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Justin Peck Got His New Dance Piece From His Baby Daughter
"We came up with the structural pattern that starts the ballet!" said the choreographer, who had been moving around building blocks with his toddler...
What’s Going To Happen To Chicago’s Amazing Theater Scene As COVID Stretches Into A...
"Has one of the great theater cities on the planet just suffered the kind of blow that may require a recovery time of years?"...
Jad Abumrad Is Leaving “Radiolab”
"It's a momentous occasion, but for close observers, this development doesn't entirely come out of nowhere. … Radiolab isn't going anywhere, and Abumrad has...
Seattle Symphony Crisis: Board Chair Digs In
The exodus of two-thirds of both administrative staff and board members — culminating in the resignation of music director Thomas Dausgaard — since the...
Perfectly Intact 2,000-Year-Old Glass Bowl Discovered In The Netherlands
Archaeologists unearthed the blue vessel in Nijmegen, the country's oldest city, while doing excavation work for a green housing project. - ARTnews
United States Artists Announces Its 2022 Class Of Fellows
The 63 recipients of unrestricted $50,000 grants are spread across ten disciplines: architecture and design, craft, dance, film, media, music, theater and performance, traditional...
Why American Conservatory Theater Is Shutting Down Its Admired MFA Program
"The school had been working tirelessly to find a university partner in order to stay open. … But, as ACT artistic director Pam MacKinnon...
How Shirley Jackson Took Apart The Pieces Of Postwar American Womanhood
"(Her) career endeavor (was) to explore the fragmentary internal landscape of her generation of women, often through themes of madness, fracturing, and disorientation." -...
The Long, Odd History Of American Comic Books
After starting as kids’ entertainment, they were used as World War II propaganda and even a vehicle for public education about the atomic bomb....
The Whirling Dervishes Of Konya Are Torn
The ritual of sema (as it's called) is meant to be a sacred meditative practice, and its practitioners are devout Sufis uncomfortable with commercialization....
The Brave, Skilled, And Versatile “Swings” Who Keep “The Lion King” Running Through The...
Jacqueline René, for instance, can do, and has done, everything from Nala the lioness and Shenzi the zebra to the bird lady, a patch...
Badal Roy, Who Brought Indian Tabla Drumming To Cutting-Edge Jazz, Dead At 82
He had only the rudiments of Indian classical training and played in an unorthodox manner, using up to seven drums instead of the conventional...
Checking In On San Francisco’s Pilot Program Of Guaranteed Income For Artists
The program, launched by the city government and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last March, provides $1,000 a month, no strings attached,...
The Entire Marcel Duchamp Archive Is Now Available For Free Online
"It is a vast online trove of Duchampiana" assembled by the Association Marcel Duchamp, the Pompidou Center, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, "a...
“Fight Club” Gets A Whole New Ending For Streaming In China
In execution, it's sort of lame: instead of explosions, a title card is slipped in to say that the authorities foiled Project Mayhem and...
Little Brick Hospital In Regional Bangladesh Wins RIBA’s Best New Building Award
In the city of Satkhira, near the giant Sundarban mangrove swamp on the Indian border, the Friendship Hospital, designed by the Dhaka-based firm Urbana,...
This Orchestra Somehow Kept Going Through Lockdowns, Floods, Power Outages, And The Madness Of...
The Orquesta Sinfónica Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho in Caracas is already the country's least conventional symphonic ensemble: they frequently perform in the barrios and...
Meet The Organist Whose Concerts Get Protested By Conservative Catholics As Satanic
Anna von Hausswolff can joke about it, but enraged demonstrators have actually shut down concerts of hers. All because a music blogger called her...
Why Do Certain Sentences Become Famous Independently Of The Works They’re Part Of?
"You can't handle the truth!" or "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." "Celebrity sentences," Nicola Sayers dubs them. "There are countless brilliant...
Getting Copyright, And Compensation, For The Choreographers Of Hit Music Videos — Including TikTok
Says dancer/choreographer JaQuel Knight, who founded Knight Choreography and Music Publishing Inc. to address the issue, "Over the past year and a half, so...
Countries That Fund Public Broadcasting Better Have Healthier Democracies: Study
The question is: in which direction does the causality run? - Nieman Lab
Cairo’s Biggest Makeover In Decades Is Focused On Egyptian Culture
"The renaissance of traditions spans everything from new museum exhibits to artisans integrating old crafts into modern furniture and designers selling handmade jewelry, bags...
Netflix’s First Original Feature In Arabic Accused Of “Moral Degradation”, “Inciting Homosexuality And Betrayal”
The film, a Lebanon-set adaptation of the much-remade Italian film Perfect Strangers, includes unfaithful spouses, a gay character, and a woman removing her undergarments...
As Big West End Shows Offer Massive Discounts, Smaller Shows Are Being Squeezed Out
"Theatre producer David Pugh (fears) it could spell the end of plays in the West End. … By contrast with his show, where tickets...
UK’s First Dedicated LGBTQ+ Museum To Open In London This Year
"The charity Queer Britain has taken on the ground floor of the Art Fund building in (King's Cross) for the museum but hopes to...
