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Country Music Is Losing Some Devoted Fans As The Culture Wars Rage On
The stereotype of country music lovers being only Southern and Midwestern conservatives isn't really true — yet. As some industry stars take controversial stands...
Former “Hamilton” Cast Member, Black And Nonbinary, Files Discrimination Complaint Against Producers
Suni Reid, who's done the show in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, alleges their contract wasn't renewed because they requested a gender-neutral dressing...
Half The PPP Loan Money For Culture Went To Only 228 Institutions. They Still...
The purpose of the Paycheck Protection Program was to let businesses hobbled by the pandemic retain their employees. An AFSCME study found that, out...
IATSE Tells Hollywood Studios That Midnight On Monday Is The Strike Deadline
"Unless an agreement is reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in the coming days, 60,000 IATSE film and TV workers...
Antiquities Dealer Confesses In Court To Selling Thousands Of Forgeries
"Mehrdad Sadigh pleaded guilty to seven felony counts that included charges of forgery and grand larceny. … The prosecution of Mr. Sadigh was something...
You’re A Budding Choreographer. How Do You Land Commissions, And What Do You Do...
A couple of working contemporary choreographers offer ideas about how to get a foot in the door — and then what to consider in...
The Most Influential Science Fiction Books In History
Yes, the obvious candidates are here — Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1984, Dune, Asimov, Bradbury, Octavia Butler — along with some you...
AI Recreates Three Lost Gustav Klimt Paintings In Glorious Color
The Faculty Paintings — three allegorical works titled Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence — were likely destroyed in a fire near the end of Word...
“The Worst Idea In History” — ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ At 50
That phrase is how one potential investor rejected Andrew Lloyd Webber’s proposal to stage the rock opera he wrote with Tim Rice. (That's why...
Nathalie Stutzmann Named Music Director Of Atlanta Symphony
Stutzmann, a former contralto from France who's currently principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will start an initial four-year term at the ASO's...
Some Early Good News From The WBEZ-Chicago Sun-Times Merger
In a Q&A, two senior executives at Chicago Public Media (WBEZ) say that they no plans to reduce the newspaper's seven-days-per-week print schedule and...
Inside The Rebuilding Of The New York Philharmonic’s Hall: Will The Acoustics Finally Be...
"Renovation is a weak term for this undertaking. … Acousticians scrutinized every block and beam in the auditorium and the architects bent their design...
Merch! Netflix Does Deal With Walmart To Sell Lots Of Branded Stuff
Hoo-boy. "The new Netflix Hub at Walmart will bring Netflix-branded gadgets, clothes, music and games to Walmart's online store exclusively. … (It) will also...
LA’s Center Theatre Group Promises All-Female-Playwright Season Next Year (And Gets ‘Slave Play’ Back)
After criticism for programming few plays by women this season, culminating in Jeremy O. Harris pulling Slave Play from the schedule there, CTG says...
Paddy Moloney, Founder Of The Chieftains And Hero Of Irish Folk Revival, Dead At...
For nearly 60 years, playing his tin whistle and uilleann pipes, he and his supergroup brought Irish traditional music to the world, making nearly...
A Temporary, Prefab Concert Hall At A Disused Power Plant On The Edge Of...
That's what they're hoping for in Munich, where the Gasteig has closed for a multiyear renovation. Both the city's orchestras will be performing at...
W. G. Sebald Said He Stayed True To His Subjects In Big Things and...
It was the details, many of them none too plausible, that were true; the larger outline of the stories and characters were what was...
It’s Taken Decades, But The Yurok Language Of California Is Coming Back
This indigenous tongue of northern California was severely endangered by the early 1900s, and efforts to revive it didn't begin until the 1970s (and...
She Has MS. She’s Continuing Her Career As A Ballet Dancer
Abby Phillips Maginity of Ballet Arizona was diagnosed while she was rehearsing for her first principal role — and just as the pandemic was...
Here’s The First Woman To Be Named Music Director Of A Major Italian Opera...
Oksana Lyniv, the 43-year-old Ukrainian who this summer became the first female conductor at Bayreuth and who last year finished a term leading the...
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Utopian Ideal For A 21st-Century Museum
"I keep returning to an unrealized project of the late philosopher, public intellectual, and curator Édouard Glissant, who consistently told me that what matters...
The Horrific Contest In “Squid Game” Reflects A Real-Life Crisis In South Korea
"The wildly popular dystopian drama pits the heavily indebted against each other … for an unimaginably large cash prize. But (the) desperate situation is...
One Of The World’s Most Notorious Art Forgers Is Releasing His Own NFT Collection
"Fittingly, the artist (Wolfgang Beltracchi) — infamous for his uncanny ability to mimic the work of others — is making 4,608 versions of Leonardo...
Hollywood Has A New Champion Boss-From-Hell: Sharon Waxman Of TheWrap
Move over, Scott Rudin. As one former staffer put it, "I don't say this lightly. Sharon Waxman is one of the most awful people...
Is Releasing A Movie Only In Theaters Elitist And Unfair?
"How is it that a quintessentially democratic cultural activity — buying a ticket and some popcorn and finding a seat in the dark —...
