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Choreographer Ralph Lemon Wins The Whitney Biennial’s Top Prize
"An influential choreographer and conceptual artist, (Lemon) won the Whitney Museum's $100,000 Bucksbaum Award, which goes to one artist in the Whitney Biennial every...
Melissa Barak, Los Angeles Ballet’s New Artistic Director, Talks About Her Plans
"I want us to do everything from experimental work to some story ballets or reimagined classics. There are certain neoclassical choreographers I would like...
Is Unboxed (The “Festival Of Brexit”) A £120 Million Waste Of Taxpayers’ Money? Or...
On the waste-of-money side are several MPs, including one who's asked the National Audit Office to investigate the festival. Unboxed's chief creative officer insists...
“If We Want To Preserve It, We Need An Intervention”: Five Suggestions For Repairing...
Is it too expensive? Too inaccessible for performers without money? Too crowded? Too concentrated? Just too damned big? With so many people saying the...
Are There Now So Many Podcasts That The Format Has Simply Turned Into On-Demand...
"It's difficult to cement a medium's sense of identity, culture, and meaning if hardly anybody is talking about the same thing — and that...
TikTok Is Cracking Down On Political Videos
"Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, TikTok announced Wednesday it is banning of campaign fundraising on its platform. It also announced new policies for...
Can Pay-What-You-Wish Concerts Bring New Audiences To Classical Music? Yes.
Price isn't the only barrier for a classical newcomer, but it's a big one, and the few American organizations that have tried pay-what-you-wish —...
Does Getting Banned Really Help A Book Sell Better? Very Rarely, And Here’s Why.
"A staggering 82 to 97 percent of book challenges go unreported on. That means these books, the overwhelming majority, don't even make it beyond...
Minnesota Orchestra’s Musicians Have A New Four-Year Contract
"Effective immediately, the new contract replaces a two-year deal signed during the pandemic in September 2020, which required a 25% pay cut for the...
Author Hilary Mantel Has Died Suddenly At Age 70
The tremendous success of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy (Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light) led to a reassessment...
$100K Nasher Prize For Sculpture 2023 Goes To Senga Nengudi
"Working across sculpture, installation, performance, dance, film, and photography, Nengudi is best-known for her R.S.V.P. series. ... These pantyhose sculptures are often filled with...
What Ballet Hispánico Looks For In Its Dancers
Artistic director Eduardo Vilaro: "I need their personalities to reach the highest heights of a theater. I don’t like deadpan dancers. And musicality —...
A New Hemingway Archive At Penn State Has Just Been Opened To Researchers
"The material includes four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts, hundreds of photographs, bundles of correspondence and boxes of personal effects that experts say...
Marlene Dietrich And The Art Of Creating A Persona
"Dietrich learnt from von Sternberg exactly how lighting could accentuate every hollow and curve in her face.... She would sometimes refer to herself in...
Machine Translation Still Isn’t Perfect, And Expecting Too Much Of It Could Be Dangerous...
"Ordering a coffee in a foreign country or translating lyrics can only do so much harm, but think about emergency situations involving firefighters, police,...
Sussing Out The Earliest History Of The Printing Press In Europe And Asia
For instance, was there any connection between Gutenberg's first printing of the Bible in 1455 and the first known document ever printed, 77 years...
George Lucas’s Museum Of Narrative Art Keeps Postponing Its Opening, But It’s Buying Plenty...
"This week, (the MNA) in Los Angeles announced that its opening has again been delayed, this time to 2025. ... But with the announcement...
The New International African American Museum Will Be About Slavery, But It Won’t Be...
"We have a real emphasis on cultural-competency training and cultural-empathy training with our staff," says the director, Dr. Tonya Matthews. "But ... there is...
The Atlantic Is Making A Big Move Into TV And Film
"The company, which expects to lose roughly $10 million again this year, needs to build another revenue stream to continue on its path to...
The Golden Globes Are Coming Back To TV Next Year — And On NBC,...
"The ceremony will return to the Beverly Hilton in time for its 80th anniversary on Tuesday, Jan. 10." (Does this mean the hosts and...
The Prado Begins A Restitution Process For Works Stolen By The Fascists During The...
"On Tuesday, the Madrid museum released a list of 25 works that it identified as potentially having been (confiscated from their owners during the...
At The San Francisco Symphony, Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss
"Matthew Spivey, 41, joined the Symphony staff in 2015 as chief programming officer. ... When his predecessor, Mark C. Hanson, stepped down as CEO...
Uncle Jack Charles, Actor, Activist, And Hero Of Australia’s Indigenous Peoples, Is Dead At...
A member of the Stolen Generation, he struggled repeatedly with crime and addition earlier in his adult life; he also founded Australia's first Aboriginal...
How To Teach Controversial Literature Without Causing Students Harm
Remember, it's not only the right that sometimes wants to eliminate certain books from the curriculum. (Think of Huckleberry Finn, frequently condemned for its...
Sydney Now Has An Answer To Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall In London — An...
The Sydney Modern Project, the new contemporary art wing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, has two big old oil storage tanks...
