The New Yorker's Mary Norris on the American Copy Editors Society annual conference: "But the centerpiece of the weekend is the session at which the A.P. announces changes to its annual styl…
"Four years ago, the news that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival had commissioned modern English 'translations' of all of Shakespeare's plays drew headlines, and no small alarm, from purists w…
"[Rod] Serling, riding off the success of his most well-received teleplay to date, felt compelled write a teleplay around the racism that led to Till's murder. But the censorship that follow…
"Tuttle, who considered himself a social pioneer, was celebrated for pushing tattoos toward mainstream acceptance, especially for women. He left his indelible mark on stars such as Janis Jop…
The Anaïs Mitchell/Rachel Chavkin musical about two Greek myths " Persephone's abduction by Hades and Orpheus's (failed) rescue of Euridice " traveled a long road that went from Vermont a…
"This season, the Martha Graham Dance Company [starts] its two-year EVE Project, commemorating the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment that gave women the power to vote. Included are two…
Scribd, a subscription service for e-books and audiobooks with over 1 million paying subscribers, is launching Scribd Originals, which will "focus on 'the space between a magazine article an…
"Erina Yashima has been appointed the orchestra's assistant conductor, and Lina Gonzalez-Granados conducting fellow. Both are 32 years old, both trained as pianists as well as conductors, an…
"The 150 or so thermopolia, or snack bars, dotted across the city were mostly used by the poorer residents, who rarely had cooking facilities in their home, to grab a snack or drink. Typical…
The London company has held its highest ticket price at £125 and cut its lowest to £10 and is expanding its free-balcony-seats-for-under-18s from Saturdays to Fridays and opening night…
Freeports were created as duty-free facilities for temporary storage of art and valuables in transit. But with the EU having eliminated banking secrecy, art has become an asset class " and a…
"The crime would be punishable by three years in prison and a fine of 10.5 million Australian dollars ($7.5 million), or 10% of the platform's annual turnover, whichever is larger. Abhorrent…
Rubén Olmo, a 39-year-old dancer and choreographer from Seville who performed with the company from 1998-2002, will succeed Antonio Najarro as of September 1. Olmo's plans include increased…
The key is that you don't read them to young kids: wait until they're at least 10, then give them a good edition of Grimm to read for themselves. Why? Because, as we tend to forget, these we…
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Charles Ives's Symphony No. 2 are twin American cultural landmarks, comparable in method and achievement. They both transform a hallowed Old W…
Just as Life of Brian was about to start shooting, the chairman of EMI read the script and killed the project. So Eric Idle called Harrison, the richest person he knew " and thus was born Ha…
"'Worlds Within: Mimbres Pottery of the Ancient Southwest' … was slated to open May 26 in Regenstein Gallery, the museum's primary space for temporary exhibitions. But [director] James Ron…
"An extraordinary new talent convergence is riveting the contemporary American stage. … All in their early 20s to mid-30s, [these playwrights] are newly asserting their ownership of an ong…
For its young people's training program, Minnesota Opera has commissioned an adaptation of Hmong-American author Kao Kalia Yang's The Song Poet. Hmong-American playwright/performer composer …
Henry Danton danced in London and Paris (including for Roland Petit's company); toured in Europe, Australia, and South America; and taught in Colombia, Venezuela, New York, and Miami before …
"The term ['community engagement'], and more importantly the idea, is something that funders and other decision makers are looking for " and we know it. … With the increased use of this te…
"According to publisher Penguin Random House, [Becoming] has sold more than 10 million copies " including hardcover, audiobooks and e-books " since its November release. That puts it near th…
"Mercedes-Benz USA has filed lawsuits against four artists, seeking a federal judge's ruling that its use of their outdoor Detroit art in Instagram posts in 2018 did not infringe on their co…
"The firm of Andrus Anderson LLP, based in San Francisco, seeks to represent all women employed by the Walt Disney Studios in California since 2015. The suit claims that corporate policies "…
"The project, L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (Project for Paris, Place de l'Étoile-Charles de Gaulle), will involve covering the arch with a silvery blue recyclable polypropylene fabric " ne…