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Hindu Supremacists Force Shutdown Of Indian Theatre Festival
"The annual theatre festival organised by the Indian People's Theatre Association in the small town of Chhatarpur became the object of abuse and violent...
Inside The Implosion Of ‘Reply All’: Where The Fallout Fell
The conflict over the podcast's, and producing company Gimlet Media's, diversity and equity problems unfolded amidst a fraught unionization campaign and negotiations for the...
The Implosion of ‘Reply All’ And How Gimlet Media Went Awry
When Reply All, Gimlet's tentpole podcast, began airing a four-part series about the reportedly unhealthy and racially exclusionary workplace atmosphere at Bon Appétit magazine,...
Inventor Of The Cassette Tape, Lou Ottens, Dead At 94
As chief of new product development for Philips in 1960, Ottens invented the first portable tape recorder. But it was reel-to-reel, a format which...
Men Dancing En Pointe: Why Should Only The Women Get To Do It?
Dancing on the tips of the toes has always been part of the ballerina mystique; traditionally, men have done it only for comedy. Now...
The Switch To Virtual Concerts Has Changed These Musicians’ Work Permanently
"It seems like a good time, as the pandemic continues to block live performances in all but a few socially distanced, outdoor shows, to...
Yahoo News Is On TikTok? Yes, And It Has Over A Million Followers
Yahoo may be seen by much of the minivideo app's Gen Z core audience as a dinosaur, but Yahoo News has been on TikTok...
How The Arts Can Be A Tool In Community Wealth-Building
"Too often, arts-based approaches undermine rather than support equity, as Richard Florida … now acknowledges. … How does one ensure arts-based development avoids this...
Touring Broadway Shows Are Gearing Up To Restart In The Fall
"Subscription packages for some of Broadway's biggest hits are being sold at a handful of the nation's performing arts centers, while a host of...
These Fragments Were Dismissed As Fake 140 Years Ago. Were They Actually The Oldest...
An antiquities dealer in Jerusalem came forward in 1883 with what he claimed were fragments of the original book of Deuteronomy. After scholars at...
Netherlands Is Creating Master Blueprint For Returning Artworks Looted From Colonies
" On 29 January, the government of prime minister Mark Rutte became the first in Europe to approve a central mechanism for repatriating colonial...
Angry French Arts Workers Occupy Theatres, Demanding Reopening
"Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and … thousands marched in cities across...
What Has An Entire Year Lost To The Pandemic Done To Top Ballet Pros?
"In ballet when you lose a year, you lose a lot. It takes years of sacrifice and training to become a professional, and the...
There’s Nothing New About Cutting Offensive Stuff From Children’s Books, So Calm Down About...
For instance, ugly ethnic stereotypes from the 1920s and '30s were removed from the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books all the way back...
Hollywood Stars, The Theater Needs Your Help!
"In one of the more surprising revelations of the shutdown, it turns out that the American theater has no towering figure even attempting to...
Warner Bros. Has Dropped Pepe Le Pew From Looney Tunes
The amorous/borderline-rapey skunk was cut from Space Jam 2 and is not included in any future projects, though studio sources say that this is...
What It Was Like At The Movies The First Weekend New York’s Cinemas Reopened
Capacity Limits: "Not really an issue for Chaos Walking, a poorly-reviewed mess of a sci-fi adventure." Distancing: "Fortunately, AMC's ordering system handles this well,...
What’s A Conductor Good For? Let A Veteran Orchestral Player Tell You.
"A great maestro, through the sheer force of his or her spiritual presence, can inspire musicians to play not with our hands but with...
Charleston Symphony Eliminates Music Director Position
To cope with the huge income shortfall caused by the pandemic, South Carolina's largest performing arts organization will let go of conductor Ken Lam...
TV Newsman Roger Mudd, 93
" Peabody Award-winning journalist who spent a quarter-century at CBS News and NBC News and came close to becoming a No. 1 network anchorman...
Paris Biennale Is Permanently Discontinued
"The Paris Biennale, founded in 1962 and once the world's most prestigious art fair, is no more. After years of confusion, scandal and strife,...
Jair Bolsonaro Blocks Arts Funding To Brazilian States With Pandemic Lockdowns
"A national culture secretary published the decree last week making clear that proposals under the Rouanet Law, which provides funding to cultural projects on...
Norton Juster, Author Of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’, Dead At 91
"A budding architect with a self-confessed tendency to procrastinate, Mr. Juster … stumbled into literature much as his most famous hero, Milo, stumbles into...
Why The Stonehenge Highway Tunnel Is Really A Good Idea
Archaeologist Timothy Darville: "Much of has been fuelled by negative publicity and misunderstandings about the processes by which archaeological concerns feed into planning...
So What Will The Financiers Who Bought Second City Do With It (Or To)...
"Though private-equity firms are notorious for ruthlessly wringing efficiencies out of the properties they pick up, the investors who just bought one of Chicago's...