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Audie Cornish Talks About Her Not-What-She-Had-Expected Transition From NPR To CNN
"The piloting process has been fun, but it's complex when you're navigating an incredibly interesting moment in our business. Even if CNN wasn't having...
Composer Ned Rorem, 99
"By the time he was 40, he had written more than 400 art songs, as well as three symphonies, several one-act operas and a...
Fort Worth Opera Has Another New General Director
"In a surprise announcement that comes one week before Afton Battle's last day as Fort Worth Opera general and artistic director, the company has...
New York State Starts A Pilot Program Of Guaranteed Basic Income For Arts Freelancers
"The Creatives Rebuild New York initiative has announced that it is spending $43.2 million to distribute monthly payments of $1,000 to 2,400 artists and...
Curtis Institute Of Music Is Launching Its Own Record Label
Curtis Studio, as the label will be called, will feature artists in residence as well as student ensembles. The inaugural album, to be released...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Just Making The Problem Worse, Says Art Historian/Climate Activist
"Do these attacks not reveal the fragility of what we hold dear? Do they not make us think about what we want to save...
English National Opera Will Close Next April If It’s Not Given Money To Stay...
"There is no relocation," Harry Brünjes told a group of MPs this week about Arts Council England's decision to defund the company unless it...
Jacob’s Pillow Will Rebuild The Burned-Down Doris Duke Theater
The dance festival's second stage was destroyed by a fire almost exactly two years ago. A lead grant of $10 million grant from the...
Award For Playwright Caryl Churchill Is Withdrawn Because Of Her Pro-Palestinian Views
Last April, a theatre in Stuttgart named Churchill the winner of its 2022 European Drama Award, worth €75,000. When the jury discovered that she's...
Why Andy Blankenbuehler, Choreographer Of “Hamilton”, Decided He Had To Create A Musical Of...
"There's a lot of storytelling ability in dance, but in musical theater, people champion words first. And so many times as a dancer, you...
How Will Arbery Writes Plays That Appeal To All Sides In A Deeply Divided...
"The key is Arbery's ear. He is one of the theater's greatest listeners, able to hear and reproduce the subtle and deeply specific ways...
As Xi’s Crackdown Gets Ever Tougher, Hong Kong’s Filmmakers Turn Overseas
For decades, the little territory's movie industry was vibrant and proud: its martial arts thrillers and historical epics gathered fans throughout the world. and...
Pakistan Unbans Its Entry For The Best International Film Oscar
"Pakistan has reversed course and lifted a ban on its Oscars entry, Joyland, but the film will receive some cuts by local censors. ......
The Gestation And Birth Of “The Lion King” — An Oral History
"In interviews over the last few weeks, many of those involved in bringing The Lion King to Broadway in 1997 spoke about the show's...
For London Arts Organizations Squawking About Losing Funding, Some Choice Words From A Government...
Lord Neil Mendoza: "It's just not right — it's absolutely not fair. We're so London-focused. ... There's this idea that once you've had funding...
The Board Of ArtPrize Quietly Dissolves Itself
Last month, shortly after the 12th edition of the annual art competition in Grand Rapids ended, the board announced that "we know the time...
Philly Pops To Close Permanently
"Facing mounting vendor debt and depressed ticket sales since the pandemic shutdown ended, the group has decided to fold, says longtime pops president Frank...
2022 National Book Awards To Imani Perry, Tess Gunty, Sabaa Tahir, John Keene, Samanta...
More specifically: Imani Perry's South to America (nonfiction), Tess Gunty's The Rabbit Hutch (fiction), Sabaa Tahir's All My Rage (young people's literature), John Keene's...
Just How Serious Are Jay Leno’s Burn Injuries?
"Right now they're in that progression of somewhere between deep second and third-degree burns to the face," says his doctor. "We're hoping we can...
Kevin Spacey Is Hit With Seven More Sexual Assault Charges In London
"The Crown Prosecution Service said (Spacey) has been charged over 'a number of sexual assaults against one man between 2001 and 2004'. It also...
A Newly-Discovered Artifact Could Rewrite The History Of The Mysterious Basque Language
"Investigators in northern Spain said this week they discovered what they believe to be the oldest written record" — inscribed on a bronze hand...
The Author Of “Gomorrah” Is On Trial For Criminal Defamation Of Italy’s New Rightist...
"Roberto Saviano, Italy's best-known anti-Mafia author, went on trial for libel on Tuesday for calling Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a 'bastard'. If convicted, he...
Are You Happy? Pharrell Williams Makes NFTs Of Hilma af Klint
"The NFTs come from af Klint's series Paintings for the Temple, created between 1906 and 1915. The series contains 193 paintings, none of which...
The Two Meanings Of “Irony”
The first meaning of the word goes back more than two millennia; the second dates back less than two centuries. Ben Yagoda explains. -...
Does Australia Have Any Classic Plays Of Its Own? Yes, Though You Wouldn’t Know...
The working definition of a "classic play" here is one that's revived repeatedly through the years and reinterpreted over time. What happens in Australia,...
