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A Group Of Artists Put Up Billboards (Arty Ones) To Try To Energize Voters....
"Dancing between art, philanthropy and activism, For Freedoms addresses issues including racism, misogyny, violence and free speech, most visibly by commissioning artists to make...
Brooklyn Mack Leaves Helm Of His Hometown Ballet Company After Severe Funding Cuts
The star dancer has resigned as artistic director of Columbia (SC) Classical Ballet, at whose school he first studied dance and which he helped...
Sally Mann Photographs Of Children Removed From Museum As Police Investigate Obscenity Charge
Though they depict no sexual activity, Mann's nude portraits of her young children have attracted controversy ever since they first appeared 35 years ago....
Threat Of Ushers’ Strike At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Called Off
"Ushers at the Kimmel Center, the Academy of Music, and Miller Theater have struck a tentative deal on a new labor contract. If approved,...
Oscar Nominations Postponed Due To L.A. Fires
"Voting for the nearly 10,000 Academy members opened Jan. 8 and was originally set to close on Jan. 12. Deadline is now Jan. 14....
How Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Novel Finally Made It Into Print
"In (The Life of Herod the Great), Hurston looked to redefine the legacy of Herod, who reigned as king of Judaea from 37 BCE...
Considering (Or Not) The Politics Of Shostakovich, “The Hamlet Of Soviet Music”
"How can we reconcile the apparently gung-ho socialist sentiments expressed in Symphonies No. 3 and 4 with the bitter disillusionment and sarcasm that explode...
What’s Ultimately Behind The Decline Of Arts Criticism? The Decline Of Its Audience.
"What’s gone missing, in a society that long ago excused itself from seriousness, is a broader sense that art is urgent business, that your...
Sadler’s Wells East, The Buzzy New Dance Venue Opening In London’s Olympic Park
"This (550-seater) is the fourth Sadler’s Wells stage, after the original site, with its 1,500-capacity main stage and 180-seat Lilian Baylis studio, and the...
Watching Master Magicians From Just Six Feet Away
At the back of a magic store near the western edge of Brooklyn is the theater 69 Atlantic, where some of the world's most...
Even As Hollywood Contracts, L.A. Is Going Ahead With $1 Billion “Television City” Project
On the site of the old CBS Television City complex, a developer plans to build 980,000 square feet of offices, sound stages, production facilities...
The Netherlands Is Converting Its Panopticon Prisons Into Arts Hubs
At the Koepel in Haarlem, "a cafe fills the ground floor with chatter. Above, nearly all the former cells are being rented. There’s a...
An All-AI-Powered FM Radio Station, Courtesy Of Rapper Lupe Fiasco
Fiasco’s station, created in partnership with MIT and called "Endless LUP," is planning to run 24/7, with music generated by AI software "trained on...
Getty Images And Shutterstock To Merge Into Photo-Licensing Giant
"Getty Images on Tuesday said it has agreed to merge with its rival Shutterstock in a cash-and-stock deal … valued at $3.7 billion." -...
Survival Of Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre Co. Is In “Substantial Doubt,” Finds Auditor
"Signature Theatre Co. — which raised the bar off-Broadway by devoting entire seasons to the work of major dramatists while offering $25 tickets across...
Peter Yarrow, Of Peter, Paul And Mary, Has Died At 86
"During an incredible run of success spanning the 1960s, Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six Billboard Top 10 singles, two No....
Dive-In Movies: Summer In Rural Australia Features Film Showings At Local Swimming Pools
"Dive-ins are a time-honoured tradition in (inland) Australia, where residents can’t easily access what much of the nation takes for granted on a hot...
Why Do Some Right-Wingers Get Fixated On Epic Poems?
Elon Musk. Jordan Peterson, Peter Thiel. All three have been repeatedly talking about and referring to — and misconstruing — The Iliad, The Odyssey,...
Cynthia Ozick’s Ode To, And Lament For, The Written Letter
She considers the letter as game, as plot device, as plot vehicle (epistolary novels), historical source, moral statement, advice column fodder, greeting card, and...
“Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera” (Yes, Really)
Certainly the story is operatic: two people with traumatic childhoods meet on a cruise ship, fall in love, develop a successful magic act, and...
Friedrich St. Florian, Who Designed DC’s World War II Memorial, Has Died At 91
"A dapper, soft-spoken architect who spent much of his career in academia, (he) was in some ways an unlikely architect of the World War...
One Of Britain’s Best Drama Schools Is Closing Down Its Entire Undergraduate Program
The Bristol Old Vic — which counts among its alumni Patrick Stewart, Olivia Colman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons, Miranda Richardson, and Gene Wilder —...
Dance Is “At An Inflection Point” In Minnesota’s Twin Cities
Just in the past year, two of the metro's major companies closed, as did the area's keystone performance space for dance. The dance scene...
Women Are Losing Ground As U.S. Dance Companies Hire New Artistic Directors
"The data shows that from 2023 to 2024, overall artistic director appointments decreased. However, female artistic director appointments decreased by 36%, compared to a...
Nick Cave’s $1 Million Artwork At Kansas City Airport Taken Down And Might Not...
"Cave’s kinetic sculpture The Air Up There … consists of 2,800 colorful spinners that dangled from the ceiling of the check-in hall at Kansas...
