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New Black-Centered Arts Center Is Coming To Boston
"Castle of Our Skins, an arts institution that celebrates and aims to generate curiosity in Black music, cut the ribbon on Thursday … at...
Yuval Sharon Is Leaving The Industry, The Experimental L.A. Opera Company He Founded
"The company's executive director, Tim Griffin, who came on board in summer 2023, will ... become both executive and artistic director. Co-artistic directors, Ash...
Bayreuth Festival Makes Deep Cuts To Its 150th Anniversary Season
Blaming its cash shortfall on the public-service sector employee contracts it has with staff and an inability to raise more revenue, Bayreuth management cut...
“The Nutcracker” Is Saved! San Francisco Ballet Dancers’ Union And Management Agree On Contract
"San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker season will kick off as planned, despite concerns that opening night would be canceled due to a stall in contract...
The Guardian Approves Sale Of The Observer To Tortoise Media
"Tortoise agreed to invest £25 million ($31.9 million) in the British title over the next five years and has pledged to keep publishing the...
In His 80s, Claude Monet Developed A Visual Superpower
When cataracts had rendered him almost completely blind, Monet finally agreed to the eye surgery he had been avoiding for years. When he recovered,...
What Do Right-Wing Media And Improv Theater Have In Common? A Lot
Two researchers of information ecosystems find that the structures and mechanisms of improv theater and the right-wing media ecosystem are surprisingly similar — which...
Reviving George Washington Carver’s Patented Prussian Blue Pigment
His recipe for making blue pigment from the clay soil of Alabama is of one of the few things the great African-American inventor patented....
How The Chinese Communist Party Overhauled The Nation’s Comic Books
Lianhuanhua, read by children and adults alike, are palm-sized books with two or three lines of text and one image per page, and they...
A New Kind Of Music Therapy? Music Could Help Change The Way You See...
"People often think of these musical memories as fixed snapshots of the past. But recent research my team and I published suggests music may...
What It Takes To Be An Orchestra Librarian
"They obtain scores and parts, consult with conductors and concertmasters, check the music for accuracy, ensure that page turns are realistic, and make corrections...
A Way To Teach Pointe Work That Won’t Wreck Dancers’ Feet
Lynne Charles, artistic director of English National Ballet School, has developed a method she calls 4Pointe. "There are all these methods ... but there’s...
What’s The Point Of Being A Theater Critic? This Is.
"Why would anyone want to be a critic? As I’ve admitted before, it wasn’t in my case an aspiration but a series of accidents...
Speculators Gave Up On NFTs, But The Art World (Some Of It) Is Still...
"In the last two years, even as auction prices have generally come down, 'there’s been a growing recognition for this medium by institutions and...
Just Too Expensive: Vancouver Art Gallery Abandons Starchitects’ Design For New Building
With the estimated cost of the project having risen by 50% to C$600 million, the museum's board decided to end work on the design...
Scotland’s Desperate Arts Sector Gets An Extra £34 Million From Government
Culture secretary Angus Robertson predicted the new funding for culture earmarked for the coming financial year would be 'transformational" for the arts industry. Finance...
How Do Film Critics’ Circles Choose Their Award Winners? Same Way The Guys In...
"One thing voting for awards has taught me is that virtually every outside assumption about how the process works is wrong, (especially) any attempt...
Guardian Journalists On Two-Day Strike To Protest Sale Of Sister Paper The Observer
"Nearly 500 journalists are on strike at The Guardian and its sister paper, the Sunday-only Observer, to protest the planned sale of The Observer...
One Of DC’s Oldest Black Box Theaters Is For Sale — At A Price...
A nonprofit called CulturalDC bought the Source Theatre in 2006 so it could remain a performance space. Now, however, CulturalDC's board wants to sell...
A Choreographer Exhibits At Art Basel Miami Beach
"Diego Vega Solorza does not want people to think of him as a visual artist. He is certainly not a sculptor, he insists, nor...
Lance Morrow, Once A Star Essayist At Time Magazine, Has Died At 85
"(He) was both observer and narrator during a more than seven-decade career that included books and memoirs, more than 20 years with a coveted...
Why Tchaikovsky’s Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy Was Astonishing In Its Day
Today the piece is one of the most familiar sections of The Nutcracker, so it's hard for us to appreciate how unusual the music...
Melbourne Symphony’s Missteps Mean Too Much Money Spent On Lawyers
The orchestra got itself in one legal tangle by cancelling a recital by pianist Jayson Gillham after he made comments about Gaza from the...
Stephen King Is Closing His Three Radio Stations In Maine
"The renowned author … said Monday that at age 77, it’s time to say good-bye to three Bangor, Maine, stations that have been bleeding...
Founder Of Collapsed American National Ballet Sentenced To 20 Years For Shooting Ex-Husband
Ashley Benefield, whose marriage to Doug Benefield disintegrated after the ballet company they attempted to launch fell apart, was acquitted of murder but convicted...