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Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Is Getting A Real Theater — Designed By A MacArthur...
The new venue — sort of a deluxe, sturdy version of the tent the festival uses currently, with the Hudson River and highlands as...
Metropolitan Museum’s Attendance Numbers Are Getting Back To Normal — With One Exception
For the fiscal year just ended, US visitors totaled 5.5 million, slightly above the (pre-pandemic) figure for 2019. What's more, just over half of...
Barnes Foundation Lays Off 12 Staffers, Including Senior Execs
The Philadelphia museum has eliminated a dozen positions, about 6% of its staff, over six months, despite the fact that it has a budget...
Disneyland Avoids What Would Have Been Its First Workers’ Strike In 40 Years
"Disney has reached a tentative agreement with four unions representing thousands of workers at its California theme parks, including ride operators, candy makers and...
Alleged Victim At Center of New York Philharmonic Rape Scandal Reveals New Details
Cara Kizer, the horn player who was denied tenure after reporting an alleged rape by associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey, says now-former CEO Gary...
Dancers In Olympics Opening Ceremony Call Off Strike Threat
"After negotiations between the SFA-CGT union representing performers, Paris 2024 organizers and Panam 24 (the producers of the opening ceremony) ended in a stalemate...
John Eliot Gardiner Fired By The Board Of The Choir And Orchestra He Founded
While the conductor issued a subsequent statement maintaining that he had resigned, the announcement by the board said it had "made the decision that...
Lewis H. Lapham, Editor Who Resurrected Harper’s Magazine Twice, Is Dead At 89
Born into a very old and eminent family (though one no longer, by his day, very rich), he wrote about the American aristocracy with...
More Than Half A Million Britons Stopped Paying BBC License Fee Last Year
The annual tax, currently £169.50 ($219) and mandatory for any household with a television or using BBC's iPlayer online, is the national broadcaster's primary...
A Theatre Tries To Bridge The Divide At The Italy-Slovenia Border
The city of Gorizia/Nova Gorica was divided as the Iron Curtain arose after World War II, with an actual wall in place until 1994....
How A Dirt-Poor Trans Girl From Rural Argentina Became A Celebrated Author
"Growing up in the province of Córdoba, in the Argentine interior, (Camila Sosa Villada) inhabited a first-person, female voice in the stories that she...
The World Hub Of Afghan Music Is Now In Portugal
"'The Taliban tried to silence us,' said Ahmad Sarmast, the director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, in his new office in Braga,"...
Stephan Salisbury, Longtime Arts Writer For The Philadelphia Inquirer, Has Died At 77
"(He) fashioned a 43-year career at The Inquirer that featured hundreds of influential stories about Philadelphia’s art and culture and the people who shaped...
The Breakdancers Of Paris Are Skeptical About Their Discipline’s Inclusion In The Olympics
"(They) worry this is yet another attempt at gentrifying their art form and ways of life. (Breaker) Anne Nguyen … argues that the 'sportification'...
Sundance Film Festival Is Leaving Park City, Utah. Where Should It Go?
After 40 years, the festival seems to be acknowledging that it has outgrown its hometown. Last week organizers announced six finalist candidates for the...
John Mayall, “The Godfather Of British Blues,” Dead At 90
"A multi-instrumentalist who sang and played guitar, keyboards and harmonica, Mr. Mayall was better known as a bandleader who had a superb eye for...
US Authorities Recover Picasso Drawing Involved In 1MDB Scandal
"The US Justice Department has reached an agreement with Jasmine Loo Ai Swan, the former general counsel of Malaysia’s sovereign investment development fund (1MDB),...
Tourist In Florence Filmed Grinding Herself On Nude Statue Of Bacchus
The sculpture, a replica of the 16th-century original (kept in the Bargello Museum) by Giambologna, is on a street corner near the Ponte Vecchio....
BBC To Eliminate Another 500 Jobs
"The BBC will lay off 500 more staff by March 2026 as its annual report paints a worrying financial picture including a near-doubling of...
Preserving The Songs of Japan’s Blind Itinerant Women Musicians
"Barely a decade has passed since (Rieko) Hirosawa started learning goze uta (blind women’s songs) – a genre of music spanning four centuries that...
1,000-Year-Old Church In Istanbul Is Converted Into Mosque, But Byzantine Mosaics And Frescoes Are...
"When the 11th-century Chora Church was ordered to be reconverted into a mosque in 2020, many feared for the fate of its richly decorated...
Actors Reading Aloud To Stroke Patients
"InterAct Stroke Support operates all over the UK, … tak(ing) professional actors into hospitals to read poetry and stories to stroke survivors." Longtime Guardian...
What Yuja Wang Did During The COVID Lockdown
As little as possible, actually. "I promised myself to only practise when I wanted to, and then I didn’t want to for 15 months!...
This Year’s Venice Dance Biennale Gets Scientific
"This year’s theme is 'We Humans,' a title that might conjure fleshy bodies and emotional connection, but the opening weekend’s performances focused as much...
South Africa’s Film Industry, Full Of Promise, Struggles With Structural Issues
Says one key player, "If you compare South Africa to a lot of industries with similar GDPs, the difference here is the lack of...