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Sorry, There Will Be No 45-Foot Naked Woman In San Francisco’s Union Square
“R-Evolution” by sculptor Marco Cochrane had been scheduled to open the evening of Feb. 6 at a public party in the square, but the...
This Broadway Musical Is Based On A Real-Life Story So Crazy That Audiences Wouldn’t...
Operation Mincemeat, about a plot to convince the Nazis that the Allies were about to invade Greece instead of Sicily, recently arrived on Broadway...
Adobe Architecture May Be The Key To Rebuilding A Fireproof Los Angeles
Since the latest wildfires, interest in natural buildings has spiked, particularly after a widely-shared photo showed a backyard SuperAdobe that emerged from the Eaton fire intact....
How To Solve The Problem Of The Kimmel Center’s Plaza?
The glass-domed plaza between the Philadelphia arts center's venues was intended to be a welcoming public space. Yet it tends to be desolate during...
Point Park University In Pittsburgh Hives Off A Separate School Of Dance
“The new school, which became official at the start of 2025, now hosts a commercial dance department as well as a concert dance department,...
MoMA Signs Partnership Agreement With M+ Museum In Hong Kong
“After a year of discussions, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and M+, a contemporary art museum in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon...
Panels Of El Greco Altarpiece Are Reunited For First Time In Two Centuries
An exhibition at the Prado in Madrid has gathered together panels of the altarpiece Doménikos Theotokópoulos painted for the Monastery of Santo Domingo el...
Iowa Lawmakers Present New Bills To Punish Public Libraries For “Obscenity”
“House File 274 would repeal a section of the Iowa Code that addresses obscenity exemptions for public libraries and educational institutions, while Senate File...
Salman Rushdie Stabbing Trial: Defense Rests Without Presenting Evidence
“(Hadi Matar,) the New Jersey man on trial (for) the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, declined to testify in his defense Thursday as his lawyers...
How Has Manhattan’s Congestion Pricing For Cars Affected Broadway?
“Broadway has seen more foot traffic and bigger audiences in the first month since the curtain went up on the congestion pricing era — though it’s...
Amazon Has Been Given Creative Control Over Entire James Bond Franchise
“The Broccoli family’s feud with Amazon MGM Studios over the (property) appears to have reached a resolution. Barbara Broccoli and her stepbrother Michael Wilson,...
After 30 Years, Richmond Ballet Returns To The Museum
The company danced at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the 1990s but hasn't been back since. But starting next month, following a...
How Screenwriters Work Authentic-Sounding Dialects And Foreign-Language Dialogue Into Their Scripts
The movie industry has gotten much more careful in the past few decades about authenticity (Emilia Pérez notwithstanding). Yet screenwriters won't write out foreign-language...
Indian Police Confiscate Hundreds Of Titles From Bookstores In Kashmir
"Police in Kashmir have raided dozens of bookstores and seized more than 650 books as part of crackdowns on dissent in the Indian-administered region....
Souleymane Cissé, Pioneering African Filmmaker, Has Died At 84
Over a 50-year career, the Malian writer-director did much to establish sub-Saharan African film as an internationally recognized industry in terms of art as...
For These Successful Playwrights, It Was A Hard Journey Just To Reach Midcareer Status
"They constitute an unusual cohort, bucking the bad news of the American theater by having made it past emerging to emerged. Granted, pretty much...
Italian Police Shut Down Major Art-Forgery Workshop In Rome
Police seized 71 paintings, including fake Rembrandts, Picassos, Warhols, and Banksys, some completed and others half-finished, along with a plethora of painting materials, forged...
In Addition To Prison Sentence, Ozy Founder Carlos Watson Gets Ordered To Pay $96...
"(A Federal judge) ordered Watson and his company to pay over $36 million in restitution and nearly $60 million in forfeiture … for his...
So Trump Replaced The Kennedy Center’s Board. Now Will He Lead Its Fundraising?
The Center gets only 16% of its budget from Federal money, and that's for maintenance, repairs and operation of the building, which the government...
Despite Facing Fearsome Deficits, Both San Francisco And California State Governments Maintain Arts Spending
The state’s Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, which helps organizations meet new pay and benefit requirements, launches this year with a $12.5 million budget....
Metropolitan Opera To Change Some Scheduling And Casting Practices
Next season the company will experiment with scheduling consecutive performances of the same opera with different casts, this to save money by not moving...
Drunk Does “Irreversible Damage” To Inca Landmark In Peru
Not long after midnight in Cusco, once the Incas' imperial capital, a man "apparently intoxicated and out of his mind" used a metal object...
Inside London’s New Dance Hot Spot, Sadler’s Wells East
"'You are welcome,' beams a neon sign above the biscuity brick entrance. Theatres, like vampires, gravitate to dark spaces, but inside the impression is...
Making Theatre For Liberation — And For After Liberation: South African Actor-Playwright John Kani
During apartheid, in addition to being Athol Fugard's leading actor, he co-wrote and co-starred in the seminal plays Sizwe Bandi Is Dead and The...
How The Synthesizer Went From Oversized, Clumsy, Expensive Novelty To Tool For Genuine Creativity
"(Starting in) the late twentieth century, a family of technologies moved from the fringes of novelty attraction and the avant-garde to the heart of...
