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How Samuel L. Jackson Got Booted From One Of The Most Prestigious Historically Black...
His brief period at Morehouse College included his acting debut, his involvement in the civil rights movement, and an unorthodox bit of speech therapy....
A Masterpiece By Bernini, Newly Restored, Shines More Brightly Than Ever
"Art and restoration specialists presented the result in the Cornaro Chapel in St. Mary of the Victory Church (in Rome) on Thursday. The chapel's...
Bollywood Is Coming To Broadway (What Took So Long?)
"Come Fall in Love — The DDLJ Musical, based on the Indian filmmaker Aditya Chopra's 1995 hit Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, which has become...
Dozens Of Museums In Mexico And Central America Are Broke And Near Closure: Report
A study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that "more than 75 percent of (responding museums) said they are facing financial insecurity;...
How Amazon And Its Publishing Arm Are Changing Literature
Parul Sehgal: "The author is dead; long live the service provider. The reader, in turn, has been reborn as a consumer in the contemporary...
The Transformation Of The Gibney Dance Company
When Gina Gibney founded her troupe in 1991, it was your basic single-choreographer ensemble, picking up per-project freelancers. Now The Gibney Company has 12...
A Question In The Wake Of The Alec Baldwin “Rust” Shooting: Who Or What...
"An armorer is tasked with managing all firearms used on set, ensuring they look realistic and are appropriate for the setting. More importantly, they're...
Crew Member Who Handed Alec Baldwin Fatal Prop Gun Had Been Fired For Mishandling...
"The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer last week had been fired from a previous job after a...
She Saved Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center And Merged It With The Philadelphia Orchestra. Now She’s...
When Anne Ewers arrived in 2007, the Kimmel still had $30 million in construction debt. She raised money to pay it off, increased revenue...
Louis Langrée, Cincinnati Symphony And Mostly Mozart Music Director, Has Big New Job In...
As of November 1, the 60-year-old native of France's Alsace region will be the director of the Opéra-Comique. Among his plans are revivals of...
Pompidou Center In Paris To Postpone Renovation Until After 2024 Olympics
"The initial restoration plan involved shutting down the Centre Pompidou for three years from the end of 2023 for essential maintenance work." The question...
Major Social Media Influencer. Black And Queer Activist. Ballet Star. Meet Harper Watters
"The Houston social-media influencer is a gay Black man with a gift for the absurd and a passion for platform heels. He's also a...
Fully Trained Dancers Are Finding A New Home In Burlesque
"For the growing number of women who have found their way to nightlife performance from a concert-dance background, burlesque can feel pretty close to...
Is Eight Shows A Week Too Much To Ask Of Actors?
The schedule is famously wearing, especially for leads in demanding roles. (Come the holidays, they sometimes do ten shows a week.) As Broadway returns...
This May Be The Most Innovative Public Library In The U.S.
The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library in Memphis hosts "financial literacy seminars, jazz concerts, cooking classes, and many other events — more than 7,000...
The “Immersive Transcript”, A New Way To Make Podcasts Accessible To Deaf Audiences
"Transcripts are hardly uncommon in podcasting but they're often an afterthought, littered with omissions and inaccuracies thanks to automated transcription. … For their new...
The High-Tide Flooding In Venice Is Only Getting Worse
Says the chief caretaker of St. Mark's, which sits at the city's lowest point, "I can only say that in August, a month when...
Unknown Arshile Gorky Painting Discovered Behind Later Artwork On Paper
The newly discovered work, called Untitled (Virginia Summer) and dated ca. 1946-47, was found when the Arshile Gorky Foundation sent out The Limit (1947)...
Pianist Yundi Li Arrested On Immorality Charge In Beijing
Li, who earned fame in the West in the '00s and became a household name in China, was arrested with a sex worker —...
Alec Baldwin, Firing Prop Gun On Set, Kills Cinematographer And Wounds Director
While filming a scene on location near Santa Fe for the feature Rust, which he co-wrote, is producing and stars in, Baldwin discharged a...
Bernard Haitink, Revered Conductor, Dead At 92
Known especially for his Mahler and Bruckner, Haitink had long tenures at the helm of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, Royal Opera...
Facebook Agrees To Pay News Outlets In France For Content
"Facebook said Thursday that it has struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that...
What Monica Lewinsky’s Documentary About Public Shaming Completely Misunderstands
In HBO's 15 Minutes of Shame, Lewinsky — the prototype victim of worldwide public humiliation via the media — argues that today's Twitter-driven pile-ons...
Is This 12 Hours Of Documentary Theatre Or Is It Displaying People As If...
The show 12 Last Songs at Leeds Playhouse consists solely of dozens of people talking about, or actually doing, what they do for a...
Tribute Or Marketing Stunt (Or Both)? Secretive Seattle Street Artist Stalks Manhattan Recreating “Shadowman”
Richard Hambleton painted his dark silhouette figures around the Lower East Side in the 1980s, becoming "the godfather of street art." The artist known...
