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Why The Bible Of Sacred Harp Singing Is Getting An Update
The Sacred Harp, the collection from which the traditional American practice of communal shape-note hymn-singing takes its name, was first published in 1844 and...
Adapting Paul Auster’s “New York Trilogy” To Graphic Novel Format
“The original New York Trilogy owes a debt to the existential detective, a genre archetype whose cases carry themes of choice, isolation, meaninglessness; not just murder...
Once A Star Of Paris Opera Ballet, Manuel Legris Returns As Choreographer
A former director of the Vienna State Ballet and La Scala Ballet after his performing years, Legris was the supreme classicist of his era....
U.S. Opera Companies Should Be Performing In English, The Language Their Audience Speaks
John McWhorter: “Sitting through a three-or-more-hour performance in a language we don’t understand is a peculiar cultural phenomenon, ... and it’s a big part...
A Desert Mirage? Plans For A Joshua Tree Art Museum Are At A Standstill
“On the Twentynine Palms Highway, a makeshift billboard declares “JTAM” in tall black letters. … Except for that recently erected sign — plus a website,...
Guthrie Theater In Minneapolis Bounces Back From Financial Debacle
After a record $3.8 million shortfall on a $32 million budget in fiscal 2023, the Guthrie has made a dramatic turnaround. For fiscal 2024 (which...
Pompidou Center To Open Branch Near Iguazu Falls in Brazil
While the Paris mothership is closed for a five-year renovation, items from its collection will be sent for exhibition at the museum’s satellites in...
San Francisco’s Three City Arts Agencies To Merge
Under Mayor Daniel Lurie’s budget proposal, Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Film Commission will operate side-by-side under a...
Paramount Offered $15 Million To Settle Trump’s “60 Minutes” Lawsuit. Trump Demanded More.
“Paramount Global in recent days has offered $15 million to settle, according to people familiar with the situation. Trump’s team wants more than $25...
All Remaining Voice Of America Employees Expect To Be Terminated This Week
“Those terminations would affect the 800 remaining workers at the agency, after nearly 600 VOA contractors were dismissed by the Trump administration earlier this month....
Composer Per Nørgård, 92
“Nørgård’s solution was to pioneer a form of musical functionalism that breathed new life into symphonic form. He hit upon an architectural formula he...
Damien Hirst’s Plan To Keep Producing Art For 200 Years After He Dies
“Hirst plans to fill up 200 notebooks, each representing one year after his demise. ... ‘The idea,’ he (says), ‘is to have a certificate...
Another Of India’s Non-Hindi “Regional” Film Industries Is Finally Getting International Notice
“Once pioneers of Indian cinema, Marathi films have long been hurt by Bollywood's dominating influence in the state of Maharashtra - where the language...
Artforum Attempts The Near-Impossible: Describing the Experience Of Watching A Richard Foreman Play
“Regularly staged behind large Plexiglas sheets that forced the audience to watch reflections of themselves perceiving the show, the plays had mesmerizing ways of...
In San Diego, Dance Companies Scramble To Replace Abruptly Canceled Federal Grants
San Diego Ballet executive director Matt Carney: “We've been really tasked right now to solve problems we weren't anticipating. So the cut with the...
Great News For Art Conservators: There’s A New Specialty Glue That Looks Like Rice...
“Art conservators were starting to panic after two critical ingredients for a glue called Beva 371 and used to line historical canvases were discontinued....
Mann Center, Philadelphia’s Outdoor Concert Venue, To Close This Fall For $70 Million Renovation
“After the close of the season in October, the Mann will begin the work of creating a roomier campus (in Fairmount Park) and constructing new or...
Russia Arrests Publishing Employees For Distributing “LGBT Propaganda”
“On May 14, Eksmo, Russia's largest publisher … sent a letter to ‘all interested organizations’ (including booksellers) with a list of 50 titles to...
A Klimt Painting Was On Sale For $16.4 Million. It May Have Been Exported...
“The 1897 canvas, Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona,” which was on sale at this year’s TEFAF in Maastricht, “had reportedly resided in Hungary for decades,...
Texas House Passes Another Bill To Remove “Indecent” Books From School Libraries
“Librarians, who normally curate book collections, would need the school board’s approval before buying books under Senate Bill 13. ... District officials could appoint...
Righting Old Wrongs: The Plan For Revamping Damrosch Park And The West Side Of...
Michael Kimmelman: “By far most promising aspect of the plan is to open the park up to a neighborhood it has long walled off....
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, One Of Africa’s Leading Authors, Has Died At 89
“In dozens of fiction and nonfiction books,” the Kenyan writer “traced his country’s history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only...
Local History Museums Are Overlooked Casualties In GOP War On Cultural Funding
“While organizations of all kinds were impacted, it is the small and midsized institutions that lack endowments, prominent donors, and broad outreach whose futures...
New Hampshire Senate Wants To Gut State’s Public Art Program
The State Senate’s Finance Committee decided against eliminating the NH State Council for the Arts. Instead, by a 5-3 vote, the committee gave the...
How The Rebuilt Doris Duke Theater At Jacob’s Pillow Differs From The Original
Says executive director Pamela Tatge of the original: “It didn’t have a lot of modern amenities. It was not handicapped accessible, and it did...
