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Clarice Smith, Beloved DC-Area Painter And Philanthropist, Dead At 88
She and her late husband donated many millions to humanities endeavors in greater Washington — notably to the National Gallery of Art, George Washington...
Why Did The New “West Side Story” Movie Make The Tomboy Character Trans? Because...
"In this milieu, a Cold War culture dedicated to conformity and shot through with Freudian panic about emasculation, audiences could glimpse Anybodys, a character...
Met Opera Will Require All Audience Members And Staffers To Get COVID Booster Shots
"The Met is the first major performing arts organization in the city to announce a booster-shot mandate that will apply to audiences as well...
Album Of Actual Bird Calls Makes Top Five On Australia’s Charts
"Songs of Disappearance is surpassing the likes of Abba and The Weeknd - not to mention Christmas favourites Michael Bublé and Mariah Carey. Created...
China’s Government Has A Flock Of Foreign YouTubers Making Videos About How Great The...
" new social media personalities … paint cheery portraits of life as foreigners in China — and also hit back at criticisms of Beijing's...
An Incomplete List Of The Writers, Editors, And Great Literary Minds We Lost This...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Larry McMurtry, Janet Malcolm, Greg Tate, bell hooks, and so many more. - Literary Hub
The Guardian Now Has More Than A Million Online — Well, Subscribers Isn’t The...
The site has no paywall; the model is like that of public radio in the US: convince visitors to contribute. Now more than 1...
Orlando Ballet Names New Artistic Director
Jorden Morris had been hired as this season's interim artistic director in August, just after Robert Hill resigned with immediate effect after 13 years....
UNESCO Adds Arabic Calligraphy To Its “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” List
Congratulations, but isn't this a bit like putting, say, European portraiture on the list? Calligraphy is one of the most basic, fundamental genres of...
TEFAF Maastricht, One Of The World’s Biggest Art Fairs, Postponed Yet Again
The last TEFAF that actually happened was (bad timing!) in March 2020, and it closed halfway through. The 2021 event was put off for...
On Broadway They’re Canceling Performances Like Never Before (Damn Omicron!)
"The coronavirus pandemic has upended the theater industry's longstanding 'show must go on' philosophy, supplanting it with a safety-first strategy. The result: a raft...
Arts Venues In Britain See “Catastrophic” Attendance Declines Because Of Omicron
"Nathan Pearce from theatre ticket agency Seatplan said: 'As soon as Omicron was reported as a serious threat we saw a 30% drop in...
The 16 Defining Art Events of 2021
In-person gatherings return, NFTs (or the people involved) go nuts, $20 billion-with-a-b worth of art donated in South Korea, major new museums in Paris...
A New York Times Entertainment Reporter Remembers His Childhood As A Real-Life Carny
As Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley hits screens, Brooks Barnes takes the occasion to write about the corn dogs he dipped and unlimited snow...
A Major Black Theater Company In An Unlikely Place Bounces Back From The Pandemic
COVID arrived at a bad time for Sarasota's Westcoast Black Theater Troupe: it had just opened a new venue in February 2020. Luckily, "one...
Taking On, And Having At, The Ballerina Mystique
Rachel Kapelke-Dale: "In the end, Ballerinas turned out to be about the violence that emerges from the rage of being trapped in someone...
Spain’s Most Un-Francoist Filmmaker Finally Takes On The Franco Era
Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers starts out with a very Almodóvar situation, two single women about to give birth, but the movie’s really about the...
Doesn’t Seem Like It After 20 Years, But Peter Jackson’s “Lord Of The Rings”...
He'd made some comedy-horror mashups and one arthouse hit when he set to work on the Tolkien adaptations, so he wasn't someone you'd think...
Britain’s National Lottery Gave Blighted Towns $330 Million To Spend As They Wished. What...
While the specifics differ (as do outcomes, somewhat), the common thread seems to be that these towns built gathering places — community centers or...
The Bookstore That’s Helping Mosul Recover From Three Years Under ISIS
The Mosul Book Forum, which offers concerts and events along with books, opened three months after the city was liberated. Said cofounder Fahad Sabah,...
Robert Indiana’s Foundation Sues Publisher For Forgery
The Morgan Art Foundation's filing in US federal court accuses publisher Michael McKenzie of "allegedly forging Indiana's artwork, defaming the foundation, and intentionally interfering...
Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music Will Rebuild Itself In Portugal
On Monday, 273 teachers and students from the school flew from Qatar, where they landed at a US base after fleeing the Taliban, to...
Cleaning Staff At Guggenheim Bilbao Stage Performance Art To Protest Appalling Wages
The artist Lorenzo Bussi (alias "Art Builders Group") and the workers devised the action, titled "Is Everyone's Work Equally Important?", at the top of...
Why Didn’t Lyric Opera Of Chicago Tell Anyone It Renewed Its CEO’s Contract?
Anthony Freud's term was to have expired this year; in October, LOC's board extended it for five years with no public announcement. When asked,...
Bramwell Tovey Makes It Official: Artistic Director Of Rhode Island Philharmonic
The longtime music director of the Vancouver Symphony (2000-2018) has been the RI Phil's artistic advisor since 2018, and he is also music director...
