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Meet The Founders Of Hollywood’s New Union For Choreographers
Although choreographers for the stage are represented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the film/television/video industry had no equivalent of SAG-AFTRA or the...
Akira Toriyama, Legend Of Manga And Anime, Dead At 68
"There is hardly a space in pop culture today that hasn’t been touched by Akira Toriyama’s art. … He brought manga and anime into...
A Cross Between A Baseball, An Armadillo, And The Sydney Opera House: Design For...
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and HNTB designed the planned 33,000-seat arena for the team currently known as the Oakland A's, which is moving to...
Starchitect Bjarke Ingels Talks About His “Spherical Armadillo” For Las Vegas
"I mean, it’s not like we tried to make it look like an armadillo." On comparisons to the Sydney Opera House: "I’ll definitely take...
Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre, Nearly Dead Last Summer, Has A New Artistic Director And A...
"The company, which was founded in 1988 by a group of Northwestern University graduates and achieved national fame for its original theatrical works, has...
Police In Spain Capture Alleged Ring Of Banksy Forgers
"Spanish police said they have shut down an alleged forgery ring selling fake Banksy artworks across the US and Europe for up to €1,500...
The Wave Of Public Radio Layoffs Hits Colorado
The statewide network is eliminating 15 positions, some 8% of its workforce, mostly in audio and podcast production. (The newsroom is not affected.) The...
Steve Lawrence, Half Of Popular Jazz-Pop Duo Steve And Eydie, Is Dead At 88
"As a solo performer and with his wife, Eydie Gormé, (he) kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era. … Steve & Eydie...
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Will Make Its First-Ever Asian Tour
The full company has toured the Far East before, but this June will be the first time for the orchestra as a concert ensemble....
A 2,000-Year-Old Fresco, Still Brightly Colored, Is Uncovered In Pompeii
"Painted as if it were a framed artwork on a yellow wall, the fresco depicts the Greek mythological tale of Phrixus and Helle with...
In Ukraine’s War-Ravaged Second City, The Opera And Ballet Are Reopening Underground
After two years dark, the Kharkiv National Opera and Ballet company has built an underground bunker with a complete auditorium in it.Says general director...
Los Angeles Has Been A Hotbed Of New Classical Music For More Than 80...
Meaning since back in the 1930s and '40s, when Schoenberg and Stravinsky were there and musicians got lots of work playing movie soundtracks. Jim...
RuPaul Launched His Online Bookstore Last Week, And Already It’s Being (Ahem) Dragged
Allstora claims to offer 10 million titles, among which are Mein Kampf and books by such anti-LGBTQ campaigners as former actor Kirk Cameron. Lady...
Guy Wildenstein, Of The Art-Dealer Dynasty, Convicted Of Tax Fraud In France
"The 78-year-old billionaire ... has been found guilty of money laundering and tax fraud, following a years-long saga seeking his prosecution." He was fined...
American Tap Dance Foundation Closes Its Building And Cancels Its Annual Festival
"The ATDF non-profit organization will downsize yet retain its 501c3 status as a nonprofit organization to produce projects and programs in the future. Tap...
Texas School District Reverses Course, Will Allow High School Production Of “The Laramie Project”
When school district leaders in the Fort Worth suburb of Keller cancelled the production last month, they gave no specific reason but indicated that...
Boston NPR Station WBUR Warns Of Cash Crisis And Likely Layoffs
Though listenership and ratings are up (Nielsen reports WBUR is the top news station in its market and third overall), income from advertising and...
Staffers At Mass MoCA Are On Strike
Employees at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams have begun a walkout (97% voted in favor) as contract negotiations (which began...
Edinburgh International Festival Lowers Ticket Prices — A Lot
"More than half of the tickets will cost £30 or less, with £10 tickets on offer for every performance, while 2,000 free tickets will...
Armorer In Alec Baldwin Shooting On Set Of “Rust” Convicted Of Involuntary Manslaughter
"The verdict against movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed assigned new blame in the October 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after an assistant director...
Thirty Years After The Fall Of Apartheid, South Africa’s Film & TV Industry Is...
"On the surface, there is much reason to cheer. No country on the continent has benefited as much from the disruption of global streaming...
He Went From Hip-Hop Moves In Iraqi Kurdistan To New York’s Hotbed Of Contemporary...
Hussein Smko learned his first hip-hop at age 9, from an American soldier in Erbil, and founded a street dance troupe there when he...
Just How Did South Korea Get To Be A Cultural Powerhouse?
"Some have framed South Korea’s cultural advance as a government-led mission. The Korean state has been instrumental in turning cultural identity into an exportable...
The Academy Awards And U.S. Elections Need The Same Voting Reform
In fact, this reform is already in place in Maine, Alaska, New York City, San Francisco, and the Twin Cities — and in the...
A Perennial Question Arises Again: Why Won’t More Major American Orchestras Hire American Music...
Before Leonard Bernstein, it was a given that U.S. orchestras wanted their maestros to be European. Yet by 2008, American conductors were music directors...