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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,...

Producers Of “The Jerry Springer Show” Look Back On What They Wrought

Says one, "Please tell me the difference between the fight I saw on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills last night and The Jerry Springer...

France’s Culture Pass For 18-Year-Olds Has Serious Problems, Says Government’s Top Auditor

"The Cour des Comptes has found several faults with France’s Culture Pass, which gives 18-year-olds €300 to spend on just about any cultural activity...

Kent Nagano Named Next Artistic Director Of Spain’s National Orchestra And Choir

The 73-year-old California native, currently finishing his term as general music director of the Hamburg State Opera, will succeed David Afkham as chief conductor...

This Year, Distributors And Streamers Won’t Go Near Documentaries On Sensitive Subjects

Even when they're getting excellent reviews and prizes, docs like No Other Land (about the West Bank), Union (about labor organizing at an Amazon...

Ensemble At One Of Chicago’s Leading Black Theatres Walks Out, Demands Board Chair’s Removal

"The ensemble of the 25-year-old Congo Square Theatre Company … has told the Tribune it has 'unanimously decided to not participate in any production,...

How Could MIT Buy And Build Land Art By Maya Lin And Not Tell...

The series of 11 grass-covered mounds, titled The Sound We Travel At, is a physical representation of Doppler waves. It's right in busy Kendall...

Sam Goody Is Closing Its Last Two Brick-And-Mortar Music Stores

"Since 2022, the chain’s last two stores were located in the Ohio Valley Mall in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and the Rogue Valley Mall in...

Notre-Dame Cathedral Reveals Design For New Stained-Glass Windows

"Designs for six new stained glass windows in fire-damaged Notre-Dame cathedral were unveiled for the first time on Wednesday, with contemporary French painter Claire...

Far-Right Propagandists Are Using AI-Generated Songs To Spread Hate

While the practice currently seems to be most common in Europe, it's been documented from the US to India to Australia as well. Groups...

The Great Documentarian Of Indonesia’s Massacres Makes A Tilda Swinton Musical (Wait, What?)

Joshua Oppenheimer, who convinced participants of the 1965-66 mass executions to re-enact them for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The...

Marisa Paredes, Almodóvar Diva And Grande Dame Of Spanish Cinema, Has Died At 78

While she appeared in 75 movies by directors ranging from Francisco Trueba to Guillermo del Toro, she's best known outside the Spanish-speaking world for...

Somehow, Dostoevsky Has Become A Hit On BookTok

"Since about December of last year, (the Penguin Classics little black book edition of) White Nights has been all over BookTok and its Instagram...

Where In The World Is Van Gogh’s Missing Final Masterpiece?

"Portrait of Dr. Gachet," painted just weeks before van Gogh's suicide in 1890, had a clear chain of ownership, including years on display at...

Investigating The Physics Of Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”

Whether, and how well, the swirls in the painting's night sky accurately depict the phenomenon of turbulence has been a matter of interest to...

Are Some Parts Of England Really “Cultural Deserts”? Governmental Review Will Investigate Regional Inequality

Margaret Hodge, who was minister of culture under previous Labour PM Gordon Brown, will lead the review of Arts Council England, the government funding...

“Sesame Street” Is Homeless As HBO Lets Deal Lapse

"After a nearly decadelong run with HBO, the group that produces Sesame Street is seeking a new television partner to continue production and distribution...
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