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How Shelley Duvall Left A Two-Decade Retirement And Made Her Final Film Appearance
"Duvall’s participation was a surprise to everyone. As well as being officially retired since 2002, she was using a wheelchair, couldn’t travel and struggled...
Syntax Makes (Almost) All The Difference
"If a change of style is a change of subject, as Wallace Stevens averred, then a change of syntax is a change of meaning....
National Black Theatre Prepares to Move Into Building Worthy Of Its Work
CEO Sadie Lythcott says, "Our artistic ambition was always stifled by the space that we had." Come 2027, NBT will move into a block-long...
Here’s The 2024 Class Of MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellows
Figures from the arts include poet Jericho Brown, violinist Johnny Gandelsman, media artist Tony Cokes, filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, cabaret artist Justin Vivian Bond, writers...
When Disney Tried To Build An American History Theme Park
Disney's America was intended to have nine sections, from a Colonial-era Presidents Square and an Indigenous village to Ellis Island and a 19th-century factory...
By Age 25, She Had Choreographed For Commercial Dance, West End Musicals, Pop-Star Tours,...
Emma Portner is now almost 30, and the National Ballet of Canada has brought a major work of hers on tour to London. Yet...
Cell Phones Keep Interrupting Philadelphia Orchestra Concerts. Do The Orchestra’s Own Policies Bear Part...
"(Management) has invited the problem at least partially by asking audiences to ... engage with their cell phones during visits. Tagging the ensemble on...
Bringing South Africa’s Unique Street Dancing To The World’s Stages
Pantsula is a dance style developed in the country's black townships by Africans who combined the tap dancing they saw in American movies with...
Judge Denies Convicted Armorer For “Rust” A New Trial
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted of manslaughter for the accidental shooting of the film's cinematographer by star Baldwin, who presumed that a prop gun would...
This Guy Evidently Found A Picasso In Somebody’s Basement
A junk dealer found the painting when cleaning out a deceased homeowner's basement on the island of Capri. The dealer took it home and...
Cincinnati Opera Postpones Production Of New Afrofuturist Piece
Lalovavi, set in the year 2119 and with a score by composer Kevin Day, was to premiere next June but has been postponed one...
Broadway Star Gavin Creel Dead At 48
A beloved musical theater performer, singer-songwriter and activist who won a Tony for Hello, Dolly! (opposite Bette Midler) and an Olivier for The Book...
Harriet Martineau, The Now-Forgotten 19th-Century Novelist Who Changed Far More Than We Realize
"A shocking number of advances in Anglo-American culture — everything from realist fiction to ecology to economic policy — would look different, or might...
Saying “Like” All The Time Serves A Legitimate Purpose
And that legitimate purpose is, to put it one way, imprecision, which is precisely why all the constant "like"-ing so irks sticklers. Sociolinguist Valerie...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Throw Soup At Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” Again
To protest the prison sentences given today to the original climate-protesting art vandals, three of their comrades went to the National Gallery in London...
Assessing The State Of The Arts In Maine
At Creative Portland’s biennial Arts and Culture Summit, the conversation kept returning to the financial needs of a sector that still hasn't fully recovered...
This Poor Cellist’s Instrument Was Just Stolen For The Second Time
Ophélie Gaillard's 1737 Francesco Goffriller cello and antique bows were taken at knifepoint in 2018; the thief later returned them, smashing a car window...
A Theater Critic Watches A Show From Backstage. Fittingly, It’s “The Play That Goes...
Lily Janiak writes that she was reminded — very gladly — of just how many things go right to pull off a farce like...
Why Did Houston Public Media Spike A Podcast It Had Promoted The Heck Out...
The series, titled The Takeover, covers the overhaul of the Houston Independent School District by state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles. The lead reporter's long-term partner...
Maggie Smith, 89
Considered by many the greatest British actress of her formidable generation, she won widespread admiration for such stage and screen performances as The Prime...
In A Metro Atlanta Town That’s Half Hispanic, A Theater Company Goes Bilingual
Merely Players Presents was founded in Doraville, a DeKalb County suburb whose population is 45% Hispanic, in 2018. This year, for the first time,...
Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Prosecution For Manslaughter Was Thrown Out. What Happens To The Armorer...
The case against Baldwin, who accidentally shot the movie's cinematographer because the prop gun he was handling turned out to have live ammunition in...
Art Historian Left His Rembrandts To Museum. His Heirs Want Them Back. The Law...
Abraham Bredius was director of the Mauritshuis in The Hague 1889-1919, and he bequeathed 25 Rembrandts and other Old Master paintings to the museum...
Lloyd Macklowe, Major Dealer In Art Nouveau, Is Dead At 90
He and his wife started in 1965 with one Tiffany ceramic vase, purchased for $55 (roughly $548 today). By 1971, they opened Macklowe Gallery...
“Unprecedented” Threat To Sudanese Culture From Civil War
At least one performing arts center has been destroyed, cultural and heritage sites are being looted, and the 2,000-year-old ruins at Naga as well...
