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It’s True: Ticket Sales Have Nosedived At Kennedy Center Since Trump Takeover
“Nearly nine months after Trump became chair of the center and more than a month into its main season, ticket sales for the Kennedy...
Meet New York’s Seniors-Only Precision Dance Troupe. It’s Called The Pacemakers.
“The team performs for hundreds of thousands of fans each year, appearing frequently at sporting events, community centers, festivals and conferences across the Northeast....
I’m A James Baldwin Chatbot. Ask Me Anything.
At an “unlikely creative hub” in New York’s financial district, there’s an old electric typewriter which has been attached to a chatbot trained on...
U.S. Media Went All-In On Diversity A Few Years Ago. Now It’s Backing Away...
“Last week, NBC News gutted all the reporting groups aimed at the stories of underrepresented groups. And they're hardly alone. … As more media companies...
W.H. Auden Became Close Friends With The Sex Worker Who Robbed Him
“A ‘once in a century’ discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship...
Ronald K. Brown On 40 Years Of His Dance Company And How To “Make...
“Dance is already abstract, and so the role of us as artists is to be as specific as possible with what we want to...
A Club Where Jazz Fans Gather To Play Old 78 Shellac Records
“At the Hot Club of New York, ... jazz from the 1910s through the ’50s crackles to life, spun on 78 RPM discs made...
England’s Arts Funding Agency Suffered A Major Computer Failure In July. The Mess Still...
Arts Council England’s online portal, Grantium, was used by artists to submit and manage funding applications. It crashed in July, leaving thousands of applications...
Dallas Theater Center Cancels Shows At Last Minute Two Weekends In A Row
The company was producing Michael Frayn’s backstage farce Noises Off, which is, as DTC’s executive director wrote to subscribers, “an intensely physical comedy that...
Dubai To Get Its First Real Art Museum
While the extremely affluent emirate has had commercial galleries and art fairs for years, the Dubai Museum of Art will be its first museum....
Post-Merger Layoffs At Paramount Begin: Over 1,000 Jobs Cut
“Paramount on Wednesday began … the first wave of a deep staff reduction planned since David Ellison took the helm of the entertainment company...
Five Additional Suspects Arrested In Louvre Jewel Robbery Case
“One of the men detained ‘was a target of the investigators – we have traces of DNA linking him to the robbery’, (prosecutor Laure)...
Two Suspects In Louvre Jewel Robbery Confess Involvement, Says Prosecutor
Prosecutor Laure Beccuau also said that the pair are believed to be the men who forced their way into the museum on Oct. 19....
Oldest Surviving Piece Of Western Music Notation Turns Up Near Philadelphia
A private collector brought a page from a mid-9th-century liturgical book to document dealer Nathan Raab, who, after research, identified some previously overlooked markings...
An Interview With “The Interview Assassin,” The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner
Q: Why do you think people still talk to you? IC: Most people don’t read bylines, and the vast majority of people I interview have...
Museums Aren’t Quite As Miserable To Work In As They Used To Be, Says...
“More than 3,000 museum employees from over 90 arts organizations, and representing different roles, participated in it; it is the second edition of a...
Producers Of Documentary On Search For King Richard III’s Body Settle Libel Lawsuit
“The producers of The Lost King on Monday agreed to pay damages to an academic who sued for libel over his on-screen depiction. Richard Taylor said...
Writer Hanif Kureishi, Paralyzed After An Accident, Creates A Dance
“Kureishi, 70, who wrote the award-winning novel The Buddha of Suburbia and the film My Beautiful Laundrette, has devised a filmed piece about the devastating aftermath of...
Belgrade Theatre Festival Accused Of Censorship, Artistic Director Resigns
Festival administrators canceled controversial director Milo Rau’s play The Pelicot Trial, allegedly over Rau’s criticism of the Serbian government last year; consequently, the festival’s...
Multimillion-Dollar Art Forgery Ring Broken By German Police
“German police said they busted an international forgery ring that was trying to sell fake works for millions of dollars to unsuspecting collectors. The...
America’s Second-Largest Bookstore Chain Is Bouncing Back
“Books-A-Million … is in the process of opening 15 new outlets this year, which will keep the total number of outlets at over 220...
In $1 Billion+ Film and TV Deal, “Yellowstone” Showrunner Will Leave Paramount For NBCUniversal
“Sheridan shocked Hollywood by signing a $1 billion+ deal with NBCUniversal and leaving behind his longtime partner at Paramount where the Yellowstone creator has built an...
For Second Time, Heirs Sue Met Museum Over Van Gogh’s “Olive Picking”
The work was owned by a Jewish couple who fled Germany in 1936; sale proceeds were confiscated by the Nazis. The couple's heirs sued...
Nobel-Winning Writer Wole Soyinka Says He’s Been Banned From The US
“The Trump administration has revoked the visa for Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed Nigerian Nobel prize-winning writer who has been critical of Trump since his first presidency....
Why High School Teachers Should Be Having Students Read Entire Books, Not Just Excerpts
College professors of English Johanna Winant and Dan Sinykin thought they had written a book to help other undergrad-level instructors to teach close reading....
