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Composer Sofia Gubaidulina, 93
“(She) believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a composer, though it was only after the fall of...
At The Rehab Center With Puzzlemaster Will Shortz
The New York Times crossword editor and Sunday-morning NPR stalwart suffered two strokes a year ago. He came home from the hospital last April...
Unpublished Ravel Work Gets Premiere From Dudamel And New York Phil
“On Thursday, Dudamel and the Philharmonic will give the world premiere of the five-minute piece as part of a program celebrating the 150th birthday of Ravel....
Trump Forces Out Chair Of NEH
“Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities, has left her role at the direction of President...
A Fully-Funded BBC World Service Is The Only Way To Counter Disinformation, Argue BBC...
“Amid concerns about the scale of state-backed content after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, senior BBC figures believe it is ‘undeniable’ that the government should shoulder the...
16th-Century Painting Stolen From Italy Is Discovered In England. Its Current Owner Intends To...
“Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario was taken in 1973 from the civic museum in Belluno in northern Italy. Sometime later it was bought...
Meet The 21st-Century Voice Of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, And Porky Pig
Nope, no studio is using AI to re-create Blanc’s rendition of the wascally wabbit, dastardly duck, put-upon pig and their Looney Tunes confrères. Why...
TV Actors’ Secrets For Convincingly Pretending To Be Drunk And/Or Drugged
Yes, there have certainly been cases of what one might describe as method acting, but being intoxicated on set is never good for actors...
Considering The Trump Administration’s War On Drag: Philip Kennicott
“The essence of drag is its exaggeration of gender stereotypes in a theatrical style that gives the performer permission to say outrageous, often offensive...
50 Years Of Bob Fosse’s Extraordinarily Influential Choreography For “Chicago”
“Over the decades, Chicago’s lasting footprint on Broadway has helped make Fosse’s style of dance instantly recognizable. With its sly head tilts, specific hand gestures,...
Larry Appelbaum, Perhaps America’s Greatest Jazz Librarian, Has Died At 67
“At the Library of Congress, his employer for 44 years, he ... created a jazz film series, solicited and catalogued collections of recordings and...
Why The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Principal Trumpet Stayed Only Six Months
Esteban Batallán was lured away from the Chicago Symphony’s famous brass section, and he decided to go back. He describes the reason for his...
Hilma Af Klint’s Heir Wants To Sequester Her Work Away In A Temple
Erik af Klint, the artist’s great-grandnephew and the current chairman of her foundation, wants to see her work removed from museum exhibitions and installed...
Where U.S. Audiences Have, And Haven’t, Rebounded To Pre-COVID Numbers
Five years after the lethal coronavirus arrived, “the recovery has been uneven, but there are signs that audiences are finally coming back. Here’s a...
Guthrie Theater Will Reopen Its Third Stage For First Time Since Pandemic
“For the first time in five years, Minnesota’s largest theater will produce a work in its Dowling Studio, activating its ninth-floor third stage that...
Member Of Greece’s Parliament Vandalizes Artworks In National Gallery
“Police detained Nikolaos Papadopoulos — of the small right-wing, ultra-religious Niki party — for several hours before releasing him. … Papadopoulos and one other...
The Fight To Rescue Ukraine’s Artworks, Three Years Into The War
Some of the nation’s art heroes have been moving pieces from the embattled east of Ukraine to the western half or even abroad; others...
The Weird And Wonderful Noises That Choreographers Make
“Dance artists often spout rhythmic medleys of noises and counts during classes and rehearsals. In a wordless art that lacks a widely used form...
We’ve Been Missing The Point Of “The Great Gatsby” For A Century
“Gatsby is a more complicated book than its pop-culture footprint suggests. It’s big enough to survive all those turgid high school essays about color symbolism...
What Does An Editor Of Contemporary Classical Music Do? Quite A Lot
“Like a page-turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of...
New LACMA Building To Get New Works Of Outdoor Art
“Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled...
South Carolina Public Radio To Sever Ties With NPR
“Leaders for S.C. Public Radio and S.C. Educational Television said they are beginning the process of unwinding their membership from NPR to focus more...
Jury Rules That Disney Did Not Steal Story For “Moana”
“The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2½ hours before deciding that the creators of Moana never had access to writer and...
NEA Backs Down — A Bit — Over “No Gender Ideology” Pledge Demand
In response to a lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU, the National Endowment for the Arts dropped its requirement that applicants pledge on...
Lincoln Center Gets $50 Million For Contemporary Dance
“The donation, from the philanthropists Lynne and Richard Pasculano, is the largest Lincoln Center has ever received for programming initiatives. Lincoln Center hopes the...
