic Director Announces His Departure Date
Michael Haefliger will have run the summer event for 26 years when he allows his contract to expire at the end of 2025. Over...
Marcelo Gomes Will Be Directing Dresden’s Ballet Company
With Semperoper Ballett artistic director Aaron S. Watkins leaving this summer to take over English National Ballet, Gomes — who's been coach and ballet...
Italy May Have To Raise Museum Ticket Prices Because Of The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals
"Following a climate protest in which activists threw flour on a Warhol-painted BMW in Milan, Italy's cultural minister warned that museum admission prices could...
Detroit Opera Names Its First Music Director Since The Company’s Founder Stepped Down
Conductor Roberto Kalb, who starts effective immediately, will work alongside artistic director Yuval Sharon and associate artistic director (and soprano) Christine Goerke. Kalb will...
Pittsburgh Public Media Gets Quite A Donation: Another Radio Frequency
Martz Communications was operating WAMO (660 AM and 107.3 FM) as a hip-hop station until the company sold to the radio conglomerate Audacy, which...
How A Poor, Bullied Black Girl In Pasadena Grew Up To Be Octavia E....
"(Writing stories was) her own temporary escape hatch from a life of 'boredom, calluses, humiliation, and not enough money. ... I needed my fantasies...
After Painful Pandemic-Related Cuts, Philadelphia Prepares To Spend Millions Of Extra Dollars On The...
Thanks to a very unexpected municipal budget surplus, "about 15 city arts and cultural institutions would receive amounts ranging from $100,000 to $3 million...
The “Festival Of Brexit” Hoped For 66 Million Attendees. It Got Less Than 3...
Unboxed (as the bundle of events is actually called) attracted a total audience of 18 million, but the vast majority of those watched online;...
For The First Time, The Trisha Brown Dance Company Has Engaged An Outside Choreographer
Judith Sánchez Ruíz, who danced with the company from 2006 to 2009, will choreograph a work titled Let's Talk About Bleeding next year. Says...
Why, And How, Disney Fired CEO Bob Chapek And Brought Back Bob Iger
"Sources with ties to the company say discontent among some board members had been building (and) there was discussion about replacing Chapek as far...
There Are Now More Women Than Men In The New York Philharmonic
"The orchestra’s new female majority could prove fleeting — it currently has 16 player vacancies to fill, in part because auditions were put on...
Why Art Vandalism Is A Perversion Of The Fight Against Climate Change
"The art-attack tactic ... shows how social movements are warped and distorted by the logic of spectacle, undermining their longer-term viability by forcing them...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Move On To Vandalizing Sculpture
"On Friday in Paris, Milan, and Oslo, climate activists from local organizations under the umbrella group A22 Network doused sculptures with orange paint or...
Simon & Schuster Abandons The Merger With Penguin Random House
In the wake of a judge's decision to block the union of the two giants on anti-trust grounds, Paramount Global, the conglomerate which owns...
Brazil’s National Museum, Destroyed By Fire Four Years Ago, Is Overhauling Its Approach To...
The historic Rio de Janeiro building had, alongside its natural history materials, large holdings of Indigenous artifacts — collected in another era, usually plundered...
Condé Nast’s CEO Talks About How He Wants To Make The Venerable Magazine Publisher...
"Roger Lynch ... inherited a company of fiefdoms (which) competed with one another for advertisers and cover stars. ... Three-and-a-half years into the job,...
