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The Director Of A Popular Family Balloon Exhibit Posted Anti-Palestinian Comments On Social Media
“'I prefer a thousand crying Arab mothers to one Jewish mother because these are my people,’ Kalimian wrote in Hebrew in response to a...
What The Right-Wing Does To Librarians, And How They’re Prepared To Respond
“Amanda Jones is a Louisiana middle-school librarian who sleeps with a shotgun under her bed and carries a pistol when she travels the back...
The Pompidou Wants, And Now Needs, A Global Reach
The Pompidou is closing for five years, starting in 2025 because, well, “If we don’t take immediate measures, the building will collapse: There are...
Unexpectedly, And Beautifully, The Onion Has Saved Itself From A Content Farm Death Spiral
Is something going right for a beloved media product? This doesn’t sound like 2024 - and yet. The Onion, which many people had long...
The Many Balloon Artists Who Rallied To Create The DNC Balloon Drop
The DNC balloon designer was fighting for his life at the hospital, but “a team of 55 balloon artists from 18 states — and...
Paramount May Be Jeopardizing Its Huge Skydance Deal
Chaos just as Skydance was heading to the finish line: "Seagram liquor company heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. this week persuaded Paramount’s independent board members to consider his...
How To Survive – And Maybe Thrive – While Performing In The Edinburgh Fringe...
One performer who was new to the 2024 Fringe: “Everyone is telling me you can’t understand the Fringe until you go to the Fringe. … I’m...
Musicians Are Extremely Tired Of Obsessive Fan Behavior
Chappell Roan is the latest to call out her so-called fans. She recently posted, “It's weird how people think that you know a person...
The Bad, Even Truly Terrible, Sculptures Of The Rich Might Be Pointing Toward Our...
The sculpture of Priscilla Chan, wife to Mark Zuckerberg, is so obviously self-referential and AI-influenced that it’s hard to discuss critically. But “is this...
Hettie Jones, Supporter And Publisher Of The Beats, Has Died
Jones was “a poet and author who with her husband, LeRoi Jones, ... made her household a hub for Beat writers and other artists...
How Did Chicago’s Improv Comedian Masters Deal With The DNC?
Well, Second City doesn’t really do a ton of political comedy, per se. However, if someone shouted out Tim Walz: “We know he likes...
How To Go On With The Show When Your Closest Collaborator Dies
“Adam thought that solo shows should answer the question: What is our place in the world? I looked after the jokes, and he looked...
Disney Is Fined A Trifling Amount For The Death Of A Worker On A...
Surely $36,000 will make Disney more careful. The fine came “in connection with the death of Juan ‘Spike' Osorio, a lighting technician who fell...
Confidentiality Clauses In The Arts Can Be Vital, But May Need To Be Modified...
“When it comes to these more serious cases, which may involve workplace harm or abuse, it’s concerning to think that a confidentiality clause within...
Betty Prashker, Trailblazing Feminist Editor, Has Died At 99
Prashker edited Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics, and, 21 years later, Susan Faludi’s Backlash. In her lengthy career, she edited more than 500 books and...
The New Artistic Director Of Richmond Ballet Steps Smoothly Into Position
“Ma was named associate artistic director in 2020, with the intention that he would learn the ropes and be given new responsibilities throughout...
The Year Of Celebrating America’s Favorite Fighting Frenchman
Two hundred years ago, Lafayette arrived for a year-long tour of the country he helped create. The guy who has played him for years...
In Rome, Racist Graffiti Defaces A New Mural To An Olympic Champion
The mural, in which a vandal spray-painted pink skin onto a Black athlete, “featured Egonu, who spearheaded Italian women’s volleyball’s first-ever gold medal...
A Second-Century Roman Mosaic Has Been Discovered In England
“The decorated floor covering depicts stylized dolphins and several species of fish. It was located in a home likely owned by a wealthy and...
Another Bay Area Theatre Meets Its Fundraising Goal, But Plans To Downsize Anyway
Despite raising $500,000 in emergency funds, Aurora Theatre in Berkeley “has shed five full-time workers, including one co-managing director and its entire marketing and...
The True Crime Producer Who Documented His Own Horrifying Illness And Descent
As freelance TV jobs disappeared, John Balson felt lucky to be working 18 hours a day, across three time zones. Then something happened that...
Longtime Curator Resigns From The Mütter Museum
Anna Dhody “is used to people associating her with the Mütter Museum, where she has been the face of the macabre medical history collection...
The Pay Equity Model At The Heart Of The Movie Sing Sing Could Change...
“'We built a model on parity,’ says Sing Sing director Greg Kwedar. ‘Everyone on our movie, the core cast and crew — from the star of...
In Saint Pete, The Museum Of Fine Arts Gets A New Executive Director
Why was the museum without a director? Now that is a long story involving the Denver Art Museum, possibly questionable antiquities, and what seemed...
The Walls Have Eyes, Not To Mention Mouths
That is to say, in Chile, artists use murals to communicate ideas. One longtime political muralist says, “In the streets, anonymity is important. …...
