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Season Three Of ‘Serial’ Is Headed To HBO
"The third season of the award-winning podcast, which arguably set in motion the current boom for non-fiction audio series, was set in the Cleveland...
Running The Prix De Lausanne Ballet Competition Despite The Pandemic
Since this year's 78 contestants from 20 countries can't travel to Switzerland, they're submitting pre-recorded videos. The jury members (masked and socially distanced, of...
These Classical Music Organizations Have Always Been Focused On Racial Equity
The long-overdue work that larger institutions have started on in the wake of last summer's Black Lives Matter protests has been the day-in-day-out project...
Pakistan’s Submission For This Year’s Oscars Is Banned In Pakistan
The director, Sarmad Khoosat, is (or was) a popular member of one of the country's most beloved entertainment families; the film itself, Zindagi Tamasha...
Stand-Up Comedian Jailed For Jokes He Hadn’t Told Yet
On New Year's Day, Munawar Faruqui, a rising talent in India's relatively new comedy circuit, was starting off a two-week tour with a gig...
Will The Big U.S. Publishing Houses Be Backing Away From Conservative Political Books?
"There are some in the industry who believe houses have a responsibility to publish a wide range of viewpoints, seeing it as a First...
‘A $75 Million Bet That The Future Of Photography Won’t Always Involve Cameras’
"Leading stock photography company Shutterstock announced today that it has acquired TurboSquid, a digital media company that sells 3D assets, for $75 million. The...
In Rape Case, Filmmaker Luc Besson Is — Well, Not Exonerated, Exactly …
The charge by actress Sand Van Roy was first made in May 2018; it was dismissed for lack of evidence nine months later, and...
Pompeii’s Museum Is Completely Open For First Time In Decades
"The Antiquarium, a museum located on the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii, fully reopened this week for the first time in more...
Sculptor Barry Le Va Dead At 79
" became part of the New York art scene during the late 1960s and went on to be associated with the Process art and...
Matter
An arts organization must come to matter to the community. When it matters, the community will support it. But how do arts organizations come...
Native American Languages Could Become Another Casualty Of COVID
Jodi Archambault: "As COVID-19 takes a fearsome toll on our people, it also threatens the progress we have made to save our languages. The...
Andreas Delfs Named Music Director Of Rochester Philharmonic
The 61-year-old conductor spent a dozen years as music director of the Milwaukee Symphony (1997-2009). "Once reportedly accustomed to a few sellout audiences a...
Twenty-One Young Composers For 2021
Michael Andor Brodeur: "There is really no playlist to match this unstable, uncertain moment. And, honestly, right now I'm less interested in rummaging through...
The Playwright We Need To Snap Us Out Of The Past Four Years Is...
"Telling a lie over and over can make it seem true. It can also remove agency from the viewer, ceding the individual's judgement over...
André Gregory: What I Learned From Brecht (And His Wife)
"As I was at the beginning of my education as a young director, as well as a nervous, nerdy intellectual, I asked Helene Weigel...
City Of Austin Announced Major Overhaul Of Its Arts Funding Program, And Local Arts...
"Staff with the city's Cultural Arts Division unveiled an entirely new funding system in mid-December that, among other changes, lowers the funding cap for...
Metropolitan Opera Hires Harvard Law Dean As Chief Diversity Officer
"Marcia Sells — a former dancer who became an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn and the dean of students at Harvard Law School —...
Milwaukee Ballet Plans Return To Mainstage Performance In June
As it did with its abbreviated Nutcracker in December, the company will do its first two productions of 2021 before an in-person audience of...
While Lockdown Keeps The Hordes Away, The Louvre Is Fixing Itself Up
"The world's most visited museum — a record 10 million in 2019, mostly from overseas — is grappling with its longest closure since World...
Paris’s Pompidou Centre Will Close For Three-To-Four-Year Renovation
"'We no longer have a choice, the building is in distress,' Centre Pompidou president Serge Lasvignes told Le Figaro of the extensive upkeep needed...
Looking for a Fugitive Rainbow — A Very Transient “Gift” to the Bidens
Laura Baptiste, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s always-helpful chief of communications, found herself dealing with misinformation disseminated in a number of news reports after...
Joseph Conyers on Being an Artist Entrepreneur
The Philadelphia Orchestra bassist and entrepreneur shares the passions that have fueled his success. - Aaron Dworkin
What It Took To Program Robots To Dance The Twist And The Mashed Potato
A video which became a viral hit last month "shows two of Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas research robots doing the twist, the mashed potato...
Why I Make Undergrads Read Unfinished Novels
Matthew Redmond teaches this class at Stanford in part "to disrupt what seems an obvious distinction between development and result, closure and continuity. On...