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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...
Device After Device Promises To Save Writers From Their Own Distraction And Procrastination. Could...
"Could the new wave of Zen editors and e-ink tablets, tempering tech solutionism with analog nostalgia, reverse this trajectory — and give writers a...
Five Years After Her Death, Composer Pauline Oliveros Is Finally Getting Her Due
Her music has been more widely performed, some of her sonic meditations — for example, "Take a walk at night. Walk so slowly that...
AI-Powered Robot Could Help Rebuild Pompeii’s Ancient Frescos
"The project … melds robotics, AI and archaeology in an attempt to reconstruct architectural features of Pompeii that would otherwise remain incomplete, because they're...
How Could Circus Oz Shut Down So Suddenly? Perhaps It Wasn’t All That Sudden
The Company Members (current and former artists who are the legal owners of the troupe) say they never intended Circus Oz to close. The...
Choreographer Nai-Ni Chen, 62, Dead In Swimming Accident
For 30 years her dance company performed both traditional Chinese styles and contemporary works. She had been on vacation in Hawaii last week; her...
Main Theatre At Jacob’s Pillow Will Be Reopened For Festival’s 90th Season
The renovated Ted Shawn Theatre will have a new ventilation system and stage housing. The festival's other indoor venue, the Doris Duke Theatre, burned...
Piet Mondrian’s Heirs Sue Philadelphia Museum Of Art Over Painting They Say Was Looted...
The suit by the descendants of Harry Holtzman, the artist's heir and executor, argues that Composition With Blue (1926), having been seized from a...
Louvre Agrees To Undo Renovation Of Room With Cy Twombly Ceiling Mural
When the museum changed the color of the walls and floor of its Salle des Bronzes, the Cy Twombly Foundation sued, arguing that the...
“Belfast”, “The Power Of The Dog”, “Succession”, “Ted Lasso”, “The Morning Show” Lead Golden...
In the film categories, Belfast and The Power of the Dog got seven nominations each; on the television side, Succession received five nods, with...
Dying American Shopping Malls Are Obviously Symbolic. But Of What?
"A dead mall, while eerie and odd, is strangely difficult to interpret. Tempting to see it as an Ozymandias-like portent of the collapse of...
Opera’s Three Laws Of Gravity (There’s No Escaping Them)
"In opera, the external is the internal." 2. "In opera, all speech is dream speech, whether it wants to be or not." 3. "Opera...
How A Master Of Indian Classical Dance Is Subtly Transforming Her Genre
Bijayini Satpathy spent 25 years performing and teaching at Nrityagram, the famous dancers' village near Bangalore, before deciding to become a touring solo artist....
The Uyghur Cultural Traditions Being Wiped Out Under Beijing’s Crackdown
There's been plenty of coverage of the built heritage of the Uyghurs that has been razed in recent years, but intangibles — literature, traditional...
National Museum Of Afghanistan Is Open Again — With Taliban Guards
Twenty years after a previous generation of Taliban took over the country and looted and smashed its way through the collection, the new government,...
Rape Charge Against Filmmaker Luc Besson Dismissed By French Court
After a 3½-year judicial investigation in Paris, and in accordance with the prosecutor's recommendation, the case brought against Besson by actress Sand van Roy...
Suddenly The Best Documentary Short Oscar Race Is Interesting, Thanks To Two Old Titans...
Time was, that was a low-stakes category for obscure indie directors. Ten years ago, HBO was the only major competitor. Now several legacy media...
Association Of American Publishers Sues To Stop States’ Library E-Book Laws
The trade group says that a Maryland law (along with a similar one pending in New York) requiring publishers who sell e-books to individual...
Rolando Villazón Had Thought His Voice Was Fried For Good — But He’s Singing...
Following a meteoric rise in the '00s, the Mexican tenor suffered more than one vocal crisis, changed repertoire, and finally gave up. But, he...
Dutch Government Set To Spend €150 Million To Buy A Rembrandt From The Rothschilds
The Standard-Bearer, once owned by George IV of Great Britain, is one of the very few Rembrandts still in private hands. The Rothschilds are...
Circus Oz, Australia’s World-Renowned Troupe, Is Closing Down
The government agencies that provide 75% of Circus Oz's budget told the company that it must revamp its board and governance or lose funding....
Doom Metal Organist Picketed By French Catholics Who Call Her Music “Satanic”
One critic describes Anna von Hausswolff's music as "where post-rock, doom metal, modern classical and high church music all coexist." Her concert at a...
In Germany, Stage Directors Rule, But It’s The Actors Who’ve Been Keeping The Theaters...
"One of the main reasons theater here has been able to rebound after repeated closures is that Germany effectively has a standing army of...
Now *This* Is How To Design Attractive Affordable Housing
Critic Oliver Wainwright says that the architects of this east London project, called A House for Artists, have found a way to follow local...
How “Squid Game” Has Transformed International TV
Better, perhaps, to say that the Korean hit marks a transformation that has been happening for several years now: the gradual acceptance by anglophone...
