Art and Culture

The choreographer Richard Alston, who has died aged 77, was a landmark figure in contemporary dance. He began his career in 1967 at a foundational point in British dance history, with the establishment of the London Contemporary Dance…
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That language has been removed from the website, and the marker in the cemetery has been replaced by a new sign that omits wording critical of slavery and the Confederacy. – Washington Post Source link
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If these were normal times, there would be wistful celebration of Lonnie G. Bunch III's decision to step down as secretary of the Smithsonian. He has been an enormously consequential leader of one of this country's most beloved…
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In 1957, undercover police bought a copy of the poetry collection which featured “Howl” at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco — and proceeded to arrest owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti and manager Shig Murao for selling obscene material.…
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The suit, one of four recently brought by contractors alleging nonpayment, claims the museum “actively promoted, contracted, and labeled the construction as a ‘private, non-profit development’ to bypass the rigorous administrative,…
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Hungary’s new government has scrapped plans for a New National Gallery that was to form part of a development in Budapest’s City Park (Városliget) aimed at elevating the capital’s cultural standing.The Liget project has been unfolding in…
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News recently hit dozens of organizations supported by the Jerome Foundation that the board of directors decided to make additional, unrestricted grants to help support them – financially as well as psychically – as they navigate an era…
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The Gate theatre in London, which has punched above its weight ever since it was founded above a Notting Hill pub in 1979, is to close permanently next month.The announcement comes four years after the theatre had what it described as a…
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Samuel D. Hunter writes compact human dramas that pack a maximal punch. Both “Grangeville,” Los Angeles’ most acclaimed theatrical offering of the summer (extended at Ruskin Group Theatre through Sept. 21), and “A Case for the Existence…
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