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Another Nobel-Winning Author Turns Out To Have Been A God-Awful Person
Most observers knew that Saul Bellow was no saint, especially after reading his greatest novel, the quasi-autobiographical Herzog. Bellow’s portrait of his protagonist’s wife,...
Orchestra Commissions Mason Bates To Create Its “Sonic Logo”
When Charlotte Symphony music director Kwamé Ryan saw the orchestra’s newly-redesigned logo, he thought the CSO should have a musical equivalent — like NBC’s...
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane Takes The Helm At The Theatre He Grew Up In
Beane was in his hometown — Reading, Pennsylvania — scouting locations for his first feature film when he learned that the Genesius Theatre, where...
Is YouTube About To Eat The Entire TV Industry?
“The only question is what genres it will take over next, and how quickly it will do so. From talk shows to scripted dramas...
Foot Traffic In Downtown Chicago Is Back To Pre-COVID Levels, Thanks To Arts And...
“The new numbers validate efforts to make the Loop a social destination and combat high retail and office vacancy rates that have plagued the...
A 1,900-Year-Old Roman Tombstone Turns Up In A New Orleans Backyard
A Tulane anthropologist was clearing out underbrush when she came upon a stone slab inscribed with Latin text. She called an archaeologist colleague, who...
Los Angeles Times Is Losing Horrifying Amounts Of Money
“The business made a loss from operations of $41.8m in the year ending 29 December 2024 and a total net loss before taxes of...
Gramophone Awards 2025: Simon Rattle Sets A Record, Pichon’s Bach Wins Record Of The...
The British conductor is the first person ever to win Gramophone’s Artist of the Year award twice. The Record of the Year prize went...
Kansas City Symphony Abruptly Fires Its Chorus Director
Members of the orchestra’s volunteer chorus received an email from management notifying them of the “difficult but necessary development” just hours before a performance...
Soprano Roberta Alexander Dead At 76
Active as a concert singer as well as in opera, she was for some years a mainstay at the Met, Covent Garden, Salzburg, Glyndebourne,...
Tim Curry At 79, Looking Forward Even After His Stroke
The actor who brought so much manic energy to Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror), Wadsworth the butler (Clue), and Pennywise the clown (Stephen King’s It)...
Actors’ Equity UK Threatens Mass Action Over AI Companies’ Unauthorized Use Of Actors’ Images
“The warning came as … growing numbers of (union) members made complaints about infringements of their copyright and misuse of their personal data in...
In Extremely Rare Move, Met Opera Schedules More Performances Of “Kavalier & Clay” For...
The Mason Bates/Gene Scheer opera, whose ticket sales improved for each performance of this fall’s run (the last two selling out, despite widely divergent...
Colm Tóibín: Why I Set Up A Press To Publish László Krasznahorkai (And The...
“In 2006, when I came home all enthusiastic about his work, he still had no UK publisher. ... The view in London was that...
Ireland Will Make Its Guaranteed Basic Income For Artists Permanent
Unfortunately, it’s not for all artists. There will be 2,000 stipends available, with applications opening in September of 2026 and qualified applicants (who may...
Film And TV Production Work In L.A. Has Fallen Below Even The Level Of...
“The decline ... was led by a sharp drop in reality TV production, which recorded its second-worst quarter in the last 15 years. Any...
A Few U.S. Museums Are Letting Actual Young People Curate Their Shows For Youth
This fall alone, the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the UC Irvine Orange County Museum of Art...
Vancouver Symphony Musicians’ Strike Has Ended
The musicians’ union and management reached agreement (pending a ratification vote) on a new contract on October 5, bringing to an end a ten-day...
Inside New York City Ballet Dancers’ Last-Minute Boycott Of The Fall Fashion Gala
They decided only an hour beforehand to dance the performance but not show up at the red carpet or gala dinner — because they...
Tampa Bay Gets A New (And For Now, Only) Professional Ballet Company
The closure of Tampa Bay classical companies during the COVID-19 pandemic spurred co-founder Heather Ossola’s desire to fill the void. “I really felt like I...
A Plot Twist In The Saga Of San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain
Excessive deterioration due to deferred maintenance is the reason city officials have given for their (controversial) decision to demolish the (controversial) Brutalist artwork. However,...
José Limón Turned O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones” Into Dance
Limón adapted the 1920 play for his company in 1956, and the company’s current artistic director decided it was time for a revival: “The...
Across B.C., Arts Organizations Large And Small Are Struggling
“As rising costs hit British Columbians in all areas of life, advocates say arts organizations across the province are struggling to keep up.” -...
How Small Arts Organizations Do Fundraisers Without Fancy Gala Soirées
In Houston, smaller groups who can’t afford the big upfront costs of galas get quite inventive with their benefit events. - Houstonia Magazine
Toby Talbot, Who Helped Create America’s Art-House Cinema Circuit, Is Dead At 96
“(She and her husband, Dan,) through their distribution company, New Yorker Films, and such prominent Manhattan theaters as … Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, were a...
