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Choreographer Jan Fabre Will Stand Trial For Sexual Harassment And Assault
The case, to be tried next spring in Antwerp, "stems from complaints by 20 dancers from his company who in 2018 alleged … a...
When Did America’s First Black Theater Open? Exactly 200 Years Ago
"For the price of 25 cents — or, for a nicer seat, a hefty 50 cents — the African Theater" (which opened on Sept....
Saadi Yacef, The Man Who Started “The Battle Of Algiers”, Dead At 93
He didn't start the battle itself, but he was the top military man in Algeria's war of independence. When that was won, the new...
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet May Be Gone, But Its Successor Is Now Taking The...
The former company shut down in March after 25 years, but five of its dancers, with one colleague and choreographer Ben Needham-Wood, have formed...
Vantablack, The World’s Blackest Black? Hollywood’s Going To Be All Over It (And...
Yes, Anish Kapoor purchased exclusive rights to the color for visual art, but the entertainment world sees numerous uses for it and has been...
Yes, Music Really Can Be Infectious — Statisticians Apply Epidemiology To Pop Songs
"The pattern of music downloads after their release appears to closely resemble epidemic curves for infectious disease – and electronica appears to be the...
Netflix Is About To Milk The Hell Out Of Roald Dahl’s Stories
"Netflix has acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC) and will expand their existing deal to … create a universe across animated and live...
Is The Future Of Newspapers 24/7 Online, With Actual Newsprint Only On Sundays?
That's already the case in Little Rock and Chattanooga, while the Tampa Bay Times prints only Wednesdays and Sundays. Many other papers throughout the...
Major Italian Baroque Painting Turns Up At Ordinary Suburban New York Church
An art history professor happened to be in the Church of the Holy Family in New Rochelle when he saw a painting that made...
The Rivals: As The Delta Variant Rages, Sydney Reopens Its Theatres While Melbourne Stays...
The difference is not in case numbers; it's in state government policies. New South Wales (Sydney), governed by the conservative Coalition, has relatively laissez-faire...
Long-Delayed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi At Last Has An Opening Date (And It’s Not Soon)
The Frank Gehry-designed museum, one of several starchitect-designed brand-name cultural institutions planned for the Emirati capital's Saadiyat Island, is expected to be October of...
France’s Top Book Prize Has A New Conflict-Of-Interest Scandal
One of the finalists for this year's Prix Goncourt, The Children of Cadillac, was written by François Noudelmann, the romantic partner of one of...
Pathbreaking TV Writer Irma Kalish Dead At 96
Most female scriptwriters in the 1950s and '60s had to churn out proto-Hallmark-Channel movies, but Kalish thrived in comedy. Her biggest mark was in...
Someone Thought Putting The Bible, The US Constitution, And Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless The...
"Big-name Christian authors penned a letter blasting it as 'dangerous,' and more than 900 people signed a petition decrying the decision to print it....
Free Artistic Expression In India Is Being Gradually Strangled
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, "censorship (is) no longer about nudity, gore, or promiscuity. It (has) firmly set its...
Looping — Perhaps Hollywood’s Most Surprising, And Most Secretive, Profession
Loopers are the equivalent of extras: they're voice actors who provide realistic background chatter for just about any setting or subject. And no, you...
The Royal Ballet’s Most Unlikely Star Says Farewell To The Stage
Edward Watson was a very promising student, but the gangly ginger never fit the handsome-Prince mold. As he retires after 27 years with the...
China Now Has Its Own Version Of The Carbuncle Cup
Each year, an online architecture magazine offers a list of 80-odd edifices from which readers can vote for the ten ugliest buildings in China....
Ethiopian Popular Culture Is Making The Chinese Its Bogeymen
As investment from China flows into Ethiopia, social media and entertainment are voicing worries about inexpensive made-in-China versions of Ethiopian handicrafts, mocking Chinese eating...
Five Small Theaters Sue City Of New York Over Vaccine Requirements
The issue: the venues must require audiences to wear masks and be vaccinated, but similar buildings, or even the same one, are exempt from...
Supply Chain Problems Are Still Plaguing Publishing, And There Might Be Book Shortages For...
"Supply chain problems have touched almost every aspect of book production, storage, and delivery, mostly as a result of Covid-related bottlenecks. Printer capacity issues...
With The Walls Finally Stabilized, Reconstruction At Notre-Dame In Paris Can Begin In Earnest
Those solid, 850-year-old walls were damaged much more by the catastrophic 2019 fire than authorities realized at first. (They really could have collapsed.) Now...
Enormous Stage Rock Nearly Crushes Tenor; Court Rules It Was Sabotage
It's the end of Tristan und Isolde at the Capitole de Toulouse. Isolde is singing the Liebestod and Tristan is playing dead upstage when...
What’s Even The Purpose Of Political Writing Anymore?
Osita Nwanevu: "The morsels of rage and misery we offer might not have much political effect, but they do feed an online writing economy...
A New Movie Revives A Surprisingly Old Genre: Black Westerns
Just as there really were African-Americans in the Old West, Westerns with Black casts (first shown to segregated audiences) were made from the 1930s...
