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Why Some Composers Are Fuming About This Year’s Classical Grammy Nominations
"Letters of complaint have been sent to the organisers, the Recording Academy, arguing that the tracks in question – by two separate artists, Jon...
The Editor Who Published “Maus” Recounts His Decision To Go Ahead With It
Tom Engelhardt, then at Pantheon Books: "The feeling that I simply had to do Maus was one of the two least rational decisions I...
Why Is There A Staff Exodus At Philadelphia’s Public Radio Station?
"In interviews, 10 former and six current WHYY staffers cited lower pay than at other media outlets, a lack of opportunities for advancement, a...
Scotland Allocates Yet More Money To COVID Arts Recovery
£16 million may not seem like much to Americans, but it can go a long way in a nation as small as Scotland. -...
Belgium Takes First Big Step Toward Returning Looted Art To Congo
The Belgian government has turned over to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's prime minister an inventory list of 85,000 items in the country's...
Jewish Jokes, And Jewish Humor, In A Time Of Increasing Hatred
"Scolds from the Anti-Defamation League … will never end an ancient prejudice, but they could ruin a good time. … That has made me...
The Twilight Of The “Slate Pitch”
"Slate had a whole editorial style that was based around provocative — some would say trolly — articles and up-is-down theses. … Everyone understood...
Here’s The Man With The Key To The Past At Jacob’s Pillow
"As director of preservation (and archivist), Norton Owen oversees exhibitions, the growing online resource Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive, PillowTalks, pre- and post-show lectures, and...
William Kraft, Who Helped Make Los Angeles A Hotbed Of New Music, Dead At...
At the L.A. Philharmonic, Kraft was principal timpanist, composer-in-residence, and associate conductor; he co-founded the L.A. Phil New Music Group, with which he started...
Inside San Francisco’s Emerging Black Composers Project
The joint program of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music is now working with its first class of fellows,...
Why Is Joe Rogan’s Podcast Such A Big Deal? It’s Not Politics. It’s Demographics.
"Rogan is not just a purveyor of right-wing ideologies. He has built an empire by introducing these ideas — and a wide range of...
How Brazil’s Version Of Joe Rogan Got Himself In Hot Water, Too
Bruno Aiub, who uses the nom de microphone Monark and who models his very popular podcast (titled Flow) on Rogan's, made an argument this...
Arts Venues Grapple With Whether To Require (And How To Enforce) Audience Masking
"Venue staff are increasingly on their own, leaving ushers, house managers, security staff and box office managers in the crosshairs of different audience members'...
Is This Broadway’s Worst Job? Front-Of-House COVID Compliance Officer
Says one, "There are so many moments where I'm shocked by humanity. Once when I called out for proof of vaccination and photo IDs,...
Harper Lee’s Executor Will Not Get To Take The “To Kill A Mockingbird” Film...
Those people being the heirs of star Gregory Peck and the producer and director of the 1962 film version. Executor Tonja Carter (as she's...
UK Seizes Three NFTs And Arrests Three People On Tax Evasion Charges
"Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the IRS equivalent in the United Kingdom, announced earlier this week that it had seized three NFTs and about...
The Prado Digs Out And Displays Two Goya Sketches For The First Time In...
"Pursuing a more 'panoramic approach' to the painter’s oeuvre, the Madrid institution has placed Las Majas in a new gallery alongside two little-seen sketches...
Paul Theroux Is (Re-)Figuring Out His Relationship With V.S. Naipaul
"More than fifty years of writing about Naipaul! Yet only in the last few years, the dust having settled"— Naipaul died in 2018, and,...
The Simple Reason A Bunch Of Comedians Are Suing Pandora
"Let's say (Robin Williams is) singing the words 'reality, what a concept' — in that case … a royalty would have been generated and...
Could Swahili Become The Lingua Franca Of The Entire African Continent?
"With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as...
The Set Of “Slave Play” Had To Be Completely Redesigned For Los Angeles, And...
This staging, on the Mark Taper Forum's thrust stage, is the first time since playwright Jeremy O. Harris first workshopped the play at Yale....
How Has The Dance World Changed In The Past Few Years? Matthew Bourne’s Answer...
"In a general way, I think men dancing has become a much more acceptable sort of profession. That change has had a lot to...
For The First Time, Philly’s Barnes Foundation Is Displaying Its Collection Of Native American...
"The collection of 239 objects, encompassing Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry, is not well known, despite the fact that Barnes installed the...
Despite Emergency COVID Aid, Arts Funding In Australia Remains Well Behind Peer Countries
"Standard levels of funding of arts and culture in Australia continue to lag behind major world economies and have failed to keep up with...
The New York Times Bought Wordle Three Weeks Ago, And Already There’s A Controversial...
The newspaper is removing words from the game's master list of possible word choices (mostly dirty words and obscure ones). Consequently, one day this...
