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2024 Kennedy Center Honors Go To Francis Ford Coppola, Bonnie Raitt, Anturo Sandoval, The...
"Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter said there isn’t a theme when selecting the honorees, but one often emerges organically. This year, that accidental...
Ford And Mellon Foundations Name Final Class Of Disability Futures Fellows
"The initiative, (20 unrestricted grants of $50,000 each to disabled creative artists,) administered by United States Artists, named its inaugural class of fellows in...
Boris Kachka, Books Editor Laid Off By L.A. Times, Moves To The Atlantic
Kachka was one of the 115 staffers (roughly 20% of the newsroom) at the Los Angeles Times who were made redundant in January. Before...
How The Sports Novel Reached Adulthood
"For much of its history, the Western sports novel had been the stuff of inspirational boys’ tales, full of moral instruction and can’t-lose heroes....
One Of San Francisco’s Coolest Theaters Is Closing Its Doors
Cutting Ball Theater plans to cease operations at the end of 2024. In its 25 years, Cutting Ball has mounted a Strindberg marathon, a...
The “Yoda-Like Guru” Of Tap Dance
The youngsters who studied with Gene Medler at the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble remain devoted to him and his teaching methods for years...
MOCA In L.A. Launches New $100,000 ‘Environment And Art’ Prize
"Called the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, the (biennial) award, which comes with $100,000, will go to an artist whose practice...
Eat Your Heart Out, Jersey City: Centre Pompidou Málaga Will Remain Open For Ten...
"Debuting as a pop-up along the (Spanish) city’s waterfront in 2015, the 65,000-square-foot museum is notable for the brightly hued glass cube created by...
Pete Wells, New York Times’s Most Entertaining Restaurant Critic Ever, Is Moving On
"A funny thing happened when I got to the end of all that eating: I realized I wasn’t hungry. I’m still not, at least...
Minority-Led Arts Groups In Chicago Are Getting More Money From Donors
"Major arts donors nearly doubled their funding to Chicago groups with diverse leaders and audiences over the past three years, but the authors of...
After Public Radio’s WAMU Closed DCist, Laid-Off Journalists Start New DC News Site
"They are calling it The 51st — a nod to the District’s lack of statehood — and say it will deliver hyperlocal news relevant...
The Message Of Footwear: Jonathon Heyward, The “Converse Conductor”
Wearing sneakers onstage (and a Nehru jacket rather than a tux) is just one of numerous steps which the new Baltimore Symphony music director...
Mounties Seize 138 Pounds Of Cocaine Hidden In Grand Piano
Quebec RCMP say they seized 62.7 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the walls of a grand piano during searches in the Lanaudière and Sherbrooke...
Philadelphia Museum of Art Faces Yet Another Labor Dispute
"The museum workers’ union says management is violating their contract by not allowing employees to work from home up to two days a week...
Now That Breakdancing Is An Olympic Sport, Will Dancers Get Paid Like Athletes?
"The 2024 Olympics could be a turning point for dancers who are accustomed to making a living performing and teaching." What's more, "like dancers,...
Badass Bathing Beauties: A Brief History Of Synchronized Swimming
"Now known at the highest level as 'artistic swimming,' it was for decades one of the few athletic activities women could pursue, albeit in...
Madrid Tries Luring Folks To Spend Scorching Summer Afternoons At Air-Conditioned Arts Venues
"The new programme, called Refúgiate en la cultura (Take Shelter in Culture), offers free flamenco shows – in the Prado, the Reina Sofía and...
Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts Loses Its Chief Curator (And Isn’t Replacing Her)
PAFA chief of curatorial affairs Anna O. Marley is departing for a similar position at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio. The financially...
When Police Came For Her Child-Molesting Husband, Alice Munro Told Them Her Daughter Was...
Retired Ontario Provincial Police Detective Sam Lazarevich recalled coming to arrest Gerald Fremlin in 2004 and the furious reaction from Munro; he remembers thinking...
Chrysler Building, New York’s Most Beautiful Skyscraper, Is In Pretty Sorry Shape
Its iconic crown and fabulous Art Deco lobby are still handsome — if you don't look closely. As the 94-year-old landmark's ownership keeps changing...
German Media Giant Axel Springer, Owner Of Politico And Business Insider, Considers Breaking Itself...
"A potential deal would separate its media assets from its digital classifieds operation, handing the former to CEO Mathias Doepfner and the founder's widow...
Amid Job Cuts, SoCal Public Radio/LAist Appoints New CEO
Alejandra Santamaria, most recently interim president and general manager at Univision Los Angeles, takes the helm at a difficult moment: 28 positions were recently...
Edinburgh Fringe Faces A Shortage Of Venues
"As arts spaces across Scotland’s capital struggle to stay afloat, the number of venues hosting fringe shows this year is among the lowest of...
La Scala’s Superintendent To Leave For Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Dominique Meyer, considered a good manager of the notoriously difficult Milan opera house, has been denied a second term by Italy's nationalist government, which...
Reviving The Lost Spanish Art Of Ringing Church Bells By Hand
Most of the bells in the towers of Spain's churches had been mechanized in the 1970s and '80s, and the machinery is now deteriorating....