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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...
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...
