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Method Acting Can Actually Empower Women Actors (Despite What Natalie Portman Says)
Portman, who plays a method actress in May December, called method acting "a luxury women cannot afford." But acting professor Evi Stamatiou points out...
Syracuse City Ballet Accuses Dancers It Fired Of “Misinformation Campaign”
"SCB’s Board of Directors released a statement sharing the news that the allegations eight of its former dancers made against artistic director Caroline Sheridan...
The Little Schoolhouse On The US-Canada Border That’s Keeping The Mohawk Language Alive
The Akwesasne Freedom School, on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, on the St. Lawrence River where New York, Ontario and Quebec meet, teaches K-8...
“A Sense Of Relief” In Poland’s Arts Community As The New Government Undoes Politicization...
"The moves indicate a desire on the part of the new government to restore international credibility after years of culture wars, but they also...
Italy Gives Iraq Replica Of Ancient Bull Of Nimrud Destroyed By ISIS
"Italy has donated a reconstructed Assyrian statue to Iraq in what (was) described as a 'miracle of Italian cultural diplomacy'. Constructed in the ninth...
Academy Introduces First New Oscar Category In 20 Years: Best Casting
"Not counting the short-lived 'popular film Oscar' which never came to be, this is the first time the Academy has added a category since...
Former Host Sues Miami’s Public Radio Station, Saying They Canceled His Show And Fired...
"Cuban-American journalist and former Sundial host (Carlos Frías) filed a federal discrimination complaint Tuesday asserting that he and his staff experienced discrimination at the...
Warner Music Just Had The Most Lucrative Quarter In Its History — And It’s...
CEO Robert Kyncl wrote in an internal memo, "We’re in a position of strength, and that’s the smart time to change, innovate, and lead....
It Took Three Years, But Faculty At Philadelphia’s University Of The Arts Finally Have...
"This would be the first contract passed since UArts faculty unionized in November 2020. The union has been fighting for such issues as job...
Conductor Seiji Ozawa, 88
"The shaggy-haired, high-voltage maestro who served as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for almost 30 years, … was widely considered the first...
Low Morale And Low Ratings Plague Boston Public Radio/TV Station WGBH
"Several staffers … say there’s an undercurrent of fear and intimidation fostered by domineering bosses whose push to make the station more relevant online...
Bigger Than Ever: Now One Of Every Four Books Sold In France Is A...
"It is testament to the fresh energy injected into the (bande dessinée) market by the pandemic: between 2019 and 2021, fanned by measures such...
Tokyo’s Favorite High-Tech Art Collective Reopens Its Flagship Space, Now More Immersive Than Ever
When the group of "ultra-technologists" (as they describe themselves) called teamLab opened its flagship space in 2018, it drew 2.3 million visitors in its...
The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Soldiers On The “Cultural Front” Of The Russia-Ukraine War
Shortly after the Russian invasion began, "the orchestra filed a request with the Ministry of Culture to go abroad. Military targets were under attack,...
Considering, And Reconsidering, The Prevailing Ethics In The Dance World
"The strong tendency in Western dance …, especially since the dawn of the twentieth century, … is to present honorable-sounding statements as rationalizations (often...
Attention In Case Of Murdered Gallerist Brent Sikkema Turns To His Ex-Husband
Alejandro Triana Prevez, 30, has confessed to stabbing Sikkema to death in his Rio apartment, but Prevez's attorney has called the murder a "crime...
Meet The Woman Who Keeps Broadway Singing
"Joan Lader has never advertised, never solicited clients. But for two generations of Broadway stars, as well as dozens of opera singers and pop...
Kwame Kwei-Armah, Director Of London’s Young Vic Theatre, Announces Departure
"Kwei-Armah, who started out as an actor and has been greatly acclaimed as a playwright and director, ran Baltimore’s Center Stage theatre from 2011...
ABT’s Dancers Vote To Authorize A Strike
American Ballet Theatre's dancers and stage managers, members of AGMA, have been working without a contract since September as negotiations drag on. The vote...
A New Fund Will Give $100,000 Unrestricted Grants To Artists
"Trellis Art Fund, a new private family foundation dedicated to funding artists’ practices, … will provide 12 recipients with $100,000 spread across two years....
Lincoln Center President Henry Timms To Step Down
"Timms, who guided Lincoln Center through the turmoil of the pandemic and helped complete the $550 million renovation of David Geffen Hall, will step...
“Like The Beatles For Children”: This Author’s “Magic” Is Real
"I called a friend with kids and said, 'Have you heard of an author named Raina Telgemeier?' 'Of course,' she said, sounding bemused, as...
Argentina’s New Government Takes Over Public Media Companies
"The takeover of state-owned public media companies Educ.Ar, Télam, Radio y Televisión Argentina (RTA), and Contenidos Públicos for one year ... was made official...
Toronto’s Luminato Festival Appoints A New Artistic Director
"Olivia Ansell, current director of the Sydney Festival, is slated to join the Toronto-based cultural organization in 2025 to leads its artistic programming. She...
Stolen Chagall Is Recovered
The 1971 lithograph titled Eve was stolen from a Manhattan gallery last September. Now the NYPD says that two of the three suspects were...