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The Lady Who Wrote “Goodnight, Moon” Was No Gentle Madonna
Margaret Wise Brown "burned through her money as quickly as she earned it, travelling to Europe on ocean liners and spending entire advances on...
Greece Is Restoring Its Ancient Amphitheatres And Returning Them To Use
From Epiros in the north down to Sparta and beyond, the outdoor venues where classical drama was born are being rediscovered: 25 are hosting...
All Over France, An Exhibition Shows The Sensuous Side Of Muslim Culture
"It is called 'The Arts of Islam: A Past for a Present', and each of its 18 participating venues contains 10 works intended to...
Public Libraries Are Offering Training In Starting And Running A Small Business
"As the pandemic has spurred an entrepreneurship boom, many public libraries have stepped in to meet a growing need among new business owners, particularly...
Broadway’s Reopening Last Fall Did Not Go As Expected, Even Before December’s Omicron Spike
"During the months when the pandemic kept Broadway shuttered, a hypothesis took hold: Once theaters reopened, the audience would include more New Yorkers and...
Federico Bonelli, Star Of London’s Royal Ballet, Named Artistic Director Of England’s Ballet North
Bonelli succeeds David Nixon, who ran the company — based in Leeds but touring more than any other ballet troupe in the UK —...
Chicago Sun-Times Is Now Officially A Subsidiary Of Chicago Public Radio
The merger, announced last fall and officially completed on Jan. 31, is funded by $61 million in donations from foundations and individuals. The money...
New York Times Drops A Million Or Two To Buy Wordle
The newspaper said that it paid an amount "in the low seven figures" for the game, which was released in October and gained hundreds...
Uffizi Gallery, Mecca Of Renaissance Art, Moves Slowly Into Contemporary Work
It's not easy to do this, since people come from all over the world to see the classics, but the Florence museum's dynamic director,...
Some Of The Best-Loved Scenes In Iconic Movies Are Only There Because Of Test...
Anne Archer shooting Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Julia Roberts dancing with Rupert Everett to end My Best Friend's Wedding. The freeway dance that...
What Should Be Done With Fascist Monuments After The Fascists Have Been Ousted?
Most Nazi monuments in Germany were torn down after 1945, but in Spain and Italy many of the buildings and statues glorifying fascism are...
Theatres Are Experimenting With Varied Curtain Times — Again (And That’s A Good Thing)
It was only from the 1970s that American commercial theater settled on the rule: start at 8:00 for evening shows and 2:00 for matinees...
There Will Be No Picasso NFTs After All
"After a granddaughter and great-grandson of the artist trumpeted the upcoming sale, lawyers for the family said Thursday that his heirs have not authorized...
An Alvin Ailey Star Choreographs His First Piece For A Big Ballet Company (New...
Jamar Roberts, who only stopped dancing for the Ailey company last month and who remains its resident choreographer, says that the new work is...
Remember When Damien Hirst Sold That Diamond-Covered Skull For $100 Million? Turns Out That...
The artist has now admitted that the very widely reported sale of the piece (titled For the Love of God) in 2007 never actually...
Even In A Scary Time Like This, The Head Of One State Arts Funder...
Massachusetts Cultural Council executive director Michael Bobbitt is "convinced the crisis presents an opportunity to restructure arts funding, transforming the sector into one that...
Meet The Publisher Who Picks Up The Books Big Houses Have Just Cancelled
Skyhorse Publishing acquired the books by Woody Allen, Blake Bailey, Norman Mailer and others that were dropped when controversy hit. Says Skyhorse chief Lyons,...
Tennessee School Board Bans “Maus”, Art Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel About The Holocaust
The board governing the McMinn County school district in southeastern Tennessee deemed the Pulitzer-winning book inappropriate for eighth-graders because of a drawing of a...
Minnesota Orchestra Posts Third Consecutive Multimillion-Dollar Deficit
Damn you, COVID-19! yet the good news is that 2020-21 season's shortfall, $6.3 million, is down by almost half from the previous season. And...
Lucy Rowan Mann, Who Ran The Naumburg Foundation And Its Classical Music Competition, Dead...
She started working at the foundation in 1972 and continued until this year, and the prestigious competition and awards she administered helped launch many...
I Was At The Auditions For “Shortbus”, John Cameron Mitchell’s Sex Movie
Back in 2003, journalist Mark Harris had been going to write a book about the film and its process; now, as Shortbus is being...
On Transitioning From Porn To Standup Comedy (Yes, This Is A Thing)
"Despite being seemingly worlds apart, comedy and porn have always been linked in some form or another. From the goofy humor of X-rated spoofs...
Two Of This Year’s Most Eagerly Awaited Cookbooks Are Now At The Bottom Of...
Turkey and the Wolf, from the much-heralded New Orleans sandwich shop, was due to drop next month; New York Times columnist Melissa Clark's Dinner...
English Teachers In Britain Say They Need More Diverse Books In The Curriculum
"Asked which changes to the English syllabus they felt would most help their students, 80% of secondary school teachers, and 69% of primary school...
At Daniel Barenboim’s Berlin State Opera, Things Are More Strained Than Ever
"For decades, Barenboim and the Staatskapelle shared common interests. Now, 'til death do us part' has become a burden. Complicating the dynamics of this...
