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The New Yorker’s Unionized Staffers Vote To Authorize Strike
"Union workers at The New Yorker, Pitchfork and Ars Technica said Friday they had voted to authorize a strike as tensions over contract negotiations...
Antonio Pappano To Leave Royal Opera House For London Symphony
The Italian-British conductor has been music director at Covent Garden since 2002; at the end of the 2023-24 season, he'll move three miles or...
Leavers Are Raising Funds For A Museum Of Brexit
"Although all those involved in the project are keen Brexit supporters and the museum has had no public endorsements from pro-Europeans, the trustees said...
In Hong Kong, Fears That Beijing Is Coming After The Arts
"Decisions in Hong Kong not to display a politically sensitive photograph in a museum exhibition and not broadcast the annual Academy Awards for the...
How Playwriting Competitions Help The Entire Field Of Theatre
Despite the fact that they can sometimes feel like (as one literary manager put it) "the Hunger Games of playwriting," prizes do help bring...
Restored Ghent Altarpiece Is Finally Back Home — In A $6 Million Bulletproof Display...
The van Eyck masterpiece is the most stolen individual artwork we know of (one panel is still missing after 87 years), and its Flemish...
Google Podcasts Has An Extremism Problem
"Even in the world of podcasting, Google Podcasts … stands alone among major platforms in its tolerance of hate speech and other extremist content....
Author Larry McMurtry Dead At 84
"Over more than five decades, Mr. McMurtry wrote more than 30 novels and many books of essays, memoir and history. He also wrote ...
Those Unknown Sappho Poems Discovered Back In 2014? There’s A Problem
Don't worry: so far, there's no evidence that they're forgeries. But "the editors of a scholarly volume in which the circumstances of the discovery...
‘It Was Bloody Cheek Of Me To Even Try’: The Musicologist Who Dared To...
Timothy Jones's completion of several fragmentary violin-piano sonatas by Mozart "is unusual, though, in its choose-your-own-adventure approach. Jones, testing different aspects of Mozartian style,...
San Francisco Starts Program Providing Guaranteed Basic Income To Artists
"More than 100 San Francisco artists will be guaranteed $1,000 a month for six months under a pilot program set to launch in May,...
Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, 79
"The filmmaker, cineaste and critic who emerged in the wake of the French New Wave with such classics as The Clockmaker of St. Paul,...
After Three Decades As Artistic Director, Kevin McKenzie To Retire From ABT
"The company announced on Thursday that McKenzie, 68, will continue to oversee programming and performances through 2022 while a search for a successor begins...
Germany Tries To Figure Out How To Go About Returning Benin Bronzes
"On the heels of a German state visit to Benin City, … the culture ministry and museums are now playing catch-up. … Culture minister...
Actor Jessica Walter Dead At 80
"Walter's six-decade acting career spanned across film and television, from Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, Play Misty for Me, to the voice of Malory Archer...
Literature Of Contagion: When Writers Tell Stories Of Plagues, How Do They End?
Edgar Allan Poe ended his short story with "Darkness and Decay and the Red Death illimitable dominion over all." Others, from Daniel Defoe...
The STEEP Road Back
The many threats and threads around reopening social spaces for live performance can easily blur together. Focused problem-solving and readiness require that we tease...
China’s Architects Turn Attention To Ailing Villages
After a couple of decades of enormous urban growth led to thousands of emptied-out villages, both Chinese government policy and the mood of ordinary...
Modernist Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen Dead At 91
"His residences had signature touches like 45-degree pitched roofs, clean lines, minimal ornamentation, masterful use of lighting and windows, and décor that included his...
She Took Over A Ballet Company In The Middle Of The Pandemic
Susan Jaffe was announced as the new artistic director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre last April, near COVID's first peak in the U.S., and she...
Spain’s Drive-In Movie Theaters Plead For Exemption From COVID Curfew
The country is already one time zone ahead of where it should be geographically (Spain is on Central European Time rather than GMT), so...
3,000-Year-Old Bronze Bull Unearthed By Rainstorms At Site Of Ancient Olympic Games
An archaeologist working at Olympia noticed what turned out to be one of the horns of the bull figurine sticking up out of the...
Britain’s Biggest Theatre Owner Buys Three Venues In San Francisco And Detroit
Ambassador Theatre Group is purchasing from the Nederlander Co. the Orpheum and Golden Gate Theatres in San Francisco and the Fisher Theatre in Detroit,...
Black Composer Says Tulsa Opera “Decommissioned’ Him Over Line ‘God Damn America’
For a program commemorating the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (the one in which the area known as "Black Wall Street" was...
A COVID-Safe Mask Opera Singers Can Really Sing In
Dr. Sanziana Roman, an endocrine surgeon at UCSF who was once a voice major at Cornell (and who can sew as well), worked with...
