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Hilma af Klint’s Family Tries To Stop Proposed Deal With David Zwirner Gallery
"Klint family members say that a proposed deal between Zwirner, who is one of the biggest gallerists in the world, and the foundation’s board...
The Top Ten Book-Business News Stories Of 2024
"PW looks back at the major contractions in the independent book distribution space, an explosion of artificial intelligence tools and businesses, turmoil over freedom...
Glasgow’s Leading Theatre Company Is Finally Coming Back Home
The Citizens Theatre is returning to its historic playhouse next September after a seven-year renovation, the first overhaul the facility has had since it...
How “Sesame Street” Is Trying To Save Itself — And Why It Needs To
In the show's 55th season. producers are trying to re-orient it to keep it alive. Its core audience of toddlers and pre-schoolers is different...
Airports Have Started Putting Real Thought Into Their Background Music
Some — London Heathrow, Nashville, Phoenix, Seattle-Tacoma, both Chicago airports — have stages with live musicians. Others — Detroit, Austin — have specially curated...
How To Choose A Good In-Flight Movie
Obviously everyone is different, but Alissa Wlkinson does have some general guidelines to offer. Among them: remember that people are more susceptible to tears...
Five Takeaways From SMU DataArts’ 2024 Research
"From financial challenges and workforce dynamics to measures of arts vibrancy, these findings capture the trends and key shifts shaping the field today. For...
Culture Minister Threatens To Cut Off Batsheva Dance Company’s Funding
"Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar asked Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to examine whether the Batsheva Dance Company is in violation of its state funding...
The World’s Oldest Children’s Museum Marks 125 Years. And Where Is It? Brooklyn.
"Situated on a leafy corner of the Crown Heights neighborhood, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum commemorated its 125th anniversary last weekend with a daylong celebration....
Producer Woody Fraser, Who Created Some Of 20th-Century America’s Most Influential TV Shows, Is...
He has remained one of the most successful TV producers in entertainment history, specifically in the talk, news and variety programming genres, over a...
So What Happens To Dallas Black Dance Theatre Now?
The dancers fired this summer won their case, but they've chosen to take severance pay rather than return to the company. The current dancers...
Fired Members Of Dallas Black Dance Theatre Reunite For A Final Performance
The National Labor Relations Board ruled in their favor and they're getting compensation, but the ten dancers are declining to return to DBDT. So...
Ballet Genius/Putin Superfan/Notorious Train Wreck Sergei Polunin Says He’s Leaving Russia
The Ukrainian-born dancer, who has three tattoos of Putin (despite the Russian military's near-obliteration of his hometown, Kherson), now says "My time in Russia...
Nearly 15,000 Media Jobs In The US Were Eliminated In 2024
"While the 14,909 jobs lost by mid-December this year offered an improvement on the 21,417 jobs cut in 2023, it would be unwise to...
Why Some Non-Christian Composers Are Attracted To Christmas Material: David Lang
"Every Christmas, I ask myself this question, because accidentally I — a Jewish composer — have also written something of a Christmas classic: the...
The Top 10 Bookselling Stories Of 2024
"We saw booksellers, publishers, and others in the industry step up to aid stores that sustained extensive hurricane damage, call for greater rights and...
What Nonprofit Theater Leaders Told The NEA
"(A) series of listening sessions, held this past summer, helped the (NEA theater) team to learn more about evolving challenges, successful strategies, and potential...
Will This Be The First Broadway Musical Whose Title Role Is A Dead Body?
"Dead Outlaw, a rambunctious musical that tells the hard-to-believe-it’s-true story of a bandit’s corpse that became a spectacle in early-20th-century America, will open on...
Is The World’s Largest Fully-Functioning Musical Instrument In Jeopardy?
The organ in the old Wanamaker's department store, right across from City Hall, is a Philadelphia icon. Yet the store, currently a Macy's, is...
Use Our Copyrighted Material To Train AI? Oh Hell No, Huge Coalition Tells UK...
"Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies...
This Upstart Publisher Got 25 Books On The Bestseller List In A Single Year
Three years ago, the only author on Bloom Books' list was E.L. James (the Fifty Shades of Grey series). Now it publishes over 40...
SF-MOMA Fires One Of Its Top Curators
"Eungie Joo, who served as head curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for seven years, was fired after...
Remember, “A Christmas Carol” Is Not Dickens’s Only Christmas Story
It's not even Dickens's only Christmas ghost story. And some of them are much weirder and more unsettling than the famous one. - Literary...
This Completely Legal Musical Is Totally Not About Raygun The Olympic Breakdancer
Two weeks ago, comedian Steph Broadbridge cancelled Raygun: The Musical just before its Sydney premiere after notorious-Olympic-breaker-and-viral-sensation Dr. Rachael Gunn's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist...
Did Shakespeare Commit Suicide? A Scholar Makes The Case
Larry Lockridge, professor emeritus at NYU: "I’ll air my conviction that death by suicide is more probable than the notion that Edward de Vere,...