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Danai Gurira Returns Home To Offer Training To Zimbabwean Playwrights
"Gurira set up Almasi (Collaborative Arts) with film and theatre producer Patience Tawengwa to give Zimbabwean creatives access to the sort of training and...
Huge New Music Soundstage And Production Center Planned For Former Chicago Stockyards
The nonprofit Third Coast Music has won the city's request for proposals to develop the site. Its plan is for an $80 million facility...
Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency Finally Settles On A Grants Plan For This Fiscal Year
"The city agency (Metro Arts) is behind schedule because it’s still recovering from last year’s chaotic funding cycle. … This year, (there's) a much...
Analyzing The Design Of The Met Museum’s Planned Contemporary Art Wing
Justin Davidson: "A new museum wing here can’t just be an exercise in logistics. It’s also a presence in Central Park and a half-billion-dollar...
Congressional Support Grows For Requiring All New Cars To Have AM Radios
"In the lame-duck session …, support continues to build for a bill that would require AM receivers to be included in vehicle dashboards. Three...
Why Did Alice Munro Reject Her Daughter’s Account Of Sexual Abuse? Apparently, For The...
"In the months since the revelations, I revisited Munro’s stories, spoke with members of her family and tracked down a number of her unpublished...
Chicago Symphony Receives Largest-Ever Donation: $50 Million
The gift from the family foundation of real estate magnate and former Chicago Tribune owner Sam Zell provides "vital" capital to reduce debt, fund...
Strike At New York’s Strand Bookstore Ends With Tentative Agreement On New Contract
"The Strand Book Store has reached a tentative contract agreement with its staff union, which is represented by United Auto Workers Local 2179, putting...
Judge Blocks The Onion’s Purchase Of Alex Jones’s Infowars
"A federal judge in Texas rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet, criticizing the bidding for the...
The Franklin Institute Has An Original Wright Brothers Airplane — And Now It Has...
The 1911 Wright Model B was flown, recklessly and repeatedly, around the skies over Philadelphia by brewery heir Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. In 1935, after...
TeamLab Is Expanding Its Spectacular High-Tech Immersive Art Shows Far Beyond Japan
The Tokyo-based collective of artists and engineers operates nearly 60 temporary or traveling exhibitions around the world, with permanent installations in Japan, China, Saudi...
The Record For Most Expensive Musical Instrument May Soon Be Broken
The Stradivarius on which Joseph Joachim played the world premiere of Brahms's Violin Concerto will be auctioned on February 7, and Sotheby's is estimating...
Yet Again, Republicans Are Trying To Defund Public Radio And TV. Should We Be...
"Efforts to defund NPR and PBS … (along with) their member stations and their primary funding mechanism, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting … have...
Can Germany Still Afford Its Famously Generous Arts Funding?
The regional government for Berlin intends to cut its cultural budget by 12%, and other state and municipal governments are similarly strapped. The German...
Saudi Arabia Will Give €50 Million Toward Pompidou Center’s Renovation
"This move to support France’s national museum of Modern and contemporary art, which is scheduled to begin a massive €262 million renovation later this...
Strike At New York’s Strand Bookstore, Where Staffers Want More Than Minimum Wage
"The store’s 110 unionized workers went on strike in the middle of the busy holiday season, leaving the shop’s '18 miles of books' to...
San Francisco Symphony Extends Musicians’ Contract — For About Six Weeks
The short-term extension comes amid long and contentious bargaining between SFS management, which insists that huge deficits must stop for the organization to survive,...
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Must Pay Over Half A Million To Dancers It Fired
Under a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board, "10 fired dancers, and three whose offers of employment were rescinded, will receive over $560,000...
Poet Nikki Giovanni, 81
"A poet of rage and revolution as well as love and longing, (she) emerged as a fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s...
‘Polarization” Is Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year For 2024
And the reasons the word is an apt choice go well beyond politics. - AP
The Life Of Simone Weil — And How It’s Put To Use In America
In the late 20th century she was seen as an exemplar of well-meaning but extreme ascetic mysticism. Now she's either a prophet of, and...
A Theatre Troupe Struggles On Amid The Murderous Chaos Of Port-au-Prince
"'Every day (there’s shooting),' sighed the director, Eliezer Guérismé, as his company took a break from their read-through to the all-too familiar sound of...
Italian Police Present An Exhibition Of Artworks Seized From The Mafia
"Eighty works, confiscated by the Italian authorities, went on show at Milan‘s Palazzo Reale this week. The exhibition, 'Save Arts: From Confiscations to Public...
U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Law Requiring Sale Or Ban of TikTok
"A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on Friday that a law designed to force...
The Most Arts-Vibrant States, Ranked 1 To 50
"In its second annual release, our State of the Arts: Arts Vibrancy Rankings analyzes measurements of arts-vibrancy for all 50 states, using a comprehensive,...