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Banksy’s Fourth London Piece Is Stolen Nearly As Soon As It Goes Up
The image of a howling wolf was on a satellite dish on top of a store on Rye Lane. Two men with a ladder...
Two Teenagers Arrested In Plot To Create Terrorist Attacks At Taylor Swift Concerts In...
The main suspect is a 19-year-old, who “had confessed to the plans shortly after being arrested, giving the police a detailed insight into his...
Top Welsh Cultural Honors Stripped From Disgraced BBC Presenter
The Eisteddfod, Wales’ week-long “language cultural festival includes competitions in music, dance and literature. … No member of the Gorsedd has been expelled before...
A Play Calling JK Rowling A TERF Was Hotly Debated At The Edinburgh Fringe...
That is, until it opened. “The muted response to the show itself suggests that fewer British people are riled by the debate than the...
A Retiring Violinist Compares Classical Music To A Colonoscopy
Christopher Wu has some ideas to make symphony-going seem less of a chore to newbies. “Culture is always shifting. Everyone is into TikTok now....
Sam Neill’s Hardworking Second Act
After Neill’s blood cancer went into remission - and his book about his experiences was published - the Jurassic Park, Hunt for the Wilderpeople,...
How One Pandemic-Created Organization Is Trying To Give Black Percussionists A Boost In The...
For instance, the Alliance of Black Orchestral Percussionists “provides students with equipment like mallets and cymbals, allowing proteges to master more quickly the dizzying...
How Far Will Readers Go To Hear Music Inspired By Their Favorite Books?
Even if you don’t include the music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays, pretty darn far, like countries’ worth of travel. - The New York Times
CNET Sells Again
Ziff Davis will be “the third corporate parent for the pioneering tech news and reviews site in four years” - with its value dropping...
Cal Shakes Exceeds Its Fundraising Goal
But what’s next? - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
The Courtauld Gets A Gift To Focus On British Art
A British art center, “initially due to be located at the gallery’s current campus in Vernon Square in central London, will later be moved...
Tampa Bay Times Offers Buyouts To Entire Staff
The CEO “said the company must reduce payroll by 20% or layoffs will commence later this month, adding that employees have until Aug. 16...
Will The World Catch Up To The Music Of Berlioz?
“In his memoirs, he described himself in his 60s as ‘past hopes, past illusions, past high thoughts and lofty conceptions.’ His extraordinary but unusual...
The Grand Collaboration Where The Music Of Saul Williams Meets The Dance Of Bill...
In this long-time coming collaboration, seven choreographers worked in pandemic-created “isolation to create choreography to tracks from Williams’s albums MartyrLoserKing and Encrypted & Vulnerable, … exploring themes of...
These Are The Thirteen Books Totally Banned In Utah Classrooms
Good luck keeping A Court of Thorns and Roses out of the hands of teenagers, but also, this is horrifying - and includes Margaret...
As South Coast Rep’s Paula Tomei Leaves, She Reflects On Her Four Decades At...
“I basically grew up watching this theatre, in many different inner iterations, creating work along the way, especially the new plays, which is what...
A Second Animal-Themed Banksy Emerges In London
This one is "two elephants reaching towards each other from blocked-out windows” in Chelsea. - The Guardian (UK)
Marianna Martines, A Phenom In The 18th Century, Comes To Lincoln Center
“Martines began her remarkable career at just 16. At 38, she became the first female composer programmed by the Society of Musicians, whose elite concert...
Walter Arlen, Who Fled The Holocaust And Became A Composer, Has Died At 103
Arlen was “a Viennese musical prodigy who fled to the United States after Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938 and became a music critic...
The Artist Jailed By Putin For Five Tiny Pieces Of Paper
Sasha Skochilenko, released in the multi-country, multi-person prisoner swap, was serving seven years for substituting price tags in a grocery store with messages like,...
Banksy’s Newest In London Is A Black Goat
Why? It’s a mystery. “A Banksy fan who raced to the artwork’s location as soon as it was revealed on social media said she...
Women Of Color Are Losing Ground In Hollywood
The Annenberg report: Of the top 100 2023 films, the numbers are grim - from the 99 that had no Native or Pacific Islander...
If You Want Your Broadway Show To Do Well, You’ll Need To Capture The...
How did The Great Gatsby get excitement for its cast album flowing? TikTok, of course - and also YouTube, Instagram, and X/Twitter, not to...
They Asked AI To Write A Stand-Up Show
One program delivered lazy, sexist jokes and couldn’t be trained out of its ways. So that’s going great - but researchers keep saying it...
Ella Jenkins Revolutionized Music For Children, And At 100, She’s Not Finished Yet
“Jenkins captivated her listeners because she presented music not as lessons but as play. A charismatic performer whose accompaniment often consisted of only a...
