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The Kirov Academy Ballet School Is Closing (Note: This Is Not In Russia)
Don't panic: this school isn't connected with the St. Petersburg company now known as the Mariinsky, although its first directors came from there and...
Oh, Great — Even More Damage To What’s Left Of The Bamiyan Buddhas
The new Taliban governor of Bamiyan province somehow heard a rumor that there's buried treasure under what used to be the large 6th-century statues...
21st-Century London Is Developing A New Dialect Of English
Linguists have dubbed it Multicultural London English (MLE); it has developed organically among young people in a city where hundreds of languages are spoken,...
The Most Dancerly Skater At The 2022 Winter Olympics
Jason Brown, a 27-year-old American, probably won't get an individual medal at these games because he doesn't have a consistent quadruple jump. Yet, writes...
One Of The Most Recorded Singers In History Has Died Of COVID At Age...
No voice was so completely associated with the music of Bollywood movies as that of Lata Mangeshkar: she sang on the soundtracks of more...
Did COVID-19 Change American Opera? It Was Changing Already.
"For years now, opera has been in a sort of cocoon-like transition period as it explores new works and ways to move beyond its...
For The First Time, The RSC Casts A Disabled Actor As Richard III
Playing the last Plantagenet king will be Arthur Hughes, 30 years old and born with radial dysplasia. (He identifies as "limb-different".) The production opens...
Archaeologists Discovered An 800-Year-Old Imperial Palace Where One Of The Winter Olympic Villages Was...
The site — at Zhangjiakou, where most of the skiing and snowboarding events are being held — is believed to be the Taihe Palace,...
A New Guaranteed-Income-For-Artists Program In New York State
"Spearheaded by the Mellon Foundation, ... the $125 million initiative, Creatives Rebuild New York, will issue monthly, no-strings-attached payments to up to 2,400 artists...
Right-Wing Platform Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million To Leave Spotify And “Save The World”
"The CEO of the Canadian video-sharing platform Rumble (tweeted) … 'How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both new and old, with...
The Picasso “Guernica” Tapestry Was Taken From The UN Last Year. Now It’s Back.
Last year, to the surprise of many (including the Secretary General), the tapestry's owner, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr., had it taken from its place...
Thomas Dausgaard Is Out Of Another Job, And BBC Scottish Symphony Has A New...
The recently-departed music director of the Seattle Symphony hasn't been to Glasgow to conduct his other orchestra for nearly two years, and his contract...
Is This Little Bejeweled Sphinx Really “The Talisman Of Napoleon” (And Worth $250 Million)?
Ben Davis: "Allow me to introduce you to the evidence in favor of the Talisman's authenticity and importance, which has impressed noted Napoleonic jewelry...
Can Literature Actually Change History (Not Just Literary History)?
Four scholars offer their answers in a roundtable — including the observation that, in the rare instances when that does happen, the book itself...
James Joyce’s “Ulysses” Is 100 Years Old. What, Exactly, Are We Celebrating?
"That Ulysses was an event nearly everyone will agree. However, can we say even now, a century later, what kind of event it really...
In The Face Of Black Lives Matter And Ongoing Violence, Is Creating Dance A...
Choreographer David Roussève has always situated his work at "the intersection of choreography and social activism," finding that he can help create empathy with...
It’s Taken Six Years For Miami City Ballet To Get Its Full-Length “Swan Lake”...
The company, always oriented more toward the abstract works of Balanchine and his artistic successors than toward story ballets, has performed only an abridged...
Hollywood Will Be Sending Fewer Movies Into Theaters Next Year (And Perhaps Well After...
The studios have 71 features scheduled for theatrical release in 2022 — considerably more than in pandemic-plagued 2021 and 2020, but down from the...
Following A Difficult Summer And A Staff Revolt, Williamstown Theater Festival Is Making Big...
Those changes include better pay equity and HR, safety training, hour caps, and, crucially, ending the ambitious seven-production summer season. The Festival's statement says...
San Francisco Art Institute Is Saved: It Will Merge With A University
The 150-year-old art school, which has had longstanding financial problems and nearly shut down in 2020, will integrate with, and ultimately be acquired by,...
Confirmed: The First Native American To Head The NEH
Shelly C. Lowe, a Navajo who grew up in rural northern Arizona, was nominated by President Biden as chair of the National Endowment for...
England’s Arts Funder Says All New Funding In Its Next Budget Will Be Spent...
Arts organizations in the rest of England have been complaining for years that, with respect to national funding, they are shortchanged in favor of...
Local Government Funding For Culture In England Down By 50% Over The Last Decade
Research by the Public Campaign for the Arts "found that local authority expenditure on all cultural services – including public libraries, entertainment venues, museums,...
Cleaning Week At (Perhaps) Europe’s Most Beautiful Church
Every January, Dresden's Frauenkirche closes for seven days, "and dozens of carpenters, painters, and other craftspeople and cleaners get to work. The crew repairs...
Boycotting Joe Rogan Is Probably Futile
"If the protest succeeds in getting him booted, he can go back to making his podcast available on other platforms or launch his own....
