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Family Of Cinematographer Shot On Set Of “Rust” Sues Alec Baldwin
"The family of Halyna Hutchins … has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Alec Baldwin, the film's production companies, its producers, and other members...
Ballet Dancer-Turned-Economist Has Suggestions For Fixing Ballet’s Job Market
Olivia Hartzell, who spent nearly a decade at Pennsylvania Ballet and the Royal Ballet of Flanders and is now a PhD student at Harvard,...
TCG To Make 200 Plays Available Online
The scripts, 110 already uploaded and the rest coming later this year, "join Drama Online's award-winning digital library, an online research tool for drama...
There’s A Famous Award For Bad Sex In Fiction. But What Makes For Good...
Niamh Campbell: "In all the best erotic writing I've read – not a lot really, but the most accurate and enviably sexy examples have...
2,700-Year-Old Bronze Figurine Found At Europe’s Oldest Battlefield — What Was It?
The six-inch statuette of an oddly-shaped nude woman dates from about 600 years after the battle at the site, near the Baltic coast of...
After 80 Years, An Opera Composed By A Holocaust Victim Takes The Stage
"Grete Minde, a late-Romantic opera of 1920s jazz-inspired melodies and large orchestral sounds, was the work of Eugen Engel, a Berlin-based Jewish textile tradesman...
Peter Oundjian Named Principal Conductor Of Colorado Symphony
The former music director of the Toronto Symphony and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (and, before that, longtime first violinist of the Tokyo String...
What Does The Data Tell Us About Where Arts Attendance Will Be By This...
The researchers at SMU Data Arts have updated their numbers, incorporating information about ticket sales, prices, COVID case rates, vaccination rates, etc.; they have...
At Slate, Money Worries And An Identity Crisis
"Navigating the fast-changing digital media landscape has left Slate struggling to define its identity. … Slate once stood out as a home for contrarian...
The Final Christo/Jeanne-Claude Project Is Happening! Isn’t It?
Earlier this month, there were reports that Mastaba, a 500-foot-tall quasi-pyramid made of 410,000 brightly colored steel barrels and planned for a desert site...
Artist Carmen Herrera, Whose Big Break Came When She Was 89, Is Dead At...
"Critics and collectors, once made aware that Ms. Herrera existed, were rapt by the intensity of her work, which she achieved by juxtaposing geometric...
After Three Years With No Hosts, This Year’s Oscars Will Have Three Of Them
Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes — "an all-female team with broad appeal and comedic chops" — are in final talks to serve...
The Extravagantly Painted Chapels Of Michoacán
The walls and ceilings of these old places of worship, some of them dating back to the 1600s, illustrate Catholic stories and teachings and...
The Rwandan Women’s Percussion Group Bringing Hutu And Tutsi Together
"Ingoma Nshya, … founded by Odile Gakire Katese in 2004, … arose to heal divisions after the 1994 genocide, which left around 800,000 people...
Will Dance Companies Keep Experimenting With Film And Video After They’re Performing Live Again?
"Screendance provided an attractive platform to explore new directions for choreographic works. … The challenge now, is how to keep going." - Dance Magazine
Defining Afrofuturism (Can It Be Done?)
With a festival this month and next, Carnegie Hall is taking a crack at defining, or at least surveying, the genre (if that's even...
“What If John Lennon Was A World-Class Intellectual With An Insatiable Curiosity For Third...
A long, loving profile of Caetano Veloso, who has transformed Brazilian music more than once, was a famous exile during the dictatorship, and has...
An Oral History Of One Of The Best, And Most Meta, “Simpsons” Episodes Ever
"Stars Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Hank Azaria and writer David X. Cohen, among others, share new insights and secrets about the 'ballsy' episode that...
Remember Ski Ballet?
"On social media, it's easy to get lost in videos of this bygone athletic art. Clips from its Olympic appearances as a demonstration sport...
Are Small Literary Magazines Going Extinct?
"Across the country, universities are slowly, quietly, cutting funding and shutting their literary publications down. Even magazines not connected to universities are closing their...
Attempted Book Bans Are Soaring In The U.S., Thanks To The “Outrage Ecosystem”
"The books are kind of incidental. What we're really arguing about is, what does it mean to be a citizen of the United States?...
Harper Lee Estate Loses $2.5 Million Case Over “To Kill A Mockingbird” Stage Adaptations
The arbitration case was brought by Dramatic Publishing, which licenses the decades-old Mockingbird play by Christopher Sergel, long popular with schools and community theaters....
Marin Alsop Extends Contract At Ravinia, Where She Will Launch A New Mini-Festival
Her tenure as the Ravinia Festival's chief conductor began (in theory) in 2020 and will now run at least through 2025. This summer, she'll...
New York State Is Dropping Mask Requirements, But Broadway Is Not
"Broadway's mask and vaccination policy will remain in place through at least April 30, the most recent extension date for the policy announced last...
Native Hawaiians Are Traveling Europe, Retrieving Their Ancestors’ Bones From Museums
"Edward Halealoha Ayau … and representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state agency for native Hawaiians, are receiving the artifacts in four...
