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Royal New Zealand Ballet Fires Its Ballet Master, The Artistic Director’s Husband, For “Inappropriate...
Michael Auer joined RNZB when Patricia Barker, his wife, took the helm of the Wellington-based company in 2017. His contract was terminated in April...
The Guardian’s Chief Theatre Critic On Changing Her Mind About A Play
Arifa Akbar: "If a critic changes their mind, do they discredit themselves? No, because theatre reviewing is by its nature only ever an overnight...
One Of New York City Ballet’s Male Stars Reconsiders (Almost) Everything About Partnering
Russell Janzen writes, "Not the mechanics of partnering: I relish the physical challenge of supporting and entangling with someone else. But rather the politics...
Four-Year Prison Sentence For Botched Theft Of A Monet
The unnamed defendant, 49, and an accomplice were caught after taking Monet's De Voorzaan en de Westerhem (1871) from the Zaans Museum in Zaandam,...
Rebuilding Ukraine Must Include Culture, Not Just Infrastructure
"It's intergenerational heritage we're losing, and it's not just for one country. What's important to understand is that it's not just about saving the...
Vice Media Wants To Sell Itself Off — In Pieces, If Necessary
"Several buyers have expressed preliminary interest in acquiring Vice outright, ... (though) it also is exploring options to sell the company in parts." Just...
New York City Removes All Regulations On Sotheby’s, Christie’s, And Other Auction Houses
Now the city won't even require auction houses to be licensed, let alone disclose such things as whether they have financial interests in the...
Dave Chappelle Physically Attacked While Onstage At The Hollywood Bowl
"Footage showed someone running on stage and tackling Chappelle during his performance at the Netflix Is a Joke festival ... on Tuesday night. ...Chappelle,...
Statue Of Pioneering Native American Ballerina Stolen, Hacked Up, And Sold For Scrap Metal
The bronze sculpture of Marjorie Tallchief was part of a monument at the Tulsa Historical Society honoring the "Five Moons," American Indian women from...
So-Called “Wicked Bible” Or “Adulterers’ Bible” Turns Up In New Zealand
The 1631 printing of the King James Bible gets its nicknames, and its fame, from a typo: the printers omitted the word "not" from...
Immersive Van Gogh Shows Are Old Hat. The New Hotness Is Immersive “Bridgerton” Experiences
"The Queen's Ball: A 'Bridgerton' Experience" is one of several costume parties quasi-theatrical pop-up events based on famous media franchises (Star Wars and Game...
Meet Frankie Light, “YouTube Polyglot”
A handsome young Black man surprising Chinese immigrants with fluent Mandarin can amass quite a following on social media. Frankie Light is one of...
Bolshoi Theatre Cancels Operas And Ballets By Directors Opposed To Ukraine Invasion
"The theatre gave no reason for dropping Timofey Kulyabin's production of the opera Don Pasquale and Kirill Serebrennikov's ballet Nureyev, which will be replaced...
Netflix’s Stumbles And Layoffs Have Employees Nervous And Angry
"Bleak subscriber numbers and the company's response have stirred a mix of angst and uncertainty among many rank-and-file workers. Some are worried that the...
Is It Possible To Run An Orchestra As A Publicly-Traded Corporation? This One Is...
Japan National Orchestra Co. was founded and is led by 27-year-old CEO Kyohei Sorita, a concert pianist convinced that his band (for now, really...
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella” Posts Closing Notice, And Some Cast Members Found Out Only...
The West End run of ALW's latest musical will conclude on June 12. But the company was told after the Sunday matinee on a...
Russian Soldiers Remove Art From Mariupol Museums And Take It To Donbas
The city council of the occupied, now-largely-destroyed Ukrainian city says that more than 2,000 works, including paintings by the renowned 19th-century artists Arkhip Kuindzhi...
Russians Steal Ancient Scythian Gold From Ukrainian Museum
Russian soldiers and intelligence officers, along with "a Russian-speaking man in a white lab coat" and a film crew, entered the Melitopol Museum of...
A New CEO At Hay Literary Festival Following Founder’s Forced Resignation
"Julie Finch, … the former CEO of the Cheltenham Trust, … has been appointed CEO of the Hay festival and will succeed founder and...
The Great Big Dialect Hunt
That's what the University of Leeds is calling its project to digitize its huge collection of field recordings of vernacular speech in regional England...
Films From Africa Are Better And More Plentiful Than Ever. When Will North American...
Better and less expensive equipment, the growing festival circuit, and, most of all, the rise of streaming video have made it easier for Africans...
For The First Time, There’s A Comprehensive Reference Source On Indian Art — And...
"An upstart museum in (Bangalore) has launched an open-source digital encyclopedia of ... the subcontinent's rich artistic history, dating from 10,000 years ago to...
Flemish Modern Architecture Used To Be Notoriously Ugly. New Buildings There Now Are Really...
"It is an astonishing output for a region of six million people, featuring elegant libraries and special educational needs schools, as well as dramatic...
Is It True That Doris Lessing Blithely Abandoned Her Children To Live The Creative...
Julie Phillips: "When I actually looked at Lessing's life, I didn’t find either heartless abandonment or a bold dash for freedom. Unsurprisingly, the author...
Leonard Bernstein Wrote A String Quartet? Who Knew?
"Music for String Quartet was composed by an 18-year-old Bernstein in 1936 while he was at Harvard. You can tell, authenticators agree, from the...