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Easter Islanders Always Said Their Moai Statues Walked To Their Places. New Research Says...
That’s not to say, mind you, that the moai walked by themselves. A new paper published by two archaeologists lays out, through observation and...
Public Radio Cuts Could Have A Disastrous Effect On Classical Music In America
Roughly 96% of the classical music on terrestrial radio in the U.S. is broadcast on public radio stations — and those stations often have...
What Are The Issues Behind The Threatened Broadway Strike?
The Broadway League, which represents Broadway producers and landlords, is currently in tense negotiations with two different unions: Actors’ Equity (performers and stage managers) and...
Unpublished Jack Kerouac Story Discovered In Mafia Boss’s Papers
“The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled ‘The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing’ and is dated 15 April...
Bernini’s Designs For The Louvre Were Too Much Even For Louis XIV
Yes, the favorite sculptor and architect of 17th-century Rome was the first designer whom the Sun King commissioned to make over the traditional Paris...
Theatre And Opera Director Ian Judge Dead At 79
“(He) enjoyed a wide-ranging career as a theatre and opera director without any of the obvious attributes for being so – no university or...
After A Very Rough 2024-25, Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency Is Finding Its Way Back...
“As the Metro Arts Commission works its way back from several years of instability, it’s hoping the more than $3.2 million in grants it’s...
At Last Minute, New York City Ballet Dancers Boycott Fall Gala Dinner
They did the evening’s performance — fulfilling their contract obligations, as they pointedly mentioned — but skipped the red-carpet photo ops and left vacant...
The Other Way That David Henry Hwang Is An American Theater Pioneer
It’s not just that he was the first famous Asian-American playwright. With Face Value in 1993 and then Yellow Face in 2007, Hwang took...
With Their Largest Distributor Gone, US Libraries Try To Figure Out Where To Turn
“With the announcement of Baker & Taylor’s imminent closure, … librarians are scrambling to find new wholesaling partners.” - Publishers Weekly
Former Houston Symphony Music Director Has A(nother) Big New Job
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, who was in Houston from 2014 to 2022, will become music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony next fall. He is also...
The New Number-One Factor In Public Radio Stations’ Scheduling Choices
With federal funding now at zero, as one exec puts it, “Station programmers are looking at their schedule and saying, ‘Where can I save...
Harlem Stage Undertakes Its First-Ever Tour
“The bus was hard to miss as it cruised purposefully, South to North, making pit stops at pivotal civil rights landmarks. Its exterior was...
Here’s The First Smithsonian Museums Exhibition To Be Cancelled Due To The Government Shutdown
“The National Portrait Gallery has postponed the opening of an exhibition for its triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition as the Smithsonian Institution prepares to...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Renames Itself As What Most People Call It Anyway
The change to “Philadelphia Art Museum” was simply an acknowledgment of basic reality, says Luis Bravo, PhAM’s design director. And yes, the new acronym...
About Half Of Alaska Public Radio Stations Get Temporary Emergency Funding
Fourteen of the state’s public radio stations, the ones deemed to serve Alaska Native people, will receive a total of $4.5 million from the...
Lord Of The Irish Dance Michael Flatley At 67
He hasn’t danced for nearly a decade. He has damaged bones and tendons and claims to know all his vertebrae by name. But he’s...
Musicians At Venice’s Opera House Declare Strike To Protest New Conductor
“The strike will be held on Friday 17 October, the date of the opera house’s first performance of a run of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck,...
Wyoming Librarian Fired In Book-Banning Dispute Wins $700,000 In Lawsuit
“Terri Lesley was fired as the library system director in northeastern Wyoming’s Campbell County in 2023, two years into the dispute … over books...
Government To Dissolve Antwerp’s Museum Of Contemporary Art
In a move to “thoroughly reform the landscape” and achieve a “more logical distribution” of visual art there, the regional government of Flanders in...
Chicago’s Commissioner Of Cultural Affairs Resigns After 18 Turbulent Months
“From the beginning, Clinée Hedspeth’s tenure was marked by turmoil. Eighteen percent of the department turned over in her first six months. … Before...
In Gift Worth $60 Million, LACMA Gets Its First Klimt, Schiele, And Kokoschka Works
“More than 100 works of Austrian Expressionism worth ‘well over’ $60 million are being gifted to Los Angeles County Museum of Art by the...
What To Be Aware Of As Broadway Faces Possible Strike
Actors’ Equity members have already voted to authorize a strike; American Federation of Musicians members are close to authorizing one. Box office revenue has...
Offstage Drama At Opera Carolina As Ousted Director Makes Attention-Getting Video
“James Meena, former principal conductor and artistic director for (the Charlotte-based company), said he took to Facebook to refute ‘unsubstantiated rumors’ by (board members and staffers) at the...
A Playwright, Two Filmmakers, A Cartographer, A Basket Weaver: Meet The 2025 MacArthur Fellows
Among the arts folks who won this year’s $800,000 no-strings grants are playwright Heather Christian, photographers Tonika Lewis Johnson and Matt Black, artist/filmmakers Garrett...
