Art and Culture

Composer Chris Rogerson will lead the summer festival in the Colorado resort town, taking over after the 16-year tenure of pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. Rogerson is the first composer to direct the event: before McDermott were flutist…
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Shawn and Eisenberg, an author and actress who has been Shawn’s partner for five decades, performed with scripts in the Off-Broadway production of What We Did Before Our Moth Days to fill in for ill co-stars Hope Davis and Maria Dizzia.…
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The War on Drugs was clearly on the minds of crime novelists in the early 1990s. Patricia Cornwell’s All That Remains (1992) finds medical examiner Kay Scarpetta working for the national drug policy director, “one of the most…
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New York is missing out on the ideas of designers who could find surprising paths through an obstacle course of conventions, whose experience with the constraints and cultures of other continents might loosen New York’s rigid set of…
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The Ballet Artistic and Executive Compensation Report is DDP’s annual study of pay in the Largest 150 ballet and classically based companies in the U.S., ranked by annual expenditure. This is the 70th report DDP has published, occurring…
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Last week, the Federal Government’s recently established Parliamentary Inquiry into Arts and Cultural Philanthropy held its first significant hearing. – ArtsHub Source link
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China has ordered a sweeping, nationwide audit of its state-run museums after a scandal at one of its top institutions revealed that national treasures had quietly slipped into the private market, according to Hong Kong newspaper South…
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When writers mention “writing” or “literacy” these days, they tend to do it as part of an obituary. Man’s ability to read and write was born in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk,…
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Senators slammed Ticketmaster for raising ticket fees following a regulatory crackdown on hidden charges as revealed in a report by the Guardian last week.The Federal Trade Commission last May began requiring Ticketmaster to disclose…
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On a recent trip to New York, it was not easy to escape L.A., despite obvious differences. The record highs on the West Coast reached 100 degrees, while mid-March lows in Manhattan descended to the 20s (with wind chill making it feel…
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