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Hugues Gall, Civil Servant Who Reformed The Paris Opera, Is Dead At 84
After 15 years running Geneva's opera house, he returned to Paris to restore the national opera after years of shrinking audiences, administrative turmoil, the...
Audiobook Sales In The U.S. Reached $2 Billion In 2023
"The most avid audiobook listeners consumed an average of 6.8 titles in 2023, the survey found, marking an increase from 6.3 in 2022. Among...
The Louisiana Librarian Who Sued The Wingnuts That Said She Was Giving Kids Porn
"Amanda Jones vividly remembers the time she received her first death threat. … Jones lost 50 pounds, took medical leave from work and watched...
How Broadway’s Latest Revival Of “Cabaret” Became A Red-Hot Ticket Despite (Or Because Of)...
For every rave like Entertainment Weekly's ("jaw-droppingly gorgeous from start to finish"), there's a critique like this from The New York Times ("too often...
Exit Interview: Stoner Winslett On Her 44 Years As Artistic Director Of Virginia’s Richmond...
"In the decades since she founded Richmond Ballet in 1980, she has grown the organization from a local troupe of 12 dancers with an...
Edinburgh’s Arts Community Up In Arms As One Of Its Favorite Venues Is Put...
"Summerhall, … (a) complex of galleries, theatres and a cinema … housed in the city’s former veterinary school, has earned a reputation as one...
Faced With Declining Attendance, Some U.S. Museums Are Trying “Radical Hospitality”
That's the term SFMOMA director Christopher Bedford uses; Hirshhorn Museum director Melissa Chiu calls it "radical accessibility." Ted Loos reports on how those two...
Ruth Reinhardt Named Music Director Of Rhode Island Philharmonic
A former assistant conductor at the Dallas Symphony and Dudamel Fellow at the L.A. Philharmonic, the 36-year-old German takes up her position in the...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Strikes A Monet At The Musée d’Orsay
"The activist targeted (Monet's) 'Poppy Field' ..., affixing a sticker that covered about half the painting with an apocalyptic vision of the same scene....
More Public Radio Layoffs, This Time In Louisville
"Louisville Public Media … says it has an operating budget deficit of $755,000. To make up for the shortfall, it’s laying off six full-time...
Philadelphia’s University Of The Arts Is Closing For Good In One Week, Says Its...
The school, which has seen a big drop in enrollment over the past five years, had not notified staff or students as of this...
Getting British Orchestral Musicians To Play Pakistani Sufi Music Is Easier Than You’d Think
Rushil Ranjan of Orchestral Qawwali Project: "I find it astounding how much (they) can draw from 90 minutes of repertoire with just a three-hour...
“I Still Can’t Look At My Nonfiction Shelf Without Flinching A Little” — Ed...
"When you’re searching for excellence, even books you might have enjoyed under normal circumstances start looking mediocre, and the process quickly becomes a slog...
When Art Institute Of Chicago Students Put Henri Matisse On Trial
"In 1913, on the last day of the history-making Armory Show, … displeased with ... Matisse’s Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra), the students accused...
Want To Know Why There’s Really No Oscar For Best Stunts?
Critic Bilge Ebiri, who's been advocating for such an award for years, walks through, and takes down, the arguments that have for decades been...
Audience Member Sues Madonna And Live Nation For Ambushing Him With “Pornography”
While he's also angry that the concert started late, the arena was hot, and Madonna was lip-synching, his legal complaint says, "During the performance...
The Fight To Save Louisiana’s Only French-Language TV Programming
With funding from the state, Télé-Louisiane has been airing, on Louisiana Public Broadcasting, a weekly news-and-culture program called La Veillée and a children's cartoon,...
How A Self-Help Book With No Publisher And No Brick-And-Mortar-Bookstore Presence Sold Over A...
TikTok, that's how. With The Shadow Work Journal, Keila Shaheen has become "perhaps the first self-published nonfiction author to break out in a big...
Colombia Bans Bullfighting
"The bill calls for ... making the tradition illegal by the start of 2028. The new law now needs to be signed by President...
Canada’s National Ballet School May Be Forced To Rescind Offers To Overseas Students
"Canada’s National Ballet School says it may be forced to rescind or defer offers for its competitive teacher-training program because its status as a...
Foundation Plans A 100,000-Square-Foot Arts Campus In A Working-Class Philadelphia Neighborhood
"The Forman Arts Initiative, an arts organization that awards grants to local creatives and arts nonprofits, plans to renovate four buildings on American Street...
Edinburgh Int’l Book Festival Also Gives Up Baillie Gifford Sponsorship (Also Under Pressure)
The decision comes just a week after the Hay Festival cut funding ties with the investment firm. Both festivals cite "intolerable pressure," referring to...
The Freaky, Fetishistic, Ferocious, Fascinating Flamenco Of Rocío Molina
"She moves in jaw-dropping ways: unexpected, angular, sometimes comical, intense, mesmerising, with blistering technique. … That’s just her dancing. Then there are the productions...
How Director Mary Friedman Solved The Riddle Of Sondheim’s Notoriously Challenging “Merrily We Roll...
"Casting, casting, casting is the obvious answer," writes Charles McNulty, "though there’s a bit more to it than that." Friedman and star Jonathan Groff...
Why San Francisco Opera Is Getting Trauma Counselors For Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence”
"(The company) has developed trauma trainings, a symposium, and post-performance discussions to help guide people through the heavy subject matter" — a mass shooting...