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How Sasha Waltz Choreographed A Semi-Improvised Analog To Terry Riley’s Semi-Improvised “In C”
Riley's landmark Minimalist score consists of 53 short phrases for an unspecified number of musicians, each of whom decides how long to repeat a...
One Of Turkey’s Most Important Arts Philanthropists Is Sentenced To Life In Prison
"The founder of the Istanbul nonprofit art center Anadolu Kültür and the creator of Depo Istanbul, an independent art space serving as a platform...
There’s Now An Entire American Right-Wing Comedy Ecosystem
They mostly (excepting Joe Rogan) fly beneath mainstream radar, but "rightwing satirists, podcasters and standups … feature on each other's podcasts, TV shows and...
In Which John McWhorter Discovers That New Classical Music Does Not Have To Be...
Oddly, the linguist/op-ed pundit, who's demonstrated genuine musical sophistication in previous columns, cites Korngold (d. 1957), Rozsa (d. 1995), and William Bolcom, but, besides...
California’s Two Biggest Classical Music Radio Stations Join Forces, Rebrand, And Refocus
KUSC in Los Angeles and KDFC in San Francisco, both now part of the KUSC Radio Group, have rebranded as Classical California, with simulcast...
Chicago Reader, The City’s Alt-Weekly, Can Now Become Nonprofit As Co-Owner Steps Away
"Leonard Goodman, a Chicago attorney and member of the billionaire Crown family, ... had demanded more representation on a nonprofit board set up to...
$800 Million. That’s How Much The Massachusetts Arts Sector Has Lost Since COVID Arrived
"More than 1,000 cultural organizations surveyed throughout the state have lost $781 million in revenue, according to data collected and published by the Mass...
Farmer At Work Digs Up 4,500-Year-Old Sculpture
A late Bronze Age stone head depicting Anat, the ancient Canaanite goddess of love and war (and the sister of Baal), was discovered by...
Venice Announces Schedule And Amount Of Daytrippers’ Fee
As of January 1, 2023, anyone who wants to visit the historic city without spending the night in a local hotel (cruise ships don't...
Was This Quasi-Guerrilla Marketing Campaign For A Life-Of-Jesus TV Series A Mistake Or A...
The showrunner for The Chosen, Dallas Jenkins (son of a co-author of the Left Behind novels), put up billboards advertising the show that were...
Philadelphia’s University Of The Arts Has Completed Its First-Ever (!) Capital Campaign
The project raised $67 million, well surpassing the original $50 million goal. The University of the Arts never had a strong donor culture (that's...
More Evidence That Shakespeare Was An Inveterate Plot-Stealer
"A rare 16th-century book offers 'compelling evidence' that William Shakespeare's Cymbeline was inspired by a now-lost play by Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier...
“Decolonizing Flamenco”: Black Artists Illuminate The African Roots Of The Quintessentially Spanish Dance Form
"All have trained in Spain with esteemed maestras. Launching their unique international careers, they utilize flamenco as the basis for traditional and experimental work....
How A Fundamentalist Christian Polemic On Wifely Submissiveness Became (Ahem) Gospel Among Some Orthodox...
"The Surrendered Wife's popularity highlights how an insular religious group with carefully preserved boundaries can in fact be quite porous to outside influence —...
How CNN+ Fell Apart Just Weeks After It Was Launched
Or, to put it more clearly, how the new streaming service — into which the previous bosses had poured hundreds of millions — was...
Yes, CNN+ Collapsed, But CNN Has A Long Record Of Successful Innovation
"Some of those experiments, like Headline News (now HLN), paid off in a big way; others were here and gone in about a year....
Inquest Into Harassment At Paris Museums Ordered By Mayor
A report by the French daily Libération uncovered serious allegations of racial and sexual harassment, and even assault, at six of the 14 museums...
Italy’s “Monuments Men”-Style Task Force Has A New Deal With UNESCO
"The first heritage task force of its kind, the Blue Helmets includes officers from Italy's specialist police force for art crime, and ... art...
A New Orchestra Of Ukrainian Refugees Will Debut With An International Tour This Summer
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, a 75-member ensemble assembled with the support of the Metropolitan Opera and Polish National Opera, will visit nine European cities,...
Marmont, Hammer, Grauman, Getty, Norton Simon … So Who Are All These People That...
Okay, you may well know about J. Paul Getty, and if you're an ArtsJournal regular you probably recognize Eli Broad. Writer Patt Morrison introduces...
When They Dug Up The Cobblestone Streets, They Found Beautifully Preserved Roman Mosaics
"A group of ancient Roman mosaics dating from the second century CE were hidden under the city streets of Stari Grad, on the idyllic...
“A Political Switzerland”: Is The New York Times Book Review’s “Books As News” Approach...
With Bookstagrammers and BookTokers nearly equal in influence, and with its carefully maintained approach of relative objectivity, "the Book Review may have the luxury...
Artist William Kentridge Has Directed Many Other People’s Operas. Now He’s Doing One Of...
Premiered by the Rome Opera in 2019 and soon to open at the Barbican in London, Waiting for the Sibyl is a 40-minute chamber...
Egyptian Woman Gets Three Years In Prison For Tiktok Dance Videos
"Haneen Hossam, a social media influencer, was arrested in 2020. ... Prosecutors had accused her of promoting human trafficking by allegedly exploiting minor girls...
“It Was A Real Face-Plant” — CNN+ Was Doomed
"CNN+ was reportedly drawing only 10,000 active users. Blog posts do better numbers than that. This one probably will. ... People were calling it...