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Iran Sentences Filmmaker Jafar Panahi To Prison While He’s Abroad Accepting Awards
As he was in New York receiving three Gotham Awards for his Cannes-winning It Was Just an Accident, a Tehran court sentenced Panahi to...
Britain’s National Gallery Is Making A Billion-Dollar Move Into Modern And Contemporary Art
In London, until now, post-1900 Western art was Tate territory, but the National has launched “Project Domani,” a £750 million ($998 million) plan to...
Russia Prepares To Declare Pussy Riot An “Extremist” Organization
“Russia's prosecutor general opened a case against the feminist art group on Friday, November 28. The ‘extremist’ label, commonly deployed by the government as justification for stifling political...
A New Contemporary Art Prize Is The UK’s Largest — £200,000
“The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize, as it will be called, will be awarded every other year to an international artist who will...
Royal Danish Ballet Returns To The Classic Choreographer Who Made The Company Great
August Bournonville directed the company in the mid-19th century, and his works and style became thoroughly identified with the institution. Yet for some years...
Suddenly The Anti-Gay Slur “F******” Is All Over New York Theater
Erik Piepenburg: “This year at least six theater productions have used “f*****” in their titles. … Why is a slur that a stranger hurled...
Reddit Forum r/Art Goes Completely Off The Rails (And, For Now, Offline)
The subreddit, on which thousands of artists post images of their work, has strict rules against anything resembling marketing, sales or self-promotion. When one...
Kevin Spacey’s Legal Troubles Are Not Over Yet
The actor, who was artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London from 2004 to 2013, was acquitted on nine sexual assault charges...
How’s Hollywood Handling The Steady Decline Of Cable TV Subscriptions?
With mergers, mostly. “While efforts are already underway by pay TV operators like Charter Communications, Comcast and DirecTV to reinvent the bundle and by...
“NPR Network” Fundraising Project Has Done Unusually Well
The fundraising program brought in more than $30 million in fiscal 2025, well above projections. Half of the donations and 20% of the podcast...
$200K Grawemeyer Award For Composition Goes To Liza Lim
The Australian composer won for her cello concerto A Sutured World, composed for Nicolas Altstaedt and co-commissioned by the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony,...
Louvre Will Raise Ticket Prices For All Non-EU Visitors
“(The) museum has approved a ticket hike from €22 to €32 ($25 to $37) for non-European visitors from January to help finance an overhaul...
Australia’s Leading Dictionary Names “AI Slop” 2025 Word Of The Year
“The Macquarie Dictionary dubbed the term the epitome of 2025 linguistics, with a committee of word experts saying the outcome embodies the word of the year’s...
What It’s Like To Wrangle A Giant Balloon In The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Katie Shepherd had wanted to be a balloon handler in the parade since grade school — since, believe it or not, she watched on...
Making Sense Of Sylvia Plath’s Suicide
Carl Rollyson: “After writing three biographies of Sylvia Plath, what more could I possibly say about her suicide? Yet … in Plath’s case, (there...
How Choreographers Are Using AI As A Subject
“As AI technologies proliferate and become an increasingly inescapable fact of modern life, choreographers are not only experimenting with AI tools, but they’re also...
Suddenly, The People Who Precipitated The Crisis At The BBC Can’t Say What The...
When they were called to Parliament and questioned by the House of Commons Media Culture and Sport Committee on Monday, they minimized the allegations...
“Sharp Decline” In Stagings Of New Plays In UK Post-COVID
“The British Theatre Consortium report, titled ‘British Theatre Before & After Covid’, examines 2019, the last full year before the pandemic, and 2023, the...
“El Mesías” — Translating Handel’s Oratorio Into Spanish
“That has become our key bit of outreach,” says Ruben Valenzuela, director of the Bach Collegium San Diego. And with no complete Spanish version...
Writers At The New Yorker Are Furious Over The Firing Of A Fact-Checker
“The abrupt firing earlier this month of a senior fact-checker and New Yorker union member, Jasper Lo, has set off a swell of outrage...
Texas State Leaders Are Literally Rewriting The History Of The Alamo
“Months before top Republicans forced out the widely respected leader of the Alamo’s $500 million redevelopment for being too ‘woke,’ a close political aide...
San Antonio Philharmonic Evicted By Its Concert Hall
“San Antonio’s Scottish Rite fraternal order has given the Philharmonic until Friday to vacate the group’s historic downtown building. … While the letter states...
Philadelphia Art Museum’s Ex-Director Of HR And DEI Indicted For Theft
“Latasha Harling, 43, was arrested in July and charged with theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, and related crimes about six months after...
L.A. Times Art Critic Christopher Knight Is Retiring
“After 45 years, 36 of them at the Times, art critic Christopher Knight is retiring from daily journalism. His final day is Nov. 28....
How Does Winning A Booker Prize Affect An Author’s Career Long-Term?
Yes, of course a Booker leads to soaring sales of the book that wins, but what about an author’s subsequent works? - The Bookseller...
