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Lawsuit And Walkouts Over Book Banning Policy In Minnesota School District
“As high schoolers staged a walkout Monday, parents filed suit against St. Francis Area Schools alleging the district unlawfully banned dozens of books based...
What’s The Data On Gender Equity At International Dance Festivals?
Dance Data Project finds and crunches the numbers for female representation in programmed works and among artistic directors at 69 dance festivals beyond the...
Dance Teacher Certification Courses Are All Over The Place. Are They Worthwhile?
“The vast majority of dance teaching positions (outside of public schools) don’t require a certification. And most dancers don’t have lots of disposable income to spend...
Federal Judge Puts Hold On Trump’s Shutdown Of Radio Free Europe
“RFE/RL has, for decades, operated as one of the organizations that Congress has statutorily designated to carry out this policy. The leadership of USAGM...
Execs At PBS And NPR Prepare For A Difficult Congressional Hearing
PBS is practicing answers with lawyers. NPR executives are preparing to monitor the fallout. Members of Congress are promoting the star witnesses ... as...
George Clooney “Good Night, And Good Luck” Breaks Broadway Box Office Record
“Two weeks after the Denzel Washington- and Jake Gyllenhaal-led Othello broke the record for top gross in one week by a Broadway play, the George Clooney-led Good Night, and...
Lapham’s Quarterly Is Resurrected
“Lapham’s Quarterly, the magazine of history and ideas founded by the legendary editor Lewis Lapham, who died in July of 2024, announced today that it...
Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos Has His First-Ever Art Gallery Show
The director of Oscar winners The Favourite and Poor Things has a longstanding sideline in photography. “I like the fact that you can just...
Producers Block U.S. Release of Russian Blockbuster “Master And Margarita”
Director Michael Lockshin and Luminosity Pictures are suing two producers who argue that their purchase of the rights to make an English-language film adaptation...
Host Of BBC’s HARDtalk Has Hard Words About The Show’s Cancellation
Stephen Sackur — whose interviewing style gave the long-running show its reputation for forthright, even confrontational questions holding public figures from Britain and abroad...
Secret Book Club In Occupied Ukraine Studies Texts That Russian Occupiers Have Banned
What texts are these? Books of Ukrainian history, literature, culture, and just about anything in the Ukrainian language that Ukrainian students would study —...
Recovering The Great American Musical Nobody Thought Could Be Recovered
Love Life, composer Kurt Weill’s only collaboration with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, seemed like a very promising project. But its debut didn’t go over...
Oregon Arts Commission Does Something That Grant Applicants Dream Of
“The OAC has been funding arts organizations in Oregon for nearly sixty years, and operating support is one of its core programs. With these...
Pilobolus Debuts Multigenerational Dance Curriculum
“The dance program — developed by Pilobolus in a multiyear partnership with Saratoga Performing Arts Center — builds upon Pilobolus’ current education programming, which...
Enormous Hoard Of Iron Age Artifacts Uncovered In North Of England
“More than 800 objects were unearthed in a field near the village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire. They date back to the first century, around...
Protesters Disrupt Israel Philharmonic Concert In San Francisco, Audience Members Fight Back
Activists scattered throughout Davies Symphony Hall interrupted the show one by one, displaying Palestinian flags and yelling denunciations of the war in Gaza. Some...
45-Foot Nude Woman Finds Her Place In San Francisco After All
The statue’s much-discussed appearance in Union Square was called off when engineers determined that it was literally too heavy for the site to bear....
Gérard Depardieu Sexual Assault Trial Begins In Paris
“Depardieu, 76, is accused of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant director during filming in 2021 of Les Volets Verts (‘The Green...
Valencia’s Annual Burning Of Statues
The burning, called Crema, of hundreds of wood-and-papier-mâché sculptures is the climax of the spring festival called Las Fallas in Spain’s third-largest city. This...
Meet Idina Menzel’s Latest Broadway Co-Star: A Tree
Stella, as she’s called, is the title character in the new show Redwood, and she has been very carefully designed. - The Christian Science...
The Broadway Choreographer Who Started A Hip-Hop Dance Company At An Ivy League School
Jennifer Weber — choreographer of Broadway hit & Juliet and creator of decade-old touring show The Hip-Hop Nutcracker — tried out for every dance...
Maybe Paul Gauguin Was Not The Syphilitic Colonialist Child-Molester People Had Thought He Was
Biographer Sue Prideaux has found materials indicating that the artist did not have syphilis at all, his lover was well over the age of...
Fred Eversley, Sculptor In “Light And Space” Movement, Dead At 83
“Whereas (most Light and Space) artists focused in their work on perception and transcendence, Eversley” — a former aerospace engineer — “was more interested...
U.S. Museums Might Be Better Off Financially If They Made General Admission Free: Report
The new study from the think tank Remuseum, based at Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, is titled “Access, Scale, and Market Share” and presents...
Alexei Navalny, Anne Carson, Hisham Matar Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Navalny’s Patriot, released eight months after his death in a Russian prison, took the autobiography prize. Matar’s My Friends beat Percival Everett’s James for...
