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Bollywood Has Become A Major Target In India’s Culture Wars
Hindu nationalists, frequently using the hashtag #Urduwood (Urdu being, in effect, the Muslim version of Hindi), are calling for boycotts and harassing Muslim filmmakers...
Loretta Lynn, Country Music Legend, Is Dead At 90
"(Her) career was remarkable for its storybook ascent from hardscrabble origins. She was a teenage bride and mother, a country star and a grandmother...
The Arts In Britain Are Being “Privatised By Stealth”
"For many cultural organisations, the Arts Council or their local authority is often no longer the major funder – and as a result, the...
Time’s Up: How, And Why, The Entertainment Industry’s Response To #MeToo Fell Apart
"Time's Up was supposed to put Hollywood's considerable power and money — and its sudden outrage — to work fighting sexual harassment. Instead, today...
Florida Is Enacting School Library Book Bans On A Statewide Level
The news stories coming from the state have been mostly about bannings on a school district or city/county level. This past spring, Gov. De...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s New Director Has Been Making Major Changes (And Some Folks Are...
Nataki Garrett has reduced the amount of Shakespeare in the company's programming, introduced color- and sometimes gender-blind casting as well as non-traditional stagings, made...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Strike: The Five Biggest Points Of Contention
"Basically it comes down to compensation and health care." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
The City Of Glasgow Plans To Sell Its Flagship Art Museum And Then Lease...
The city council has approved a plan to sell the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, as well as other historic buildings, to a city-owned...
Met Opera Will Allow Home Streaming Of Live In HD Simulcasts, But Not For...
If there's a cinema anywhere near you that shows them, you're out of luck. Streamed broadcasts will only be available in countries (and areas...
Here’s Meta For You: A Play About Whether And How Working-Class People Can Do...
Class Act, based loosely on Shaw's Pygmalion and Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, is inspired by lead actor Mish Gregor's "bogan" (that's Australian...
Bayard Rustin Wasn’t Just A Civil Rights Hero, He Was An Early Music Geek
He taught himself to play the lute while imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II, collected antique instruments, and recorded, as a...
A Dance Version Of “The Matrix”, Staged By The Director Of “Slumdog Millionaire”
Danny Boyle is creating a "large-scale immersive performance" of the landmark science-fiction movie for the new performance venue The Factory International in Manchester next...
Was King Charles Actually Right About Modern Architecture?
"If you read his 1984 'carbuncle' speech in full, what follows might come as a surprise. Far from issuing a decree for more Corinthian...
How The Inventor Of Television Got Screwed Over By Corporate America
More specifically, the Radio Corporation of America (you know it as RCA), whose boss, David Sarnoff, stole some of Philo T. Farnsworth's technology, and...
A Museum Hosted A Family-Friendly Drag Show At An LGBTQ+ Exhibit. Then The...
Said one employee at Memphis's Museum of Science and History, "Whether the police couldn't or just wouldn't do anything about them, I don't know....
When Right-Wingers Targeted Drag Queen Story Hour At A Montana Bookstore, The Community Rallied
"Local bartenders, retirees, restaurant workers and marketing professionals joined other Pride-goers to create a buffer around the store's entrance. Someone started playing music from...
The Crash Is Here: NFT Sales Have Fallen By 97% In Nine Months
"In January 2022, $17.2 billion was traded on the NFT market, a stunning high that eclipsed 2021's NFT mania. ... But since the start...
Two Years After Being Sued, Brown Paper Tickets Still Owes A Lot Of Arts...
In 2020, the attorney general of Washington state ordered the Seattle-based ticketing service to pay what grew, six months later, to a total of...
“It Was Unfinished Business”: The Revamped David Geffen Hall Is What Deborah Borda Came...
She ran the orchestra in the 1990s, and left partly because she saw no real will to fix the Phil's long-problematic venue. After 17...
World’s Second-Largest Cinema Chain Says Attendance Won’t Be Back To Normal For At Least...
"Exhibition giant and Regal owner Cineworld Group, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S., predicted on Friday that cinema admissions...
Wendell Pierce Is Broadway’s First Black Willy Loman, A Role He Never Knew He...
"Even though Pierce has enjoyed a robust career, which includes long stints on prestige television shows and an Obie award for sustained excellence of...
The Smiley Face, At 50 Years Old, Is Very Big Business
"The smiley – at least, this particular version of it – is a trademarked image. Want to use it? You gotta pay. Today, the...
At 87, Choreographer Yvonne Rainer Has Created Her Final Work
"Given her age, it makes sense. But is it really true? 'Yeah, I feel it's my last production. ... I don't know. I have...
Why Folks Are Flipping Out About The New Anthony Bourdain Biography
Many people close to the late chef/author/TV star refused to speak with Charles Leerhsen for his Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of...
What’s Really Extraordinary About Whoopi Goldberg
"(She's) managed a one-of-a-kind, first-of-its-sort, decades-long career with dreadlocks on her head, no eyebrows on her face and her foot in her mouth ......
