In an interview with Monopol, Kiev Biennale curator David Elliott asserts he has not experienced corruption or interference while working in politically unstable Ukraine.

Opera News, one of the leading classical music magazines in the country, said it would stop reviewing the Metropolitan Opera, resulting from the Met’s dissatisfaction over negative critiques.

Mia Kirsi Stageberg

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Mia Kirsi Stageberg is a Norwegian-American fiction writer who first published with the New Directions annuals of the 1960s and '70s. Based in San Francisco, she has worked as an art writer, editor, oral historian, researcher, nonprofit fundraiser and cloth sculptress. To order Mia Kirsi Stageberg’s fiction, e-mail her directly at miastageberg@gmail.com or contact Silver Bay Books, 1280 Laguna Street, Suite 4K, San Francisco, CA 94115, 415-821-4708.