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Right After His First Post-Lockdown Concerts, Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s Music Director Announces Departure
Josep Caballé Domenech, who succeeded Lawrence Leighton Smith in 2011, said that he'll step down after next season (May 2023), when his current contract...
How Joss Whedon Went From Television Deity And Feminist Hero To Pariah
It's a long tale, and not a simple one, but it makes sense — even, in some ways (but not others), to Whedon himself....
French Actor Gaspard Ulliel Dead At 37 Following Ski Accident
Best known in the anglophone world for the title roles in Hannibal Rising and Saint-Laurent, and one of the stars of the upcoming Marvel...
Molière Is Refused Reburial In The Panthéon, And Une Grande Querelle Breaks Out
Actor-director Francis Huster has campaigned for years for the "father of the French language" to be admitted to the ranks of les immortels. Yet...
Venice Tries The Tulsa Tactic: Luring Remote Tech Workers To Live There
The project, called Venywhere, aims "to convince people who can do their jobs from anywhere to do so in Venice — and its founders...
The Roman Villa With Caravaggio’s Only Ceiling Fresco Did Not Get A Single Bid...
"The estate, known as Villa Aurora, had a price tag of €471 million ($546 million) and could have become the most expensive residential property...
There’s Now A Whole Sub-Genre Of Movies About North American School Shootings
"There has been a range of films" — Zero Day (2002), Elephant (2003), Polytechnique (2009), Beautiful Boy (2010), We Need to Talk About Kevin...
Battles Over School District Book Bans Are Metastasizing
"A pivotal midterm election year, COVID frustrations and a backlash against efforts to call out systemic racism — driven disproportionately by white, suburban and...
Inside The FBI’s Art Crime Team
Italy formed its Carabinieri Art Squad back in 1969, but the US didn't create a dedicated equivalent until 2004. Yet since then, the unit...
Cincinnati Ballet Has A New Artistic Director
Jodie Gates —founding director of USC's Kaufman School of Dance, former assistant to William Forsythe as well as admired choreographer in her own right,...
The UK Government’s Plan To Use Culture To Revive The North Of England
Both Tory ministers and ther Labour counterparts in opposition agree on "a ten-point action plan includ(ing) devolving funding decisions to a regional level from...
Birju Maharaj, India’s Great Master Of Kathak Dance, Dead At 83
Revered as both performer and teacher, "Maharaj was known for his animated facial expressions and light-footed movements, accompanied by the sound of bells he...
Who Was Lorraine Hansberry? A Black Lesbian Communist Who Became A Darling Of Mainstream...
"She achieved literary celebrity but called herself a 'literary failure,' was supported in a marriage that ultimately collapsed, resisted her family but didn't denounce...
“Hopepunk” — Dystopian Sci-Fi Gets An Antidote
"'Cautionary tales are very important,' says Becky Chambers, one of the leading authors associated with the hopepunk movement, who has won a much-coveted Hugo...
What’s The Secret Ingredient That Makes UCLA Gymnastics Team Videos Go Viral? The Choreographer
"In her first two years as UCLA's choreographer, Bijoya 'BJ' Das has set the internet aflame with three viral floor routines. … Breaking the...
The British Are Champions Of Classic Theatre — So Why Do They Shortchange This...
Michael Billington: "In France the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth is being celebrated in a big way. In Britain it has been greeted with...
The World’s First NFT Musical (You Just Knew It Was Coming)
The set of digital collectibles offered by the producers of Ross Golan's The Wrong Man "will be a mix of music, graphics, and film,...
Indigenous Curators Are Helping Museums Reframe The Entire Story Of American Art
"With the aid of curators and artists from Native American backgrounds, curators across the U.S. are broadening narratives, questioning stereotypes, and collapsing categories." -...
Special Grants Let Bay Area BIPOC Arts Groups Get One Of The Most Important...
And that is? Their own real estate. A $3 million Performing Arts Acquisition Fund from the Hewlett Foundation has enabled five community-based groups buy...
CNN+, The Upcoming Streaming Service WarnerMedia Is Hurling Cash At
The news giant has already poached Audie Cornish from NPR and Chris Wallace from Fox for CNN+ (rumor has it they dangled $20 million...
Boris’s Government Says It Will Eliminate The BBC TV License Fee. What Is...
It's the way the BBC is funded — a flat fee, currently £159 ($217) a year, charged to every household in the UK that...
Hamburg’s Massively Expensive Elbphilharmonie Has Proven A Massive Success
By the time the concert hall opened in 2017, it was six years late and had cost €866 million, ten times the initial budget....
The Louvre Threatens To Sue Marine Le Pen For Using Its Image In A...
The far-right National Rally party released a 3½-minute video this weekend showing its presidential candidate speechifying to the camera while walking back and forth...
A Video Of An Egyptian Woman Dancing Went Viral, Her Husband Divorced Her, Her...
"The short video of Aya Youssef, a 30-year-old primary school teacher, shot on a mobile phone shows her wearing a headscarf, trousers and a...
Rethinking The Entire Subscription Model In The Wake Of The Pandemic
After having performances cancelled over and over (and if they're not, performers and programming changing last-minute) — especially in Australia, which has had some...
