Art and Culture

It has been widely reported that the Kennedy Center is at the center of a power struggle between the Trump administration and preservationists, as the president wants to rename it in his own honor and insists that the decaying building…
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In 1976, when the Washington Ballet chasséd onto the American dance scene, no one knew whether the scrappy young company of 17 dancers would be going strong for a few seasons, let alone a half-century."We didn't know. We didn't know…
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“SAG-AFTRA’s independent Verticals Agreement helped open the door for producers to hire union performers for the format’s notoriously small-scale productions. They’ve also brought some structure and legitimacy to the…
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“William Shakespeare was a black woman.” In 1985, Maya Angelou spoke these words as part of a keynote speech at a convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.There, she spoke of the role poetry played in her transition from muteness as a child and…
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Fifty years ago today, copyright law in America changed fundamentally. That change was an accidental disaster for both creators and the culture they create.That’s not to say that the culture and creative work of the past 50 years has…
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The DeVos Institute Global Executive Fellowship is a three-year, fully-subsidized program for arts and culture executives. The Institute invites applications for the 2027-2029 cohort from leaders of arts and culture non-profits…
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When the Bayeux Tapestry returns to Normandy next summer after its 10-month sojourn to London, the 11th-century textile will be re-presented in a new way that more closely resembles how it currently looks at the British…
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The Mothers of Kherson, with music by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and libretto by American playwright George Brant, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera three years ago and got its first full performance on Friday at the…
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“(She) brought a casual, if knowledgeable, approach to her reviews, writing more from the viewpoint of a popcorn-eating moviegoer than from the lofty perch of a scholar of cinema. She wrote hundreds of reviews … over more than 20…
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Amari Lewis, Jo Pellow, Lilly Gerend, and Avery Moss in John Proctor Is the Villain (Don Ipock) Following its Broadway run last year, Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor Is the Villain has now expanded to regional companies across…
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