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A Florida County Eliminates All Arts Funding Permanently, Blaming Drag Queens
No projects in the applicant pool in Volusia County (the Daytona Beach area) involved drag in any way. But unrelated rental events at two...
When Should A Dancer Take The Risk Of Turning Down A Role?
“In a world with fewer contracts than aspiring dancers, and a long history of training dancers to silently acquiesce, it can feel taboo to...
Was The Rodgers-And-Hart Breakup Really As Sad As In The Movie “Blue Moon”?
Ellin Stein looks at what’s fact and what’s fiction in director Richard Linklater’s film about Lorenz Hart on the opening night of Oklahoma!, Richard...
Harper Lee’s Unpublished Early Stories Are Now Seeing Print. What Can They Tell Us...
“Drafted in the decade before To Kill a Mockingbird, after Lee had first moved to New York City in 1949, the stories feature some...
Warner Bros. Discovery Is Indeed For Sale, And “Multiple Parties” Are Interested, Says Board
“Amid swirling reports of bidding interest by Paramount Global, the WBD board of directors says is it ‘has initiated a review of strategic alternatives...
Could Las Vegas Become Another Movie Production Center? That’s What Nevada Labor Unions Are...
“The effort to offer up to $95 million in tax credits to Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery for a new film production...
It Seems A Picasso Painting “Fell Off The Truck” In Spain
“Spanish police are investigating the disappearance of a Picasso painting, insured for €600,000 ($700,000), which vanished while traveling from Madrid to an exhibition in...
After Just Two Years, Baltimore Symphony Extends Music Director Jonathon Heyward’s Contract
“Heyward, 33, signed a three-year contract guaranteeing that he will preside over Maryland’s largest cultural organization through Aug. 31, 2031. … Heyward will donate...
French Politicians Make The Louvre Jewel Heist A Symbol Of Macron’s Presidency
“The theft has become a kind of shorthand for what critics describe as Macron’s France: a state weakened by austerity, wavering authority, and institutional...
No Cameras?? Before Jewel Robbery, Audit Found Louvre’s Security Inadequate
“Because of repeated postponements of the scheduled modernisation of security systems, cameras have mainly been installed only when rooms have been refurbished,” said the...
How Jafar Panahi Keeps Making Films In Iran, Despite Censorship, Official Harassment And Even...
The “triple crown”-winning (Cannes, Venice, Berlin) writer-director has developed both coping strategies and outright tricks. For instance, sending one version of a script to...
Miami City Ballet’s New Artistic Director Dives Right In
Gonzalo García is only the third artistic director in the company’s history, after founder Edward Villella and predecessor Lourdes Lopez. He only started in...
How Do You Convince Newcomers To Try Seeing An Opera? Ask The Dallas Opera’s...
“(Her) infectious creativity has made Amy O’Neil’s work for The Dallas Opera a must-watch. From her fun, punchy synopses of upcoming productions to her award-nominated series...
The First Orchestral Venue Built According To Modern Acoustical Science: Boston’s Symphony Hall At...
Businessman Henry Lee Higginson, who founded the Boston Symphony and was lead funder for its then-new venue, made what was then an unprecedented decision:...
One Of Britain’s Major Foundations Restricts Its Arts Fund Despite Its Endowment Growing Past...
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation — whose endowment has grown steadily since 2020 and now stands at £916 million ($1.28 billion) — has closed its...
Trump Refiles $15 Billion Lawsuit Against Penguin Random House And New York Times
The case — which charges that, with the book Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, the...
Senior Housing Designed To Fight Loneliness Wins Britain’s Top Architecture Award
The Stirling Prize for the country’s best new building of the year, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects, has gone to the...
Art Historian Says He’s Figured Out Who Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring Was
It’s been suggested that she was the artist’s daughter, a servant girl, or even a sibyl from Greek mythology. Scholar Andrew Graham-Dixon writes that...
Wardrobe Stylist Sues “Hamilton” Producers For Firing Her After Medical Leave For Cancer Treatment
Kimberly Mark, a veteran Broadway dresser, joined the Hamilton crew a decade ago. Her suit alleges that, after four operations and weeks of chemotherapy and...
Philadelphia’s Mann Center Has A New Sponsorship Deal And New Name
The open-air concert venue in Fairmount Park has been given a “substantial” grant from the Pennsylvania insurance company Highmark to support a renovation project...
NPR “Founding Mother” Susan Stamberg, 87
In 1972, as host of All Things Considered, she became the first female anchor of a nightly national newscast. She co-hosted the show for...
London’s Royal Ballet School Is Making Some Big Changes In Teaching
For a start, they’ve raised the starting age from 11 to 13. And they’ve done away with many of the rigid and arbitrary body...
Another Nobel-Winning Author Turns Out To Have Been A God-Awful Person
Most observers knew that Saul Bellow was no saint, especially after reading his greatest novel, the quasi-autobiographical Herzog. Bellow’s portrait of his protagonist’s wife,...
Orchestra Commissions Mason Bates To Create Its “Sonic Logo”
When Charlotte Symphony music director Kwamé Ryan saw the orchestra’s newly-redesigned logo, he thought the CSO should have a musical equivalent — like NBC’s...
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane Takes The Helm At The Theatre He Grew Up In
Beane was in his hometown — Reading, Pennsylvania — scouting locations for his first feature film when he learned that the Genesius Theatre, where...
