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For The First Time, The RSC Casts A Disabled Actor As Richard III
Playing the last Plantagenet king will be Arthur Hughes, 30 years old and born with radial dysplasia. (He identifies as "limb-different".) The production opens...
Archaeologists Discovered An 800-Year-Old Imperial Palace Where One Of The Winter Olympic Villages Was...
The site — at Zhangjiakou, where most of the skiing and snowboarding events are being held — is believed to be the Taihe Palace,...
A New Guaranteed-Income-For-Artists Program In New York State
"Spearheaded by the Mellon Foundation, ... the $125 million initiative, Creatives Rebuild New York, will issue monthly, no-strings-attached payments to up to 2,400 artists...
Right-Wing Platform Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million To Leave Spotify And “Save The World”
"The CEO of the Canadian video-sharing platform Rumble (tweeted) … 'How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both new and old, with...
The Picasso “Guernica” Tapestry Was Taken From The UN Last Year. Now It’s Back.
Last year, to the surprise of many (including the Secretary General), the tapestry's owner, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr., had it taken from its place...
Thomas Dausgaard Is Out Of Another Job, And BBC Scottish Symphony Has A New...
The recently-departed music director of the Seattle Symphony hasn't been to Glasgow to conduct his other orchestra for nearly two years, and his contract...
Is This Little Bejeweled Sphinx Really “The Talisman Of Napoleon” (And Worth $250 Million)?
Ben Davis: "Allow me to introduce you to the evidence in favor of the Talisman's authenticity and importance, which has impressed noted Napoleonic jewelry...
Can Literature Actually Change History (Not Just Literary History)?
Four scholars offer their answers in a roundtable — including the observation that, in the rare instances when that does happen, the book itself...
James Joyce’s “Ulysses” Is 100 Years Old. What, Exactly, Are We Celebrating?
"That Ulysses was an event nearly everyone will agree. However, can we say even now, a century later, what kind of event it really...
In The Face Of Black Lives Matter And Ongoing Violence, Is Creating Dance A...
Choreographer David Roussève has always situated his work at "the intersection of choreography and social activism," finding that he can help create empathy with...
It’s Taken Six Years For Miami City Ballet To Get Its Full-Length “Swan Lake”...
The company, always oriented more toward the abstract works of Balanchine and his artistic successors than toward story ballets, has performed only an abridged...
Hollywood Will Be Sending Fewer Movies Into Theaters Next Year (And Perhaps Well After...
The studios have 71 features scheduled for theatrical release in 2022 — considerably more than in pandemic-plagued 2021 and 2020, but down from the...
Following A Difficult Summer And A Staff Revolt, Williamstown Theater Festival Is Making Big...
Those changes include better pay equity and HR, safety training, hour caps, and, crucially, ending the ambitious seven-production summer season. The Festival's statement says...
San Francisco Art Institute Is Saved: It Will Merge With A University
The 150-year-old art school, which has had longstanding financial problems and nearly shut down in 2020, will integrate with, and ultimately be acquired by,...
Confirmed: The First Native American To Head The NEH
Shelly C. Lowe, a Navajo who grew up in rural northern Arizona, was nominated by President Biden as chair of the National Endowment for...
England’s Arts Funder Says All New Funding In Its Next Budget Will Be Spent...
Arts organizations in the rest of England have been complaining for years that, with respect to national funding, they are shortchanged in favor of...
Local Government Funding For Culture In England Down By 50% Over The Last Decade
Research by the Public Campaign for the Arts "found that local authority expenditure on all cultural services – including public libraries, entertainment venues, museums,...
Cleaning Week At (Perhaps) Europe’s Most Beautiful Church
Every January, Dresden's Frauenkirche closes for seven days, "and dozens of carpenters, painters, and other craftspeople and cleaners get to work. The crew repairs...
Boycotting Joe Rogan Is Probably Futile
"If the protest succeeds in getting him booted, he can go back to making his podcast available on other platforms or launch his own....
Where Method Acting Was Born
In an excerpt from his new history of Method acting, Isaac Butler looks at the American Laboratory Theatre, where, in the 1920s, two of...
The Black Fiddlers Of Monticello, Led By The Sons Of Sally Hemings
Beverly, Madison, and Eston Hemings seem to have inherited musical talent from both their mother and their enslaver/father, Thomas Jefferson, a lifelong violinist. The...
Viktor Orbán Is Building A New Museum District In Budapest. Of Course It’s Controversial
The right-wing prime minister's plan is to build five museums in the capital's long-neglected City Park; the first of them, the House of Music,...
Making A Ballet Out Of “The Graduate” (?!)
That's the challenge choreographer Cathy Marston took on for San Francisco Ballet, where her new work, Mrs. Robinson, is now premiering. In a Q&A,...
David Gordon, Patriarch Of Postmodern Dance, Dead At 85
"A leading postmodern choreographer who crossed over into playwriting territory, he was massively prolific for about 60 years. He combined movement and words in...
The New York Times Crossword Is A Culture War Minefield
Says one puzzle constructor, "It becomes an endless series of judgment calls. Is this slang term offensive? Is that world leader merely unpleasant, or...
