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Florida Man Says He’s The One Who Invented Invisible Sculpture, May Sue Artist Who...
In early June in Milan, conceptual artist Salvatore Garau auctioned off an "immaterial sculpture" for €15,000. Now performance artist Tom Miller points out that...
The Maestro Who’s Bringing Period Instruments To Ravel, Mahler, And Stravinsky
François-Xavier Roth and his orchestra, Les Siècles, like to play concerts with Rameau in the first half and Ravel in the second, or Debussy...
Lucinda Childs At ’81 On Paper’
"She's most associated with the Judson Dance Theater and New York's downtown arts scene of the '60s and '70s, a hub of radical musicians,...
Let’s Give Mae West Credit As The Auteur She Was
She doesn't get the respect for her pioneering role that, for instance, Ida Lupino does — because her characters and stories were comic, and...
‘La Madre De La Telenovela’, Delia Fiallo, Dead At 96
She started out writing radio serials in 1940s Cuba, switched to TV, fled the Castro regime in 1966 and started over in Miami —...
New York’s First Queer History Museum Will Be Hosted By New York’s First Museum...
As part of a major renovation and expansion of its Central Park West headquarters, the New-York Historical Society (founded 1804) will devote an entire...
Steady And Strong: The State Of Public Media Over The Past Decade
That's the conclusion of a new report from the Pew Research Center. Results for last year in particular were that terrestrial public radio listenership...
Co-Founder Of Philly’s Wilma Theater To Depart After 40 Years
Blanka Zizka, who with then-husband Jiri turned a small, experimental company into a major regional theater, is stepping down just 17 months after she...
This Is The Reason Bill Cosby Got To Walk Out Of Prison
Why did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturn the 83-year-old star's 2018 sexual assault conviction? Because of the Fifth Amendment and a bait-and-switch. Here's a...
San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Up And Quits
"Kelly Tweeddale, the former symphony and opera executive who was hired in 2019 as executive director of the San Francisco Ballet, stepped down from...
Here’s What Will Be At The First Post-COVID Edinburgh Fringe
It's 170 shows rather than the 3,000+ that were standard pre-pandemic, there's still a big online component, many of the shows sill be outdoors,...
Inside The Workshop Where Some Of The World’s Best Pointe Shoes Are Made
A visit to Freed of London, where 24 skilled craftspeople make ballet shoes, many custom-fitted for dancers at the likes of Britain's Royal Ballet...
Donald Barthelme, Maybe The Least Likely New Yorker Writer Ever
"By most standards, many of his stories aren't stories at all. They don't have plots, or even realistic, believable characters. … In the manner...
The Shed Wants You To Play Pokémon Go On The High Line, But With...
The two New York institutions have collaborated on The Looking Glass, an exhibition in which all the artworks are in augmented reality, and you...
Children’s Author Patricia Reilly Giff, Who Wrote The Kids Of The Polk Street School...
"Over nearly half a century, more than 100 books for young readers. She delighted younger ones with the adventures, misadventures and high jinks...
Why The Minister Who Slashed Britain’s Funding Of Museums Is Now Chairman Of Its...
George Osbourne, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in David Cameron's Conservative government from 2010 to 2016, instituted savage cuts to the budgets of...
Fox News To Pay $1 Million Fine To New York City
The settlement with the city's Commission on Human Rights is for "a pattern of violating of the NYC Human Rights Law" — that is,...
‘Hamilton’ Has Grossed $650 Million. Why Did It Get At Least $30 Million In...
The Broadway production and each of the show's touring companies are incorporated separately, and each corporation can qualify for a $10 million Shuttered Venue...
Storm Blows Roof Off Stuttgart’s Opera House
On Monday night, pieces of the building flew onto the ground; water flowed down the lighting rigs and flooded parts of the stage —...
Houston Grand Opera Names New General Director, Opera San Jose’s Khori Dastoor
The former soprano only became general director of the company in 2019, though she worked in administration starting in 2013 and started her career...
Choreographer Jan Fabre To Stand Trial For Abuse Of Power, Sexual Harassment
Serious allegations made by current and former dancers in his Antwerp company, Troubleyn, became public in 2018. After a lengthy investigation, that city's labor...
Dutch Government Makes Big Change In Restitution Of Nazi-Looted Art
"Particularly significant is the Dutch Government's new approach to 'heirless art.' … Now, in cases where no heirs can be identified, any artwork deemed...
An Intimacy Coordinator Explains How Exactly He Works On Set
"Your boundaries can change given the person, given who's in the room, given I'm on a sofa not a bed, that changes how I...
A New American Heroine: Sapphire’s ‘Push’ At 25
Tayari Jones: "The miracle of Sapphire's gift is that she weaves her sharp social commentary and critique into the fabric of this story without...
Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ To Be Cut By Half
Before the pandemic, the award-winning hit played in two parts running a total of more than five hours. As theaters reopen, Cursed Child will...
