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Fired New York Phil Players Accused Of Sexual Assault File Amended Lawsuit
"The players — the associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey, and the principal oboist, Liang Wang — … filed amended complaints against the orchestra on Thursday...
Money From Cancelled NEH Grants Will Go To Trump’s “Garden Of American Heroes”
“After abruptly terminating critical grants to libraries, museums, and archives across the country last week, the National Endowment for the Humanities intends to redirect some of...
Chicago Arts Leaders Openly Complain Of “Dysfunction” At City’s Cultural Affairs Dept.
“More than 140 Chicago artists and cultural leaders are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to address ‘dysfunction’ within the city’s Cultural Affairs department (under...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Finds Its New Director Right There At Home
“After an international search, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has selected its next director and CEO from within its own ranks. Pierre Terjanian, who...
“Monty Python And The Holy Grail” At 50: Michael Palin And Terry Gilliam Look...
Palin: "I say to people, 'Led Zeppelin gave us £50,000 – and look where they are now.'" Gilliam: "Thank God for rock'n'roll is all...
The List Keepers: Recording And Memorializing How AIDS Ravaged New York Theater
“More than 40 years after the start of the epidemic, the full numerical scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater...
Simon Russell Beale Has Issues With “Titus Andronicus”
And yest he’s currently rehearsing the title role at the RSC. “There are certain plays in the canon that teeter on the edge of...
Jesse Kornbluth, Extraordinarily Prolific And Versatile Magazine Writer, Is Dead At 79
“(His) sly chronicles of cultural excess, celebrity and author profiles, personal essays and investigative work enlivened the pages of a newsstand’s worth of magazines...
A Writer Remembers His Astonishingly Well-Paid Gig With Graydon Carter’s Vanity Fair
Bryan Burroughs: “For sheer cushiness, there’s a case to be made that there has never been a more palatial home for writers than Vanity Fair during...
Britain To Get Its Own Version Of “Saturday Night Live”
“The U.K. version, produced with Sky Studios, will have a British cast of comedians — to be announced later — and follow the same format with...
Why Some Dance Companies Are Giving Up On Social Media
“At first, these outlets seemed good for dance. … They could expose dance to larger mainstream audiences. They could help democratize an industry infamous...
Trump, The Smithsonian, And Dueling Conceptions Of American History
Philip Kennicott on the administration’s attitude toward the Smithsonian's African-American and Indian Museums: “Simply put, Trump would like the actual practice of history —...
National Gallery Of Art To Loan Works To Museums Across The U.S.
“As part of its programming to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States next year, the NGA has launched ‘Across the Nation,’ which...
San Francisco’s Fillmore Jazz Festival Rescued From Cancellation By Donor
“The Fillmore Jazz Festival has been saved days after organizers decided to cancel the annual event thanks to a nonprofit organization helmed by San Francisco crypto...
Russian-American Dancer Imprisoned By Putin’s Regime For Treason Is Released
Ksenia Karelina, also identified in the media as Ksenia Khavana … was arrested in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg in February 2024 and...
The Latest Discoveries At The Funeral Temple Of Ramses II
Archaeologists have finally found physical evidence for something they had long suspected: the temple complex included an educational institution, likely for training scribes and...
Director Robert Garland On His Vision For Dance Theatre Of Harlem
“As a 10-year-old in Philadelphia, I experienced Dance Theatre of Harlem much in the same way that (today’s children) are experiencing it now. ......
Once “The Handmaid’s Tale” Became A Political Symbol, The TV Series Suffered For It
“Eight years after its premiere, the series adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel is coming to a much lower-key close, indicative of all that's...
“Revivification”: A Reconstituted “Mini-Brain” Of The Late Alvin Lucier Is Creating Music
A team of artists and neuroscientists took white blood cells donated by the composer (who cooperated with the project), reprogrammed them to be stem...
Frank Rich’s Brief History Of Broadway As Business
“The historic fantasy of the Great White Way as a glamorous montage of gleaming marquees, sparky backstage romances, and elegant audiences reveling in black...
Yorgos Lanthimos Denied Permission To Film Sci-Fi Comedy At Acropolis
“Yorgos Lanthimos had filed a request to film scenes for sci-fi comedy Bugonia at the fifth-century BC site in April. But in a statement...
Some Of The Plainest Objects From Tutankhamun’s Tomb May Be Among The Most Interesting
“Call them what you like — mud trays, clay troughs, unbaked earthen dishes — but the four 3x1½-inch dull-colored things hardly get the pulses...
US National Park Service Deletes, Then Restores, Harriet Tubman From Webpage On Underground Railroad
“The (NPS) on Monday appeared to restore its original webpage on the history of the Underground Railroad after it was met with backlash for...
ALA Sues Trump Administration Over Dismantling Of Museum/Library Agency
“The American Library Association (ALA) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), whose members include museum and library workers nationwide,...
Only One In Six Attempts To Censor Books In US Is Originated By Parents
“72% of demands to censor books were initiated by pressure groups, government entities and elected officials, board members and administrators, reported the American Library...
