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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

V.C.U. Turns to Steven Holl Architects for New Arts Center by Robin Pogrebin

The university unveiled the design for a new $32 million Institute for Contemporary Art that it hopes will be part exhibition and performance space, part lab and incubator.

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Monday, April 23, 2012

White House Announces Arts Education Plan by Robin Pogrebin

Called Turnaround Arts, the program aims to improve academic performance and increase student engagement in struggling schools through the arts.

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Monday, April 9, 2012

ArtsBeat: Mike Daisey to Develop New Work With Cape Cod Theater Project by Robin Pogrebin

Neil LaBute and Sharr White are among the other playwrights trying out new work in staged readings for the Cape Cod Theater Project.

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Friday, April 6, 2012

Art to Occupy Times Square by Robin Pogrebin

Artists are invited to submit works to be displayed on the giant screens of Times Square.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

ArtsBeat: Former Executive Director at Public Theater Named to Same Post at St. Ann's Warehouse by Robin Pogrebin

Andrew D. Hamingson, who resigned from the Public a year ago, will be St. Ann's first executive director.

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Marina Abramovic Turns to Rem Koolhaas to Design New Performance Art Center by Robin Pogrebin

The deal calls for Mr. Koolhaas's firm, OMA, to transform a former tennis center in Hudson, N.Y., into the Center for the Preservation of Performance Art.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Watch Out Dowager Countess, Shirley MacLaine to Join 'Downton Abbey' Cast by Robin Pogrebin

She is to play Martha Levinson, the American mother of Lady Grantham, played by Elizabeth McGovern.

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ArtsBeat: Long Wharf Cancels Stage Version of 'Sophie's Choice' by Robin Pogrebin

A play based on Chaim Potok's novel "My Name Is Asher Lev" will replace "Sophie's Choice."

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Artists' Development in Harlem Gets Final Financing by Robin Pogrebin

Tax credits from New York City are the final piece of financing needed for the construction of El Barrio's Artspace (PS109), a development of housing and work spaces for artists planned for …

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ArtsBeat: Musical About Charlie Chaplin Heading to Broadway by Robin Pogrebin

"Becoming Chaplin" originated at the La Jolla Playhouse in California as "Limelight."

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Grand Old Stage at Ryman Auditorium Is Being Replaced by Robin Pogrebin

The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, former home of the Grand Ole Opry, is getting a new stage for the first time since 1951.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Executive Director of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation to Step Down by Robin Pogrebin

Sharon Gersten Luckman is planning to step down from the Ailey Foundation next year.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Literary Agent Helps Create Training Program at Syracuse for Arts Leaders by Robin Pogrebin

Morton L. Janklow's program aims to enhance the business skills of cultural leaders.

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Monday, January 2, 2012

ArtsBeat Blog: A Celebrity Chef Will Take to the Chicago Stage by Robin Pogrebin

The chef, Rick Bayless, will serve a Mexican-influenced dinner with wine pairings as he tries to cook his way into the heart of an unhappy woman in "Cascabel."

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Monday, November 14, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Groundbreaking Set for New Arts Center in Brooklyn by Robin Pogrebin

The 1918 Strand Theater will be renovated for an 8,000-square-foot complex.

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Monday, October 10, 2011

City Center Gears Up for Its Grand Reopening by Robin Pogrebin

The center, nearing the end of the renovation and restoration of its neo-Moorish building on West 55th Street, seeks to raise its profile in the city’s cultural life.

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Alvin Ailey Signs Longterm Deal With City Center by Robin Pogrebin

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has signed its first multiyear agreement with City Center, according to officials of the two companies who were scheduled to announce that arrangement on T…

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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

City Ballet Offers New Discount Program After Complaints by Robin Pogrebin

Society NYCB will replace the Fourth Ring Society.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Arts Outposts Stung by Cuts in State Aid by ROBIN POGREBIN

State grants, a pillar of financing for small arts groups, have dried up.

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Monday, August 1, 2011

ArtsBeat: LuPone and Patinkin Coming to Broadway by Robin Pogrebin

Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin will reunite on Broadway for 63 performances of a theater concert.

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The Ultimate Souvenir for Katharine Hepburn Fans by Robin Pogrebin

If $28 million is too much for her estate, you can have just the house for $18 million.

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ArtsBeat: 'Southern Comfort' Documentary on Transgender Friends to Be a Musical by Robin Pogrebin

The show will be put on by CAP21 Theater Company in New York.

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Metropolitan Opera and Musicians Agree on New Contract by Robin Pogrebin

The opera now has deals with two of the three largest unions.

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Sunday, July 31, 2011

As States Struggle, How Much For the Arts? by Robin Pogrebin

Across the country this is a tough time for small arts groups because state grants have largely shriveled up. Thirty-one states, still staggered by the recession, cut their arts budgets for …

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Monday, July 25, 2011

Lincoln Center Announces New Discussion Series by Robin Pogrebin

The Lincoln Center Dialogue series will be held at the David Rubenstein Atrium.

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Friday, May 6, 2011

Broadway: Take ’Em Early, Take ’Em Often by Robin Pogrebin

My children are immersed in a world of iPads and text messages, but I was pleased that my teenage son and preteen daughter could nevertheless be charmed by “Anything Goes.”

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Media Executive to Run New Jersey Performing Arts Center by Robin Pogrebin

John Schreiber has been named president and chief executive.

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Monday, April 4, 2011

Ai Weiwei's New York Project to Go Forward, With or Without Him by Robin Pogrebin

A large-scale public art project by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, to occupy the Pulitzer fountain plaza outside the Plaza Hotel starting early next month, will go forward even if Mr. Ai, who…

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Metropolitan Opera Evaluating Planned Japan Trip by Robin Pogrebin

Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera's general manager, issued a statement Wednesday assuring the company that the safety of the trip is being evaluated.

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Monday, March 28, 2011

Martin E. Segal Awards Announced by Robin Pogrebin

A dancer and a documentary filmmaker on Monday received this year's Martin E. Segal Awards, which recognize emerging artists associated with Lincoln Center.

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