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What Sadler’s Wells Has Planned For Its New East London Outpost
"Sadler’s Wells East is due to open later this year in London’s Queen Elizabeth Park, site of the 2012 Olympic Games. The 550-seat auditorium,...
Here’s The First Museum in The U.S. To Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
The Stanley Museum of Art at the University of Iowa restored a brass plaque and a wooden altarpiece to the Oba of Benin, the...
Faust In The Financial District, 1929: What’s Next From The Producers Of “Sleep No...
"A version of the Faust legend (well, several braided versions of the Faust legend), Life and Trust, which opens Aug. 1, occupies 100,000 square...
New Zealand Symphony’s Ex-CEO Admits He Suddenly Resigned Due To Financial Malfeasance
When Peter Biggs stepped down in April, the stated cause was ill health. He now acknowledges the reason was "grievous errors of judgment": commuting...
British Museum’s New Director Suggests “Lending Library” Model For Repatriating Parthenon Marbles And Benin...
"We can’t give them back because of the act of parliament 1963," said Nicholas Cullinan, "we’re not allowed to deaccession. … I would hope...
Musicians At Welsh National Opera Authorize Strike
"Orchestra members of the Welsh National Opera have voted overwhelmingly in favour of potential strike action, following threats of full-time jobs being reduced to...
Bob Newhart Dead At 94
"His understated comedy routines that emphasized the absurdities of ordinary life made him a national sensation. (He) became the first comedian with a No....
Why A Musical-Comedy About Witches And Cossacks Is The Smash Hit Of Kyiv Theatre
The Witch of Konotop is a 1982 stage adaptation of a classic Ukrainian novella published in 1832, telling the story of a Cossack town...
Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson Convicted On All Fraud Charges
The online news outlet, founded in 2013, collapsed in 2021 after Watson and other execs were caught lying to potential investors with wildly inflated...
25 Years After It Flopped, “Eyes Wide Shut” Is Getting Constantly Reassessed
Stanley Kubrick died shortly after turning his cut in to Warner Bros. — which has left plenty of room for others to make their...
Nashville’s Arts Funder Agrees To Restore Grants It Clawed Back From Minority-Led Arts Groups
The Metro Arts Commission had rescinded the funds in 2023 on advice from the city's attorneys that, because commissioners had discussed race in awarding...
Silent Demonstration During Performance Calls For Getty Museum To Stop Underpaying Dancers
Last Sunday, as dancers carried heavy sheets of metal and glass in Joan Jonas’s Mirror Piece I & II, audience members from Los Angeles's...
Yet More Layoffs At Warner Bros. Discovery
The staff cuts, coming a week after the conglomerate eliminated around 100 jobs at CNN, involve multiple departments, including production, business affairs, finance, and...
Musicians’ Union Pension Fund Rescued By $1.5 Billion Of Federal Money
The American Federation of Musicians and Employers Pension Fund, set up for AFM's roughly 50,000 members in New York but underfunded for decades, was...
Macron’s Plan To Install Contemporary Stained Glass Windows In Notre-Dame Is Vetoed
The French President's proposal to replace six 19th-century stained glass windows with contemporary works has been rejected by France’s National Heritage and Architecture Commission....
2024 Kennedy Center Honors Go To Francis Ford Coppola, Bonnie Raitt, Anturo Sandoval, The...
"Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter said there isn’t a theme when selecting the honorees, but one often emerges organically. This year, that accidental...
Ford And Mellon Foundations Name Final Class Of Disability Futures Fellows
"The initiative, (20 unrestricted grants of $50,000 each to disabled creative artists,) administered by United States Artists, named its inaugural class of fellows in...
Boris Kachka, Books Editor Laid Off By L.A. Times, Moves To The Atlantic
Kachka was one of the 115 staffers (roughly 20% of the newsroom) at the Los Angeles Times who were made redundant in January. Before...
How The Sports Novel Reached Adulthood
"For much of its history, the Western sports novel had been the stuff of inspirational boys’ tales, full of moral instruction and can’t-lose heroes....
One Of San Francisco’s Coolest Theaters Is Closing Its Doors
Cutting Ball Theater plans to cease operations at the end of 2024. In its 25 years, Cutting Ball has mounted a Strindberg marathon, a...
The “Yoda-Like Guru” Of Tap Dance
The youngsters who studied with Gene Medler at the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble remain devoted to him and his teaching methods for years...
MOCA In L.A. Launches New $100,000 ‘Environment And Art’ Prize
"Called the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, the (biennial) award, which comes with $100,000, will go to an artist whose practice...
Eat Your Heart Out, Jersey City: Centre Pompidou Málaga Will Remain Open For Ten...
"Debuting as a pop-up along the (Spanish) city’s waterfront in 2015, the 65,000-square-foot museum is notable for the brightly hued glass cube created by...
Pete Wells, New York Times’s Most Entertaining Restaurant Critic Ever, Is Moving On
"A funny thing happened when I got to the end of all that eating: I realized I wasn’t hungry. I’m still not, at least...
Minority-Led Arts Groups In Chicago Are Getting More Money From Donors
"Major arts donors nearly doubled their funding to Chicago groups with diverse leaders and audiences over the past three years, but the authors of...