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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...
Novelist David Lodge Dead At 89
"(He was) best known for his Booker Prize-nominated comic campus novels Small World and Nice Work. … His other celebrated works included Changing Places...
Ushers Vote To Authorize Strike At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center
"The attendants working in the Academy of Music, Kimmel Center (Marian Anderson Hall, Perelman Theater, and other venues in the complex), and the Miller...
It Seems Andy Warhol Never Actually Said, “I Want To Be A Machine”
And what he did, in fact, say — during a 1963 interview for a feature about Pop art in ARTnews — was not about...
Using Theatre To Connect Russian Refugee Kids With Their American Counterparts
Theatremaker and professor Irina Kruzhilina's project, SpaceBridge, involved a series of theatre workshops with 11 Russian refugees aged 10 to 14, recruited from the...
Uncovering The Angels At Boston’s Old North Church
"The painted angels ... once were among the defining features of Old North Church when they were painted around 1730. But officials at the...
This 400-Year-Old Company Near Boston Makes The World’s Favorite Cymbals
No, the company wasn't started by the Pilgrims, even though it is near Plymouth. The Avedis Zildjian Co. was founded in Istanbul in 1623...
