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Fresno, California Is About To Spend Millions On The Arts. The City’s Arts Community...
Fresno voters approved a ⅜-cent local sales tax, with 12% earmarked for arts and culture, in 2018; the city awards the first grants this...
This Dave Eggers Project Lets Young Readers Edit Books-In-Progress Written For Their Age Group
"'We started cooking up this idea of showing students or classes written manuscripts and saying, 'What do you think?' To show them the process...
Even Peter Weir Had No Idea Just How Prescient “The Truman Show” Would Be
"Released in 1998, the film about one man living in a fabricated reality concocted by TV producers made an impact, but ... in subsequent...
Figuring Out The Rules Underlying Conceptual Art, Which Was Invented To Get Rid Of...
"There's an underlying logic and set of constraints that constitute specific choices as meaningful. While the materiality of these works is all over the...
The Winner Of This Year’s Tony Award For Teachers Has His Students Perform Both...
"The special Tony Award that honors educators will go this year to Jason Zembuch-Young, a drama teacher in Florida who has closed the gap...
What’s Holding Broadway Back From A Full Audience Recovery? The Burbs.
"Grosses are down about 13% from the record 2018-19 season but only 7% from the (previous) year. The remaining gap is largely caused by...
Florida Art Dealer Who Sold Bogus Basquiats And Warhols Gets More Than Two Years...
"After pleading guilty in February to money laundering for selling cheap reproductions of works purportedly by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Roy Lichtenstein at...
Disgraced Donors The Sackler Family To Pay $6 Billion And Lose Purdue Pharma In...
"The Sackler family will pay out $6 billion to fight the ongoing opioid epidemic and give up control of their company Purdue Pharma in...
Jonathon Heyward Named Music Director Of What Was The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
"This summer, Louis Langrée wraps up his 21-year run as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival and its orchestra. Next year, the 30-year-old...
A Desperate Maggio Musicale, Florence’s Opera House, Looks To Sell Off Its Archives To...
"The Maggio Musicale in Florence may sell its large archive in a desperate attempt to find €8.5m by July, part of a huge debt...
At Brooklyn’s Very Own Superfund Site, Herzog & de Meuron Turn A Derelict Building...
"Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed the restoration and conversion of … the remains of a 115-year-old power plant" along the...
The Lead Producer Of “Shucked” Talks About What May Be Broadway’s Most Unlikely Hit
"After years of development, Shucked ... became what it is today, an irreverent comedy that both delights in its Dogpatch characters and knows full...
Turkey’s Arts World Is Feeling Anxious Following ErdoÄŸan’s Re-Election
"Turkey's creative community fears ErdoÄŸan could now intensify a long-running crackdown that has intimidated artists, musicians, filmmakers and other cultural activists. Kurdish, female and...
Dancer Brian Henry, Aka HallowDreamz, Is “The Face Of Krump In New York”
"It's not just that he's commandingly large and muscular, with a Moses-like beard. ... Standing in profile with his chest angled forward, he could...
Italy’s New Right-Wing Government Is Disrupting The Country’s State Broadcaster
"Eight months after Italy took a sharp turn to the right, the government headed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ... is wreaking havoc at...
Here’s The Story Of That Other Classical Music Organization In San Antonio
Over the past few years, as the San Antonio Symphony slowly fell apart and the new San Antonio Philharmonic was born, firefighter-turned-administrator Paul Montalvo...
A City’s Nearly 40 Public Sculptures Get Their Yearly Baths
"Zach Tatti, an art conservator, (has) made his annual trek to Philadelphia to clean and restore sculptures throughout the city. It's been a tradition...
The Resurrected MoviePass Has Now Launched Across The U.S.
"(The $10-monthly) Basic level gets you one to three movies a month. ... A $40 Pro account will get 30 movies a month —...
Broadway’s “Here Lies Love” Plans To Use Recorded Instrumentals. The Musicians’ Union Says That’s...
The producers say the immersive musical, about Imelda Marcos, is based in karaoke (near-mandatory for Philippine politicians) and that recorded instrumental tracks are integral...
Ex-Staffer Leads Lawsuit Against Met Opera Over Last Year’s Computer System Hack
"The Metropolitan Opera failed to properly safeguard the credit card numbers and other personal information of more than 45,000 patrons and employees compromised in...
Bookstores, Publishers, And Libraries Join Together To Sue Arkansas Over Law That Could Criminalize...
"Seventeen plaintiffs — including the ALA's Freedom to Read Foundation, the Association of American Publishers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Authors Guild —...
Using Medieval Tools And Techniques To Rebuild Notre-Dame’s Medieval Roof
"The use of hand tools to rebuild the roof that flames turned into ashes in 2019 is a deliberate, considered choice, especially since power...
In Lagos, Making Classical Genuinely Nigerian
"At a Lagos cultural centre, a rapt audience listened to baritone John Onosolease perform an operatic song in the Yoruba language about a hapless...
A New York Times Critic Finds A New Fave Tap Dancer On A Subway...
"Stumbling on Ja'Bowen is like uncovering a New York City art secret. The lucidity of his body and the music that it produces are...
Striking TV Workers Explain What The Job’s Really Like (And, Therefore, Why They’re On...
"TV writers ... have been trying to undo misconceptions about their jobs, which they say were never particularly glamorous even in the heyday of...