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At The Opera In Barcelona — Indoors, With 1,000 Other People
There were staggered arrival times, temperature takers at the entrance, plenty of hand sanitizer, mandatory masks (a few of them fabu-fied with sequins). Every...
A Hollywood Boycott Of Georgia? Studios Aren’t Saying A Word
Several prominent individuals in the industry have spoken out against the restrictive election laws just passed by the Georgia legislature and signed by Gov....
New Initiative Will Give Cash Aid To Independent Bookstores Hurt By Pandemic
"The Survive to Thrive grant program, created by Ingram Content Group chairman John Ingram, hopes to raise a total of $2 million by the...
A Lavish ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel Is Coming To Broadway And The West End
George R.R. Martin, who wrote the Song of Ice and Fire novels on which the megahit HBO series was based, is working with playwright...
Is The NFT Market A Classic Bubble?
As prices for the digital artworks soar, with payments made in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, some observers are throwing around words like "tulipmania." Says...
Spanish Police Seize Forged El Greco, Goya, And Modigliani Paintings
"The counterfeit canvases came from a non-specialist collector based in the province of Toledo who had intended to sell the works as originals. …...
Massive Amounts Of Money Intended To Help South African Artists Through Pandemic Are Missing
The South African government allocated 300 million rand (roughly $20 million) to a rescue fund for artists who lost their livelihoods due to COVID-related...
The Royal Albert Hall At 150: A Strange History
Way, way beyond the Proms: To mark the sesquicentennial of the hall's opening (Queen Victoria was all verklempt), the Beeb recounts some of the...
Obtuse in Syracuse: How the University’s Deaccession Symposium Got Compromised by Conflicts of Interest
Although last week’s Syracuse Symposium was nominally about Deaccessioning After 2020, it was mostly focused on the new museum imperative — advancing DEIA (Diversity,...
Sophie Fuller Talks Women Composers
A Programme Leader at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in London speaks about the inspiration of women who write music. - Aaron...
First Plays From Modern-Translations-Of-Shakespeare Project To Be Published
"A project, called Play On! Shakespeare, launched in 2015 by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, … commissioned 36 playwrights from diverse backgrounds … all...
How The Dance Student Convention/Competition Network Is Emerging From The Pandemic
"Now, against all odds, programs are rising from the ashes to bring you meaningful training and performance opportunities both in person and online. We...
Paul Laubin, Master Oboe Maker, Dead At 88
"In a dusty workshop near the Hudson River, lined with machines built as long ago as 1881, Mr. Laubin crafted his oboes and English...
Appeals Court Rules Against Warhol Foundation In Case Of Prince Portraits
"In a major loss for the Andy Warhol Foundation, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the famed Pop artist did...
Truman Capote Heir Sues Over ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ Remake That Nobody Has Greenlighted Yet
"Alan Schwartz, the trustee of a Truman Capote charity, is advancing a new copyright claim that arises from how Paramount has circulated a screenplay...
Cambodia Nixes Theme Park/Resort At Angkor Wat
The $350 million development, called Angkor Lake of Wonder and planned for just beyond the temple complex's southern boundary, was to be "a Khmerfied...
The New Yorker’s Unionized Staffers Vote To Authorize Strike
"Union workers at The New Yorker, Pitchfork and Ars Technica said Friday they had voted to authorize a strike as tensions over contract negotiations...
Antonio Pappano To Leave Royal Opera House For London Symphony
The Italian-British conductor has been music director at Covent Garden since 2002; at the end of the 2023-24 season, he'll move three miles or...
Leavers Are Raising Funds For A Museum Of Brexit
"Although all those involved in the project are keen Brexit supporters and the museum has had no public endorsements from pro-Europeans, the trustees said...
In Hong Kong, Fears That Beijing Is Coming After The Arts
"Decisions in Hong Kong not to display a politically sensitive photograph in a museum exhibition and not broadcast the annual Academy Awards for the...
How Playwriting Competitions Help The Entire Field Of Theatre
Despite the fact that they can sometimes feel like (as one literary manager put it) "the Hunger Games of playwriting," prizes do help bring...
Restored Ghent Altarpiece Is Finally Back Home — In A $6 Million Bulletproof Display...
The van Eyck masterpiece is the most stolen individual artwork we know of (one panel is still missing after 87 years), and its Flemish...
Google Podcasts Has An Extremism Problem
"Even in the world of podcasting, Google Podcasts … stands alone among major platforms in its tolerance of hate speech and other extremist content....
Author Larry McMurtry Dead At 84
"Over more than five decades, Mr. McMurtry wrote more than 30 novels and many books of essays, memoir and history. He also wrote ...
Those Unknown Sappho Poems Discovered Back In 2014? There’s A Problem
Don't worry: so far, there's no evidence that they're forgeries. But "the editors of a scholarly volume in which the circumstances of the discovery...