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The Gay Cherokee Playwright Who Wrote The Source For Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”
Lynn Riggs rode a cattle train, worked in New York as an extra in cowboy movies and in Hollywood churning out studio screenplays, wrote...
How Poster Design Helped Reshape Japanese Society After World War II
"Curator Erin Schoneveld breaks down five seminal posters from the exhibition (at New York's Poster House Museum) that reveal how art reflects history —...
Dispelling Some Myths About Hilma af Klint
Julia Voss, author of the first-ever biography of Europe's first abstract artist, talks about the influence which the 19th-century scientific revolution had on the...
“Shucked” On Broadway: Why The Preview Grosses Are Low But The Seats Are Sold...
"Lead producer Mike Bosner … and his team enacted the old-school practice of preview pricing: selling tickets for a show's pre-opening period at a...
There Was Some Backsliding In Diversity Last Year, Finds UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report
"As Hollywood emerged from the pandemic, its biggest film productions dipped in diversity after years of incremental progress. … Opportunities were notably greater for...
The BBC Is About To Cut A Lot Of Programming
"The BBC is set to slash its annual output by 1,000 hours worth of shows to cope with savings requirements that have shot up...
Mark Russell, Piano-Playing Political Satirist And PBS Perennial, Is Dead At 90
"From the waning years of Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration through the presidencies of 10 succeeding chief executives, Mr. Russell poked fun at the foibles...
The Texas Observer Is Saved By An 11th-Hour Crowdfunding Effort
"Three days after voting to cease publication and lay off its journalists, the nonprofit publisher of the Texas Observer said on Wednesday that it...
The “Festival Of Brexit” Actually Met Its Targets — Once Those Targets Were Greatly...
"The final evaluation has found that the Unboxed festival, commissioned by Theresa May in 2018 and named a 'festival of Brexit' by Jacob Rees-Mogg,...
Police Seize 1,800-Year-Old Bronze Statue From Met Museum
New York investigators say that the seven-foot-tall, headless nude statue, believed by scholars to be of Roman emperor Septimius Severus, was looted from the...
Dancing Against Pension Reform In The Streets Of Paris
"Mathilde Caillard's energetic dance became a meme for young activists opposing the reform. The slogan chanted in the clip, "Retraites, climat: même combat! Pas...
How A Gruesome Caravaggio Inspired One Of Samuel Beckett’s Most Notorious Monologues
On a 1971 visit to Malta, the playwright saw the painter's Beheading of St. John the Baptist, and the horrified face of an elderly...
Have A Look Inside The Newly-Remodeled Rembrandt House Museum
"Last week, the Rembrandt House Museum reopened in Amsterdam after a four-month closure, offering 30 percent more Rembrandt in the building where the artist...
The Complex. Delicate Task Of Divvying Up The Radio Spectrum
"The airwaves floating across America are sliced up into chunks (some wide, some incredibly narrow) where different services and uses are permitted to broadcast...
He Watched Britain’s Equivalent Of Fox News For 18 Hours So We Don’t Have...
"People say a lot of things about GB News: it's ridden with glitches, it's a hotbed of right-wing conspiracies, nobody watches. But nearly two...
John Luther Adams’s Latest Score Is A Lament Over The Ravages Of The Anthropocene
Most of his work is inspired by the natural environment, but in Vespers of the Blessed Earth, receiving its world premiere this week by...
On Twitter, You Can Find More Really Smart People In One Place Than Anywhere...
"We don't have — and may never again have — another one-stop watering hole where many of the planet's most interesting celebrities, politicians, activists,...
Substack Is Trying To Get Its Writers To Buy Shares In The Company
"Newsletter company Substack, which reportedly struggled to fundraise last year amid a broader downturn in the tech market, wants its next round of financing...
D.M. Thomas, Author Of “The White Hotel,” Is Dead At 88
His 1981 novel, about a patient of Sigmund Freud's who ended up a victim of the Holocaust, was a huge success commercially and critically...
This 17th-Century Family Portrait Was Missing The Mother. A Museum Found Her On Google.
"A rare reunion has taken place at the Nivaagaard Collection in Denmark, as the museum has located the image of a woman, who, for...
Dallas Puts On Hold Plans To Revamp Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Theater Building
"Dallas Theater Center officials have hit the brakes on a proposed $308 million plan to revamp the Kalita Humphreys Theater and the surrounding 10-acre...
What Do You Get When You Cross A Cookbook And A Comic Book? This.
"The last decade has seen a flurry of illustrated Korean cookbooks, one-panel satirical comics about South Asian chai, and graphic novels about Japanese-American culinary...
Former Director Of The Australian Ballet Now Has Two Companies To Oversee
Earlier this month David McAllister became interim Artistic Director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet in Wellington, as Patricia Barker departed following a troubled...
Orlando Has A Lively Arts Scene. Disney Makes It Possible.
"From supporting educational efforts to assisting professional theaters to funding performance spaces, Walt Disney World has been an engine driving the growth of the...
French Bad-Boy Author Michel Houellebecq Loses His Bid To Squelch The Porn Film He...
"A Dutch art collective can release an experimental erotic film showing the French novelist Michel Houellebecq having sex with young women in spite of...
