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Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky Was Apolitical. The Invasion Of Ukraine “Changed Everything”
When he directed the Bolshoi Ballet (2004-08) and after, he had a grand plan to stage the entire canon of great Russian ballets and...
Exec Who Led Disney To Become A Broadway Powerhouse Is Stepping Down
“Thomas Schumacher, who led Disney Theatrical Group for decades and helped it produce enduring musical theater hits like The Lion King and Aladdin, changing Times Square and Broadway...
Rosalyn Drexler, Pop Artist With Amazingly Varied Career, Is Dead At 98
Her 1960s paintings about Hollywood actors, movie violence, and gender are now thought to be key to the Pop art movement, though she was...
Nazi-Looted Old-Master Painting Recovered In Argentina After Being Spotted In Real Estate Listing
The painting, Portrait of a Lady by 18th-century artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was spotted in a photo from a house in Mar del Plata owned...
Canadian Province Suspends Its Book-Banning In Schools
“It’ll be paused for a couple of hours while the ministerial order is rewritten,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters on Tuesday. “The direction...
Ousted National Portrait Gallery Director To Lead Milwaukee Museum Of Art
“Kim Sajet, who left her role as director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery after a high-profile clash with President Donald Trump in June, has landed...
At 93, Dan Rather Is Still Covering The News
Seven days a week, he has a video call with two fellow editors for his online outlet, called Steady — and then he gets...
How High Plains Public Radio Is Expanding Rural News Coverage Despite Funding Cuts
Over three years, the broadcaster will build the High Plains Civic Media Network, a system of part-time contributors (some of them volunteers), coordinated by...
Actors’ Equity UK Loses Years-Long Lawsuit Against Casting Directory Spotlight
“(The judge) ruled against Equity’s claim that Spotlight is an employment agency … (and) concluded that Spotlight, a website widely used by U.K. talent...
Kabuki Is, Amazingly, The Subject Of Japan’s Latest Megahit Movie
“Kokuho, which means ‘national treasure,’ has already grossed more than 10 billion yen ($68 million), making it the second-highest grossing Japanese live-action film of...
James Patterson’s Latest Plan To Give Away His Riches: The “Go Finish Your Book”...
“After years of giving millions of dollars to literacy programs, bookstore employees and librarians, James Patterson has now launched an initiative on behalf of emerging authors:...
The Surprising Thing About The New LACMA’s Concrete Walls
Turns out the walls are easier to drill into, and to accurately level the art being hung, than drywall. What’s more, they can be...
USA Today Visits Five Smithsonian Museums To See If They’re Really Too “Woke”
The Nation’s Newspaper checks out the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History, National Museum of Natural History,...
A Canadian Province Banned “The Handmaid’s Tale” From Schools. So Margaret Atwood Wrote A...
“In a social media post, Atwood wrote that since her famed work was no longer permissible in Alberta schools, she had written a ‘suitable’...
Climate-Protesting Architecture Vandals Throw Paint On Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia
“Two activists, representing the campaign group Futuro Vegetal, targeted the basilica on Sunday, August 31, spraying the colored powder over a column while shouting...
The Dances Are A Big Revenue Driver For The Game “Fortnite.” Do The Choreographers...
Hundreds of these dances, known as emotes, have been released on Fortnite, where players can buy them for a few dollars each. Epic Games,...
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Names John Storgårds Its Next Music Director
The 61-year-old Finn, currently Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, takes up his post in...
Creative Folks May Not Like It, But It’s Sports That’s Propping Up Entertainment TV
“Sports is defying ratings gravity, exerting even more influence with each passing season as by far the dominant genre that people prefer to watch...
Why Media Coverage Of School Shootings Is Dwindling
“Our attention span — or patience — for enduring these far-too-frequent tragedies appears to be shrinking. The horror persists, but the novelty is fading,...
Postmodern Irish Step-Dancing — With Beyoncé’s Seal Of Approval
Kaitlyn Sardin, a twentysomething African-American from Orlando who won her first junior world championship in 2009, now mixes up traditional Irish dance with hip-hop,...
Is Or Isn’t This A Genuine Vermeer? Compare And Decide For Yourself
The Guitar Player, housed at Kenwood in London, is signed by Vermeer and accepted as authentic. There’s a slightly different version in the Philadelphia...
Italy Struggles With All The Damage Caused By Tourists Behaving Badly
People carving their initials into the Coliseum, trashing Bernini’s fountain in Rome, driving a car down the Spanish Steps, mounting and humping a nude...
Audiences For Met Opera’s Cinemacasts Are Down By Half, Says Peter Gelb
“Our audience globally is about 55% of what it was before the pandemic. We still have a significant audience. We reached countries across eleven...
Anna Wintour Names Her Long-Awaited Successor As Editor of Vogue
“Wintour ended weeks of fashion-world speculation Tuesday when she named Chloé Malle her successor as head of editorial content at Vogue. — Wintour, 75,...
Another Gérard Depardieu Rape Case Will Proceed To Trial
“French movie star Gérard Depardieu was summoned to trial before a criminal court in Paris over allegations of rape and sexual assault against actor Charlotte Arnould....
