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The Cultural Jewels Of Caracas Decay As Venezuela’s Crises Drag On
As petrodollars flowed and it became one of Latin America's most prosperous cities, Caracas built cultural and architectural landmarks such as Parque Central, the...
Salman Rushdie Is Serializing His Next Novel On Substack
"'I'm going to kind of make it up as I go along, but I have some starting points,' he says. Aside from the novella,...
As If COVID Weren’t Enough, Texas Arts Venues Now Have To Worry About Handguns
As of Sept. 1, any adult in Texas may carry a gun in public, concealed or not, without any license. Private businesses and venues...
New Orleans Museums Got Through Hurricane Ida In Decent Shape — So Far
With the post-Katrina levees and fortifications having done their job, the city's art institutions suffered no flood damage. The worry is how long the...
Nielsen’s Accreditation For National TV Ratings Suspended
"The suspension is the latest salvo in a months-long joust between TV networks and the company that has long tabulated (their) viewership, … (as...
Composer Mikis Theodorakis, 96
"He was known outside Greece for the remarkable scope of his talent — a catalogue of more than 1,000 songs, film scores, symphonies, operas...
Edinburgh Festivals Bounce Back From COVID, Selling More Than Half A Million Tickets
With pandemic restrictions (excepting some audience capacity limits) lifted just around opening day, 520,000 tickets were sold for events at the International, Book, Film,...
Diana Taylor, Michael Bloomberg’s Partner, Named New York City Ballet Board Chair
A longtime banking professional in both the private and government sectors and the first woman to chair the board of directors in the company's...
Mosul Had A Beloved Street Of Bookstores. Only One Has Reopened Since ISIS Was...
"Not long ago, it was one of countless bookstores along the wide avenue lined with arched windows and doorways. … Four years after the...
Without Warning, Board Of Documentary Festival Locks Out Entire Programming Staff
Days after Sheffield DocFest artistic director Cintia Gil departed over "artistic differences," seven festival programmers found themselves locked out of their email accounts and...
Soprano Teresa Żylis-Gara Dead At 91
The Lithuanian-born, Polish-raised singer, known as an especially reliable artist with a beautiful lyric soprano, had an unusually wide repertoire, from Bach to Mozart...
Eternal Return: Known Forgeries Keep Turning Up In The Art Market
"Anyone who thinks works of art declared fake simply disappear in disgrace or are destroyed should talk to Jane Kallir, author of the catalog...
The Real Problem With The New Architecture At The World Trade Center Site? Fear
Justin Davidson: "This is a landscape shaped by fear. It has been formed not only by the reasoned response to a documented threat but...
What The Latest Study On The Secrets Of Stradivaris And Guarneris Found
"According to new research … violins made by Antonio Stradivari and his contemporary, Giuseppe Guarneri, were treated with proprietary blends of mineral salts, which...
They Waited Over A Year, But They’re Finally Making Their Broadway Debuts
Laura Collins-Hughes interviews four young performers who were just about to start living their dream when COVID shut Broadway down. (The youngest of them,...
‘Jeopardy!’ Wasn’t The First Game Show Where Mike Richards Was A Problematic Boss
As executive producer of The Price Is Right (2008-2019), Richards was "a manager who was more interested in being a host, who ushered out...
‘Jeopardy!’ Fiasco Ends As Executive Producer Who Hired Himself As Host Is Fired
Mike Richards lasted a day as permanent host before revelations of past behavior and social media protests led him to resign. As more details...
Winston-Salem (NC) Symphony Music Director Resigns
Timothy Redmond, who assumed the job in July 2019, lives in London and most of his work is in England. He said in a...
Interesting Side Effect Of Pandemic: Arts Audiences Are Growing Beyond Australia’s Big Cities
With overseas travel blocked, people from the state capitals are traveling to regional towns and boosting attendance there, and more local people are coming...
What Will Happen Now To Afghanistan’s Biggest Broadcaster?
"'I'm still surprised we are up and running,' said Saad Mohseni, Tolo's co-owner. … Whether its menu of pop music and female television hosts...
‘Rodeo Clowns Are The Best Athletes In The Arena, And They Save Lives’
"Their work is just as dangerous and exciting as the bull riders they're employed to protect. Working in teams, their job is to distract...
American Speech Isn’t Getting Coarser, It’s Getting Softer And More Polite (F-Bombs Notwithstanding)
John McWhorter: "The grand old four-letter words seem to be used as punctuation, … (and) Twitter is full of people being recreationally nasty. Yet...
Prices For Vintage Video Games Are Getting Insane
Just over the past year, the record price for a copy of a game has risen by a factor of almost 20, from $114,000...
In Louisiana, Someone’s Finally Teaching Genuine Cajun French
The state has been working to revive French for decades — but the language taught in schools has been the standardized variety, very different...
A New Company Rises From The Ashes Of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
"A group of performers from the shuttered Aspen Santa Fe Ballet company have founded the new contemporary company DanceAspen and will debut new work...
