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The First Artist Management Agency Specializing In Classical Ballet Dancers
Rebecca Haw had a bumpy ride before landing her permanent position in the ballet company at Dresden's Semperoper. Hoping to spare other dancers some...
This Senegalese Monastery Brought An African Harp Into Church And Transformed Sacred Music
In response to the Second Vatican Council's reforms, the monks of the Abbey of Keur Moussa set about Africanizing their worship, researching traditional music...
The Great American Composer You’ve Half-Heard-Of: Marc Blitzstein
"(He) was the influential missing piece in American music, (with) a profound impact on Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and Broadway from the 1930s to...
Is The Internet Why The Culture Today Seems Boring And Flat? Maybe, But Not...
In her New York Times Op-Ed column last week, Goldberg, drawing on a new book by W. David Marx, seems to argue that the...
In Odesa, A Renaissance Of Standup Comedy
The port city is as famous for its particular sense of humor as New Orleans is for jazz. Says one local comic, "The war...
Almost A Fifth Of Primary Schoolers In England Have No Books At Home
"According to a report by the National Literacy Trust, the percentage of children (aged five through eight) who do not have a book of...
1,000-Year-Old Byzantine Frescoes In Sudan Uncovered And Restored
"The paintings ... were initially found by Sudanese archaeologists in 2021 while excavating the remains of the El Lagia church at el-Ga’ab depression on...
The Movement For Gender-Neutral Acting Awards Is Picking Up Steam. Will The Big Flagship...
"Two more awards shows went gender neutral last week, fueling further speculation about the day when major awards shows — think Oscars, Emmys and...
The Taliban Used To Smash Up Afghanistan’s Ancient Art And Artifacts. Now It’s Guarding...
"When (the Islamists) returned to power a year ago, many cultural heritage advocates worried about the fate of the National Museum and its irreplaceable...
Author Barbara Ehrenreich Has Died At 81
"In more than 20 books, (she) explored a sweep of topics that echoed her varied background as a feminist political activist and scientist with...
Now AI Is Learning To Reconstruct Lost Paintings
A London-based project called Oxia Palus has already produced speculative versions of works by van Gogh, Modigliani, and Picasso which the artists later painted...
William Christie Looks At America’s Baroque Music Scene — And Likes What He Sees
"Indiana University for the last 40 years has been trumpeting early performance practice. Now there are maybe 20 or so extraordinary pockets of incredible...
Still Fabulous Into Their 70s And 80s: Meet The Drag Queens Who Haven’t Retired...
"The art of drag has firmly entered the mainstream, turning some performers into global celebrities. But go back half a century and the picture...
Fears That Climate Change Could Wipe Out French-Speaking Louisiana
"People in bayou country have long learned to live under adverse weather conditions. But things have gotten much worse in recent years. Rising sea...
Qatar’s Museum Of Islamic Art Reopens Next Month, With A Redesign And Over 1,000...
Known at its 2008 opening mainly for its building, one of the last major designs by I.M. Pei, the MIA has completed an 18-month...
The Leader Of Hollywood’s New Choreographers Guild Explains Why The Union Is Necessary
"Choreographers for major network TV shows are getting paid less than the dancers. The entertainment industry needs a lot of education about how vital...
Is “Devolution” The Right Word? How Unboxed (aka The Festival Of Brexit) Came, Er,...
Theresa May first proposed the festival in 2018 to showcase the liberated UK as a creative powerhouse. Yet, by 2022, nobody was in a...
Meet The Longest-Working Black Director In History
After starting out in New York theater, Michael Schultz directed the classic PBS documentary To Be Young, Gifted and Black and made over a...
Actors’ Equity Is Taking A Hard Look At Non-Disclosure Agreements (Thanks, Scott Rudin)
One of the reasons that Rudin's extreme mistreatment of his employees went unreported for so long was his insistence on having everyone he worked...
Europe’s Film Industry Steps up To Support Its Ukrainian Colleagues
Since the domestic Ukrainian market is in, er, a difficult spot just now, there's a raft of initiatives to aid Ukrainian creators with grants...
Considering Furniture As Art
"Chairs have done the same job for centuries, whenever we wanted to sit. Presented like art, however, their variety is striking, from the delicate...
Will This Year’s Venice Film Festival Signal A Revival Of Business At Art-House Cinemas?
"'It's hard to tell how healthy the art house market is right now because, since theaters reopened, we haven't had many of those real...
John Adams At 75: The Greatest Living American Composer?
"He is an artist for whom Americanness truly matters, as much as the tradition of Western classical music — both heritages treated not with...
The Washington Post Is Reviving Its Stand-Alone Sunday Book Review — In Print, No...
The paper's Book World was closed in 2009 and reviews in the hard-copy edition were moved to the Style and Outlook sections. (Online, there...
Copyright Suit Over Dance In Video Game “Fortnite” Is Tossed Out
"A judge for the Central District of California has dismissed a lawsuit by choreographer Kyle Hanagami against Epic Games. Hanagami filed the suit in...
