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National Theatre Wales Shuts Down After Losing All Government Funding
"The company says it has 'ceased to exist' following the loss of all its Arts Council Wales funding in 2023. … The company will...
Rothko Chapel In Houston Is Open Again After Last Summer’s Hurricane
"The mid-century building sustained damage from Hurricane Beryl, which devastated the area in July, however, and left the chapel closed indefinitely. A team of...
Cincinnati Ballet Chooses Longtime Principal As Artistic Director
"Cervilio Miguel Amador has served as interim artistic director since Jodie Gates’s abrupt departure in September 2023 – just 14 months after she took...
The Mathematics Behind The Rockettes’ High-Precision Dance Routines
"During the dance company’s roughly 200 shows over eight weeks, a dancer can do up to 650 kicks in a single day. ... While...
How Shirley Temple Saved Fox Studios
"In 1933, Fox Studios was nearly bankrupt. Founded by William Fox in 1915, it thrived during the silent-movie era. By the time the Great...
The Defining Art Events Of 2024
From fireworks injuries to the collapse of UArts to Venice Biennale drama to prison sentences for the original climate-protesting art vandals, here are 26...
Four Syrian Artists Share Their Hopes For A Future Without The Assads
More than five decades of severe repression under father Hafiz and son Bashar al-Assad left Syria with no structure for any kind of art...
Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Has Badly Hurt Lebanese Publishing
Lebanon's book industry is historically one of the Arab world's most important, due to the country's relative tolerance and press freedom. But this year's...
Consuming Arts And Culture Is Good For Your Health, Says Major UK Study
"Consuming culture is good for your health and wellbeing – and generates £8bn a year worth of improvements in people’s quality of life and...
What’s Entering Public Domain In The US As Of 2025? Popeye, Tintin, Faulkner, Hitchcock,...
The initial versions of characters Popeye and Tintin (though not yet their most famous versions) are becoming available, as are key novels by Faulkner,...
Poor David Tennant’s “Macbeth” In London Just Can’t Catch A Break This Week
Or, to put it another way, the show is having to take too many breaks. Tennant, Cush Jumbo, and their colleagues have had to...
Judge In Brazil Orders Sony/Universal To Withdraw Adele Song Worldwide
The injunction requires Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music to stop distributing Adele's "Million Years Ago" in any and every format during an ongoing...
Ozy Media Founder Carlos Watson Gets Nearly 10 Years’ Imprisonment For Fraud
"Prosecutors accused the former cable news commentator and host of playing a leading role in a scheme to deceive Ozy investors and lenders by...
Artist Lorraine O’Grady Dead At 90
"O’Grady developed a loyal following for artworks that often proved unclassifiable. She produced photographs, collages, and performances, and wrote frequently. … Her art critiqued...
While Ballet Companies Do “Nutcracker,” Indie Theater Companies Do Parodies Of Hallmark Christmas Movies
"Love ‘em or hate ’em, formulaic meet-cute holiday flicks have become as tied to the yuletide as ugly sweaters and hot chocolate. Theater directors...
Screwball Tragedy: Considering Kafka’s Funniest Story
"'Investigations of a Dog' presents a brilliant and sometimes hilarious parody of the world of knowledge production, what the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan called...
This Year’s Remarkable Discoveries In Archaeology And Art History
"A construction worker turning up a nude marble deity hidden some 1,600 years ago, an art historian spotting a missing painting on his social...
Composer Margaret Brouwer, Still Busy As She Approaches 85
"Eighty-five is a milestone, no matter one’s field. That, though, isn’t what Brouwer is celebrating. No, all she’s really thinking about are the commissions...
I Worked For Ozy Right Through Its Collapse. Here’s What I Saw From The...
"The story I saw coming to a grim conclusion in that courtroom was about more than a failed media company. … Carlos Watson may...
What It’s Like To See Your Sexual Assault Be Made Into An Episode Of...
"Being violated and brought close to death is (a) psychological abyss, but living with the belief that actors and producers have exploited your rape...
For Wage Theft At Disneyland, Disney Co. Agrees To California’s Largest-Ever Settlement
"The Walt Disney Co. has reached a California-record $233 million settlement with Disneyland workers over a 2019 class-action wage theft lawsuit. The settlement will...
Zakir Hussain, 73, Master Of Indian Classical Drumming And World-Music Fusion
Son of legendary tabla player Alla Rakha, who was drummer of choice for Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, Hussain grew up playing alongside...
Martial Solal, Perhaps France’s Greatest Jazz Pianist, Has Died At 97
Best-known to the wider public for his score to Godard's film Breathless, he was one of the first European jazz musicians to get enthusiastic...
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Officially Loses Funding From City
The decision by the city council — to redistribute the $248,000 previously allocated for DBDT to other organizations — comes just a few days...
Why We’re Stuck With The Figurative Use Of The Word “Literally”
"By the 16th century, intensity rather than trueness had become the word very’s primary sense, through a process (called) 'semantic bleaching.' Interestingly, words whose...