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Hobby Lobby Sues Professor Who Allegedly Sold Them Papyri Stolen From Oxford
"The $7 million lawsuit … alleges that Dirk Obbink stole 32 items from the Egyptian Exploration Society at the University of Oxford's Sackler Library...
Mellon Foundation Is Giving $125 Million In Recovery Funding To Artists And Small Orgs...
" which has also received contributions from the Ford Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, will provide up to 2,400 artists with a no-strings-attached...
If US Orchestras Want More Diverse Conductors, They Have A Source Of Them Very...
Zachary Woolfe: "There are more of them than ever, and they go by a variety of titles: assistant, associate, fellow, resident. Almost every major...
Hong Kong’s State Broadcaster Forbidden To Report Political News
"'We were informed that no political story is allowed,' says Emily*, an RTHK employee who, along with others interviewed for this article, asked for...
Confusion And Upheaval At New Zealand Opera As One-Third Of Board Resigns
Three members of the national company's governing body (reportedly the three with the most experience with and connections within the industry) stepped down in...
When Xerox And ‘101 Dalmatians’ Saved Disney’s Animation Studio
Up through Disney's previous animated feature, Sleeping Beauty, each cell in a film had to be traced and copied by hand, often more than...
Artful Manager: The Book
I’m thrilled to announce the publication of The Artful Manager: Field Notes on the Business of Arts and Culture in paperback and eBook formats....
Millennials Are Killing Off The Philly Accent
"Linguists trace this shift to Philadelphia's elite schools. Any way of speaking that falls outside the norm is viewed negatively in certain settings, so...
Queering Flamenco (Which Could Really Use It)
"When the journalist and filmmaker Ana González was growing up near Madrid, in the nineteen-nineties, flamenco seemed both ubiquitous and retrograde. For González, this...
Some Performance Venues Are Having Way Too Hard A Time Getting Federal Relief Money
"As the emails finally started arriving late last week, some business owners got the good news they had been long awaiting: They would be...
George Beasley, Dead At 89, Built A US Radio Empire
He started in 1961 with one AM station, which he ran while working as a high school principal, in small-town North Carolina. Sixty years...
Now Netflix Wants To Move Into Video Games
" has been approaching senior game industry executives about joining it to lead the creation of a subscription games service, according to reports. …...
‘Why Should The Best Show People Somehow Keep Making The Dullest, Tackiest Hodgepodge Of...
"Even when not being manipulated by moneybags, the awards have regularly represented Broadway as a neurotic mess: defensive about its marginality, embarrassed by its...
As Pandemic Lifts, US Museums Are In Less Dire Shape Than Feared
"A year ago, the outlook for U.S. museums appeared grim: a July 2020 survey conducted by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) found that...
JoAnn Falletta’s Successor At Virginia Symphony Is Eric Jacobsen Of The Knights And Brooklyn...
The 38-year-old conductor and cellist is also music director of the Orlando Philharmonic and the Greater Bridgeport (Ct.) Symphony, but he's best known in...
Dan Frank, Brave And Influential Chief Editor Of Pantheon Books, Dead At 67
He shepherded the work of a remarkable group of authors ranging from Cormac McCarthy to Jill Lepore to Oliver Sacks and beyond. Perhaps his...
International Booker Prize Goes To David Diop’s ‘At Night All Blood Is Black’
"Diop, the author of two novels, and his translator Anna Moschovakis, split the £50,000 annual prize, which goes to the best author and translator...
How Wrens Coordinate Their Intricately Interlocking Songs
"A team of researchers studying brain activity of singing male and female plain-tailed wrens has discovered that the species synchronizes their frenetically paced duets,...
Running The Rodgers And Hammerstein Organization For 40 Years (What A Job!)
"As new ways of making money from The Sound of Music and the rest presented themselves, the job of advising the heirs and maintaining...
‘Uncancel Culture’: Kevin Spacey, Aziz Ansari, Mel Gibson, Louis CK …
Peter Bradshaw, considering the news that Kevin Spacey is acting again (albeit in a small European film): "Could this be Hollywood's hot new thing...
Clint Eastwood Is 91, And He’s Directed 17 Films Just Since He Turned 70
And those 17 movies — which include no less than Mystic River (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins), Million Dollar Baby (Hilary Swank), and...
How Atlas Obscura Is Decolonizing — No, Enhancing — Its Content
"The Internet's favorite catalog of weird places" (as the headline fittingly describes it) is going through what it's calling (for lack of a term...
Mexico Forcibly Halts Illegal Construction Next To Teotihuacán
" sent in 250 National Guard troops and 60 police officers Monday to seize land next to the pre-Hispanic ruins of Teotihuacán where authorities...
Long Discreetly Camouflaged, Lesbians In Ballet Are Starting to Find Themselves And Each Other
Gay men aren't as ubiquitous in that world as some civilians think, but they're not rare. Yet gender norms in classical ballet are even...
Why Sarah Lane Quietly Slipped Away From ABT
" Lane and ABT parted ways last summer, although no announcement was made; rather, in September, her name was quietly taken off the roster....