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Suspect In Stabbings At MoMA Arrested In Philadelphia
Gary Cabana was apprehended while napping on a bench in the city's Greyhound bus station early Tuesday morning. Philadelphia police had been looking for...
Rachmaninov, Russian Culture, And Putin’s Atrocity In Ukraine
"It is desperately ironic that Rachmaninov's experience — being held personally accountable for the actions of a government he despised — is being repeated...
Choreographers For Film And TV Are Forming A New Labor Union
"So what is owed to the creators of the choreography that's helping movies, television shows, music videos, and social media campaigns earn millions of...
How Ukrainians Are Using Books To Defend Against Russian Attacks
After Putin invaded Crimea and the Donbas, the government in Kyiv began giving extra support to Ukrainian-language writing and media; publishing flourished, and Ukrainians...
This Is The Question About Black Life In America That Underlies Dominique Morisseau’s Plays
"Getting free in the past, it's just getting free. Like, you're literally in bondage. Getting free in the present is a very different thing....
Even Pointe Shoes Have Been Affected By The Global Supply Chain Mess
"Amy Taylor, the director of production for Kansas City Ballet who also manages shoe orders, says, 'I've had to go to one of (my...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Plans Big Move Into Film And TV
Announcing the hiring of two senior executives with screen industry experience for his Really Useful Group, the musical theatre mogul said, "While I am...
Early In The Pandemic, Did Unrestricted Funding Gifts Keep Arts Organizations Afloat? Here’s What...
Earned revenue plummeted, of course, while government grants and private donations tried to fill the gap. "Were they enough for organizations in the sector...
Three Major Baltimore Arts Institutions Are Looking For New Leaders. Is Now The Time...
The city is two-thirds Black, and the choice of a Black candidate at one or more of them — the American Visionary Art Museum...
Last Summer Alone, Authorities Seized Nearly 10,000 Looted Artifacts
"International law enforcement authorities in 28 countries executing the latest phase of Operation Pandora, an international crackdown on illegal cultural goods trafficking, seized 9,408...
Actor Jussie Smollett Sentenced To Jail, Probation For Faking A Hate Crime
"Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced Thursday to 30 months of felony probation, including 150 days in jail, and ordered to pay restitution...
The Slow Death Of The Second-Run Movie Theater
Time was, folks on a budget could see a film at cinemas where titles that were no longer brand-new were shown at discounted ticket...
Mezzo-Soprano Josephine Veasey Dead At 91
She sang with such conductors as Bernstein, Solti, and Karajan (whom she told she wouldn't work with him again), with a repertoire from Mozart...
After A COVID-Wracked Winter, Broadway Producers Anticipate A Big Spring Comeback
The holiday season in particular was plagued by constant cast changes or cancellations when someone in the company got sick or tested positive. With...
The First Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of Indian Art Is About To Arrive (And It’s Written...
The open-source online project — started by Bangalore's Museum of Art and Photography, with entries written by Indian experts — will include textiles and...
Jewelry Retailer Van Cleef & Arpels Launches A New Contemporary Dance Festival
Dance Reflections, which will be held in a different city each year, debuts in London March 9-23 with a program featuring contemporary classics by...
How To Fill In All The Gaps We Have In Ancient Greek Texts? Artificial...
"Artificial intelligence could bring to life lost texts, from imperial decrees to the poems of Sappho, researchers have revealed, after developing a system that...
Audible Goes All In On Its Push Into Live Theater
"The company, which created its theater division just five years ago, has already released 93 audio theater works, ... commissioning new work from 55...
Presenters Are Cancelling Performances By This 20-Year-Old Antiwar Russian Pianist. Should They Be?
Alexander Malofeev traveled to Canada for a concert this week with the Vancouver Recital Society and a Prokofiev concerto this weekend with the Montreal...
Is Business Finally Turning Around At Long-Troubled Barnes & Noble?
In 2019, after years of management turmoil and falling revenue, James Daunt (who turned around British chain Waterstones) was brought in to fix things. ...
Ukrainian Sculptor From Berlin Stays In Lviv To Help Build Anti-Tank Defenses
Volo Bevza and several others have set themselves up in a metal workshop to build steel tank obstacles called "hedgehogs," which look like small...
As The Authorities Drop Mask and Vaccination Requirements For Indoor Spaces, Should The Arts...
"In interviews, leaders of almost a dozen cultural groups across the country emphasized the need for caution and carefulness. But they noted that each...
Russia Used Interpol To Get Italy To Arrest Ukrainian Opera Director
"Yevhen (Eugene) Lavrenchuk was imprisoned in Naples for more than two months after Russia issued a call for his arrest through Interpol's 'red notice'"...
How Little Has Survived Of Medieval European Literature? More, And Less, Than One Might...
"A team using techniques more commonly used to track wildlife estimates that 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works produced in medieval Europe survive...
A Different Way To Approach Deciphering Quipu, The Incas’ Knotted-String Language?
Scholar Silvia Ferrara suggests that — since we don't have a Rosetta Cord giving us a text side-by-side in Inca knots and Spanish letters...
