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Certain Items At Smithsonian’s African-American History Museum Are Being Taken Off Display. Why?
The items removed as part of what museum administrators call normal rotation include Harriet Tubman’s hymnbook and a first edition of Frederick Douglass’s memoir....
New Kennedy Center Chief Calls For Criminal Investigation Into Its Finances
“Richard Grenell, whom President Trump installed as the president of the Kennedy Center, claimed Monday night that the center’s deferred maintenance and its deficit...
Major Shift: Kennedy Center Will Host Non-Equity Theater Productions
“Two non-Equity national theatrical tours – Mrs. Doubtfire and Chicago – are on the 2026 schedule of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., marking...
Luigi Alva, One Of The 20th Century’s Great Light Tenors, Is Dead At 98
His easy stage presence, comic timing and small but perfectly formed voice (combining lightly-sprung agility with a distinctive sweetness of tone), were ideal for...
This Year’s Cannes Film Festival May Be The Most Politically Charged Since 1968
With open letters and festival speeches referencing Gaza, the Trump administration, the Ukraine war, and #MeToo in France’s film industry, an event which used...
Willem Dafoe On His Upcoming First Season Leading The Venice Theater Biennale
Unsurprisingly, considering his decades with New York experimental-theater legends the Wooster Group (which will perform at the Biennale), Dafoe is focusing on the avant-garde,...
Salman Rushdie’s Attempted Murderer Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison
“A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. … Matar received the maximum 25-year sentence for the (stabbing)...
Dance World Surveys Damage Already Done By Withdrawal Of NEA Grants
“It was 5:45 pm on Friday, May 2, when Megan Kiskaddon, executive director of Seattle’s On the Boards, learned that the grant for that night’s...
Gauguin’s Final Self-Portrait May Not Be A Selfie After All
“The Kunstmuseum Basel …, which has housed Self-Portrait with Glasses (1903) since 1945, is re-examining the work following claims that it may have been painted not...
Auschwitz Memorial Creates Digital Replica Of Death Camp For Filmmakers’ Use
“Organisers of the Picture from Auschwitz project said they have harnessed ‘cutting-edge 3D scanning technologies’ to build a digital model of the concentration camp … ‘down...
Remaining Kennedy Center Employees Start Unionization Process
“The union, which they’re calling the ‘Kennedy Center United Arts Workers,’ would be in partnership with … the UAW. It would consist of nonsupervisory...
$34.5 Billion Mega-Merger Will Create US Cable TV Behemoth
Charter Communications is the country’s second-largest cable company after Comcast; Cox is also among the largest. … Charter’s footprint includes New York City and...
Charles Strouse, Composer of Broadway Hits “Annie” And “Bye Bye Birdie”, Is Dead At...
“In a career that spanned more than 50 years, (the three-time Tony winner) wrote more than a dozen Broadway musicals, as well as film...
Actor Joe Don Baker, Known For “Walking Tall,” Has Died At 89
A tall, broad-shouldered Texan, he portrayed heroes and villains during his career as a leading man in the 1970s and ‘80s, most notably in...
The Eurovision Song Contest’s Real Heroes: The Crew That Does Complete Set Changes In...
While viewers watch the introductory videos known as postcards, dozens of people swarm the stage. Thirty-five seconds to get one set of performers off...
Mubi, Born As A Streaming Platform, Wants To Conquer Indie Cinema
Efe Cakarel founded Mubi in 2007 to stream independent art films (“the auteurs’ platform”). Now it's a studio with an Oscar winner (The Substance)...
The Backstory Of The Third Accuser, Newly Gone Public, In Harvey Weinstein’s Trial
“Her Jane Doe identity was finally cast off on the trial’s splashy opening day, when she revealed herself to be a Polish former runway...
What Gérard Depardieu’s Sexual Assault Conviction Means For France’s Movie Industry
“Young actors are calling out wrongdoing on set more and more, and (director Christophe) Ruggia received a four-year prison sentence for what he did...
Major Restoration Project At Hagia Sophia In Istanbul
“The imposing structure ... is visibly uneven in places, particularly the grand dome, which for hundreds of years has sat atop four columns of...
Crisis At Hamburg Ballet As Dancers Publicly Criticize New Artistic Director
Demis Volpi succeeded longtime director John Neumeier only last summer. Now almost half the company’s principal dancers have resigned, and more than half signed...
Pussy Riot’s Founder Goes Back Into A Prison Cell — This Time At L.A....
Nadya Tolokonnikova, who spent almost two years in a Russian penal colony as punishment for a notorious performance at Moscow’s Orthodox cathedral, will spend...
Unknown Ian Fleming Story Is Published, And It’s Not About James Bond
“’The Shameful Dream’ … is a short story about a Londoner named Caffery Bone. Fleming’s protagonist is the literary editor of Our World, a...
Playwright Donates Thousands To Replace Berkeley Rep’s Canceled NEA Grant
“Tony Award-winning playwright John Logan is donating $40,000 to Berkeley Repertory Theatre — the same amount the company was set to receive from the federal agency...
Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration To Reverse Dismantling Of Institute Of Museum And Library...
The decision, issued in a case brought by 21 state attorneys general, ruled that Trump’s executive order to close the agency violates the separation...
Music Director Of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Will Depart After Next Season
Alexander Shelley, who was just 35 when he succeeded Pinchas Zukerman in 2015, will leave Ottawa in the summer of 2026 and begin his...
