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In Chicago, Nearly Half Of Small Performing Arts Orgs Can’t Or Won’t Reopen Yet
The Donnelly Foundation surveyed 91 of its grantees (organizations with budgets under $1 million) and found that 44% of them either can't return to...
After A Century, The Last Tsar’s Palace Is Restored And Reopened
The Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo near St. Petersburg, where Nicholas, Alexandra, and their five children lived before being shipped off to Yekaterinburg to...
So It Continues: Hong Kong Passes China-Style Film Censorship Law
The legislation bans any film deemed against the national security interests of the People's Republic of China, with violators subject to three years in...
Looking To A Play About An Earlier Epidemic To Answer A Key Question About...
In Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, Lily Janiak finds some lines that shed bright, painful light on why some people would refuse a vaccine...
Why Do People Like Blood And Gore In Their Movies And TV So Much?
There are several reasons, say researchers, most of which boil down to "Hey, adrenaline is fun when you're not actually in danger!" And watching...
Another Set Of Looted Treasures Is Being Repatriated To Africa (And These Are Actually...
You know about the Benin Bronzes, looted by the British from what's now Nigeria and some of which are being returned there. These objects,...
Pina Bausch’s Former Company Has A New Artistic Director
Boris Charmatz, a 48-year-old French choreographer, has been appointed to lead Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch as of next September — with a mandate to...
Want To Buy A Villa With Its Own Caravaggio Mural?
"A sprawling villa in Rome containing the only ceiling mural ever painted by Caravaggio is up for sale for almost €500m. The 2.75-metre wide...
Decommissioned Church In Detroit To Become New Arts Complex
Gallerists JJ and Anthony Curis have bought the old Good Shepherd Catholic Church in the East Village neighborhood and will reopen it in 2023...
Afghanistan’s All-Female Orchestra Has Reassembled Itself In Exile
Zohra, a 35-member women's youth orchestra founded in Kabul in 2016, was shut down as the Taliban returned to power, and many of its...
Mort Sahl, Who Created Political Comedy As We Know It, Dead At 94
He became famous for walking to the microphone with a newspaper and riffing on whatever stories he found there. (Time magazine called him "Will...
Lost Novels by Céline Resurface, And Old Arguments Break Out Anew In France
By means he won't disclose, a journalist acquired thousands of manuscript pages by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, revered in France for literary craftsmanship but reviled for...
England’s Arts And Culture Sector To Get An Extra $1 Billion In The Next...
"The culture sector in England will receive £850m in extra funding from the Treasury in the Budget to be announced this week by Chancellor...
France Passes Another Law To Protect Bookstores From Amazon
For years it has been illegal in France to sell new books at a discount, which has kept bookstores from being undersold by the...
How Samuel L. Jackson Got Booted From One Of The Most Prestigious Historically Black...
His brief period at Morehouse College included his acting debut, his involvement in the civil rights movement, and an unorthodox bit of speech therapy....
A Masterpiece By Bernini, Newly Restored, Shines More Brightly Than Ever
"Art and restoration specialists presented the result in the Cornaro Chapel in St. Mary of the Victory Church (in Rome) on Thursday. The chapel's...
Bollywood Is Coming To Broadway (What Took So Long?)
"Come Fall in Love — The DDLJ Musical, based on the Indian filmmaker Aditya Chopra's 1995 hit Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, which has become...
Dozens Of Museums In Mexico And Central America Are Broke And Near Closure: Report
A study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that "more than 75 percent of (responding museums) said they are facing financial insecurity;...
How Amazon And Its Publishing Arm Are Changing Literature
Parul Sehgal: "The author is dead; long live the service provider. The reader, in turn, has been reborn as a consumer in the contemporary...
The Transformation Of The Gibney Dance Company
When Gina Gibney founded her troupe in 1991, it was your basic single-choreographer ensemble, picking up per-project freelancers. Now The Gibney Company has 12...
A Question In The Wake Of The Alec Baldwin “Rust” Shooting: Who Or What...
"An armorer is tasked with managing all firearms used on set, ensuring they look realistic and are appropriate for the setting. More importantly, they're...
Crew Member Who Handed Alec Baldwin Fatal Prop Gun Had Been Fired For Mishandling...
"The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer last week had been fired from a previous job after a...
She Saved Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center And Merged It With The Philadelphia Orchestra. Now She’s...
When Anne Ewers arrived in 2007, the Kimmel still had $30 million in construction debt. She raised money to pay it off, increased revenue...
Louis Langrée, Cincinnati Symphony And Mostly Mozart Music Director, Has Big New Job In...
As of November 1, the 60-year-old native of France's Alsace region will be the director of the Opéra-Comique. Among his plans are revivals of...
Pompidou Center In Paris To Postpone Renovation Until After 2024 Olympics
"The initial restoration plan involved shutting down the Centre Pompidou for three years from the end of 2023 for essential maintenance work." The question...