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Downtown L.A.’s Latest, And Smallest, Performance Venue Looks Like An Electrical Box
Indeed, when artist S.C. Mero was installing it in the Arts District, police stopped her, concerned she was ripping out copper wire. Inside, the Electrical Box...
Buffalo’s Public Radio Stations To Rearrange Programming
“Buffalo Toronto Public Media (BTPM) plans to move programming currently on news/talk WBFO (88.7) and BTPM Classical WNED (94.5) in Buffalo, NY, resulting from...
Site Of Cancelled Pompidou Center Jersey City May Become Affordable Housing
“Jersey City Mayor James Solomon, who took office in January” and killed the project shortly afterward, “announced Monday that the city would work with...
Post-Assad, Syria’s Powerhouse TV Industry Has New Freedoms And New Challenges
“While Egypt is known for its movies and Lebanon for its pop singers and composers, Syria’s TV series” — especially the high-profile dramas aired...
Britain’s Ballet Black At 25
Founding Artistic Director Cassa Pancho: “There was nowhere in this country for Black classical dancers to be hired. It was suggested to me that...
This Little Company Brings The Ephemerality Of Theater To A Whole New Level
Every month, in an American Legion hall or women’s center (anywhere but a theater) in Los Angeles, Public Assembly presents three 12-minute plays that...
Should AI Be Used In Grantmaking? If So, How?
Arts-minded folks are likely to hate the idea, but there are pressures which could push toward it: increasing application volumes, limited staff capacity, and...
Painting Unseen For 65 Years Authenticated As Rembrandt
The artwork, Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, has been in private hands since 1961, a year after art historians declared it not to...
Rebecca Benaroya, Doyenne Of Seattle Arts Philanthropists, Has Died At 103
“Together with her late husband, real estate developer Jack Benaroya, Becky Benaroya championed dozens of arts, humanitarian and civic organizations including the Seattle Symphony,”...
Several Sets Of Regulators Could Still Block The Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal
Among those regulators are the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission, and the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority. What’s...
Paramount Says It Won’t Sell Off Warner Bros. Cable Businesses
“Paramount Skydance’s leadership says there are no plans to divest or spinoff cable assets after merging with Warner Bros. Discovery for $110 billion. The...
Chicago Launches Plan To Create Loop Arts District
“The district will be supported by nearly 90 Loop arts organizations that will develop the neighborhood as an arts and culture destination. … (It)...
Paavo Järvi Named Next Chief Conductor Of London Philharmonic
Music director or chief conductor, formerly, of (among others) the Cincinnati Symphony and the Orchestre de Paris, and currently of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen...
Indianapolis Museum Of Art Has Closed Its High-Tech Immersive Art Space
The museum opened the 30,000-square-foot space, called the Lume, in 2021 with a 150-projector installation emblazoning images of Van Gogh’s paintings across the walls...
Larry Reed, California’s Master Of Shadow Puppetry, Is Dead At 81
He was among the first Americans to study Balinese shadow theater and then perform it back home, which he did for his entire career....
“Moral Self-Defense” And The Uses of Public Shaming
“There are plenty of self-serving, self-aggrandizing, morally objectionable reasons for why people participate in public shaming. Nevertheless, the concept of moral self-defence reminds us...
Jonathan Groff Is Practicing Sonnets To Prepare To Play Rosalind In “As You Like...
“(I wanted to) just start slow, with some Shakespeare that wasn’t the play,” said the Tony-winning actor, who’ll be starring in an all-male staging...
The Choreographer Behind The Ecstatic Shakers Dances In “The Testament Of Ann Lee”
“The night before we started filming, I was sleeping and, literally, the ghost of Ann Lee was over my bed with angels around and...
A Gay Cultural Critic Resistant To “Heated Rivalry” Explains Why He Finally, Happily Succumbed
Wesley Morris: “Why wouldn’t I have wanted this? A six-episode show that’s exemplary as romance, as physical intimacy, as banter, as athlete psychology, as conversation, confession...
Rena Bransten, Pillar Of San Francisco’s Gallery Scene For 50 Years, Has Died At...
“Rena Bransten Gallery was known as one of the pioneering contemporary art programs in San Francisco. She helped the gallery develop a long tradition...
Venues Hosting Shen Yun Dance In Australia Get Bomb Threats
The theatre presenting the controversial Falun Gong-associated troupe in the Gold Coast had to be evacuated; the venues where the group will perform in...
Public Radio’s Young-Musician Show “From The Top” Acquired By KERA Dallas
“We're not spending a dollar on this acquisition. They're essentially folding into KERA,” said station CEO Nico Leone. “We feel really good about our...
Nadia Boulanger’s Little-Known Opera Revived
Her opera La Ville morte was set to premiere just when World War I broke out; she never returned to it and only a...
France’s Controversial Culture Minister Steps Down To Run For Mayor Of Paris
Rachida Dati, a member of ex-President Sarkozy’s right-wing party Les Républicains (she was once his Justice Minister), is running to succeed outgoing mayor Anne...
DePaul Art Museum In Chicago To Shut Down This Summer
Announcement of the closure, which is effective June 30, comes two months after DePaul University laid off 114 full-time and part-time staff. Administrators cited...
