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South Korea’s New President Orders Billions To Be Spent On Arts And Culture
"Not even two months after taking office, Yoon Suk-yeol has made a huge investment in the country's culture: a $3.7 billion fund for film,...
The British Museum’s Deputy Director Suggests A “Partnership” With Greece Over The Parthenon Marbles
"(We) want to change the temperature of the debate ... (and) find a way forward around cultural exchange of a level, intensity and dynamism...
Researcher Says He’s Begun To Decipher One of The World’s Most Mysterious Ancient Scripts
Linear Elamite is a set of characters that was used in and around the ancient city of Susa (in modern-day Iran) around 4,000 years...
Gay Soap Operas Are Helping Revive Thailand’s Pandemic-Battered Tourism Industry
"A recent wave of Thai dramas known as 'boys' love' (BL) ... has attracted a large following across Asia," especially among women around age...
Taiwan’s National Palace Museum Is Preparing To Hide Its Collection In Case Xi Jinping...
"With China stepping up military pressure on the self-ruled island, the institution ... which boasts one of the world's finest collections of Chinese imperial...
Teodor Currentzis Is Forming A New Orchestra, This One Not Funded By Russia
"The ensemble, to be called Utopia, will bring together 112 musicians from 28 countries, many of them soloists and principal players in renowned orchestras,...
More “Paradise Square” Drama As Director And Choreographers Sue For Unpaid Compensation
"The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society is seeking to enforce payment of (more than $140,000 in) owed royalties, fees and pension and health contributions...
French Government Declares That Notre-Dame Will Reopen For The 2024 Paris Olympics
Culture minister Rima Abdul-Malak: "We're all quite confident that 2024 will be the year of completing a large part of this reconstruction site and...
Actress Pat Carroll Dead At 95
From the 1950s through the '70s she was star of TV comedies and game shows before reinventing herself, at 50, as a classical stage...
Qin Yi, Last Of China’s “Four Great Actresses” And Whose Career Spanned Chinese Cinema...
"She weathered the ups and downs of 20th-century Chinese history, and thrived under different political realities. ... Her remarkable onscreen life spanned the Chinese...
Melbourne Will Go Three Years With Little Or No Large-Scale Ballet Or Opera
The State Theatre at Arts Centre Melbourne, the city's venue for the Australian Ballet and Opera Australia, is closing in March 2024 for three...
On Stand-Up Comedians And Their Water Bottles
"Their purpose seems obvious — to quench thirst, duh — but stage actors get dry mouths, and no Hamlet puts down his sword to...
Restoring The Cree Language To Everyday Use
"In Maskwacîs — an area with four First Nations reserves on the Alberta prairie between Edmonton and Calgary — Cree, the most widely spoken...
Plans For A New Art Gallery Of Nova Scotia Have Been Put On Ice
"The new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia planned for the Halifax waterfront is on hold. Premier Tim Houston said his government had decided the...
In US Ballet Companies, Far More Men Than Women Are Artistic Directors, but More...
In both positions, though, men are paid more than women in the same job — and for artistic directors at the 50 largest ballet...
How Technology And Social Media Have Changed American Sign Language
It's not only a matter of adjusting signs so that they can be seen on a video chat screen. Think of telephones 100 years...
The Smithsonian Has A Cultural “Rapid-Response Task Force”
The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative began in 2010, initially to help mitigate the damages to museums, churches, and archives in Haiti due to that...
The New Yorker And The Archivist It Just Fired Are Trading Insults On Twitter
The magazine's archive editor, Erin Overbey, was fired last Friday for (per the termination letter) "a pattern of conduct that is disruptive to the...
The Golden Globes And Its Sponsor Sell Themselves To A Private Investment Company
"Eldridge Industries is taking over the Golden Globe Awards, which will be turned into a private entity separate from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's...
Minnesota Orchestra Goes Nordic (Again) For Its Next Music Director
"The 52-year-old Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård succeeds — and bears some resemblance to — Osmo Vänskä, a Finnish conductor who, at age 48, arrived...
Casting Shakespeare’s Richard III Amid Today’s Questions About Opportunity And Representation
The ways three major productions this summer have cast the role — a disabled white actor (England's Royal Shakespeare Co.), an able-bodied Black actress...
Miami Beach Voters Asked To Approve $159 Million Bond Measure For The Arts
The money from the bonds, to be paid back over 30 years from a property tax increase, would go toward capital projects, including artist...
One of the Most Controversial Movies Of The 1970s,”Deliverance”, At 50
"(It's) a powerful exploration of the harshness of the rural landscape, with an ecological message that still resonates. ... In many ways, it defined...
“Prophet Of Doom” Mike Davis Has Terminal Cancer. Does He Have Any Parting Words...
"Uh, no. I've resisted various things, one of which is the writerly idea that you have to write something profound about your termination. I...
Melissa Errico Writes About Being Back On The Road As A Touring “Girl Singer”
"There are others out there, too, crisscrossing the country, living on the lower slopes, and sometimes on the summits, of show business. We are...
