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Black Cast Member Of “1776” Broadway Tour Sues For Discrimination Because She Was Denied...

Zuri Washington: "I was made to feel like I did something wrong in the course of this entire experience, and I know I didn't...

New Orleans Opera Names A New General Director

"British-American producer and librettist Lila Palmer (has been named) general and artistic director. Effective from 15 May, Palmer succeeds Clare Burovac, who steps down...

2024 Oscar Nominations: “Oppenheimer” Leads The Field With 13 Nods

"The fantasy film Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, followed with 11, while the Martin Scorsese drama Killers of the Flower Moon got 10 nominations....

Des Moines Art Center Will Dismantle Its Major Land Art Installation

"Created between 1989 and 1996, Mary Miss's Greenwood Pond: Double Site is one of the very few environmental installations in the collection of any...

Dave Eggers Wins Newbery Medal For Best Children’s Book; Vashti Harrison’s “Big” Wins Caldecott

"Eggers's The Eyes & the Impossible, the great adventure of a very fast dog, has received the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best...

One Sexual Assault Charge Against Gérard Depardieu Is Dropped

"The sexual assault complaint by actress Hélène Darras was dismissed by a French court" due to the statute of limitations. (The alleged assault was...

Berlin Repeals Anti-Antisemitism Clause In Arts Funding Requirements

"The clause required all recipients of city funding to commit themselves against antisemitism as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, (which) says it...

This Is What Happens To Your Brain When You’re On The Taylor Swift Beat...

Bryan West, who was hired by Gannett as its Taylor Swift reporter, should beware. Sam Kriss spent four months in 2014-15 covering Swift for...

How Much Do You Know About Frida Kahlo’s Life?

"In a drabber parallel universe, Frida Kahlo might have been a doctor. As a high schooler she was on a pre-med track, studying biology,...

Why The Dreams Of Some Young Ballet Students Get Destroyed: Dishonesty

Matthew Paluch argues that there's one major factor in the dance instruction industry that few on either the teacher or student side are willing...

This Choreographer And Teacher Developed A Specifically Caribbean Dance Technique

Dr. L’Antoinette Stines: "What I have done is brought together what came off the ships when they did — and sometimes we forget that...

Cutting A Shakespeare Play Down To 80 Minutes Is Entirely Legitimate, Even At The...

Arifa Akbar: "Some trimmed-down Shakespeares – such as Simon Godwin’s Romeo and Juliet – are as rich as the originals, and not every staging...

Brazil’s Museum Of Democracy Will Include Major Archive Of 2023 Bolsonarista Insurrection

"An initiative to create a comprehensive record of the 2023 insurrection (at) the Brazilian congress" by supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro, who had lost...

Amid Financial Firestorm, Two-Thirds Of Board At Peoria’s Public TV Station Resign

WTVP has been in crisis mode since at least September, when the finance director resigned, the CEO committed suicide, layoffs were made, and investigators...

Three US Museums, Including The Met, Accused Of Hiding Stolen Medieval Stained-Glass Windows

The complaint, filed by the Paris-based NGO Lumière sur le Patrimoine, alleges that the Metropolitan Museum, the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts, and the Glencairn...

How The Getty Museum Did The “Rigorous,’ Sometimes Hair-Raising” Work To Restore Cranach’s “Adam”...

"After a demanding (2½-year) program that included a gasp-inducing repair of the two cracking, 500-year-old limewood panels, Getty senior conservator Ulrich Birkmaier and his...

Two Who Embezzled From Indianapolis’s Public Radio And TV Stations Are Sentenced

Mindi Madison and Alicia Wilson, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, have been sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to...

Appeals Court Panel Upholds Stay Of Texas’s Book-Banning Law

"A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit — viewed by many as the most conservative court in the nation — ... upheld a lower...

A Novelist Visits The CIA’s Creative Writing Group

Yes, the Central Intelligence Agency has a creative writing group for staffers; it's called Invisible Ink. Johannes Lichtman recounts his visit there, including his...

For Those Who Saw “Gutenberg! The Musical!” And Want To Know Who This Gutenberg...

Scholars don't really know all that much about the 15th-century German who invented the movable-type printing press, but here's a rundown of what is...

An El Sistema Grad Founds An Orchestra For Refugees In Sweden

Ron Davis Álvarez, a Caracas native, had settled in Gothenburg as director of El Sistema Sweden. When he saw crowds of teenagers from Syria...

Slovakia’s Government Zeros Out Funding For The Country’s Main Contemporary Art Museum

The Kunsthalle Bratislava, which has no permanent collection, was known for its politically progressive and inclusive focus, with particular support for the LGBTQ community....

Third Coast Baroque, Chicago’s Period-Instrument Ensemble, Is Shutting Down

"'As referenced in a recent DCASE study,' the (board's) statement read in part, 'inflation and reduced grant funding, coupled with diminished ticket sales due...

Young Britons Just Don’t Bother With BBC News. A New Podcast Is Trying To...

The Reliable Sauce podcast "sounds as if you are listening in to a conversation (the hosts) might have over a coffee, or on the...

After A Decade Without A Single Increase, Colorado’s Arts Budget May Be About To...

"Gov. Jared Polis’s proposed budget" — likely to be adjusted by legislators — "includes a one-time $16 million tax credit for creative workforce housing, an additional...
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