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We’re Seeing More Male-Male Love Depicted In Ballet. Why Not More Female-Female Couples?
Lily Hyde: “They have appeared in contemporary ballets, such as Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games and Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, but are by no means at the heart of...
Ancient Gold Artifacts Stolen From Dutch Museum May Still Be Recoverable
“While the whereabouts of these gold treasures — three Dracian bracelets dating from 50 B.C.E. and the 2,500-year-old Cotofenesti helmet — remain unknown, Dutch...
A Wave Of Closures And Cutbacks At China’s Private Art Museums
“The current crisis in China is a result of corporate backers tightening their budgets, consumers curtailing their discretionary spending, and rising costs, people working at...
The Art That Homeland Security Is Posting To Instagram? It’s Intended To Piss People...
Ben Davis: “It’s smug provocation. And there’s no particular love for classic art here; the aesthetic sensibility is totally internet-brained. These specific paintings are...
What The New Chief of New York City Opera Has Planned For Reviving The...
Constantine Orbelian, now both Music Director and Executive Director: “The main thing for me at this point is getting a home. ... I believe...
How One Arts Group Managed To Get Its Cancelled NEA Grant Restored
“Through a complicated process, Three Bone Theatre received the remaining $13,000 from its three-year, $20,000 grant to help put on a trilogy of plays that retell...
Time For The Annual Cleaning Of The Metropolitan Opera’s Spiky Crystal Chandeliers
“The chandeliers are wood-and-metal spheres that have been called ‘sputniks’ ever since the Met opened in 1966. Legend has it that a prototype was...
How Do You Spot Text Written By AI Bots? It’s Not Just About The...
Many readers (especially on Reddit) think that the regular use of em dashes and relatively unusual vocabulary (“delves” or “crucial”) is a big sign...
Dance And Science Have Been Intersecting For Around 200 Years Now
“The nineteenth century (was) this tumultuous period of emergence in the arts, sciences, in education, politically, culturally. … Something that came to the fore was...
New York State’s $400M Broadway Tax Credit Has Already Run Out Of Money
“Tax credits ran out quickly this year, both due to demand, and as productions had been conditionally approved for the credit before the (law...
American Late-Night TV Isn’t Dead. Yet.
“But its future, which was never exactly bright, might be cratering. The hoary format’s downward slide has, up until this point, been comparatively slow,...
Maybe You Can Get Famous Playing The Edinburgh Fringe, But You Sure Won’t Get...
“The sprawling festival, open to any act that can find a venue and pay a registration fee, will this year showcase over 3,000 acts.”...
Washington National Opera Director Francesca Zambello On Relations With Kennedy Center’s New Regime
“The new management has not entered into our artistic planning. They support it and the same way they support the National Symphony …, and...
Allan Ahlberg, Author Of “The Jolly Postman” And Other Children’s Classics, Has Died At...
“Ahlberg’s (more than 150) books introduced generations of young children to reading through simple rhymes, sharp observation and gentle humor. Many were co-created with...
Public TV And Radio Across New York State Lose $57 Million In Trump/Congress Cuts
“Nearly $50 million of that will come from the budgets of public radio and TV stations, while roughly $7.6 million will come from the...
Smithsonian Removes Trump’s Name From Exhibit On Impeached Presidents
“The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display. … After this...
Man Leaps To His Death From Roof Of Whitney Museum
“An unidentified 34-year-old man died after jumping from the Whitney Museum on Wednesday evening, shortly before the museum closed, according to a source with...
Gems Revered As Relics Of Buddha Returned From Sotheby’s To India
The gems were originally, circa 240 BC, buried in a stupa in Piprahwa, India, where they were mixed with some cremated remains of the Buddha. The...
Surprising Facts About Caligula, Everybody’s Favorite Horrible Roman Emperor
“Despite his character, and questionable sanity, Caligula was also man of great intellect and learning with a particularly keen knowledge of pharmacology. … Caligula was...
Are Spoof Movies Making A Comeback?
Their heyday was the 1980s and ‘90s, from Airplane! through the National Lampoon and Austin Powers franchises, Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries, and Scary Movie, but...
Another Leader Of Theater In DC Is Stepping Down
“The early announcement of David Muse’s 2027 departure as artistic director of Studio Theatre … allows the institution ample time to search for a...
US Nonfiction Book Sales Are Down — Except For Titles About Tyranny
“While sales of such seemingly prescient novels as 1984 by George Orwell (1949) and Parable of the Sower by Olivia Butler (1993) (have) surged …, backlist nonfiction titles...
At Versailles Palace, Visitors Converse With The Statuary (Via Chatbot)
Farah Nayeri: “Powered by the tech giant OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, an audio tool lets visitors (on or off site) converse with 20...
In Los Angeles, Dance Groups Large And Small Face Money Struggles
“With the stress of federal and local funding cuts, as well as the January fires, many L.A. dance organizations are scaling back their programming...
Regional Newspapers Are Bundling New York Times Content Into Their Own Subscription Packages
For instance, The Philadelphia Inquirer includes access to the NYT Cooking app with its premium subscription, while The Minnesota Star Tribune does something similar...
