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• Tracy Chapman, Ready To Rerelease Her Debut Album On Vinyl, May Someday Tour Again

  06-04-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  She’s always in the studio, she says – and in addition, “I play [music] and I sing, probably annoying people around me,’ she added. When I suggested that people around her were probably more than happy to hear her voice, she smiled. ‘I hope so.’” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘I positioned myself against a wall and waited’: Michel Kharoubi’s best phone picture

  26-04-2025 12:00
  The city is a set for an urban opera, the French photographer says of Paris. All it needs is the right passersbyOn the day he took this image, French photographer Michel Kharoubi was on his way to visit his father in a medical retirement home. This was shot in Les Olympiades, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, but Kharoubi notes that the specific location is not important to him.“I don’t practise realistic or documentary street photograp
  
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• From The Friend to Taskmaster: your complete entertainment guide for the week ahead

  26-04-2025 07:00
  Naomi Watts is landed with a big dog in a poignant tale of loss, while the long-running comedy gameshow serves up its wildest lineup yetThe Friend
  Out nowStarring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, this adaptation of the acclaimed novel sees a New York-based writer (Watts) processing the suicide of a close friend who has bequeathed her his 150lb great dane, which proceeds to create multiple issues in her life as well as creating a poignant link to the past. Continue reading...
  
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• Joyous junkyard beauties: how Leilah Babirye fled death to create towering works of togetherness

  25-04-2025 19:01
  The UK supreme court’s recent gender ruling made me think of the sublime sculptures – created from trash – by this artist who escaped persecution in Uganda. They stand for unity over divisionIn 2022, two wooden sculptures stood on the riverbanks of Brooklyn. Configured as bodies with multiple heads, the monumental works – part of a larger group titled Agali Awamu, which translates as “Togetherness” – towered over those who interacted with them. They appe
  
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• Oh to Believe in Another World review – Gripping Kentridge and Shostakovich bring Stalin’s age of betrayal to life

  25-04-2025 16:22
  
  Multitudes festival, LondonThe artist’s potent animated film played against a superb live account of the 10th Symphony from Marin Alsop and the Philharmonia Orchestra The 20th century is a cruel farce performed by puppets in a cardboard museum in South African artist William Kentridge’s grotesquely funny, constantly disconcerting film interpretation of Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony. Lenin and Stalin, their faces’ photographs fixed on jerky figures made from scraps, transfo
  
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• Hiroshige’s peerless prints, McCartney’s unseen snaps and Vancouver’s blue skies – the week in art

  25-04-2025 13:00
  
  Van Gogh’s favourite Japanese artist is at the British Museum, Lisa Milroy’s memories of Canada are on show in London, and new thresholds are crossed by Do Ho Suh – all in your weekly dispatchHiroshige: Artist of the Open Road
  It’s not hard to see why Hiroshige was Van Gogh’s favourite Japanese printmaker – his colours have a radiant intensity almost without equal in art.• British Museum, London, from 1 May until 7 September Continue reading...
  
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• Tina Landau On Staging “Redwood” And “Floyd Collins” On Broadway Back-To-Back

  24-04-2025 21:06 via msn.com
  “We got word that André (Bishop) wanted to schedule Floyd for his final production and the very same week we (got) a theater for Redwood. When I first got the two schedules, they opened the same week. I fought for four days off between Redwood opening and the start of Floyd.” – Vulture (MSN)
  
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• So, How Much Is “Conclave” Like A Real Papal Election?

  24-04-2025 20:04 via theguardian.com
  While a few dramatic events aren’t credible (for instance, Sister Agnes wouldn’t be poking around while the cardinals are sequestered), experts say the film is very well-researched. Said one historian of Catholicism, “It was remarkable the way that they took something that’s secret and really got a lot of it right.” – The Guardian
  
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• Facebook Founder Suggests Social Media Is Over

  24-04-2025 19:44 via newyorker.com
  Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, admitted as much during more than ten hours of testimony, over three days last week, in the opening phase of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial against Facebook’s parent company, Meta. – The New Yorker
  
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• Eco-System Collapse? When Major Foundations Stopped Funding The Arts…

  24-04-2025 19:31 via newyorker.com
  Three of the largest arts funders in the United States—the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, and the Ford Foundation—stopped supporting many components of the arts infrastructure in New York that they helped create. – The New Yorker
  
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• Trump Cuts Funding For Museum That Tells Story Of Slavery

  24-04-2025 19:15 via theguardian.com
  The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS ) has terminated two grants for Black history and culture that were awarded to the Whitney Plantation, a former plantation in Louisiana that focuses on the truths of slavery and the experiences of people who were enslaved. – The Guardian
  
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• An Afghan Media Mogul’s “Strange Dance” With The Taliban

  24-04-2025 19:02 via theguardian.com
  “(Moby Group) remains, not just hanging on, but a dominant player in the Afghan market, producing TV and radio entertainment shows and a 24-hour news channel that employs about 400 people. The result is an odd co-existence with the Taliban – a ‘strange dance’, as (Saad) Mohseni put it.” – The Guardian
  
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• Andy Warhol artwork may have been thrown out in Dutch town hall revamp

  24-04-2025 18:47
  Maashorst council says print of Queen Beatrix from 1985 series Reigning Queens probably taken with the rubbishIn the hands of Andy Warhol, trash often became a work of art. So perhaps the pop culture icon would not be too upset to know that in the hands of one Dutch municipality, one of his artworks went the other way and was thrown out with the rubbish.Maashorst town hall on Thursday confessed that a rare silkscreen print by Warhol, who died in 1987, was among 46 valuable artworks that were &ld
  
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• Chicago History Museum Workers Form A Union. Some Workers Get Fired. Retaliation?

  24-04-2025 18:44 via chicago.suntimes.com
  Chicago History Museum Workers United formed in February with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31. It was the latest in a wave of unionizing efforts at several of Chicago’s cultural institutions all part of AFSCME’s nationwide Cultural Workers United campaign. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• San Antonio’s Tobin Center Theatre Isn’t Just Surviving, It’s Thriving. How?

  24-04-2025 18:31 via theatermania.com
  The Tobin Center has redefined what a nonprofit performing arts center can be—operating without government funding, a Broadway series, or an endowment. With a lean full-time staff, a vast volunteer network, and an entrepreneurial spirit, the Tobin is not only surviving in the post-Covid world, but thriving. – TheatreMania
  
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• Antony Gormley review – here come the Gorminators, those welded warriors for humanity

  24-04-2025 18:17
  White Cube, London
  He is a household name, with an army of lead figures dotted all over Britain. But this show of early work, with its undercurrent of weaponry, speaks to a fear of annihilation in a time of paranoiaIf you think nostrils are just holes to breathe through, you’ve not spent enough time with Antony Gormley. A figure lying on its back, in this show of his early works, is made of solid sheets of lead, welded neatly into the form of a man, based like so much of his work on the di
  
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• Having It All: It Doesn’t Have To Be Morality Versus Consumption

  24-04-2025 18:15 via 3quarksdaily.com
   The implicit claim of Abundance is that material abundance not only makes things cheaper, easier, or higher quality, but also makes it easier for people to be better. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• New York’s Hot New Dance Studio Is A Corridor In Penn Station

  24-04-2025 18:05 via nytimes.com
  “Officially called the West End Concourse, the corridor has a lot going for it: It’s easily accessible, the floors are spacious and smooth, and there are public restrooms, a rarity in New York City. It’s a ready-made stage for all sorts of group and partnered dance. … The biggest draw? It’s free.” – The New York Times
  
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• Our Cities Will Work Better When We Rethink Our Relationship With Cars

  24-04-2025 17:44 via msn.com
  Renegotiating the city’s relationship with cars has the power to rejuvenate New York. In the 20th century, automobiles defined modernity. Gridlock represented an excess of urban energy. Today, private cars that go wherever, whenever, are signs of stagnation and retreat. – Curbed
  
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• The Rockettes At 100

  24-04-2025 17:31 via nypost.com
  Each April, hundreds of hopeful leotard-clad dancers travel from all over to the Big Apple to audition for a coveted spot on the famous kickline — founded in 1925, halfway across the country in St. Louis, Missouri, by choreographer Russell Markert. – New York Post
  
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• Trump’s Kennedy Center To Be A Pollical Rally Hall

  24-04-2025 17:15 via theviolinchannel.com
  President Trump has announced that The Kennedy Center will play host to an official celebration of his first 100 days in office, with tickets to the event ranging between $175 and $1,000 in price. – The Violin Channel
  
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• There’s A Growing “Reading Crisis” In Britain: Study

  24-04-2025 17:06 via publishersweekly.com
  “According to the report, nearly half (46%) of U.K. adults say they struggle to focus on reading due to distractions around them. That figure rises to 55% among respondents ages 16-24 and 35-44, and to 52% for respondents ages 25-34. One in three adults revealed that they multitask while reading.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• $340 Million Performing Arts Center Is Central Issue In Dallas Exurb’s Election

  24-04-2025 16:33 via msn.com
  “The two bond measures before voters in Frisco … are crucial in the city’s bid to establish a large-scale performance hall. … Debate over the arts center, billed as a regional draw that will host Broadway-caliber stage productions, has dominated candidate forums for the city council.” – The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
  
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• Celebrating 100 Episodes of Call Time

  24-04-2025 16:30 via artsjournal.com
  Last Thursday’s episode of Call Time with Katie Birenboim, featuring actor and choreographer Aigner Mizzelle, marked the 100th episode of the show — in some form or another.Longtime listeners, friends, or fans might remember that a different version of Call Time, then known as “Theatre Book Club,” started under the auspices of Berkshire Theatre Group in 2020.We were in the depths of the pandemic, almost all of theatre was shutdown, and I was approached by BTG to plan, pro
  
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• Art Institute Of Chicago Ordered To Turn Over Schiele Portrait

  24-04-2025 16:01 via nytimes.com
  “A judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that the Art Institute of Chicago must surrender a 1916 drawing by Egon Schiele to investigators who plan to return it to heirs of a Jewish cabaret entertainer from Vienna who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1941.” – The New York Times
  
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• U.S. Ballet World’s Favorite Shoemaker Is Sold To Private Equity Firm

  24-04-2025 15:34 via wwd.com
  “Capezio is changing hands after more than a century of family ownership. On Thursday, Argand Partners LP, a New York-based middle-market private equity firm, revealed its acquisition of Ballet Makers Inc., the parent company of the venerable dance brand.” – WWD
  
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• Mauritshuis Museum Says Three of Its Rembrandts Have Turned Out To Be Copies

  24-04-2025 15:02 via artnews.com
  “The museum (in The Hague) has 11 pieces currently attributed to Rembrandt, including the famed Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632). The museum also has artworks that were purchased as Rembrandts, but have since been written off or had their authenticity questioned. There are now seven of these works.” – ARTnews
  
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• Eunice Golden, Pioneering Female Artist Of Male Nudes, Is Dead At 98

  24-04-2025 14:35 via nytimes.com
  “(Her) bold paintings of male nudes challenged ideas about feminism, art and sexuality — although, like many of her peers, she was not recognized as a pioneer until her later years.” – The New York Times
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra’s New CEO Comes From Inside

  24-04-2025 14:00 via msn.com
  “The understudy has landed the starring role. Ryan Fleur, after twice serving as interim leader, has been named president and CEO of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts, the group announced Wednesday.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• ‘I love humans – it gives me the courage to approach them’: the disarming work of Mao Ishikawa

  24-04-2025 09:00
  
  For five decades the Japanese photographer has captured the internal lives of a host of unlikely subjects, from dockers to Black GIs. Now a new show celebrates an artist dedicated to documenting the underdogIn 1975, when Mao Ishikawa was in her early 20s, she took a job in a bar frequented by Black American GIs stationed at Camp Hansen, in Okinawa. She had grown up hating the Americans who controlled her home island and, to this day, maintain military bases there. Yet she found kindred spir
  
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