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Why MAGA, The #Resistance, Trump Himself, And Almost Everybody Else Identifies With “Les Mis”
Venezuelans suffering through the worst of Maduro saw themselves in the show, but so did committed Chavistas. Same for anti-Lukashenko protesters in Belarus, Occupy...
Günther Uecker, Who Made Art With Hammer And Nails Rather Than Paint, Has Died...
“In his art work, seemingly endless numbers of nails, which would by themselves perhaps be perceived as potentially aggressive and hurtful, turned into harmonic,...
For The First Time In 40 Years, A Dance Company In Dallas-Fort Worth Has...
In contrast to the mess at Dallas Black Dance Theatre last year, when dancers voted to join a union and were promptly fired, leading...
Facebook Banned Rebecca Solnit After Her Essay About Los Angeles Riots
The author and activist reported on Bluesky last week that her Facebook account on Facebook was suspended, later adding that she was told the decision...
After Two-Year Restoration, Tintoretto’s Monumental “Crucifixion” Is Back On View
The 17-foot-by-40-foot painting is back in the board room of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, “painstakingly liberated from thick yellowed varnish,...
Wikipedia “Pauses” AI-Generated Summaries Of Entries
“The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of...
National Endowment For The Humanities Lays off Almost Two-Thirds Of Its Staff
“Approximately 100 employees were dismissed in a broad ‘reduction in force’ on Tuesday, June 10. … Fewer than 60 staff members remain at the...
Brian Wilson, Creative Mastermind Of The Beach Boys, Is Dead At 82
“There was an abiding pathos in his best records — not merely the idealized scenes the songs depicted, but also that they were created...
The Most Popular TikTok Star On The Planet Is Detained By ICE And Leaves...
Khaby Lame, a 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer with 162 million followers on the video app, was detained at Las Vegas airport for (as an ICE...
A Shakespeare Producer Talks About “Translating” A Script Into Comprehensible 21st-Century English
Tracy Young: “I’ve seen nothing to counter the notion that Shakespeare was a populist. All about the people, and the audience’s kind of theater...
For North America’s Beleaguered Indie Publishers, A New Distributor Is Coming
With the sudden closing of Small Press Distribution last year and the impending disappearance of National Book Network, the avenues for small presses in...
Barbara Holdridge, Co-Founder Of Caedmon Records (And The Entire Audiobook Industry), Has Died At...
“Ms. Holdridge, along with her best friend, Marianne Mantell, built the label, Caedmon Records, into a recording industry dynamo by releasing LPs of such...
A New Arts-And-Culture Journalism Outlet Is Opening In London
“Founder of culture and city guide Broadsheet Nick Shelton (explains) why the title is expanding from Australia and New Zealand into London. It currently has 85...
The Duplass Brothers Are Bringing The Indie Film Studio Business Model To TV
“Traditionally, TV creators pitch ideas for shows to big studios, which (front) the money to get the project rolling and then own the final...
Watching The Tryouts For The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus
“The Metropolitan Opera’s stage door, a plain entrance hidden in the tunnels of Lincoln Center, routinely welcomes star singers, orchestra musicians, stagehands, costumers and...
Some Of Paris’s Leading Museums And Monuments Are Raising Prices For Non-EU Visitors
“Beginning January 1, 2026, major French museums — including the Louvre and the Château de Versailles — will charge non-European Union visitors €30 (about $35), up...
Kyiv’s 1,000-Year-Old Cathedral Damaged By Russian Air Attack
St. Sophia, the 11th-century landmark considered the mother church of Orthodox Christianity in Russia and Belarus as well as Ukraine, was damaged by blast...
Hamburg Ballet’s Artistic Director Fired For “Toxic Working Environment”
After months of increasingly public complaints by company dancers, Demis Volpi, an Argentine-German choreographer who succeeded company founder John Neumeier one year ago, will...
Paramount Global Is Laying Off Another 3.5% Of Its US Workforce
Less than a year after reducing its stateside payroll by 15% (roughly 2,000 employees), the entertainment conglomerate is eliminating another several hundred jobs —...
Twenty Years After His Fabricated Memoir And Grilling By Oprah, James Frey Is Trying...
“As Frey sees it, the public has gotten increasingly comfortable with falsehoods, without getting fully comfortable with him. He finds it all a bit...
Despite Ongoing Bombardment, Kharkiv’s Ballet Dances On Amid The Destruction
“In the dark, brick-walled basement of the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, a dance company has created a space protected from drones...
Pianist Maria João Pires Suffers “Slight Stroke”, Cancels Three Concerts
Pires, 81 next month, has withdrawn from performances this week and next in three Portuguese cities. She also has concerts scheduled in Monaco on...
What The New Conductor Of Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival Has In Mind
“Giancarlo Guerrero, 56, ended his 16-year tenure in May as music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, where he put an emphasis on contemporary...
In New Fiction, The Subject Of AI Has Moved Beyond The SciFi/Fantasy Genre
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long been a staple of science fiction, but editors are seeing a change in how novelists are exploring the subject...
Frederick Forsyth, One Of The World’s Best-Selling Thriller Novelists, Has Died At 86
“A mega-selling British novelist of political thrillers, cunning spy craft and globe-trotting intrigue, (he) used his own background as a foreign correspondent to inspire...
