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Universities Are Screwing Over The Working Dancers Who Teach As Adjunct Professors
“Despite teaching seven classes a week, I was ineligible for health benefits. I had no job security and no time to look for other...
Burying Art, Hiding Books, Smuggling Movies: Afghans Fearfully Prepare For The Taliban’s Cultural Police
The Islamists now in control in Kabul have not yet stated any cultural policies other than that any art, music, publishing, film, and the...
The Little-Known Cave Art Of The American Southeast
Outdoor rock art made by ancient Native Americans in the Southwest is familiar to many; not so with the underground pictographs in the southern...
Drama League’s Directors Project To Get Multimillion-Dollar Overhaul
"The broadened Directors Project will offer fellowships for early-stage directors, programs to help mid-career theater directors transition into film and television, and assistantships for...
Chicago Public Radio Station WBEZ To Acquire Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Public Media, WBEZ's parent organization, will take on the newspaper as a new division, according to a letter of intent approved by the...
To Make Its Concert Halls COVID-Safe, Singapore Goes High-Tech
State-of-the-art filterless air purifiers and an "ionisation curtain" (a row of snake plants with ionisers attached to draw in aerosols) at the front of...
Violinist James Buswell Dead At 74
After debuting with the New York Philharmonic at seven and studying at Juilliard, he became one of the key members of the Chamber Music...
“Nothing Else Like It On TV, Before Or Since”: Soul Train, 50 Years On
"It was the iconic Black music and dance show, a party every weekend that anyone could join from their living room. (On It's Been...
Despite The Uncertain Times, One Ballet Company Has Increased Its Size By 21%
Western Australia has had only one new COVID case in 30 days, and, at least when resource prices are high, the state has money...
Preserving The Cree And Ojibwe Languages — With TikTok
"Combining humor, everyday language use, and relatable situations, these videos" — from the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre in Winnipeg — "are contributing to...
The New Hotness In Theater Set Design? Glass Boxes
"Even before COVID-19, many ambitious productions had been taking place … in elaborately engineered glass cubes that evoke high Modernism. … There wouldn't seem...
Bob Moore, Bassist Who Helped Establish The “Nashville Sound”
"As a mainstay of the loose aggregation of Nashville session professionals known as the A-Team, (he) played on many of the landmark country hits...
“Fire Shut Up In My Bones” At The Met Isn’t Just A Landmark For...
Justin Davidson: "Librettist Kasi Lemmons and composer Terence Blanchard … haven't blown up the genre or bent it to new purpose or smuggled anything...
Kenya Bans Documentary About Young Gay Man’s Struggle For Acceptance
The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) announced a prohibition on the exhibition, distribution, possession or broadcast of I Am Samuel on Thursday, … saying...
San Antonio Symphony Is On Strike
Two weeks ago, orchestra management made a "last, best and final" contract offer which would cut the number of full-time musicians by 40%; Sunday...
Another Dancer Accuses Former Boston Ballet Star And Her Husband Of Rape
"The dancer, identified only as Jane Doe 100, is one of five female dancers who say Mitchell Taylor Button and his wife, former Boston...
Fraud, Theft, And Breach Of Contract As Conceptual Art (This Is Not Theoretical)
"A Danish artist was given tens of thousands of dollars by a museum to reproduce an old sculpture. Instead, he pocketed the money and...
Four Billion Euros. That’s France’s 2022 Budget For Arts And Culture.
"This historic progression", said culture minister Roselyne Bachelot, "will bring to +15% the lasting increase in the means which have been allocated to culture...
Alums Of University Of Utah School Of Dance Recount Mistreatment, Seek Changes
"(Two recent almunae) gathered 13 written testimonials from students and faculty members about what they see as the harmful culture at the U's ballet...
Inmates Who Produced A Podcast In San Quentin Now Get Paid To Do It...
Ear Hustle is produced by the folks at San Quentin Radio, working with San Francisco public radio station KALW. Here, co-host and co-producer Rahsaan...
Wole Soyinka On Publishing His First Novel In 48 Years
"It is meant to indict us also, the governed, as a people who have jettisoned the humane values that that same society impressed on...
An Afghan Artist Recounts Her Desperate, Failed Attempt To Escape The Taliban
"The Taliban are being pressured on many issues like women's rights and journalists' safety, but there are no discussions about the rights and safety...
Even At Age 78, Mike Leigh Is As Exacting About Interviews As He Is...
"You just couldn't work the way he does – his scripts are improvised, not written, resting on collaboration, trust, instinct, bravery – without weighing...
Why Does Classical Music Humor Keep Getting More And More Lame?
Time was, Dudley Moore could dash off a witty parody of a Beethoven sonata or Britten folk song arrangement. These days, NPR Classical and...
16th-Century Documents Stolen From Mexico’s National Archives Have Been Recovered
The rescue of these manuscripts "comes amid a strong effort by the Mexican government to stop the international trafficking of national heritage objects, with...
