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Orchestras Must Overthrow The Tyranny Of Subscription Programming, Says NY Times
Anthony Tommasini: " locks them into standard-issue, week-after-week programs loaded with the classics and sprinkled, at best, with unusual or new choices. … Why...
They’ve Found The Emperor Hadrian’s Breakfast Room, And It Was Quite Something
"Researchers discovered the breakfast area within the ruins , and it reveals how the emperor and his wife began each day with an impressive...
Whatever Became Of Shelley Duvall? This.
A sting of Robert Altman films in the 1970s made her into a major movie star with a Best Actress win at Cannes. Then...
Netflix And Dave Chappelle Make Peace, And His Show Is Back
"I asked you to stop watching the show and thank God almighty for you, you did," he told an audience in Austin. "You made...
L.A. MoCA Is Restructuring, Will Hire New Executive Director
"Museum of Contemporary Art Director Klaus Biesenbach will take on a new role as artistic director … will focus on programming, collections and...
Jazz Pianist Chick Corea, 79
"Since the 1960s, Mr. Corea had been a prolific and dynamic force in music, building on his early training in classical music, Latin jazz...
Southern Hemisphere’s Largest Arts Festival Watches And Waits As COVID Restrictions Come And Go
"Adelaide Fringe festival is scrambling to determine how the sudden closure of South Australia's borders to Melbourne residents may affect dozens of its shows....
Robert L. Herbert. Who Changed The Way We Look At Impressionism, Dead At 91
"When Professor Herbert began delving into Impressionism, the field was threatened by a kind of anemic gentility, arid formalism and French literary theory. His...
In Praise Of The Most Underrated Punctuation Mark
"That semicolons, unlike most other punctuation marks, are fully optional and relatively unusual lends them power; when you use one, you are doing something...
What Do You Get When A Drag Queen Crosses Streaming Theater With A National...
What you get is writer-performer Kris Andersson's Dixie’s Happy Hour, "a 95-minute performance streamed to patrons of 21 arts centers and theaters across the...
How Breakdancing Got Itself Into The Olympics
"The story of breaking's meteoric rise to the Olympic stage — it's set to make its debut at the Paris Summer Games in 2024...
18,000-Year-Old Music Instrument Identified — And Played
The ancient conch shell was discovered at the site of some cave art in the French Pyrenees back in 1931, when archaeologists figured it...
New Lead In Case Of Picasso Stolen In Athens
"Almost nine years ago, two thieves carried out a near-perfect heist at the National Gallery in Athens, taking two works by modern masters Pablo...
What’s Actually In The Paris Opera Ballet’s Diversity Report?
Some of the recommendations are both obvious and overdue: no more yellowface/brownface/blackface, hire more diverse choreographers (but classical choreographers, not contemporary or hip-hop as...
Unproduced Stanley Kubrick Screenplay Coming To Screens
"Veteran producers Bruce Hendricks and Galen Walker have optioned the rights to the late Stanley Kubrick's unmade film Lunatic At Large, and have plans...
Oregon Symphony’s Next Music Director: David Danzmayr
The 41-year-old Austrian-born maestro, who recently completed his term as chief conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic in Croatia, takes up the baton in Portland...
Poland’s Independent Media Go Dark To Protest New Advertising Tax
"Many private Polish TV channels and radio stations fell silent and online sites and newspapers ran black front pages on Wednesday in a concerted...
Polish Region Loses $2.25 Million European Cultural Grant After Declaring Itself ‘LGBT-Free Zone’
The money was to go toward developing a Carpathian "heritage" trail" in Poland's Podkarpackie region. After a local activist brought to funders' attention a...
Why This Afghan-Born Poet Is ‘The Father Of Uzbek Literature’
Alisher Navoiy was born in 1441 in Herat, now in Afghanistan but historically a Persianate city. He wrote in Arabic, Persian, and Chagatai, the...
How Do You Play a Flower Pot?
What makes washtubs sound best? How about coffee cans? For the answers, check out Lou Harrison’s instructions for his Concerto for Violin and Percussion....
George Washington Carver Wasn’t Just A Food Scientist, He Was A Gifted Painter
In fact, he was a very promising art student, excelling at plants in particular, but a professor who worried that he couldn't support himself...
How’s New York’s Dance World Navigating A Year Of Pandemic? Better Than They’d Feared
"As they announce plans for the spring and summer — mostly digital, garnished with a little outdoors and in-person — many New York dance...
Last Summer, Museums Made Promises About Diversity. What Are They Actually Doing?
"Many workers regarded it as a positive step this summer when numerous leading institutions released detailed diversity, equity, and inclusion issues (DEI) plans. But...
New National Museum Of African-American Music Open In Nashville
"The museum tells a chronological story of Black music starting in the 1600s through present day and framed around major cultural movements including the...
Flory Jagoda, Living Storehouse Of Sephardic Song, Dead At 97
"A Bosnian-born guitarist and accordionist, brought the traditional ballads of her Sephardic ancestors and the melodies of the Ladino language to American...
