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Italy Begins Reopening Theaters And Museums
"After six months of rotating on-again, off-again closures, restaurants, bars, museums and cinemas opened to the public in most of the country under a...
Profusion of Confusion: Unraveling the Tangled Tale of “Salvator Mundi” (& my theory on...
The only thing that’s certain about the fate of this elusive painting is that the story about why it hasn’t publicly surfaced since it...
Weston Sprott Speaks About Transforming Young Peoples’ Lives
The dean of Juilliard's Preparatory Division and trombonist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra speaks about transforming young artists' lives and incorporating diversity across the...
India’s Top Documentary Filmmaker Can Barely Show His Work There Anymore
" Patwardhan views his filmmaking practice as comprehensive — not just researching, shooting, and completing films, but also taking them on tour and holding...
‘Damn! This Is A Caravaggio! Where The Hell Did You Find It?’ (The Inside...
"It took all of six minutes for Massimo Pulini to realise that the small oil painting due to go under the hammer in Madrid...
The World’s Bravest Opera Boss Talks About The Challenges At His Latest House
Stéphane Lissner has been the superintendent/general director at the two most notoriously contentious companies in the world: La Scala and the Paris Opera. Now...
The Mighty Battle Of The Getty Museum Versus The Webbing Clothes Moth
It seems that, in many places, a multitude of vermin took advantage of the lack of traffic in museums during the pandemic to stage...
In Florida, It’s Now A Felony To Damage A Confederate Monument
While the "Combating Public Disorder Act" just signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis is most notorious for its provisions aimed at street protests (classifying blocking...
NPR And PRX To Offer Paid Subscription Option For Podcasts
NPR will give listeners the choice to pay — via its own platforms, Apple, or Spotify — a yet-undetermined monthly fee in order to...
When Right-Wingers Accuse Online Booksellers Of Censorship, They May Have A Point (But Not...
"Unlike the cozy bookstore in your town, online booksellers don't choose each book they're offering. The role of curator — if it exists at...
Bankrupt One Year Ago, Cirque Du Soleil Begins Reopening
"Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, which emerged from Chapter 15 protection after a sale in November, announced on Wednesday that it is restarting four...
Bob Porter, Producer And Broadcaster Who Rescued Jazz History, Dead At 80
"As a record producer guided the reissue of vast swaths of the classic jazz canon, and … as a broadcaster helped build...
Dancer Who Sued Berlin State Ballet For Racial Discrimination Gets Settlement, New Contract
"Chloé Lopes Gomes filed a lawsuit in 2020 against the expiration of her temporary contract. She discriminated against because of the color of...
Choreographer Cathy Marston, Making New Story Ballets Cool Again
The 46-year-old Briton, who has continued to work remotely even as her big U.S. premieres planned for last year (Of Mice and Men at...
Size Matters: Of Novels And Novellas And Their Fluctuating Lengths
Novels started out long in the 18th and 19th centuries, got shorter in the early 20th century, and really started bulking up (especially genre...
Tempest Storm, Last Of The Great Old-Time Striptease Artists, Dead At 93
"Routinely named in the same ardent breath as the great 20th-century ecdysiasts Lili St. Cyr, Blaze Starr and Gypsy Rose Lee, Ms. Storm was...
What Ever Happened To All Those Quibi Shows? They’re Now ‘Roku Originals’
"The streaming device maker will rebrand the Quibi library, which it bought in January, as Roku Originals in the run-up to debuting them on...
The New Whitest-Ever White Paint Could Potentially Replace Air Conditioning
The paint, developed at Purdue University's mechanical engineering department, reflects 98.1 percent of the sun's rays, while the strongest heat-resistant white paints currently on...
Bad Feelings At Second City In Chicago: Old Food Service Staff Is Fired And...
The 90-odd people who worked, some for decades, as waiters, bartenders, dishwashers and the like were told last fall that their furloughs were officially...
Researchers Figure Out Why Some Picassos Have Deteriorated More Quickly Than Others
"The study centred on four paintings inspired by the Ballets Russes, the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev's itinerant dance troupe, which Picasso produced in no...
Classical Music Podcasts Are Coming Into Their Own
"Classical music has been surprisingly slow to embrace podcasting, a medium ideally suited to illuminate its sounds and stories. But something changed in the...
Canada’s Federal Budget Has More Than $800 Million In New Cultural Funding
"The budget earmarks $300-million over two years to Canadian Heritage to create a recovery fund to combat that drop in employment and support the...
Detroit Symphony’s Long-Serving CEO, Anne Parsons, To Retire Next Year
"Parsons faced a financially embattled DSO when she took the reins in 2004, followed by grueling labor strife several years later. She ultimately helped...
Charlotte Plans To Overhaul Arts Funding, With 50% More Money — But Some Artists...
"Last week, City Manager Marcus Jones recommended that the city take over arts funding from the Arts & Science Council, which has managed the...
Inside James Turrell’s Masterwork-In-Progress In Arizona’s Painted Desert
For 45 years, the light sculptor has been designing and building a complex inside Roden Crater, a volcanic cinder cone about 50 miles northeast...