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For The First Time, A Company Has Won Venice Biennale Danza’s Golden Lion For...
Until now, each Golden Lion has been won by a pathbreaking individual, from Merce Cunningham to Pina Bausch to William Forsythe to Sylvie Guillem...
Edward Hoagland, Prize-Winning Nature And Travel Writer, Has Died At 93
“With influences ranging from John Muir to Michel de Montaigne, Hoagland … overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and … published dozens...
How Male-Male Romance By And For Women Went From Underground Niche To Industry
Or, how self-published Kirk/Spock erotica in the late 1960s led to Heated Rivalry (with Japanese comics and Thai soap operas along the way). -...
One Of The World’s Major Collections Of Banned Russian Literature Is In Manhattan
“The Tamizdat Project is the brainchild of Yakov Klots, a soft-spoken, unassuming literary scholar who teaches at Hunter College. He chose the name from...
Confirmed: This Country House Is Definitely A Gaudí
“Xalet del Catllaràs, an early 1900s building tucked away in the mountain forests of Catalonia, Spain, has now been officially recognized as (Antoni Gaudí’s)...
Actor Robert Carradine Dead Of Suicide At 71
Known to older viewers for his roles in The Long Riders and Revenge of the Nerds and to younger ones as the father in...
Berlin Film Festival Winners: “Yellow Letters”, Sandra Hüller, “Salvation”, “Queen At Sea”
Oscar-nominated İlker Çatak’s film about a Turkish theater couple persecuted by the government, Yellow Letters, took the Golden Bear for best feature. The number-two...
Why The Uproar About The Tourette’s/N-Word Incident At The BAFTAs Isn’t Dying Down
“If you wanted to write a scabrous, over-the-top satire on liberal attitudes, you could hardly do better than use this weekend’s BAFTA ceremony. …...
Gustavo Dudamel On His Transition From Los Angeles To New York
“I connect with both, these 17 years in Los Angeles has been amazing, I love it, the people, the community. But this is a...
A New Spirit Of Choreographic Artistry In Olympic Figure Skating
“It seems we’re in a particularly fruitful era of artistic innovation in skating. What’s driving the current wave — and how might it shape...
Reading “Animal Farm” In Afghanistan: A Women’s Book Circle Becomes A Form Of Resistance
With the Taliban having outlawed the education of girls and severely restricted women’s other rights, a clandestine group of women gather weekly to read...
Melbourne’s Arts Community Alarmed As State Government Funding Keeps Falling
From 2022 to 2026, the grant pool distributed by state arts agency Creative Victoria has fallen by over 25%, from $81.2 million to $59.4...
Germany’s International Broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, Loses Millions In Government Funding
Between a reduction of €10 million ($11.8 million) in federal subsidies and the requirement to cut €11 million ($12.9 million) in expenses due to...
Commercialization Of Frida Kahlo Has Gone Way Too Far, Says Her Grandniece
There is by now an untold variety of Frida merch, from watches to candles to tequila to home décor to a branded Miami condo...
Isaiah Zagar, Known For His Psychedelic Philadelphia Mosaics, Is Dead At 86
A self-taught mosaicist, Mr. Zagar used broken bottles, handmade tiles, mirrors, and other found objects to cover walls across the city, particularly in South...
Seattle Symphony’s Home To Close For Renovations This Summer
“Benaroya Hall, the longtime home of the Seattle Symphony …, will close for six weeks beginning in July for the final phase of a...
Architectural Drawings Of Trump’s Planned White House East Wing Released
“The drawings picture the East Wing volume extending well into the White House lawn. At roughly 90,000 square feet, its footprint is more than...
Internal Kennedy Center Email Reveals Details Of Planned Renovation Work
“The renovations are more modest in scale and scope than what President Trump has publicly outlined for the revamped arts center, and it is...
Black Actress Sues Harvard’s American Repertory Theater For Discrimination, Alleging Permanent Scalp Damage
Nike Imoru said that for last year’s staging of The Odyssey, she was told to get cornrows but was not provided with a competent...
Peter Gelb, Controversial Met Opera Boss, Announces Retirement Date
The company’s general manager — who drew widespread praise in his first few years but has recently come under fire as the Met has...
Met Operas’s Next Season Will Be Its Smallest Since The 1960s
During its 2026-27 season, the Metropolitan Opera will present only 17 productions, the fewest in a full season since (at least) the company moved...
Why Does Bernini’s Beloved Elephant Sculpture In Rome Keep Losing The Tip Of Its...
Because people keep knocking it off — most recently, this past weekend, when police found the four-inch marble fragment from the left tusk on...
Vertical Dance: A Brief History
How a cross between rock climbing, rappelling, circus aerobatics and contemporary dance turned into a performing art of its own. - The Mercury News...
Royal Shakespeare Co. To Stage New “Game Of Thrones” Prequel
George R.R. Martin, author of the series of novels at the heart of the franchise, says that the RSC was the ‘obvious choice’ to...
Could The Pipeline Of Venezuelan Classical Musicians Start Running Dry?
Graduates of the country’s El Sistema program can be found on concert stages and in top-flight orchestras all over the world; conductor Giancarlo Guerrero...
