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An Unpublished Leonard Cohen Novel Is Coming
"Written in Montreal in 1956 – the year Cohen published his first poetry collection – A Ballet of Lepers focuses on 'toxic relationships and...
The Artistic Director Who Transformed Opera Australia Is Stepping Down Next Year
"Among Lyndon Terracini's artistic achievements have been the staging of two complete Ring cycles – with a third scheduled for 2023 in Brisbane –...
“Artemisia Gentileschi Is The Frida Kahlo Of European Art”
Both were gifted painters who worked in the shadow of a famous male relative — now Artemisia and Frida are the famous ones, feminist...
Francis Ford Coppola Is Going To Spend $120 Million Of His Own Money To...
"It is a film called Megalopolis, and Coppola has been trying to make it, intermittently, for more than 40 years. If I could summarize...
All These Changes To The Oscars Telecast Aren’t Going To Bring Back Viewers
Three hosts, two fan-voted awards, eight categories cut from the live broadcast … "Too many of these Oscar decisions seem motivated by bone-deep insecurity...
David Hallberg Is Getting Back Onstage To Dance
When he became artistic director of the Australian Ballet in 2020, only to have COVID strike, Hallberg had figured his performing days were over....
1,800-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed In London
"The mosaic is thought to have adorned the floors of a Roman dining room, and the spot where it stands is near the Shard....
As The Rest Of England Gets More Arts Funding, London Will Get Millions Less
As it announced that arts organizations beyond the capital would get £75 million in additional funding over the next three years, Arts Council England...
U.S. Bans Import Of Antiquities From Afghanistan
"The policy was conceived as a preemptive measure to prevent artifacts sourced illegally during last year's Taliban takeover from flooding the international market. However,...
England To Spend An Extra $100 Million On Arts Outside London
"An additional £75m will be put towards creative arts outside of the capital between now and 2025, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and...
The Founders Of The Razzie Awards Explain Why And How They Do It
"We don't consider ourselves a slap in the face; we look at ourselves as a banana peel on the floor. … These people got...
Rescuing A Group Of Afghan Hip-Hop Dancers
A group of 19 breakdancers, parkourists, rappers and family members escaped Kabul days after the Taliban arrived and are now in hiding in a...
Henry Danton, Who Danced All Over The World And Still Taught Ballet At Age...
He started with Sadler's Wells Ballet in London in 1940, appeared with the Paris Opera Ballet and with touring companies across four continents, then...
A Brief History Of Food Writing, From Ancient Greece To Pete Wells
"As with any compartmentalizing of genre, there is something in the title that implies a diminishment, as if today, as in ancient Greece, the...
Time Was, Respectable Newspapers Hated Word Games — Even Crossword Puzzles
"As far as the journalistic establishment was concerned, crosswords were another mindless fad used (by tabloids) as a substitute for good editorial, to keep...
The Audience At This Musical Behaved So Badly That The Director Just Ended The...
Northern Ireland Opera's performance of Sondheim's Into the Woods in Belfast last Saturday was cut short at the intermission after spectators moved around and...
The Problem With Orchestras Programming Movies With Live Accompaniment
It's a good idea: audiences like it, and excellent music gets revived in the context it was meant for. It's not the technical difficulty...
Art Generated By Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Copyrighted, Rules U.S. Copyright Office
"Last week, a three-person board reviewed a 2019 ruling against Steven Thaler, who tried to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he...
One-Third Of The Oscar Categories Will Be Moved Off This Year’s Live Telecast
Of the 23 competitive awards, eight — editing, sound, makeup, original score, production design, and the live action, animated, and documentary shorts — will...
De Wain Valentine, Who Pioneered The Use Of Plastics As An Art Medium, Dead...
In particular, he was the first to use polyester resin and Plexiglas to make sculptures. (He learned how to shape and sand them in...
Whatever Happened To The Statue Of Voltaire In Paris That Got Pulled Down In...
It hasn't been seen since; many people feared that city authorities decided to melt it down, as the Vichy regime did with its predecessor...
How Aleshea Harris Puts Black Life Onstage
Hilton Als: "Harris's aim as a playwright is to remove the kitchen sink and slather the stage with blood and celebration. … Just as...
Serge Diaghilev Was Not A Good Guy: Bronislava Nijinska
The pathbreaking choreographer once wrote, " He victimised the ballet artists when they left his company and tried by all means possible to prevent...
“What Does It Mean To Make Black Film History Accessible?” Why Maya Cade Created...
"My driving question for all of this ... has been: What does this mean to a Black person? And not just the Black people...
“I’m A Fool, What Have I Done” — The Museum Guard Who Drew Eyes...
"Aleksandr Vasiliev, a decorated veteran of the Afghan and Chechen wars, told journalist Elena Pankratieva that he believed the 20th-century work by Anna Leporskaya...
