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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...
Early On, Robert Frost Wrote Some Really Wretched Verse
"Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, … had written a poem called 'My Butterfly.' … It is what it is,...
High Society Art Adviser, Convicted Of Felony Embezzlement, Explains Herself
"'You become the lie,' (Lisa) Schiff said. … By the time it all came crashing down in 2023, she had stolen some $6.4 million....
England’s Arts Funder Shelves Change Which Organizations Called “Worst Idea In The World”
The change proposed by Arts Council England was that any organization which had a grant from National Lottery proceeds had to wait until that...
For The First Time In A Century, An Egyptian Pharaoh’s Tomb Has Been Discovered
"Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II. … It's the first royal Egyptian tomb to be discovered since...
Many Looted Statues Are Being Returned To Cambodia, Which Is Running Out Of Places...
"The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the...
Now That Trump Has Taken Over The Kennedy Center, What Might He Do With...
"The question now is what a thin-skinned showman will do with an institution of music, theater and dance ... central to Washington’s cultural life...
Harvey Weinstein (From Prison) Sues His Brother/Former Business Partner
The producer/convicted rapist filed suit against Bob Weinstein and two other formers executives of the Weinstein Company his brother last week in New York...
US Indie Publishers Form Co-Operative
"A group of independent publishers has formally incorporated as the Publishers Cooperative, a new organization aimed at leveraging collective buying power and sharing resources....
Albania’s Capital Has Become A Hotbed Of Offbeat New Architecture
"The boom is being spearheaded by Tirana's mayor, Erion Veliaj ... and Albanian prime minister and fellow Socialist Edi Rama. They have made architecture...
The Lengths Claude Lanzmann Had To Go To In Order To Make “Shoah”
The 9½-hour length of the finished documentary is daunting enough, but Lanzmann culled it from 220 hours of footage. His grant from one government...
Mel Bochner, Conceptual Artist Who Played With Language And Imagery, Is Dead At 84
"Bochner was one of the key artists associated with the Conceptualist movement during the 1960s and ’70s. In legendary pieces that hardly looked much...
Midcentury Modern: There’s A Group Of Audience-Friendly American Opera The Met Should Be Producing
Joshua Barone makes the case for such works as Samuel Barber's Vanessa, Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes’s Street Scene, Marc Blitzstein’s Regina, Carlisle Floyd’s...
After Six Weeks In London’s West End, “The Years” Is Still Seeing Audience Members...
"While fainting theatergoers are nothing new — several passed out over the onstage torture in Sarah Kane’s Cleansed at the National Theater almost a...
Abortion Play “The Years” May Be An Example Of Trigger Warnings Making Things Worse
The Anne Ernaux adaptation currently running in London's West End has been making headlines for the fact that audience members keep fainting during a...
