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It’s About Time We Acknowledged That Andrew Wyeth Was A Genuinely Great Artist
“The slow collapse of the postwar avant-garde’s underlying tenets (no figuration! no storytelling! no obvious skill!) has allowed many to admit that Wyeth was...
Producer Jeffrey Seller Recounts The Gestation And Birth Of “Rent”
“In this excerpt, adapted from Seller’s memoir, Theater Kid (out on May 6 from Simon & Schuster), the producer lays out the musical’s long road from...
Um, About This Backlash Against Intimacy Coordinators …
“Recent reports of celebrity pushback against the profession, intimacy coordinators say, have created skewed narratives that breed misconceptions about their role and impact on...
Expanding The Repertoire For Harp Is A Tricky Business
Parker Ramsay: “Could you conceive of a world in which a harp work occupies your attention like an opera or a violin concerto? That...
After Last Year’s Fiasco, Dallas Black Dance Theatre Works To Rebuild “Community Trust”
“(A) task force … will convene monthly to eventually put forth recommendations ... The news comes after the dance company reached a settlement for...
Why We Went Ahead And Played At The Kennedy Center
Ryan Miller of the band Guster: “We wanted to support the staff who were caught in this political crossfire; the fans who had bought...
Pope Francis Puts Architect Antoni Gaudí On Path To Sainthood
“The architect behind the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona has been declared ‘Venerable’ by Pope Francis, the second step in the path to canonisation. Gaudí was...
Cate Blanchett Says She’s Giving Up Acting
“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting. (There are) a...
Jean Marsh, Who Co-Created And Starred In “Upstairs, Downstairs,” Is Dead At 90
While she’s best remembered for the TV series, in which she played housemaid Rose Buck, she had an extensive career in theatre, television and...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Who Attacked Degas Sculpture Convicted
“A federal jury convicted Raleigh climate activist Timothy Martin of two felonies Monday for smearing washable paint on a sculpture’s display case in the...
The Dutch Avant-Garde Theatre Company That Keeps Sending Shows To The West End And...
That company is Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, directed for 20 years by Ivo van Hove and since 2023 by Eline Arbo. Her adaptation of Annie...
The Central African Republic Has A National Ballet, And It’s Doing Important Work
Established in 2021, the company — also called the National Artistic Ensemble — works to collect and preserve the traditional dances of the many...
Biopics And Miniseries Of Bible Stories Have Become Big Business
Leading the pack is Amazon’s The Chosen, the multi-season series recounting the life of Jesus that has become an international smash and made lead...
I Found Robert Caro’s Unfinished Novel
The great historian had published some fiction while a student at Princeton, but nothing since then. While doing research in Caro’s archives, however, journalist...
Max Kozloff, Influential Art Critic, Is Dead At 91
“Kozloff in the 1960s and ’70s brought fresh perspectives to such established forms as Futurism and Cubism, arguing that artists were influenced by such...
Florida Men Indicted For Trafficking In Forged Andy Warhols
“According to the indictment, (Leslie) Roberts, the owner of Miami Fine Art Gallery in Coconut Grove, fraudulently represented art as original pieces created by...
Dudamel And L.A. Phil Prepare To Play America’s Biggest Rock Festival
“On Saturday evening, the Phil (is) finally playing ... the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. For Dudamel, 44, who arrived in L.A. 17...
Fired New York Phil Players Accused Of Sexual Assault File Amended Lawsuit
"The players — the associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey, and the principal oboist, Liang Wang — … filed amended complaints against the orchestra on Thursday...
Money From Cancelled NEH Grants Will Go To Trump’s “Garden Of American Heroes”
“After abruptly terminating critical grants to libraries, museums, and archives across the country last week, the National Endowment for the Humanities intends to redirect some of...
Chicago Arts Leaders Openly Complain Of “Dysfunction” At City’s Cultural Affairs Dept.
“More than 140 Chicago artists and cultural leaders are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to address ‘dysfunction’ within the city’s Cultural Affairs department (under...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Finds Its New Director Right There At Home
“After an international search, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has selected its next director and CEO from within its own ranks. Pierre Terjanian, who...
“Monty Python And The Holy Grail” At 50: Michael Palin And Terry Gilliam Look...
Palin: "I say to people, 'Led Zeppelin gave us £50,000 – and look where they are now.'" Gilliam: "Thank God for rock'n'roll is all...
The List Keepers: Recording And Memorializing How AIDS Ravaged New York Theater
“More than 40 years after the start of the epidemic, the full numerical scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater...
Simon Russell Beale Has Issues With “Titus Andronicus”
And yest he’s currently rehearsing the title role at the RSC. “There are certain plays in the canon that teeter on the edge of...
Jesse Kornbluth, Extraordinarily Prolific And Versatile Magazine Writer, Is Dead At 79
“(His) sly chronicles of cultural excess, celebrity and author profiles, personal essays and investigative work enlivened the pages of a newsstand’s worth of magazines...
