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Striking Technicians At Chicago’s PBS Station Are Serious
Says one official at the IBEW union local, "We've had a contract with WTTW since 1955 and we've never had a problem of this...
The New Museum Housing Vast Treasures Of Medieval Georgian Art
The region of Svaneti, a pair of protected valleys high in the Caucasus Mountains, was where the rest of the country sent its finest...
Collector Budi Tek, Who Helped Create The Contemporary Asian Art Scene As We Know...
A Chinese-Indonesian who made his fortune in poultry, Tek, through avid collecting, helped provide artists with livelihoods, and his generous loan policy helped those...
Five More Ancient Egyptian Tombs Are Unveiled At Saqqara
"The tombs, which are believed to have housed senior officials from the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate period, date back to as long ago...
The Authors Of Books Banned From Schools, Or Entire Countries, Speak Out
Art Spiegelman: "This is the most Orwellian version of society I've ever lived in." Margaret Atwood: "They're playing woke snowflakery back." Hamid Ismailov: "I'm...
After Almost 20 Years, The Art Scene In Baghdad Is Showing Signs Of Revival
As bad as things often got after the wars started in 2003, art and artists in Iraq's capital never went completely dormant. Now galleries...
What The Fictional President Zelensky Played On TV Shows Us About Real-Life Ukraine
On Servant of the People, Volodomyr Zelensky played a teacher who becomes president after a video of him fuming about corruption goes viral. Ashley...
With The Kiev City Ballet In Their Unexpected Exile
The company left Kyiv for a tour in France one day before Putin's army invaded. The city of Paris has given them a residency...
How Did A Classical Radio Station Get To No. 1 In The Ratings In...
"Theories abound as to why non-commercial 'Classical 89.9' WDAV Charlotte suddenly went to No. 1 in Nielsen's January survey. Here are the numbers behind...
During The Pandemic Shutdown, Unemployment Among US Arts Workers Was Double The National Average
"In the early months of the pandemic, unemployment in the arts and culture sector spiked to nearly 30% while the national rate hit about...
New York City’s New Arts Czar Has Faced Some Pushback
Mayor Eric Adams's appointee to head the Department of Cultural Affairs is Laurie Cumbo, founder of Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts and...
The World’s Biggest Theatre Award Goes To A Little Company Of Disabled Actors In...
Back to Back, a company made up of neurodiverse and disabled performers based in Geelong, a city about an hour southwest of Melbourne, has...
Neal Stephenson, The Tech Billionaires’ Favorite Sci-Fi Writer
His 1992 novel Snow Crash is the source of the trem "metaverse"; his 1999 Cryptonomicon basically predicted cryptocurrency. With fans from Jeff Bezos to...
Why Don’t More North American Orchestras Have Adequate HR Staff?
Orchestral musicians have difficult jobs, yes. But they have notoriously low job satisfaction, and the workplace atmosphere can become fraught or even toxic. But...
How Brooklyn Mack Suddenly Found Himself In Charge Of A Ballet Company
The company is the one where Mack first studied, Columbia Classical Ballet in South Carolina. Last fall, artistic director Radenko Pavlovich visited his hometown,...
In Russia, Ballet Has Always Been Tied Up With Politics And Diplomacy
"As a wordless art, dance travels well. With strong links to the Kremlin, the Bolshoi has been hailed as Russia's 'secret weapon' by former...
The Tories’ Culture-War Politics Have Britain’s Museums Confused And Worried
Administrators and staffers are "'taken aback' by the apparent cognitive dissonance between directives ... to increase diversity and improve access both in their programming...
Annie Flanders, Who Founded Details Magazine, Dead At 82
"In a way, she formed that '80s culture, which became not just an American phenomenon but an international one. We who were in the...
Would Chekhov Weep? A Drama Critic On Russia’s Bombing Of The Mariupol Theater
Peter Marks: "Russia is a nation of passionate theater-, music-, and dance-lovers. ... It is beyond comprehension that terrified women and children could turn...
There Are 200 Priceless Artworks From Moscow On View In Paris. Will They Make...
The exhibition from the Morozov Collection — estimated to be worth $2 billion, with pieces by (among others) Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, and some...
Can The Art World Live Without Its Fixes Of Russian Oligarchs’ Money?
The Russian robber barons' colossal fortunes have had an outsize effect not only on the commercial market, but on museums and not-for-profit galleries and...
UK Revokes RT/Russia Today’s Broadcast License
The media regulator Ofcom's announcement said, "Following an independent regulatory process, we have found that RT is not fit and proper to hold a...
What’s The Most Fortified Building In Odessa? The Opera House
"The barricades blocking the path to the Odessa Opera and Ballet begin three blocks away. Two more walls like that further protect the entrance....
Researchers Use Thoreau To Study Climate Change
The copious notes the author made the springtime arrivals of flowers and birds provided valuable data to a team of Boston University scientists investigating...
An Excellent Question: “When Will Publishing Stop Starving Its Young?”
Molly McGhee, an assistant editor at the Macmillan sci-fi imprint Tor Books, just saw her first acquisition hit the NYT Bestseller List at #3...