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Stage Actors In Paris Offer ‘Poetic Consultations’ By Phone
"'I am calling you for a poetic consultation,' said a warm voice on the telephone. 'It all starts with a very simple question: How...
The Nobel Winner Who’s Not All That Crazy About Writing
Kazuo Ishiguro: "In some ways, I suppose, I'm just not that dedicated to my vocation. I expect it's because writing wasn’t my first choice...
Gov’t Shuts Down Hungary’s Last Independent Radio Station
"When the faithful listeners to Klubrádió, a talk radio station that has been a beacon of free speech in Hungary, tuned in last Monday,...
Whatever The Pandemic May Have Thrown At You, There’s A German Word For It
"Over the past year, German has coined some 1,000-plus new terms endemic to the Now Times. … And that's thanks to the language's rules...
Daughter Of Israel’s Most Famous Author Accuses Him Of ‘Sadistic Abuse’
In the opening lines of her new memoir, the second daughter of Amos Oz, Galia, wrote, "In my childhood, my father beat me, swore...
As They Stream Their Work, Theater Companies Find A New, Far-Flung Public
"Across the country, and beyond its borders, many theaters say new audiences for their streaming offerings has been an unexpected silver lining — one...
Silas Farley, 26, Will Be Dean Of Dance At Colburn School In L.A.
Farley raised eyebrows last June when he retired from New York City Ballet at such a young age, but he had already been choreographing...
Collection Worth $400 Million Donated To Seattle Art Museum
" 19 20th-century abstract expressionist and European masterworks — including those by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning — from the Lang Collection, once...
Union Is Actively Campaigning Against Donations To Met Opera
As the pandemic and the consequent furlough of Met employees drag on, and as negotiations over a new contract have broken down (the old...
COVID Killed Two-Thirds Of All Arts And Recreation Jobs In NYC
"Employment in New York City's arts, entertainment and recreation sector plummeted by 66 percent from December 2019 to December 2020, according to a report...
Brexit Is Far More Damaging Than COVID, Say British Theatre And Dance Companies
Says the executive producer at one major troupe, "Brexit will have the bigger impact because it's a long-term restriction. We're a flexible, dynamic sector...
Van Gogh Painting Unseen For More Than 130 Years Now On View
"A Street Scene In Montmartre has been owned by a French family for most of the time since it was painted in 1887. Sotheby's...
How To Increase Equity For Blacks In Dance? ‘Ask Different Questions’
Choreographer Robert Moses: "The notion of change is sophomoric. The idea is to give people honest opportunity to be part of whatever they're intending...
The Relativity Switch
This story may sound like a metaphor. But it’s actually a case-in-point. - Andrew Taylor
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101; His Pictures of a Gone World Remain
A literary era passes. It was already past, yet it still has influence. My account is minimal in the scheme of things but here...
Jazz beats the virus online
Chicago presenters of jazz and new music, and journalists from Madrid to the Bay Area, vocalist Kurt Elling, trumpeter Orbert Davis and pianist Lafayette...
Turkish Government Harasses Kurdish Theater, Accusing It Of ‘Terrorist Propaganda’
"In a country where Turkish is the only official language, speaking Kurdish is sometimes seen as an act of rebellion." (It is the mother...
Critics Say The Prado Broke The Law When It Acquired A 20th-Century Painting
"The Prado paid €70,000 (around $85,000) for La Boulonnaise, a 1929 work by the Spanish painter María Blanchard. … But the move has riled...
Gérard Depardieu Formally Charged With Rape And Sexual Assault
"An actor in her 20s … accuses Depardieu of having raped and assaulted her at his Parisian home on two separate occasions in August...
Slate Suspends Podcast Host Mike Pesca After Internal Slack Chat About N-Word
Pesca, a public radio veteran who has been hosting Slate's daily news podcast, The Gist, since 2012, was suspended indefinitely without pay this week...
Pandemic Has Knocked Out Oscar Campaign Season, So Awards May Get Weird
"The process helps winnow the field of competing films for upcoming awards shows, a kind of hive mind forming around the season's leading...
UK Museum Workers’ Unions Fear Boris Johnson’s Government Wants To ‘Airbrush’ British History
"Prospect, the FDA union and PCS union wrote that their members were 'deeply worried' that the government was challenging the independence of museums and...
Spotify Is About To Open In 85 More Countries
The move adds a billion more potential customers to the market for the audio streaming giant, which will now be available in 178 countries...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Backbone Of San Francisco’s Literary Scene, Dead At 101
A poet in his own right as well as proprietor of the bookstore and publishing house City Lights, Ferlinghetti became famous in 1957 when...
After Six Years, Google News May Be Returning To Spain
"Google is negotiating individual licensing deals with a divided Spanish news industry that could allow the U.S. tech giant's news service to resume in...