In Addition To Prison Sentence, Ozy Founder Carlos Watson Gets Ordered To Pay $96...
"(A Federal judge) ordered Watson and his company to pay over $36 million in restitution and nearly $60 million in forfeiture … for his...
So Trump Replaced The Kennedy Center’s Board. Now Will He Lead Its Fundraising?
The Center gets only 16% of its budget from Federal money, and that's for maintenance, repairs and operation of the building, which the government...
Despite Facing Fearsome Deficits, Both San Francisco And California State Governments Maintain Arts Spending
The state’s Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, which helps organizations meet new pay and benefit requirements, launches this year with a $12.5 million budget....
Metropolitan Opera To Change Some Scheduling And Casting Practices
Next season the company will experiment with scheduling consecutive performances of the same opera with different casts, this to save money by not moving...
Drunk Does “Irreversible Damage” To Inca Landmark In Peru
Not long after midnight in Cusco, once the Incas' imperial capital, a man "apparently intoxicated and out of his mind" used a metal object...
Inside London’s New Dance Hot Spot, Sadler’s Wells East
"'You are welcome,' beams a neon sign above the biscuity brick entrance. Theatres, like vampires, gravitate to dark spaces, but inside the impression is...
Trump And The Corruption Of What Words Mean
Trump has already hit language very strongly, and not just because of his own idiosyncratic manner of speech. As the Times has noted, his administration has...
Making Theatre For Liberation — And For After Liberation: South African Actor-Playwright John Kani
During apartheid, in addition to being Athol Fugard's leading actor, he co-wrote and co-starred in the seminal plays Sizwe Bandi Is Dead and The...
Minnesota Theatre Says It Will Decline NEA Funding, Double Down On DEI
A Minneapolis theater organization says it will decline federal funding in order to preserve its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. - Bring Me the News
Artists Sign Letter Protesting Changes In NEA Criteria
Hundreds of artists signed a letter sent to the National Endowment for the Arts asking it to reverse policy changes made as a result...
Dancers Perform Protest Outside Kennedy Center
Thirty-four dancers performed The Nelken Line, a piece by choreographer Pina Bausch that pays homage to the seasons. It's been performed widely since Bausch created it...
How The Synthesizer Went From Oversized, Clumsy, Expensive Novelty To Tool For Genuine Creativity
"(Starting in) the late twentieth century, a family of technologies moved from the fringes of novelty attraction and the avant-garde to the heart of...
We Need To Define What Smart Is
If we could stop bickering about which creatures do or don’t deserve to be called smart, an emerging movement of scientists and philosophers argue...
How Research Publishing Has Devolved Into A Citation Game
Gone are the days when academics simply conducted research and published their findings. Now their papers are less valued for their content than for...
An Arts Advocacy Summit: Will It Have Any Impact?
The call to action was to develop a blueprint for the TCC to take to Capitol Hill to advocate for arts funding, with the $207...
Early On, Robert Frost Wrote Some Really Wretched Verse
"Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, … had written a poem called 'My Butterfly.' … It is what it is,...
Kharkiv’s Puppetry Tradition Thrives During War
But Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 dealt Kharkiv’s puppetry a heavy blow, as much of the city’s population of 1.4 million...
Trump’s Kennedy Center Cancels Performance By Gay Chorus
This is the latest event to be canceled by the Kennedy Center since the Trump takeover. The show “Finn,” which could be read as...
When Messiaen Zigged And Other Composers Zagged
As Messiaen saw it, the real revolution in 20th-century music had been launched not by an Austrian Jew but by a Frenchman, Claude Debussy,...
High Society Art Adviser, Convicted Of Felony Embezzlement, Explains Herself
"'You become the lie,' (Lisa) Schiff said. … By the time it all came crashing down in 2023, she had stolen some $6.4 million....
England’s Arts Funder Shelves Change Which Organizations Called “Worst Idea In The World”
The change proposed by Arts Council England was that any organization which had a grant from National Lottery proceeds had to wait until that...
For The First Time In A Century, An Egyptian Pharaoh’s Tomb Has Been Discovered
"Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II. … It's the first royal Egyptian tomb to be discovered since...
Many Looted Statues Are Being Returned To Cambodia, Which Is Running Out Of Places...
"The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the...
Now That Trump Has Taken Over The Kennedy Center, What Might He Do With...
"The question now is what a thin-skinned showman will do with an institution of music, theater and dance ... central to Washington’s cultural life...
Harvey Weinstein (From Prison) Sues His Brother/Former Business Partner
The producer/convicted rapist filed suit against Bob Weinstein and two other formers executives of the Weinstein Company his brother last week in New York...
