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Black Dancer Sidelined At Berlin State Ballet Won’t Give Up Struggle
"Berlin first black dancer, Chloé Lopes Gomes, said she has been made to feel different because of her skin colour since she first...
The Prado Will Re-Hang Its Collection To Feature More Work By Women And Non-Spaniards
" has announced plans to make a 'far more inclusive' place by reordering its permanent collection to ensure greater representation of works by...
Art Collector/Felon Tries To Redeem His Reputation With Museums (Built With Spaniards’ Tax Money)
" Polo, a financier whose roller-coaster career included a major art fraud scandal that landed him in prison, has recently resurfaced in central Spain,...
Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Reveals Second Cancer Diagnosis
The Oscar-winning electronic music legend was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, though he was back to making records by 2017 and the disease...
Boris Johnson’s Gov’t Passes On Pursuing Visa Waiver For British Musicians Touring EU
"The Musicians' Union (MU) has been lobbying for the creation of a 'musicians' passport' that would last at least two years, cost nothing or...
Hungary Orders Warning Labels Put On Books With LGBTQ Content
After the small queer women's publisher Labrisz released a book of fairytales, titled Wonderland Is For Everyone, that includes LGBTQ characters, the right-wing government...
A Concert Series Programmed For You To Stream While Going To Sleep
The Philadelphia new-music producer Bowerbird has planned a set of seven concerts, each timed for 10:00 or 11:00 pm, that aim to put listeners...
Here’s One Country Where Print Magazines Have Come Roaring Back From The Dead
Just a year ago, one of New Zealand's largest magazine publishers decided to shut itself off and sell off its titles (if it could),...
Remembering The Other Nijinsky — And How She Changed Dance
"The Nijinsky name, however, does not belong to alone. In an era where static positions were the marrow of classical dance, Nijinska...
Reasoning Behind Tories’ Protect-Monuments-From-Mobs Law Is Rubbish
Charlotte Higgins: "What is happening in reality – and to a greater or lesser extent has been happening for years – is a reappraisal...
Boris Johnson’s Government Prepares Law To Protect Public Monuments From ‘Baying Mobs’
"The legislation would require planning permission for any changes and a minister would be given the final veto. … The plans follow the toppling...
Late-Night TV Writers Dish On The Hard Work Of Writing Jokes About Trump
"Ahead of Biden's inauguration, Vulture spoke with multiple late-night writers who either still work or previously worked for Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Trevor Noah,...
Take It From A Times Theater Critic: The Trump-To-Shakespeare Analogies Really Don’t Work
Jesse Green: "I admit that I do it too. … But even these comparisons are reductive — in both directions. Shakespeare's characters are much...
Egyptian Queen’s 4,200-Year-Old Tomb, 13-Foot Papyrus, And Even More Painted Coffins: The Latest Treasures...
"Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities has revealed details of the latest landmark discoveries to emerge from the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo. The vast burial...
With New Contract, SoCal’s Pacific Symphony Can Start Playing Again
Last week the Orange County orchestra's musicians and management agreed on a four-year contract, running through the 2023-24 season. "Crucially, the agreement lays out...
Trump’s NEA Chair Departs As Biden Administration Arrives
"National Endowment for the Arts chairwoman Mary Anne Carter has resigned as head of the federal agency, telling her staff in a letter sent...
BBC Faces ‘Financial Risk’ As Viewers’ Habits Change
The UK's national broadcaster is funded by mandatory license fees, charged annually to every household that owns a television set. But as more and...
Founders Of Belarus Free Theatre Get Death Threats From Lukashenko Government
"We will definitely find you … and we will hang you side by side." So said a column in Sovietska Belarus, the more-or-less official...
‘Für Elise” — Igor Levit Says That Piece You Hate From Piano Lessons Is...
"It's just emptiness. How great must a composer be to allow himself to write about nothing?" The pianist has a go at persuading Joshua...
How Did American Theater Deal With The Trump Era? Urgently
"For the most part, it didn't aim straight at the president. … Rather, producers elevated formally adventurous, politically incendiary plays — like Heidi Schreck's...
Black Ballet Dancers Talk About How To Move Toward Equity And Inclusion
Black artists From Boston Ballet, ABT, New York City Ballet, BalletMet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Tanzcompany Innsbruck, the Trocks, and the pool of freelance...
First New Blue Pigment In Two Centuries Now Available To Public
"YInMn Blue, the brilliant pigment discovered in 2009 at an Oregon State University lab, … was finally approved by the EPA for use in...
Streaming Giants From U.S. May End Up Saving Canadian TV Industry
"Canada forcing Netflix and other foreign streamers to pour $800 million annually into local Canadian content will be a lifeline for world-beating creators, say...
Philip J. Smith, Chairman Of Shubert Organization, Dead Of COVID At 89
"A low-key businessman who started as a movie usher, presided for more than a decade over the nation's oldest and largest theatrical company,...
UK Arts Venues Sigh With Relief As Supreme Court Rules Insurers Must Pay COVID...
"The case has been rumbling on for a while, triggered when a variety of insurance companies stated that their business interruption schemes did not...