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Donald Barthelme, Maybe The Least Likely New Yorker Writer Ever
"By most standards, many of his stories aren't stories at all. They don't have plots, or even realistic, believable characters. … In the manner...
The Shed Wants You To Play Pokémon Go On The High Line, But With...
The two New York institutions have collaborated on The Looking Glass, an exhibition in which all the artworks are in augmented reality, and you...
Children’s Author Patricia Reilly Giff, Who Wrote The Kids Of The Polk Street School...
"Over nearly half a century, more than 100 books for young readers. She delighted younger ones with the adventures, misadventures and high jinks...
Why The Minister Who Slashed Britain’s Funding Of Museums Is Now Chairman Of Its...
George Osbourne, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in David Cameron's Conservative government from 2010 to 2016, instituted savage cuts to the budgets of...
Fox News To Pay $1 Million Fine To New York City
The settlement with the city's Commission on Human Rights is for "a pattern of violating of the NYC Human Rights Law" — that is,...
‘Hamilton’ Has Grossed $650 Million. Why Did It Get At Least $30 Million In...
The Broadway production and each of the show's touring companies are incorporated separately, and each corporation can qualify for a $10 million Shuttered Venue...
Storm Blows Roof Off Stuttgart’s Opera House
On Monday night, pieces of the building flew onto the ground; water flowed down the lighting rigs and flooded parts of the stage —...
Houston Grand Opera Names New General Director, Opera San Jose’s Khori Dastoor
The former soprano only became general director of the company in 2019, though she worked in administration starting in 2013 and started her career...
Choreographer Jan Fabre To Stand Trial For Abuse Of Power, Sexual Harassment
Serious allegations made by current and former dancers in his Antwerp company, Troubleyn, became public in 2018. After a lengthy investigation, that city's labor...
Dutch Government Makes Big Change In Restitution Of Nazi-Looted Art
"Particularly significant is the Dutch Government's new approach to 'heirless art.' … Now, in cases where no heirs can be identified, any artwork deemed...
An Intimacy Coordinator Explains How Exactly He Works On Set
"Your boundaries can change given the person, given who's in the room, given I'm on a sofa not a bed, that changes how I...
A New American Heroine: Sapphire’s ‘Push’ At 25
Tayari Jones: "The miracle of Sapphire's gift is that she weaves her sharp social commentary and critique into the fabric of this story without...
Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ To Be Cut By Half
Before the pandemic, the award-winning hit played in two parts running a total of more than five hours. As theaters reopen, Cursed Child will...
Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stephen Dunn Dead At 82
"He departed from the 'confessional' style of self-lacerating poetry and considered himself instead a 'meditative' or observational poet. Writing in a plain, unfussy style...
LA’s Echo Theater: 25 Years As A Hotbed Of Offbeat New Work
Artistic director Chris Fields: "We've had a very simple system at the Echo. We read a play every week amongst ourselves and talk about...
To Protect Your Orchestra Players From COVID, Change Their Layout: Study
A study undertaken over the past season by the Utah Symphony and University of Utah researchers found that a new seating arrangement could reduce...
They’re Back To Dancing At Jacob’s Pillow, Even If It’s All Outdoors
The dance festival in the Berkshires is coming back from last summer's cancellation, the first in its 89-year history, and the destruction of its...
Stolen Picasso And Mondrian Works Recovered In Greece
Picasso's Head of a Woman and Mondrian's Stammer Windmill, taken from the National Gallery of Greece in 2012 in a seven-minute robbery, were seized...
Painting Falls Off Wall, Turns Out To Be Lost Rembrandt
The Adoration of the Magi hanging in a country house near Rome was assumed to be a copy. But, five years ago, the owners...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Sees Reason, Will Have Intermissions
About six weeks after announcing that, as a COVID safety measure, it would eliminate intermissions when it resumes live performances — and just over...
Philadelphia’s Annenberg Center Changes Name
"Penn Live Arts is the new moniker for the group and series long known as the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The switch...
By The Bay, Bhangra Meets Bollywood And Struts It On YouTube
"Today, artists like Toor, 31, are changing the way that bhangra and other Indian dance genres are seen, creating dances meant to be consumed...
What You Get When You Cross Opera With Prestige TV
"Desert In is an operatic experiment. Co-produced by Long Beach Opera and by Boston Lyric Opera, which commissioned the work, the eight-episode streaming miniseries...
Can Writers Make Money From NFTs, Too? Some Are Trying
"It's hard to make sense of what the NFT creative landscape might mean for otherwise underpaid writers. At once, it's a place for writers...
It Seems Philosopher John Locke Was Kind Of A Jerk
"John Locke is regarded today as one of England's greatest philosophers, an Enlightenment thinker known as the 'father of liberalism'. But a previously unknown...
