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Using Dance To Heal Rape Survivors In Congo
"'I started doing this because of the girls who came to us in a state of silence. They were raped at a young age...
Massive New National Museum Of Norway, Home Of ‘The Scream’, Has Opening Date
"Initially slated to debut in 2020, the museum in Oslo — officially called the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design — will now...
Art For The Nose: In Paris, An Exhibition Of ‘Olfactory Sculptures’
"We have art for the eyes and music for the ears, but what about about creative stimuli for our sense of smell? A new...
McGraw-Hill Sold By One Private Equity Firm To Another At 88% Profit
"Eight years after it bought McGraw-Hill Education for $2.4 billion, Apollo Global Management has reached an agreement to sell the company to another private...
NPR Gets Fourth Regional News Hub, This One For Midwest
Thanks to a $4.7 milion grant from former Google chairman Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, the newsroom will be based at KCUR in...
Cincinnati Symphony Music Director Louis Langrée To Step Down In 2024
"It's difficult because I am very happy here. And this orchestra has made me a better conductor. But I can't just think of myself....
Philadelphia Orchestra To Consolidate With Kimmel Center Under New Organization
"Philadelphia Orchestra president and CEO Matías Tarnopolsky will become leader of the new parent company upon finalization of the deal, and Kimmel president and...
New Yorker Union Members And Condé Nast Agree On Contract
"After a protracted battle that nearly led to a workers strike, the staffers at three Condé Nast publications — The New Yorker, Ars Technica...
Journalist Janet Malcolm, 86
"A longtime New Yorker staff writer and the author of several books, the Prague native practiced a kind of post-modern style in which she...
America Slow Dance
That’s the name of a variation on “America the Beautiful” that I wrote for Min Kwon’s America/Beautiful project.But wait … what IS that? -...
Hello, Toscanini. And Hello, Doris Day — Hiding out from 2021 in the 1950s
On many days lately, the last places I've wanted to be are 2020 and 2021. I've been retreating to the 1950s, creating in my...
Mark George prepares youth through music education
The President & CEO of the Music Institute of Chicago shares about the evolving responsibility of preparing youth for society through music education. -...
Queer Cutlets at Judy’s Cafe
Stuck like a plum in a pound cake for a decade at The Philadelphia Inquirer, I wondered where to eat. A colleague knew I...
So Women Can’t Act In ‘Godot’, Eh? Take *This*, Beckett Estate!
In Godot Is a Woman by the theatre company Silent Faces, "three glum, bowler-hatted clowns … are waiting for the Beckett estate to answer...
Gottfried Böhm, The German Expressionist Of Brutalist Architects, Dead At 101
He was one of postwar German's most prominent architects, and had been the country's only living Pritzker Prize winner. "His most revered works resemble...
Narendra Modi Launches A Culture War Against Bollywood
" is using powerful tools to curtail the creative freedom of Bollywood — in particular the influence of Muslims, who have an outsize presence...
Planned Film About Jacinda Ardern And Christchurch Mosque Massacre Draws Huge Backlash In New...
The just-announced project They Are Us, to be written and directed by New Zealander Andrew Niccol (writer and co-producer of The Truman Show, writer-director...
As Marin Alsop Leaves The Baltimore Symphony, Why Aren’t There More Maestras At Top...
"When she took the position in 2007, she was the first female music director of a top-tier American orchestra. She was, it seemed certain...
Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Late Of North Carolina Symphony, Makes His Way Back From A...
Last summer, back home in Wales after completing his 16-year term in Raleigh, he suffered what turned out to be a three-day stroke that...
By The Numbers: Who Are The Bosses At US Ballet Companies And What Are...
" that the position of Artistic Director is held by far more men than women, while the position of Executive Director is much more...
Scottish Government Gives Multi-Million Rescue Package To Edinburgh Festivals
"The Edinburgh festivals have been offered millions of pounds in emergency funding in the face of widespread fears they may never fully recover from...
Kim Jong-Un Is On The Warpath Against K-Pop
The Dear Respected Leader has "called it a 'vicious cancer' corrupting young North Koreans' 'attire, hairstyles, speeches, behaviors.' His state media has warned that...
Two Unknown Artemisia Gentileschi Paintings Have Turned Up In The Wreckage Of A Beirut...
Art historian Gregory Buchakjian did his Master's thesis at the Sorbonne on the art collection of the Sursock Palace, where he identified two unattributed...
Britain Now Has Its First All-Black-Female Shakespeare Troupe
Says actor Gabrielle Brooks, one of four co-founders of the Mawa Theatre Company, "Shakespeare remains a staple of British theatre. He's still the most...
The Truck Is One Of India’s Great Art Media
"Most drivers are on the road for weeks, sometimes months at a stretch, living a nomadic life and often sleeping and eating in their...
