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Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia’s Most Famous Dissident Director, Fired From His Moscow Theatre
On Tuesday, Serebrennikov hosted an event at the Gogol Center — which he has directed since its opening in 2012 and which has become...
Dante’s Descendant Wants Poet’s Conviction On Corruption Charges Reversed
In 1302, caught on the wrong side in one of Florence's perpetual factional struggles, Dante Alighieri was fined and banished on a probably trumped-up...
Taking Ballet Class Outdoors In The Middle Of A New York Winter
"Across the city, amateur and professional dancers are donning sneakers, masks and lots of layers to carry on with a familiar ritual that, for...
The Times’s ‘Five Minutes That Will Make You Love {Piano/Sopranos/String Quartets}’ Series? It’s...
Says classical music editor Zachary Woolfe (who came up with the idea in the shower), "It has doubled our audience for classical music. It's...
Staging Theatre In A Row Of Empty Miami Beach Storefront Windows
"The pandemic closed the city on March 13, the eve of the opening of Miami New Drama's first musical. To keep the 5-year-old company...
Why Men Should Spend Less Time Watching Porn And More Time Reading Erotica
"Finding your thrills in erotic literature, rather than in video scenes, might take a little longer, but it means caring more about the characters...
AI Robot Recommends ‘The 67 Best Books To Give A Woman’
"On its face this list is a little concerning — in a few years, robots might render humans' book-recommending jobs obsolete. I, a human...
Golden Globe Nominations 2021: ‘Mank’, ‘The Crown’, ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, ‘Nomadland’
Streaming services thoroughly dominate the roster: Hulu took 9 nominations, Amazon Studios 10, and Netflix a whopping 42. Among notable details: Tom Hanks and...
Mexico Makes Legal Claim To Collection Of Pre-Columbian Art About To Be Sold At...
"The National Institute of Anthropology and History, a division of the Mexico government dedicated to the preservation of cultural artifacts, has filed a legal...
Arts Donations Down By 13% In North America And A Third In Britain —...
Yes, 2020 was a no-good-very-bad year for the arts (and most everything else), but a new study from TRG Arts and Purple Seven has...
South Africa’s Most Versatile, Most Beloved Singer, Sibongile Khumalo, Dead At 63
" a virtuoso vocalist whose ease of motion between opera, jazz and South African popular music made her a symbol of the country’s new...
UK’s Art Dealers Don’t Like New Anti-Money-Laundering Rules, But They’re Practicing Acceptance
"The new regulations … mandate that dealers must conduct specific checks on clients and report suspicious transactions that may suggest money laundering to the...
Man Banned From Library For Life Because He Left Anti-Trump Poem There
A 68-year-old retiree in Seymour, Indiana was a regular visitor to his local branch library and had become friendly with some employees there. In...
Watching Other People Clean Their Houses On YouTube Is Now A Thing
"These aren't Hoarder spinoffs for viewers to gawk at other people's misery, nor are they aspirational home-organizing tutorials where influencers showcase impeccable walk-in closets....
Meet The Choreographer Behind The Viral Stars Of The UCLA Gymnastics Team
Bijoya Das was a gymnast herself from age 6 until an injury in college led her to switch to dance; she's now a successful...
Hermitage’s Major Fabergé Show Is Full Of ‘Tawdry Fakes’, Says Art Dealer
"The explosive claim was made in an open letter to Hermitage boss Mikhail Piotrovsky by Andre Ruzhnikov, who has been buying and selling Fabergé...
Portland’s Classical Radio Station Will Be Recording And Releasing Music By Nonwhite And Women...
When the staff at All Classical Portland was looking at how to add more diversity to its playlists, they found that the biggest limitation...
America’s Leading Black Classics Scholar Says The Field Needs A Complete Overhaul. Is That...
Dan-el Padilla Peralta came to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic at age 4 and grew up extremely poor; it was his childhood fascination...
She Was Fired From ‘The Color Purple’ And Is Suing. But She Would Probably...
Actress Seyi Omooba had been engaged to play Celie in the musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel in Leicester, England in 2019 — but...
Tony Bennett, Age 94, Has Alzheimer’s — But He Can Still Sing
In fact, he recorded his new album of duets with Lady Gaga in sessions spanning 2018 to 2020, and he was first diagnosed with...
Actor Hal Holbrook, 95
In a long career spanning stage, film, and television, he was known for roles ranging from John Adams to Abraham Lincoln to Deep Throat...
Spain Will Pay $7.8 Million A Year To Keep Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection In Madrid
The Spanish government has concluded what is, in effect, a 15-year rental agreement with Baroness Carmen Cervera, the widow of Baron Hans Heinrich von...
World’s Largest Movie Industry Finally Has Its Theatres Back To (Almost) Normal
"India began allowing 100 percent occupancy in cinemas on Monday, lifting a 50 percent cap on seating capacity that had been in place since...
Matthew VanBesien Talks Presenting
Matthew VanBesien, President of the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan, as he talks about the role of presenters in the arts....
Australian Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director Stepping Down After 22 Years
Garry Stewart took the helm at Adelaide-based ADT — which is the country's oldest contemporary dance company — in 1999 and choreographed 20 original...