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Choreographer Jan Fabre To Stand Trial For Abuse Of Power, Sexual Harassment

Serious allegations made by current and former dancers in his Antwerp company, Troubleyn, became public in 2018. After a lengthy investigation, that city's labor tribunal has referred Fabre's case to criminal court. - The Bulletin (Belgium)

Dutch Government Makes Big Change In Restitution Of Nazi-Looted Art

"Particularly significant is the Dutch Government's new approach to 'heirless art.' … Now, in cases where no heirs can be identified, any artwork deemed to have been looted by Nazis will be transferred to an appropriate Jewish heritage institution." - Artnet

Book Sales Soar Year-Over-Year (Duh!)

It comes as little surprise that statistics newly released by the Association of American Publishers found that total sales for the 1,358 publishers that report results to the association jumped 43.7% in April 2021 over the same period last year. - Publishers Weekly

Louise Bourgeois And Her Exploration Of Pain

“The subject of pain is the business I am in,” Louise Bourgeois once remarked. Like Emily Dickinson whose business was “circumference,” Bourgeois circled her subject all her life. - The Yale Review

Scientists Use Scans To Determine Whether National Gallery Vermeers Are Authentic

The two paintings are not obvious fakes. Indeed, one is considered a masterpiece, but they are unusual in the oeuvre of Vermeer: smaller than his other works, and painted on wooden panels instead of canvas. - The New York Times

Juilliard Pulls Video Of Zukerman’s Racist Masterclass

At one point, Zukerman told a pair of students of Asian descent that their playing was too perfect and that they needed to add soy sauce, according to two participants in the class. - The New York Times

Watching Pinchas Zukerman’s Offensive Juilliard Masterclass In Real Time

"I did watch the virtual class unfold live, and I can attest that this was the appropriate course." - Violinist.com

Using Novels To Predict The Next War

The idea that novelists are modern-day Cassandras – “speaking always truths, never grasped as true” – may sound positively esoteric. - The Guardian

An Intimacy Coordinator Explains How Exactly He Works On Set

"Your boundaries can change given the person, given who's in the room, given I'm on a sofa not a bed, that changes how I feel about how we're shooting this scene. Consent is very specific to the context and the moment, and if anything changes, that can change consent level." (podcast plus transcript) - Slate

Judge Strikes Down Feds’ Monopoly Case Against Facebook

The judge eviscerated one of the federal government’s core arguments, that Facebook holds a monopoly over social networking, saying prosecutors had failed to provide enough facts to back up that claim. - The New York Times

A New American Heroine: Sapphire’s ‘Push’ At 25

Tayari Jones: "The miracle of Sapphire's gift is that she weaves her sharp social commentary and critique into the fabric of this story without shredding its fibres. This is a novel about people and their problems, not problems and their people.." - The Guardian

What Might Have Been — A Plan For NPR To Be An Arts Powerhouse

Once upon a time, kids, NPR was to have taken its place among other national broadcasters around the world to become the standard for music, and yeah, news. But, to paraphrase, stuff happens. - Current

Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ To Be Cut By Half

Before the pandemic, the award-winning hit played in two parts running a total of more than five hours. As theaters reopen, Cursed Child will remain as it was in Europe and Australia, but in North America it will be reduced to a single part, length as yet undetermined. - The New York Times

YouTube Buys Naming Rights For New 6000-Seat Theatre In LA

The 6,000-seat performance venue at the Hollywood Park sports and entertainment complex in Inglewood, Calif., will be called “YouTube Theater.” - Variety

Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stephen Dunn Dead At 82

"He departed from the 'confessional' style of self-lacerating poetry and considered himself instead a 'meditative' or observational poet. Writing in a plain, unfussy style that often sounded like prose with the reins loosened, he addressed the ways ordinary experience can be fraught with emotional complexity, sadness and humor." - MSN (Washington Post)

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