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Titles About Middle East Dominate 2025 National Book Awards
Winners include Rabih Alameddine's Beirut-set The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Fiction), Omar El Akkad’s examination of the war...
Some Arts Organizations Are Turning Down NEA Grants Rather Than Follow Anti-DEI Rules
“After the (NEA) canceled a large percentage of its awards in May, organizations across the country have decided they would rather find money elsewhere than be...
Who Paid $12 Million For Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet? Believe It Or Not …
Yes, the themed-museum-and-entertainment franchise Ripley’s Believe It or Not! was the purchaser of Cattelan’s America at Sotheby’s in New York this week. In its...
San Diego Symphony Extends Contract With Music Director Rafael Payare
“The Venezuelan-born conductor — who became a naturalized US. citizen last year on the stage of the symphony’s Jacobs Music Center — began his...
Here’s One Israeli Orchestra That Isn’t Met With Protests When It Tours
The Galilee Chamber Orchestra, currently touring the US, is based in Nazareth (considered the cultural capital for Israel’s native Palestinians, about 20% of the...
Fort Worth Opera Tries A Pay-What-You-Can Program
For each of this weekend’s three performances of Philip Glass’s La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast, set to Jean Cocteau’s 1946...
Howard University Is On A Mission To Preserve The History Of Black American Newspapers
The project is digitizing U.S. newspapers that are are now in the public domain (after 95 years). The center also has permission to place...
Norwegian National Ballet Did A Piece About Sami History By A Sami Choreographer. Oslo...
That question worried the choreographer, administrators, and the dancers, none of whom are Sami themselves. What’s more, the piece was about a particularly sensitive...
Wagnerian Tenor Gary Lakes Has Died At 75
A veteran who performed at the Metropolitan Opera 106 times and at many other companies, he was known for such challenging roles as Tannhäuser,...
La Jolla Playhouse Appoints Jessica Stone As Artistic Director
As of early next year, the two-time Tony nominee (for her direction of Kimberly Akimbo in 2023 and Water for Elephants in 2024) will...
Well, If We Thought The Color-Blind Casting Debate Was Settled, We Were Wrong
“It can now be hard to remember that colorblind casting was once an inflammatory proposition. … But the triumphal march of colorblind casting — hiring...
Alabama Public Television Decides Not To Break Up With PBS (Yet)
“Facing a public backlash, the commission that oversees Alabama Public Television voted Tuesday to continue paying its contract with PBS, rejecting an effort —...
Gustav Klimt Portrait Is Now Second-Most Expensive Artwork Ever Auctioned
The six-foot-tall painting, Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16), shows a young heiress and daughter of Klimt’s patrons draped in a Chinese robe. Its sale...
Two Of New York’s Biggest Arts Philanthropists Died This Year. Will Anyone Follow In...
As one former museum director put it about Leonard Lauder and Agnes Gund, “They could open doors, they could bring people together, they would...
Giller Prize 2026 Goes To “Pick A Colour” By Souvankham Thammavongsa
This is the second time that the Laotian-Canadian author has won Canada’s top literary award; she is only the fourth author to do so,...
Is The World Really Getting Dumber? “Yes, And We All Know It.”
Across the developed world, since the 1930s, there’s been what’s called the Flynn effect: IQ scores overall have been rising by about three points...
How Software Has Changed Choreography, And How AI Could Change It Further
Julie Cruse is a pioneer of “computational choreography”: in 2007 she created a piece titled Choreobot in which she used software she coded to...
India Could Be Poised To Develop Its Own Musical Theatre
“If authentically delivered, the potential is colossal. India’s population of 1.4 billion includes a fast-growing urban middle class … (with) a rising appetite for...
Michael Andor Brodeur Analyzes The 2026 Classical Grammy Nominees
Most notably, composer Gabriela Ortiz, who won three Grammys last time, could do it again, as she’s a triple nominee this year. Overall, in...
Here Are The Classical Grammy Nominations For 2026 (In Case You Missed Them)
And, unfortunately, they’re easy to miss, since they’re always stuck all the way down at the end of a very long list of categories....
Taylor Sheridan’s TV Series Have Earned An Astonishing Amount Of Money For Paramount+
“Since the first of his Paramount+ originals premiered in 2021, Sheridan's titles have generated more than $800 million in global streaming revenue for the...
Two Early Organ Works By Bach Performed For First Time In 300 Years
“Researchers discovered the anonymous, undated works in Belgium's Royal Library in 1992, but it wasn’t until recently that they were able to authenticate Bach...
Bill Ivey, Who Calmed Conservative Fury At The NEA, Has Died At 81
He was a guitar-playing folklorist who had run the Country Music Foundation in Nashville for 26 years, when President Clinton nominated him to chair...
How The Ushers At New York’s Top Performing Arts Venues Shoo The Audience Back...
First, they repeatedly play a little melody on a glockenspiel or dinner chime or marimba as they stroll through the lobbies. Then, says one...
“Parasocial” Is Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 Word Of The Year
Taylor and Travis, podcast hosts, even chatbots — this has been a year full of intense but one-sided relationships between some ordinary individuals and...
