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The Novels That Really Want To Change The World? Satires
"'Satire ... does not come with some kind of manifesto for a better world. It tells you what's wrong; it doesn't tell you what...
Holocaust Museum LA Plans To Transform Itself With Major Expansion
When it moved into its current location in 2010, the museum expected 15,000 visitors a year; by 2020, it was getting 65,000. Now, with...
Hip-Hop Does Not Owe Anyone Political Consciousness Or Moral Virtue
"To generations of listeners, Public Enemy were the ideal of a hip-hop group: fiery and politically engaged, marching through the streets to demand change....
How Three New York City Ballet Dancers Prepared Themselves For An Uncertain Return To...
Gia Kourlas: "To get a better understanding of what this strange time has been like, I checked in with … a member of the...
60-Hour Workweeks Are Regular In Film And TV All Over The World: Survey
"A global survey of working conditions has found long working hours are now the norm across the film and television industries worldwide, with 50-...
A Wave Of Unionizing At US Museums, With Baltimore The Most Recent
"Workers at the Baltimore Museum of Art have announced plans to form a union, making the employees the latest in a nationwide push for...
Protesters Picket Opening Night At Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre
"The protest is a revival of efforts this summer …(against) what they describe as a toxic culture. … Former employees passed out fliers decrying...
Houston Symphony And Musicians Sign Longest Contract In Their History
"The contract went into effect Oct. 1 and runs through Oct. 3, 2026. The deal includes matters of health care, restoration of the musicians'...
Plagued By Internal Turmoil, American Shakespeare Center Cancels Fall Season
"(With) the Staunton, Va.-based troupe, known for its Elizabethan-style, no-frills approach to the classics, … convulsed by defections and division, it has abruptly canceled...
Nobel Prize For Literature 2021 Goes To Tanzanian Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
The author of ten novels, born and raised on Zanzibar and resettled in England as a refugee in the 1960s, was cited for "his...
NYT Jazz And Classical Critics Go Back And Forth Over Met Opera’s “Fire Shut...
Though this opera isn't Terence Blanchard's first work to qualify as contemporary classical, he's best known as a jazz drummer and film score composer....
Nigel Kennedy: Liberace Of The Violin Or Latter-Day Paganini? Or…
"Paganini may be a better comparison: a restless figure of astonishing ability, despised by (some) as a circus performer and accused by others of...
Director Of New Version Of “Scenes From A Marriage” Explains Why He Flipped The...
"One of the problems that I had when I started working is that I couldn't live with Johan. … And whenever I tried to...
Improv Comedy As The Vanguard Of Socialism?
"More than a year and a half into the pandemic, we've come to expect the unexpected. Perhaps the socialist revolution can start in an...
Get M.A.D.D. — This Chicago Company Is Transforming Tap Dance
"Short for 'Making a Difference Dancing Rhythms,' the tap dance company marks its 20th official season this year. … Today, M.A.D.D. Rhythms remains deeply...
How The Booker Prize Became Such A Big Deal
Charlotte Higgins: "It was by such steps" as well-timed leaks and carefully fanned disagreements "that the Booker became not just a book prize, but...
Veteran New York Antiquities Dealer Pleads Guilty To Trafficking In Looted Objects
"Nancy Wiener, 66, whose mother had also been a well-known expert in the field, acknowledged Thursday that she had taken possession of items that...
Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Withdraws “Slave Play” From L.A. Run
The 12-time-Tony-nominated play was to open in February at the Center Theater Group's Mark Taper Forum. But the CTG has only one play by...
France’s Leading Literary Award Finally Makes Nepotism Against The Rules
Following this year's conflict-of-interest scandal (not the first), administrators of the Prix Goncourt have declared that any book by a family member or unmarried...
Two Of Shanghai’s Major Museums Close Without Explanation
Last week the Long Museum West Bund shut for "facility maintenance," though it reopened two days later. Then the Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum announced,...
Gramophone Awards 2021: “Peter Grimes” Is Recording Of The Year, Minnesota Is Orchestra Of...
The Chandos release of Britten's opera stars Stuart Skelton with Edward Gardner conducting the Bergen Philharmonic; the Minnesota Orchestra took honors in its final...
Africa’s Film Industries Could Create 20 Million Jobs: UNESCO Study
"Most creative industries in (sub-Saharan) Africa were grossly underserved," — the major exceptions being Nigeria and Senegal — "in part due to the failure...
“Abstraction, I Think, Is Now Over,” Writes David Hockney
"It's run its course. … Its job was to take away the shadows that had dominated European art for centuries. It was only European...
Why Some College Dance Classes That Went Online During The Pandemic May Stay Online...
Some dance departments have found that lecture courses such as dance history and anatomy work perfectly well virtually (and give students some scheduling flexibility...
What Does A 550-Year-Old Tapestry Look Like After Four Years Of Cleaning? This.
The artwork, the oldest tapestry in the possession of the UK's National Trust, underwent 1,300 hours of conservation. While the colors are brighter and...