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All About Pedro Almodóvar’s Mother
She earned money by writing and reading letters for illiterate neighbors in their village, and Pedrito noticed that what Mama said aloud didn't always...
Alan Cumming Is Taking Over A Theatre In His Native Scotland
The Emmy- and Tony-winning actor will become artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre, a well-regarded company located near his birthplace in the highlands of...
The Breakdancer Who Got Zero Points At The Olympics Is Now Ranked No. 1...
Yes, Raygun (civilian name: Dr. Rachael Gunn), the Australian academic whose singularly odd performances and (ahem) perfect score made her one of the viral...
Just Like The Old Days: Russian Books That Would Be Banned At Home Are...
"The StraightForward Foundation ... acts like a pro bono literary agency. It connects Russian authors, writing about sensitive topics, to publishers abroad, who publish...
Judge Throws Out City Of Portland’s Lawsuit Against Oregon Public Broadcasting
In October 2023, OPB's environmental reporter filed a public records request for documents about Portland's Clean Energy Fund. City officials denied it, and she...
Longtime San Francisco Symphony Chorus Director Calls Budget Cut “Deeply Insulting”
"Vance George, who led the Chorus for 23 years, called the Symphony’s proposal to slash up to 80% of the group’s budget 'simply awful,'...
Florida School District Must Restore Banned Books To School Libraries
Under a settlement agreement, the School Board of Nassau County (along the border with Georgia, about 35 miles northeast of Jacksonville) must restore access...
Who Will Succeed Glenn Lowry At MoMA? The Guessing Game Begins
One thing which these reporters seem confident of is that the Museum of Modern Art's next boss is unlikely to be a white man....
Francis Ford Coppola Sues Variety For Libel
The director filed suit against the trade magazine and two of its executive editors over a story posted in July which quoted anonymous sources...
War, Love, And Impressionism: The Story Of Eduard And Berthe
In an excerpt from his new book, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, Sebastian Smee writes about the partnership, both...
NaNoWriMo Suggested Using AI To Write Novels, And Actual Novelists Are Furious
The organization argued that AI helps disabled or marginalized writers who don't have industry connections. As one of many now-former members put it, "It’s...
New York Indicts Harvey Weinstein On New Rape Charges Ahead Of Retrial
"Prosecutors retrying Weinstein’s overturned rape conviction disclosed last week that they had begun presenting to a grand jury evidence of ... three additional allegations...
How Do You Make An Audiobook Out Of A Graphic Novel?
Often the adaptation is in the style of a radio play, with sound design providing context for the original's dialogue. Sometimes the original visuals...
Jesse Green On What Makes Classic Plays Classic
"There’s a reason, aside from name recognition, that they keep coming back. Though products of vastly different times and cultures, they dig so deep...
Milwaukee’s Arts Organizations Are Dangerously Dependent On Philanthropy, Finds Study
For most groups, the proportion of their budgets coming from earned income (mostly ticket sales) has fallen by a third to a half from...
Indianapolis’s Arts Agency Asks City Council To More Than Double Its Funding
For a decade until 2019, local lawmakers kept Indy Arts Council's budget stagnant at $1 million, and there were only small increases and some...
The Industry Told Gabriela Ortíz Her Music Was Too Exotic. Now It Seems To...
For most of the past 40 years, teachers told the 59-year-old Mexican composer her works were too exotic. Critics found it too big and...
Microsoft Announces Big Layoffs At Xbox
"Microsoft Gaming will lay off approximately 650 employees, or 3% of the Xbox owner’s global workforce, in a new round of eliminations following last...
For The First Time In Centuries, You Can Walk The Walls And Ramparts Of...
"Visitors to Carcassonne in south-western France will be able to walk a full 1.3 km circuit of its upper ramparts — the first time...
After 30-Year Hiatus, London City Ballet Makes Successful Return
One of director Chris Marney's plans is to spend considerable effort and time touring regional Britain, where ballet companies rarely appear. "What we're finding...
Why Won’t Directors Guild Of America Include Directors Of Animated Films?
"The DGA has long kept animation directors out of the guild. And the chasm between the benefits afforded to live-action directors and animation directors...
Why Climate Protesters Chose Art Vandalism As Their Medium (And Why It Isn’t Working)
The group Just Stop Oil, which started the practice of vandalizing artworks in the name of stopping climate change when two students threw tomato...
Angela Gheorghiu Interrupts Another Singer Mid-Aria, Is Booed Off The Stage
During a performance of Tosca in Seoul last weekend, tenor Alfred Kim was singing an encore when Gheorghiu (who objects to encores) marched onstage,...
Arts Workers In Slovakia Threaten National Strike
"The ultimatum follows the culture ministry’s firing the heads of the Slovak National Theater and Slovak National Gallery in August. … The movement, known...
Rebecca Horn, Sculptor And Installation Artist, Is Dead At 80
"(She was) known for her surreal and sensual 'art machines' incorporating musical instruments, bird feathers and mechanical engineering." - The Guardian
