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San Antonio Philharmonic Postpones Its October Concerts, Citing Administrative Turmoil
"In a letter to musicians … signed by Executive Director Roberto Treviño and Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, no alternate date for the concerts was...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Once Pressured Brooklyn Museum To Mount Chinese Exhibition: Report
In 2016, when Adams was Brooklyn borough president, two of his top aides reportedly pushed the museum to mount a show about Sun Yat-Sen,...
Federal Court Orders Arkansas Library To Stop Segregating Books
"In yet another major win for freedom to read advocates, a federal judge has ordered the Crawford County Public Library in Arkansas to stop...
The Art And Craft Of The New York Post Headline
An oral history: current and former Post staffers, along with people involved with the incidents in question, talk about how they come up with...
A Rare All-Women Butoh Troupe
The four-member Tokyo-based company called Wozme isn't the first all-female butoh troupe, but it's the only one currently active in Japan — and, there...
Keeping Traditional Sudanese Music, Dance, And Poetry Alive For Refugees From The Civil War
"A band with 12 Sudanese members now lives with thousands of refugees in Egypt. The troupe, called Camirata, includes researchers, singers and poets who...
The American “Faith-Based Film” Industry: A Statistical Analysis
"Insulated from mainstream Hollywood and decidedly idiosyncratic in their production — (faith-based films) are overlooked relative to their consistent success. We'll explore the rise...
The Problem With Using Software To Determine What Shakespeare Did And Didn’t Write
Scholar Darren Freebury-Jones used a text database called Collocations and N-grams to spot parallel phrases and passages in Shakespeare's plays and those of his...
Please Don’t Build A Football Stadium Across The Street From Our Concert Hall, Begs...
A bid to bring the first-ever professional Australian-rules football team to Tasmania involves constructing a 23,000-seat stadium, to host rock concerts as well as...
As Rubin Museum Closes Its Space, Calls To Return Nepali And Tibetan Art And...
"Since March, the Tibetan-led campaign Our Ancestors Say No has been protesting the museum and collecting online petition signatures demanding the return of what...
How Paraguayans Have Kept Their Indigenous Language Alive And Thriving
Despite having been banned under the 35-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, Guaraní is now, alongside Spanish, a fully official language of the country. Half...
Gramophone Awards 2024: Hilary Hahn Playing Ysaÿe, Carolyn Sampson, Czech Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas
The Record of the Year Prize went to Hahn's disc of Ysaÿe's Six Sonatas for unaccompanied violin. Soprano Carolyn Sampson is Artist of the...
Asheville’s Arts District Destroyed By Floods From Hurricane Helene
The neighborhood of galleries, music venues, artist studios, breweries, and other businesses was completely inundated by the clay-brown waters of the French Broad River...
Manchester Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Acquitted By Judge
The decision was likely because they didn't actually vandalize any art: the two Just Stop Oil activists simply glued their hands to the frame...
Ballet Star Steven McRae’s Three-Year Recovery From “The Worst Injury A Dancer Can Have”
The Royal Ballet principal was mid-performance in London when his Achilles tendon snapped and he was carried from the stage screaming in pain. After...
The Real Miracle Of Notre-Dame? Reconstructing The Intricate Wood Frame Of The Roof
That project meant finding trees comparable to the huge oaks used to make the original eight centuries ago, finding or reproducing the medieval tools...
Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival Selects Giancarlo Guerrero As Director
The 55-year-old Costa Rican conductor, currently completing his 16th and final season as music director of the Nashville Symphony, takes over the summer music...
Matthew López On The One Play He’s Written That He Was Terrified Of Reviving
One big reason that the Tony-winning playwright of The Inheritance has been reluctant to revisit this script, titled Reverberation, is that it's the last...
Backstage At San Francisco Opera For “Innocence” And “The Handmaid’s Tale”
"(Kaija Saariaho's) Innocence is about the aftermath of a school shooting, and the blood table was where the makeup crew applied stage blood to...
Video Streaming Platforms Are Looking Back To A Very 20th-Century Structure: TV Channels
"Viewers are getting tired. Choosing from thousands of options on a dozen streaming services, it turns out, is 'overwhelming.' .. Now Disney … has...
Why France’s Culture Pass For Young People Is In Danger
President Macron's program giving money to young people to spend on cultural products now costs €260 million a year. After a report showed that...
New York Public Radio Settles Discrimination Suit Brought By Former Host
Jami Floyd had filed a lawsuit in February 2023 alleging racial discrimination, retaliation, and a hostile work environment (though that part of the case...
Daniel Day-Lewis Ends His Seven-Year Retirement From Acting
The three-time Oscar winner is co-starring in his son Ronan's debut feature film, Anemone, whose screenplay the two wrote together. Ronan is also a...
Salman Rushdie’s “Knife” And Miranda July’s “All Fours” Among Titles Shortlisted For National Book...
"The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards. The winners in each of the five categories — fiction,...
John Amos, Pathbreaking Black TV Actor Known For “Roots” And “Good Times,” Has Died...
"A running back turned actor who appeared in scores of TV shows — including groundbreaking 1970s programs such as the sitcom Good Times and...
