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Author Lore Segal Dead At 96
"An esteemed Viennese-American author and translator, (her) gift for words helped her family escape from the Nazis and … later drew upon her experiences...
San Antonio Philharmonic Turmoil: Two Rival Boards Suing Each Other
The organization itself has filed a case against two former board members who led a schism of the group into rival factions. Those two...
La Course Camarguaise, The Non-Lethal Bull-Not-Exactly-Fighting Of Southwestern France
Rather than egging on a bull to gore him and then killing it, a competitor in this sport merely annoys the animal by trying...
“Thankless And Difficult”: What It’s Like Running One Of L.A.’s 99-Seat Theaters
"'Part and parcel of running a theater in Los Angeles is waking up two to four times a year and not knowing if you're...
Oregon Ballet Theatre Is Shopping For A New HQ
The company is looking to more-than-triple its space, to 40,000 square feet from its current 13,000. … If it were a matter of accommodating...
Kansas City’s Public Radio Stations Cut Jobs, Local Classical Programming
NPR news outlet KCUR and its sister station, KWJC/Classical KC, are eliminating several positions and leaving others unfilled. The most noticeable change to listeners...
Well, At Least One Endeavor Has Been Reborn From The Ashes Of The University...
The Lightbox Film Center, a repertory cinema, had been operating for the past five years in one of the UArts buildings on Broad Street...
Paul Simon, Despite Hearing Loss, Hopes To Return To Live Performance
The singer, now 82, gave up touring in 2018, and he lost most hearing in his let ear while recording last year's album Seven...
Scotland’s Arts Funder Can’t Announce Any Funding For The Arts
Creative Scotland has postponed announcing its next round of funding grants, which were due this month. The agency says it still can't confirm for...
Seeing Art In Person Stimulates Much More Brain Activity Than Looking At Reproductions Does
"Commissioned by the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, … the independent study used eye-tracking technology and MRI scans to record the brain activity of...
San Antonio Philharmonic Postpones Its October Concerts, Citing Administrative Turmoil
"In a letter to musicians … signed by Executive Director Roberto Treviño and Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, no alternate date for the concerts was...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Once Pressured Brooklyn Museum To Mount Chinese Exhibition: Report
In 2016, when Adams was Brooklyn borough president, two of his top aides reportedly pushed the museum to mount a show about Sun Yat-Sen,...
Federal Court Orders Arkansas Library To Stop Segregating Books
"In yet another major win for freedom to read advocates, a federal judge has ordered the Crawford County Public Library in Arkansas to stop...
The Art And Craft Of The New York Post Headline
An oral history: current and former Post staffers, along with people involved with the incidents in question, talk about how they come up with...
A Rare All-Women Butoh Troupe
The four-member Tokyo-based company called Wozme isn't the first all-female butoh troupe, but it's the only one currently active in Japan — and, there...
Keeping Traditional Sudanese Music, Dance, And Poetry Alive For Refugees From The Civil War
"A band with 12 Sudanese members now lives with thousands of refugees in Egypt. The troupe, called Camirata, includes researchers, singers and poets who...
The American “Faith-Based Film” Industry: A Statistical Analysis
"Insulated from mainstream Hollywood and decidedly idiosyncratic in their production — (faith-based films) are overlooked relative to their consistent success. We'll explore the rise...
The Problem With Using Software To Determine What Shakespeare Did And Didn’t Write
Scholar Darren Freebury-Jones used a text database called Collocations and N-grams to spot parallel phrases and passages in Shakespeare's plays and those of his...
Please Don’t Build A Football Stadium Across The Street From Our Concert Hall, Begs...
A bid to bring the first-ever professional Australian-rules football team to Tasmania involves constructing a 23,000-seat stadium, to host rock concerts as well as...
As Rubin Museum Closes Its Space, Calls To Return Nepali And Tibetan Art And...
"Since March, the Tibetan-led campaign Our Ancestors Say No has been protesting the museum and collecting online petition signatures demanding the return of what...
How Paraguayans Have Kept Their Indigenous Language Alive And Thriving
Despite having been banned under the 35-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, Guaraní is now, alongside Spanish, a fully official language of the country. Half...
Gramophone Awards 2024: Hilary Hahn Playing Ysaÿe, Carolyn Sampson, Czech Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas
The Record of the Year Prize went to Hahn's disc of Ysaÿe's Six Sonatas for unaccompanied violin. Soprano Carolyn Sampson is Artist of the...
Asheville’s Arts District Destroyed By Floods From Hurricane Helene
The neighborhood of galleries, music venues, artist studios, breweries, and other businesses was completely inundated by the clay-brown waters of the French Broad River...
Manchester Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Acquitted By Judge
The decision was likely because they didn't actually vandalize any art: the two Just Stop Oil activists simply glued their hands to the frame...
Ballet Star Steven McRae’s Three-Year Recovery From “The Worst Injury A Dancer Can Have”
The Royal Ballet principal was mid-performance in London when his Achilles tendon snapped and he was carried from the stage screaming in pain. After...