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Enough Museums Want To Return Looted Benin Bronzes That There’s Now A Backlog
So far, of 56 US institutions surveyed, 16 museums are in the process of returning Benin Court artworks, and five more would do so...
“It Sounds Like A Spy Novel”: How Masha Of Pussy Riot Escaped From Russia
Maria Alyokhina had been under house arrest for months, but when, in April, Putin announced that she was to be sent back to a...
How Many Ukrainian Cultural Sites Have Russian Forces Destroyed In This War?
UNESCO's confirmed count stands at 127, while President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that the number is nearly 200. Much of that destruction was...
European Box Office Still Hasn’t Recovered From COVID-19
Attendance and revenue at movie theaters in the EU and UK are up from 2020 and 2021, yes, but they're still well below half...
After $500 Tickets Made News, Prices For West End’s “Cock” Are Suddenly Down By...
Just a day after incredulity and scorn over £400 ticket prices (double those of Hamilton) hit social media and then news outlets, seats in...
Brazilian Town Erects Christ Statue Even Taller Than Rio’s
The figure of Christ the Redeemer that reigns over Rio de Janeiro is 98 feet tall (not including the pedestal or the mountain it...
Making An Opera Out Of “Hamlet” Is A Very Tricky Feat. How Did Brett...
For a start, you have to cut more than three quarters of Shakespeare's four-hour text. And you have to find some way to make...
“She Became America’s First Starlet”: Edna St. Vincent Millay And The Price Of Youthful...
"During the 1910s and '20s, Millay achieved the kind of fame that was unusual for a poet then and unthinkable now. ... But fame...
Brave Defiance Or Foolhardiness? Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum Is Reinstalling Its Collection
The Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, like most of its counterparts in Ukraine, hid its collection to protect it from destruction or looting...
A Tourist Trips, Falls On, And Rips A 17th-Century Painting
An elderly American woman, who may have been feeling ill or may have tripped on the slightly raised platform, landed on Guido Reni's St....
Dancers At An L.A. Strip Club Have Unionized And Are Picketing Their Employer
When two of their colleagues were fired for complaining to management about unsafe working conditions, the dancers at Star Garden in North Hollywood voted...
So What’s Happened To The Troubled Magazine “The Believer”? It’s Been Bought By The...
As an Instagram post by Believer co-founder Ed Park put it, "Not a joke." - The Daily Beast
They’re Going To Put A Zipline And Cable Car Into Old Jerusalem
The plan, first approved by Netanyahu's government and just affirmed by city authorities, will involve a half-mile zipline from a ridge between East and...
To Punish Disney, Sen. Josh Hawley Introduces A Bill To Curtail Copyright
"Hawley's bill would dramatically rewrite U.S. copyright law, shortening the total term available to all copyright holders going forward by several decades. It would...
$500 Tickets For A Play In London’s West End? Yes, To This We’ve Come
The £400 price for the revival of Mike Bartlett's play Cock, featuring Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey, isn't advertised. Some poor guy ordered online and...
A Visit To The Independent Art Republic Of Užupis
For much of the past six centuries, the neighborhood was the Jewish quarter of Vilnius. Following World War II, the district was badly neglected...
How Moonbug Became The Titan Of Children’s Shows On YouTube
"The London company produces 29 of the most popular online kids' shows in the world, found on more than 150 platforms in 32 languages...
Shivkumar Sharma, Pathbreaker In Indian Classical Music, Dead At 84
His great innovation was to turn the santoor, a hammer dulcimer which Indians had heard only in Kashmiri folk music, into a full-fledged solo...
Now There Are Calls For Artistic Director Patricia Barker To Follow Her Husband Out...
A week after Michael Auer was reportedly terminated as ballet master over abusive conduct toward company members, two dancers who performed with RNZB in...
Golden-Age Stradivarius Named For Leonardo Could Sell For $20 Million
The "da Vinci" Stradivarius violin, made in 1714, is also called the "ex-Seidel" after former owner Toscha Seidel, who gave Albert Einstein lessons and...
Sex & Death & Rodgers & Hammerstein
Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, Carousel, The Sound of Music — they can seem corny today. Yet they deal with loaded issues...
$195 Million: Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn” Is Now The Most Expensive American Painting Ever Sold
Indeed, the work — full title Shot Sage Blue Marilyn and dating from 1964 — is also the highest-priced 20th-century artwork and the second-most...
This Year’s Pulitzer Winner For Drama Hasn’t Even Had A Live Staged Performance Yet
Fat Ham, which transmutes Hamlet from a tragedy in Denmark into a comedy at a Southern Black family's cookout, was produced for streaming last...
Raven Chacon’s “Voiceless Mass” Wins 2022 Pulitzer Prize For Music
"Chacon, 44, a member of the Navajo Nation who lives in Albuquerque, set out to use the sounds of the organ, accompanied by winds,...
Here Are The Winners Of The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes For Books
Fiction: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen. History: Covered With Night by Nicole Eustace and Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer. Biography: Chasing Me...