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San Antonio Philharmonic Inks Agreement For New Venue That Needs Millions’ Worth of Upgrades
The venue, of which the orchestra will have partial ownership, is the old Scottish Rite of Freemasonry hall downtown, which has, per music director...
City Of Dallas Puts Funding For Dallas Black Dance Theatre On Hold
Due to concerns over the company's firing and replacement of its entire roster of dancers earlier this year, the city council's Quality of Life,...
Steven Spielberg, Ruth Asawa, Spike Lee, Aaron Sorkin, Idina Menzel Among 39 Awarded National...
"Filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee and Ken Burns and singers Missy Elliott and Queen Latifah were among 20 recipients of National Medals of Arts,...
The Azure Buildings Of India’s Blue City Are Fading
A historic neighborhood in the center of the city of Jodhpur is famous for the old homes and buildings clad in blue plaster. In...
Toronto’s Mayor Announces Five-Year, Multi-Million Plan To Boost Arts And Culture
Mayor Olivia Chow's plan would increase the budget of the city's arts funding agency by $2 million annually over the next five years, double...
Paris To Spend $55 Million Greening The Spaces Around Notre-Dame Cathedral
The project will create roughly 20,000 square feet of green space with 160 new trees, adapting the cathedral's underground parking garage into a visitor...
Does Money Change Everything? Five Major Dance Artists Talk About Winning Major Grants
Donald Byrd, Michelle Dorrance, Miguel Gutierrez, Rosie Herrera, and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa discuss how receiving six-figure prizes such as the Doris Duke Artist Award...
John Leguizamo Has Written His First Play For More Than One Actor
Not to worry: it's still about Hispanic Americans, and he's still starring. "Not bragging on myself, but Molière wrote all his plays for himself...
University of Cincinnati Press Will Close Down Next June
"The university said that it had 'determined that the long-term financial sustainment of the University of Cincinnati Press is not feasible. Funding resources, including...
Why Concert Halls Still Matter Enough That We Spend Hundreds of Millions Of Dollars...
"A room that’s consecrated to music is one where people come together, sit in quiet communion, listen rather than shout, and focus for a...
Hard To Take, But More Right Than Ever: Jeremy Denk On The Music Of...
"You do not see advertisers beating at the door of the Ives estate to use his music in commercials. His music is not ready...
Radio Sputnik, Putin’s Propaganda Radio Network, Thrown Off U.S. Airwaves
"Stations in Washington, D.C., and Kansas City which had aired programming daily from Voice of Russia’s Radio Sputnik dropped their affiliation with the shows...
National Gallery In London Bans Almost All Liquids From Premises
For this, we can thank the climate-protesting art vandals, who launched the practice of vandalizing art for the sake of slowing climate change two...
Mitzi Gaynor, Queen of 1950s Movie Musicals, Has Died At 93
"A dancer, singer, actress and comic impersonator since childhood, Ms. Gaynor was much admired for her stamina and versatility over more than seven decades...
Why Some Schools In Los Angeles Can’t Access Prop 28’s Extra Arts Education...
A report from the nonprofit Arts for LA says that, while many schools in California are taking full advantage of the funding offered, other...
Philadelphia Ballet At 60, As Ángel Corella Completes Ten Years As Artistic Director
"'They really flew,' he said of the years. 'I could think like a few days ago it was when I arrived, and a lot...
Ticketholder To Canceled Philly Pops Concerts Tries To Sue Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra, Kimmel Center
The ticketholder is attempting to launch a class-action suit claiming damages for concerts canceled when the Pops collapsed in 2022-23. The suit alleges that...
“Pulp Fiction” From Conception To Release (Another Oral History)
Producers and members of the crew and cast — among others, Danny DeVito, John Travolta, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken and...
How Julie Taymor Staged “The Lion King” And Made It The Most Successful Musical...
"Her work's distinctly international flavour and its heavy use of masks and puppetry inspired by Indonesian and Japanese traditions didn't necessarily scream family-friendly commercial...
Fragments From Two Lost Plays By Euripides Discovered
The text — 98 lines, of which only 20 were previously known, from the plays Ino and Polyidus — were written on a piece...
Being Theaster Gates
"Gates’s business dealings and art making are not at odds: Salvage from the buildings goes into his art installations; proceeds from his art sales...
Like The Sphere In Las Vegas? They’re Building Another In Abu Dhabi
"The world’s second Sphere is planned to be built in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. … Under the deal, Abu Dhabi will...
Percival Everett’s “James,” Revisionist Take On “Huckleberry Finn,” Wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize For Fiction
"Everett’s novel, which imagines Mark Twain’s classic from the perspective of the escaped enslaved man whom Huckleberry Finn befriends, is also a finalist for...
Transport For London’s Elizabeth Line Wins Stirling Prize For Architecture
Oliver Wainwright: "The Lizzie line is a worthy winner, providing a dazzling demonstration that, for all chaos surrounding HS2, Britain is still capable of...
Classical Radio Host Says He Was Fired For A Disability
Dennis Moore, the morning host at Chicago-based WFMT, returned from a medical leave earlier this year and asked for schedule or other changes as...
