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Assessing The State Of The Arts In Maine
At Creative Portland’s biennial Arts and Culture Summit, the conversation kept returning to the financial needs of a sector that still hasn't fully recovered...
This Poor Cellist’s Instrument Was Just Stolen For The Second Time
Ophélie Gaillard's 1737 Francesco Goffriller cello and antique bows were taken at knifepoint in 2018; the thief later returned them, smashing a car window...
A Theater Critic Watches A Show From Backstage. Fittingly, It’s “The Play That Goes...
Lily Janiak writes that she was reminded — very gladly — of just how many things go right to pull off a farce like...
Why Did Houston Public Media Spike A Podcast It Had Promoted The Heck Out...
The series, titled The Takeover, covers the overhaul of the Houston Independent School District by state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles. The lead reporter's long-term partner...
Maggie Smith, 89
Considered by many the greatest British actress of her formidable generation, she won widespread admiration for such stage and screen performances as The Prime...
In A Metro Atlanta Town That’s Half Hispanic, A Theater Company Goes Bilingual
Merely Players Presents was founded in Doraville, a DeKalb County suburb whose population is 45% Hispanic, in 2018. This year, for the first time,...
Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Prosecution For Manslaughter Was Thrown Out. What Happens To The Armorer...
The case against Baldwin, who accidentally shot the movie's cinematographer because the prop gun he was handling turned out to have live ammunition in...
Art Historian Left His Rembrandts To Museum. His Heirs Want Them Back. The Law...
Abraham Bredius was director of the Mauritshuis in The Hague 1889-1919, and he bequeathed 25 Rembrandts and other Old Master paintings to the museum...
Lloyd Macklowe, Major Dealer In Art Nouveau, Is Dead At 90
He and his wife started in 1965 with one Tiffany ceramic vase, purchased for $55 (roughly $548 today). By 1971, they opened Macklowe Gallery...
“Unprecedented” Threat To Sudanese Culture From Civil War
At least one performing arts center has been destroyed, cultural and heritage sites are being looted, and the 2,000-year-old ruins at Naga as well...
Why I’ve Reset Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” In 20th-Century Ireland
Annilese Miskimmon, English National Opera's artistic director and a native of Northern Ireland, sees enough similarities between the original story (a young 17th-century woman...
Atlanta’s Terminus Modern Ballet In A New Phase As Founding Members Depart And New...
Terminus was founded in 2017-18 by five dancers who left Atlanta Ballet after longtime artistic director John McFall was forced out. Now four of...
Scripts About Politics Lead List Of Most-Produced Plays In U.S.
For the second year running, Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me is the country's most-produced play, and in fifth place is Selina...
Film And TV Productions Are Leaving California For Places With More Tax Incentives. Will...
"Reversing the slide will require a whole suite of changes to incentivize studios to return to California. … Some labor leaders tell TheWrap that...
This Painting Might Be A Velázquez — And It Might Upend Spain’s Art Market...
The owners of this 1623 portrait want to sell it abroad, where it can command a much higher price than in Spain. On the...
World’s First Museum Of AI Art Will Open In Downtown Los Angeles (Fitting, Right?)
Refik Anadol, a leader in the development of AI-generated artwork, will place his museum, to be called Dataland, in the Frank Gehry-designed Grand L.A....
U.S. Court Of Appeals Hears Case With Enormous Stakes For Public Libraries
The case, Little v. Llano County, involves local citizens who sued a Texas county on First Amendment grounds for ordering certain titles removed from...
He Came To The Rescue For Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Now He’s Its Music...
Last fall, David Hayes stepped in as conductor on 48 hours' notice when then-music director Dirk Brossé ran into visa trouble. So the orchestra...
Roundabout Theater Company, Broadway’s Nonprofit Powerhouse, Names New Artistic Director
Christopher Ashley, artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse in California and known for directing the Broadway hit Come From Away, will succeed longtime...
How “The Shawshank Redemption” Went From Box-Office Flop To Modern Classic
The Stephen King adaptation hit cinemas in the fall of 1994 amid a slew of hits competing for audiences. Yet it went on to...
Christopher Marlowe Had A Co-Author For “Dr. Faustus,” Says Researcher
"Scholars have long suggested that Marlowe had a collaborator for the comic scenes of his classic play, although his name alone is on the...
Who Thought It Was A Good Idea To Turn Garth Greenwell’s First Novel Into...
First to get the idea was conductor Alan Pierson, a friend of Greenwell's since music-student days at Eastman. Pierson sent the book, What Belongs...
How Do You Get Kids Into Classical Music? The “Wow Factor,” Says Charlotte Symphony’s...
Speaking of his own experiences as a child in 1970s Trinidad as well as conducting children's concerts at the BBC Proms in London and...
Archaeologists Using AI Discover 303 Unknown Geoglyphs In Peru’s Nazca Desert
"The large number of new figures has allowed the researchers to differentiate between two main types, and to offer an explanation of the possible...
Off-Road Joyriders Are Damaging Ancient Geoglyphs In Chilean Desert
"The rugged terrain of Chile’s Atacama Desert is etched with giant images of llamas, cats, fish, birds, and humans. … At Alto Barranco in...