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Ruth Mackenzie, Chased Out Of The Châtelet In Paris, Will Run The Southern Hemisphere’s...
After successfully leading Scottish Opera, the Manchester International Festival, the Holland Festival, and the cultural program at the 2012 London Olympics, her firing from...
A Receipt For One Of Yves Klein’s Invisible Artworks Just Sold For $1.2 Million
"On the auction block was a paper receipt for a 'Zone de sensibilité picturale immatérielle,' or a 'zone of empty space,' a 1959 conceptual...
Rags-To-Riches Stories Reveal More About America Than Their Authors Think
From the Horatio Alger stories which launched the genre to memoirs by billionaires and even to Fifty Shades of Grey and other "billionaire romance"...
New York Public Radio Plagiarism Case May Be About To Get Messy
WNYC announced last week that 41 stories by a single author — unnamed by the station but reportedly former host Jami Floyd — had...
A Settlement May End The Strike At Chicago’s PBS Station
"Striking broadcast technicians at WTTW-Channel 11 reached a tentative contract agreement with management Wednesday, likely ending the three-week work stoppage at the public television...
Enforcing EU Sanctions, Finland Impounds $46 Million Worth Of Art Headed To Russia
The artworks, which belong to prominent Russian museums including the Hermitage and Tretyakov, were being returned from exhibitions in Italy and Japan. Finnish customs...
One Of Those Guys Who Writes SEO Clickbait Articles Fesses Up
"I spend my days writing optimized blog articles that feature short paragraphs and less-sophisticated wording — proven SEO winners — to help my clients...
Why “Fairview” Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury Finds Writing About Race Difficult
"Because to write about anything, you have to declare something and I find that very hard to do. I do very much feel: 'Is...
City Of Sarasota Approves Plan For New Waterfront Performing Arts Center
"The arts center will be the centerpiece of a 53-acre park on the Sarasota bayfront. It will have a 2,250-seat main stage theater and...
Olga Smirnova Opens Up About Walking Away From The Bolshoi Ballet And Running Away...
"My life totally changed in one day. In the morning, I didn't know I was going to leave Russia. And in the night, I...
Two-Time Oscar-Winning Director Asghar Farhadi In Iranian Court On Charge Of Plagiarism
The somewhat confusing case — earlier reports that the director had been convicted were later denied — concerns Farhadi's A Hero, an Oscar-nominee this...
Baltimore Symphony’s New CEO: Mark Hanson, Formerly Of San Francisco Symphony
"Hanson, 48, who already has led two orchestras larger than the BSO" — the San Francisco and Houston Symphonies — "will begin his new...
Palace Of Versailles Reopens The Tennis Court Where French Democracy Was Born (Wait, What?)
The Jeu de Paume room was built in 1686 for Louis XIV to play the game of the same name, an ancestor of modern...
Getty Trust Names NYU’s Provost Its New CEO
"The world's wealthiest arts institution, the J. Paul Getty Trust, has selected a new president and CEO: New York University Provost Katherine E. Fleming....
Attempts To Ban Books From US Libraries More Than Quadrupled In 2021
The annual report from the American Library Association said that there were 729 challenges to books in school, university, and public libraries in 2021,...
Classical Grammy Winners: LA Phil’s Mahler 8th, Met’s “Akhnaten”, Philly’s Florence Price, Caroline Shaw
The Philadelphia Orchestra's release of Price's First and Third Symphonies took Best Orchestral Performance, while Dudamel's Mahler Eighth from Los Angeles won Best Choral...
New York Times Officially Names Zachary Woolfe Classical Music Critic
In a long-expected move, Woolfe, who became the Times's classical music editor in 2015, succeeds Anthony Tommasini, who retired as chief classical critic last...
Where Aaron Sorkin Found What Atticus Finch Has In Common With Donald Trump
Adapting Mockingbird for the stage, Sorkin knew Atticus shouldn't be an icon of rectitude. "I realized I didn't have to create a flaw for...
Franz Kafka, Inveterate Hypochondriac
"By the time he was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of 34, Kafka had already spent two decades worrying about disease. He took...
XR (That’s Extended Reality) Arrives On The Dance Scene
"I'm in an abandoned-looking house, where a woman appears like a dancing apparition. Then I'm going down a rabbit hole into a tea party...
The Legendary Music Tree, From Which Are Made Guitars Like No Others
Here is the story of one particular trunk of mahogany in a remote Belizean forest. - Smithsonian Magazine
Charles Darwin’s Notebooks Mysteriously Returned After Years Missing
The 1830s notepads, last seen 22 years ago and formally declared missing in 2020, were left in a pink gift bag on a floor...
Jeremy O. Harris Wants Audience Members To Come Into His Plays Blind
"I think a lot of people's response to my plays are based on projection. ... I love that. It's my ideal. Because then you're...
Boris Johnson’s Government Will Privatize Britain’s Channel Four
"'I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon,' tweeted...
UNESCO Tallies Damage To 53 Cultural Sites (So Far) In Ukraine Since Russia’s Invasion
"As of March 30, UNESCO said, the confirmed damaged sites, located in several regions across Ukraine, include 29 religious sites, 16 historic buildings, four...