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Pioneering Black Conductor Everett Lee Dead At 105
He was the first African-American to be a music director on Broadway (On the Town, 1945) and the first to conduct an orchestra in...
Dutch Government Will Buy A Rembrandt For €175 Million From An Offshore Tax Haven,...
The Standard-Bearer (1636) is being purchased from the Rothschild family via a trust in the Cook Islands which is owned by a holding company...
A New TV Dance Competition Will Restage Set Pieces From “Dirty Dancing”
The series, titled The Real Dirty Dancing and debuting on Fox on February 1, will feature eight celebrities learning routines from the film at...
Dutch Theaters, Concert Halls, And Museums Offered Haircuts And Workouts Because That Was The...
Following a full lockdown over Christmas, salons, gyms, and brothels were allowed to reopen this week while arts venues had to remain shuttered. So...
England Ends Mandatory Protective Rules Introduced After Omicron — And Performing Arts Folks Are...
COVID passes will no longer be required to attend performances, and while many venues will continue to ask patrons to remain masked, that will...
What’s The Optimum Length For A Radio Ad? This Study Says …
"Ads that ran for 30 seconds outperformed others on most key performance indicators such as engagement, brand effect, and recall, and were also heard...
Jon Stewart Awarded The Mark Twain Prize For American Humor
He'll receive the honor (the first since COVID arrived) at the traditional Kennedy Center tribute, this year on April 24 — joining a comic...
Faith Ringgold’s First Public Art Commission Will Be Moved From Riker’s Island To The...
She painted the mural For The Women's House at the women's wing of the New York City prison complex back in 1971. She visited...
Philadelphia Orchestra Set For Its First Tour Since The Pandemic Began
"It will be a short sojourn, with the ensemble playing a total of four concerts in Iowa City, Iowa; Stillwater, Oklahoma; and Ann Arbor,...
YouTube To Cut Way Back On Its Plans For Original Programming
An executive announced that the platform will only go forward with programs that have already been contracted through the Black Voices and YouTube Kids...
New York State’s New Governor Wants To Expand COVID Tax Credit For Commercial Theater
"(Kathy) Hochul on Tuesday proposed budgeting $200 million for the New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, which provides up to $3...
Right After His First Post-Lockdown Concerts, Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s Music Director Announces Departure
Josep Caballé Domenech, who succeeded Lawrence Leighton Smith in 2011, said that he'll step down after next season (May 2023), when his current contract...
How Joss Whedon Went From Television Deity And Feminist Hero To Pariah
It's a long tale, and not a simple one, but it makes sense — even, in some ways (but not others), to Whedon himself....
French Actor Gaspard Ulliel Dead At 37 Following Ski Accident
Best known in the anglophone world for the title roles in Hannibal Rising and Saint-Laurent, and one of the stars of the upcoming Marvel...
Molière Is Refused Reburial In The Panthéon, And Une Grande Querelle Breaks Out
Actor-director Francis Huster has campaigned for years for the "father of the French language" to be admitted to the ranks of les immortels. Yet...
Venice Tries The Tulsa Tactic: Luring Remote Tech Workers To Live There
The project, called Venywhere, aims "to convince people who can do their jobs from anywhere to do so in Venice — and its founders...
The Roman Villa With Caravaggio’s Only Ceiling Fresco Did Not Get A Single Bid...
"The estate, known as Villa Aurora, had a price tag of €471 million ($546 million) and could have become the most expensive residential property...
There’s Now A Whole Sub-Genre Of Movies About North American School Shootings
"There has been a range of films" — Zero Day (2002), Elephant (2003), Polytechnique (2009), Beautiful Boy (2010), We Need to Talk About Kevin...
Battles Over School District Book Bans Are Metastasizing
"A pivotal midterm election year, COVID frustrations and a backlash against efforts to call out systemic racism — driven disproportionately by white, suburban and...
Inside The FBI’s Art Crime Team
Italy formed its Carabinieri Art Squad back in 1969, but the US didn't create a dedicated equivalent until 2004. Yet since then, the unit...
Cincinnati Ballet Has A New Artistic Director
Jodie Gates —founding director of USC's Kaufman School of Dance, former assistant to William Forsythe as well as admired choreographer in her own right,...
The UK Government’s Plan To Use Culture To Revive The North Of England
Both Tory ministers and ther Labour counterparts in opposition agree on "a ten-point action plan includ(ing) devolving funding decisions to a regional level from...
Birju Maharaj, India’s Great Master Of Kathak Dance, Dead At 83
Revered as both performer and teacher, "Maharaj was known for his animated facial expressions and light-footed movements, accompanied by the sound of bells he...
Who Was Lorraine Hansberry? A Black Lesbian Communist Who Became A Darling Of Mainstream...
"She achieved literary celebrity but called herself a 'literary failure,' was supported in a marriage that ultimately collapsed, resisted her family but didn't denounce...
“Hopepunk” — Dystopian Sci-Fi Gets An Antidote
"'Cautionary tales are very important,' says Becky Chambers, one of the leading authors associated with the hopepunk movement, who has won a much-coveted Hugo...
