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Against ‘Latin American Literature’ – The Millions
The region, we’re told, extends from the deserts of Sonora to the straits of Tierra del Fuego, encompassing 7.7 million square miles that are home to 660 million people who share two Latinate languages: Spanish…
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Music Just Changed Forever – by James O’Malley
The Trinity Test on July 16, 1945. (Photo by Universal Images Group via Getty Images.)Imagine if after Oppenheimer successfully detonated the first atomic bomb, the rest of the world had just shrugged its shoulders and carried on as…
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On Broadway, ‘Suffs’ Has a New Tune (and 6 Tony Nominations)
Two ambitious overhauls are on Broadway right now: the Palace Theater and the musical “Suffs.”When “Suffs,” a show about the suffragists’ crusade for the right to vote, staggered to its Public Theater premiere in April 2022, few people…
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‘Not just a diet of Swan Lake and Cinderella’: the resurrection of London City Ballet | Ballet
Christopher Marney recently received a very nice letter from Prince William and his wife. Thirty years ago, William’s mother, Diana, a ballet lover and sometime dancer, had been patron of London City Ballet. That company folded in 1996…
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Centre Pompidou’s Renovation Project in Paris Hangs in the Balance
As the Centre Pompidou‘s planned five-year renovation of its Paris flagship approaches its 2025 start date, new questions arise over the financial viability of the project.
At the end of April, a critical report from…
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A Major Restoration Breathes New Life Into Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Iconic ‘Seasons’
After an eight-month absence, Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s suite of paintings “The Four Seasons” (1573) has reclaimed its spot in the Louvre Museum. The portraits now hanging in the Denon Wing,…
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Boy Thrown From Tate Modern Balcony Five Years Ago Can Now Play By Himself
The victim, who was six when, on a visit with his parents from France to London in 2019, he fell 100 feet after being thrown, can also now draw, read alone, and get dessert from the refrigerator. His memory, though still impaired, has…
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Why Did Boston’s WGBH Lay off So Many Staffers When So Many Of Its Execs Make Big Bucks?
The CEO blamed flat revenue and rising costs. Yet nine senior staffers earn more than $300,000 each, and the best-paid 16 earn a total of $5.9 million. (The laid-off employees made $50,000-$60,000.) – The Boston Globe (MSN)…
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California Legislature Restores 75% of Previously Announced Funding Cuts to the Arts
State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President Prop Tempore Senator Mike McGuire revealed last week that agreement has been reached on a legislative budget that restores approximately 75% of state funding for the arts that had…
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Seattle Rep Is Laying Off Most Of Its Artistic Staff
“Seattle Rep, the city’s preeminent regional theater company, is eliminating 17 staff positions over the course of the next several months, including the majority of its artistic, arts engagement and Public Works…
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