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Andy Warhol Gets A Lot Of Blame For Today’s Celebrity Culture. Does He Deserve...
"Warhol, the original narcissist; Warhol, the genius; Warhol, the void. He is responsible for the TikTok dancers, the Instagram models hogging the infinity pools,...
Those People In Times Square Passing Out Flyers For Shows? They’re A Key Part...
"For the general public, street teams are often the first touchpoint to a theater production. ... They serve as extensions of a show's brand,...
Phyllida Barlow, Who Subverted Sculpture’s Monumentality And Durability, Is Dead At 78
"For more than 50 years, Barlow created 'nonmonumental' sculptures that prioritized absurdity over grandeur. Functional materials like cardboard, nuts and bolts, fabric, and plywood...
There’s No One Left At The BBC With Enough Power To Fight For Classical...
Paul Hughes, former director of the BBCSO and the BBC Singers: "The BBC's timing is as calculated as its strategy is callous: ensembles struggling...
It’s About Time To Remember Bronislava Nijinska As More Than Vaslav Nijinsky’s Little Sister
'His mythic status as a dancer and revolutionary choreographer has overshadowed her much longer, more productive career. Nijinsky, whose artistic life was cut short...
Why The Mysterious Book Manuscript Thief Did It
In court papers, former Simon & Schuster staffer Filippo Bernardini is quoted as saying, "I never leaked these manuscripts. I wanted to keep them...
Nobel-Winning Author Kenzaburo Oe Is Dead At 88
"Despite the outpouring of national pride over Oe's win, his principal literary themes evoke deep unease (in Japan). A boy of 10 when World...
How The FBI’s Art Crime Team Works
"Recently, two of the team's investigators … agreed to answer questions from The New York Times. They declined to comment on the Basquiat case,...
Britain’s National Theatre To “Reduce Activity” For The Next Four Years
"The National Theatre is cutting productions due to money troubles. … Accounts show the theatre's income for the year to March 2022 was £80.8...
Lewis Spratlan, Pulitzer-Winning Composer, Is Dead At 82
His opera Life Is a Dream had a difficult birth: the company that commissioned it closed before it was produced, and Spratlan was reduced...
Kouri-Vini: The Creole Language Of Acadian Louisiana Sees The Dawn Of A Revival
Roughly a French Louisiana equivalent of Gullah, the African-English hybrid of the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands, Kouri-Vini developed among the region's Black...
Why The Best Animated Feature Oscar Irks And Depresses Animators
"Independent films, movies aimed at adults, or those created in different art styles rarely get nominated, let alone win. The 17 animators interviewed for...
An Inside Look At Incubator, ABT’s Annual Winter Residency For Choreographers
"This year's cohort spanned five artists at different career stages ... whose movement styles encompass contemporary dance, classical ballet, tango and hip-hop. ... (The...
Bert I. Gordon, Sci-Fi B-Movie Schlockmeister Turned Cult “Auteur”, Is Dead At 100
"Critics called his storylines ludicrous and his special effects schlocky, … but many of his films turned a profit and gained a cult following,...
One Of Japan’s Most Honored Architects Calls For Building Fewer Buildings
"There has been an inextricable link between new buildings and economic growth in the 20th century, but that relationship must change because the climate...
NPR’s Michel Martin Is The Latest Host To Join “Morning Edition”
"Martin, who currently serves as a host of All Things Considered Weekends, will join Morning Edition on March 27. Martin joined NPR in 2006...
Well, Here’s What Apple Has Done With Primephonic, The Classical Streaming Service It Bought...
Classical fans have long complained about how poorly iTunes and Apple Music fit the genre. So, in 2021, Apple purchased Primephonic — which designed...
Architect A. Eugene Kohn, Specialist In Iconic And Very Tall Skyscrapers, Is Dead At...
Kohn Pedersen Fox, the firm which he co-founded and served as president and number-one salesman, designed such celebrated buildings as the World Bank headquarters...
Atlanta’s Leading Musical Theatre Company Shuts Down After Four Decades
"The Atlanta Lyric Theatre has closed its doors after 42 years under the weight of financial strain … (due to) 'a significant drop in...
Lincoln Center Has A New Board Chair
Katherine Farley, who became board chair in 2010 and led the arts complex through the complete renovation of David Geffen Hall, decided that the...
Robert Blake, 1970s Hollywood Star Tried For The Murder Of His Wife, Is Dead...
"Once hailed as among the finest actors of his generation, Blake became better known as the center of a real-life murder trial, a story...
What’s Worse For A Theater’s Artistic Director Than Managing Big Cutbacks? Managing Cutbacks And...
Nataki Garrett went from artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to interim executive artistic director — because the executive director position was eliminated,...
This Program Uses Dance To Teach Girls Of Color To Code And Ready Them...
"Launched in 2018, danceLogic blends the two to introduce girls to coding and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). The Philadelphia-based program is...
On-The-Spot Poetry, Generated By AI Software Trained On The Works Of Great Black Writers
Artist/software developer Josie Williams created four chatbots, each built on a dataset consisting solely of the works of a great African-American writer: James Baldwin,...
Ian Falconer, Creator Of Olivia The Pig, Is Dead At 63
He was already a successful designer for opera and ballet (who got his start with David Hockney) when, in the 1990s, he started writing...
