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New York City’s New Mayor Suggests Cutting $72 Million From Arts Budget
In February "the mayor released a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2023 that proposes slashing one-third of the city's culture budget. So how does...
Putin Suggests Merging Bolshoi And Mariinsky Theaters Under Valery Gergiev’s Direction
After Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin signed a petition for ending Russia's war in Ukraine and one of the Bolshoi's star ballerinas abruptly emigrated, the...
The Music, And Music Criticism, Of The Terezín Concentration Camp
David Patrick Stearns looks at "a monumental new collection of artifacts by Jewish artists and musicians" titled Our Will to Live: The Terezín Music...
The Splendiferous Din Of Italian Futurist Music
"What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi Russolo's intonarumori — lever-operated machines designed to...
Can Fairy Tales Explain The (Lack Of) Progress In Russia’s War On Ukraine?
"Several weeks in, it's clear many overestimated the Russian army's will and capability to fight and the Ukrainian army's will to resist an opponent...
It’s Not Easy To Make A Story Ballet About Evita Perón
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the Colombian-Belgian choreographer of Doña Perón for Ballet Hispánico, talks about such challenges as making the central character compelling when she...
Some Folks Want To Do Away With The Woman-In-Danger Subgenre Of Thriller Fiction. Bad...
Nancy Allen: "I write legal thrillers. Most of the books I've written center around a woman whose life or safety is in jeopardy, generally...
Bowen Yang’s Immigrant Parents Could Not Comprehend His Making A Career In Comedy
No, it's not that they thought show business was too risky: they literally could not conceive of such a thing as earning a living...
This Couple Helps COVID-Clobbered Arts Workers Transition Into Tech
"About a week after Broadway shut down, Scott and Catherine Ricafort McCreary launched a support group for artists interested in making a career switch....
COVID Has Cost Us A Generation Of Theatermakers
"The collective pause spurred an unprecedented reflection on what they weren't getting from their prepandemic jobs and what precarious elements they had tolerated. ......
After Decades Of Misuse And War Damage, The Ruins Of Ancient Babylon Are Being...
Funded by the US Embassy as part of the World Monuments Fund's 15-year Future of Babylon project, the current work includes stabilization and conservation...
Krista Tippett’s “On Being” Is Leaving Public Radio To Go Podcast-Only
"Alongside its sister show, Poetry Unbound, On Being will move from a weekly radio production to a seasonal podcast model. The show plans a...
Julian Schnabel’s Big Show In Spain Is Postponed Because All The Truckers Are On...
"Schnabel's 23-painting show at the Centro de Arte Comporaneo (in Málaga) was expected to open on Friday, but it will no longer kick off...
On Artists, Addiction, And The End Of The Myth That The Two Go Together
"It's incredible to consider the lengths we used to go to in forgiving artists for being bad people. ... The myth of the high-functioning...
The Author Of The Graphic Memoir “Gender Queer” On Having Her Life Story Caught...
Maia Kobabe: "I'm learning that a book being challenged or banned does not hurt the book and does not hurt the author. The book...
This Brave And Skillful Actor Is On Standby For Every Male Role In “Hamilton”
"Jimmie 'JJ' Jeter ... is halfway down the Australian Hamilton cast list, described merely as 'standby'. But he's played every single male role in...
These Days, Being A Public Librarian In America Can Be Dangerous
Amanda Oliver, author of Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library, recounts some incidents from her years working in the DC library system, cautioning against...
With Hollywood Cutting Them Off, Russian Movie Theaters Are Turning To Bollywood
Without access to big American blockbusters that reliably put butts in their seats, cinema chains in Russia will turn to domestically-made films as well...
At Nearly 80, Meredith Monk Is Finally Creating Music Other Performers Can Do Without...
"It's difficult music to score. The performer has to truly feel my music, physically, before they can perform it. ... When other people want...
A Dance Company Finds Its Way After The Sudden Death Of Its Founder
When Nai-Ni Chen died in a swimming accident in Hawaii last December, her company's executive director — also her widower, Andrew Chiang — was...
The Oscar-Nominated Film “CODA” Will Be Adapted As A Stage Musical
The adaptation will be done by the film's producers and Deaf West Theatre, the Los Angeles company known for its hit Broadway productions of...
Another Ukrainian Museum Destroyed By Russian Artillery
"A museum in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol dedicated to the 19th-century artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, whom both Russians and Ukrainians embrace as...
Art Basel Reveals Plans For Its Paris Version (Just Don’t Call It Art Basel...
The annual October fair will be called Paris+, by Art Basel. (But will it be pronounced "Parris Pluss" or "Paree Pluice"?) - Artnet
We’ve Been Calling Machu Picchu By The Wrong Name All This Time
"A Peruvian historian and a leading US archaeologist argue that the UNESCO World Heritage Site was known by its Inca inhabitants as Huayna Picchu...
John Waters On Today’s Climate Of Political Correctness And Incorrectness
"I'm happy at the social change, the craziness of it. The main difference, though, is when I was young … we used political incorrectness...
