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Nine Florida Counties Have Pre-Emptively Removed Books From Public Schools
Fearing legal action from the state Board of Education and Attorney General, the counties, which include the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Ft....
Trump White House Announces Review Of All Exhibits At Smithsonian Museums
“The White House will launch a sweeping review of Smithsonian exhibitions, collections and operations ahead of America’s 250th-birthday celebrations next year. … The vetting...
Enormous Influence: Arvo Pärt At 90
“(His) aesthetic (is) one of the most resonant and wide-reaching in all contemporary art. People who claim no interest in notated music cleave nonetheless...
Madrid City Council Rejects Multicultural Festival; Organizers Allege Ideological Bias
The Kúpula se Mueve (Kúpula Moves) festival has been held without incident in previous years, but city councilors rejected three different applications for permits this year,...
How One Small Ballet Company Managed To Give Its Dancers Full-Time Contracts
Julianna Slager, artistic director of Chicago’s Ballet 5:8, crunched the numbers and realized that using the dancers to do administrative office work which had...
Beloved Iron Sculptures In Chicago’s Grant Park May Be Relocated
“The sculpture Agora — a striking work composed of 106 nine-foot-tall iron human figures — has been a fixture on the southern edge of...
Sheila Jordan, 96, “An Impishly Imposing Jazz-Vocal Titan”
“Jordan was that rarest bird, a singer — a white singer, a ‘chick singer’ — who earned the trust and admiration of geniuses like Mingus and...
Another Bay Area Theatre Company Lays Off Staff And Vacates Its Venue
“Aurora Theatre Company announced in May that it was suspending production next season, Bay Area theater fans have feared the worst: permanent closure of yet...
Ravinia Festival Opens The First Of Its Newly-Renovated Venues
“The Audrey, formerly known as the Ravinia MusicBox, was revealed at a press event on Thursday. Inside The Audrey, in the north corner of...
Ten Semifinalists And Two Judges Withdraw From LGBTQ+ Lit Prizes Over Another Nominee’s Anti-Trans...
The awards in question are the UK’s Polari Prizes, and the issue is the presence on the longlist for Polari Book of the Year...
Public Radio Broadcasters, Ever More Strapped For Cash, May Consider Selling Off Stations
“The loss of federal funding has led most public radio and television stations to take a fresh assessment of ... what it might take...
Public Radio Station In Alabama May Drop NPR Programming
The executive director of Alabama Public Television — which, in addition to a statewide network of PBS-affiliate TV stations, operates a public radio outlet...
Ambassador Theatre Group Is Looking To Buy TodayTix
“ATG, which owns dozens of theatres across the UK and has produced recent versions of Cabaret and Pretty Woman, is likely to line up against US bidders...
Standup Comedy In English Is Developing An Entire Circuit In Mainland Europe
“(This is) in part because European cities are teeming with foreigners who use English as a lingua franca and want to connect through laughter....
Preserving The Gullah Songs And Spirituals Of South Carolina’s Sea Islands
A group of singers, mostly in their 70s and 80s, on St. Helena Island in the South Carolina Lowcountry has been preserving the praise...
Archaeologists In Peru Uncover 3,000-Year-Old 3-D Polychrome Mural
“Spanning 13-by-5 feet, the polychrome mural, … with a three-dimensional design, indicating a sophistication and artistry that is without precedent for pre-Inca cultures in...
San Francisco Human Rights Commission Announces, Then Withholds, $19 Million In Arts And Community...
“In June, the HRC announced it would issue awards to organizations such as the ... San Francisco LGBT Center, Chinese Culture Center, Youth Art Exchange and...
AI Really Is Replacing Voice Actors In This Country, And There’s No Law Or...
“If earlier a voice actor was doing 15-20 projects a month, now it's down to maybe six or seven,” says the leader of the...
Social Media Video Has Made Learning Dance More Available Than Ever — And There’s...
“Platforms such as TikTok, YouTube and Instagram … (have) given access to many different forms of dance styles, and it’s had an impact on...
Linda Hodes, 94, Dancer At Heart of Martha Graham And Batsheva Companies
She went from taking classes from Graham at age 9 to dancing leading parts in Graham's works — then teaching those works to Batsheva...
India’s Government Is Now Banning Books In Kashmir
The ban threatens people with prison time for selling or owning 25 works by authors such as Arundhati Roy, constitutional expert A.G. Noorani, and...
Manhattan DA’s Office Repatriates More Looted Antiquities
The objects came from investigations into several convicted traffickers and were returned to Italy, Hungary, and Spain. - ARTnews
Oregon’s Portland Opera Appoints Music Director
Damien Geter, a 45-year-old conductor, composer (Loving v. Virginia, premiered earlier this year), and bass-baritone who was already working as interim music director and...
Pioneering Rock Journalist Michael Lydon, 82
“(He) recovered from a galling pan of the Beatles for his college newspaper to become a founding editor of Rolling Stone and a pioneering rock...
Skydance’s $8 Billion Acquisition Of Paramount Global Is Now Complete
“Skydance Media has closed its takeover, unveiled in July 2024, of Paramount Global to form what the merger partners have called a ‘next-generation media...
