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Many Museums Want To Remove The Sackler Name From Their Campuses. State Attorneys General...

"Following court filing in New York, the attorneys general from 23 states issued a statement calling for amendments to the plan, which they...

Russia Is Investigating Its Own Eurovision Song Contest Entry For ‘Illegal Statements’

Following criminal complaints by a veterans' group and the Russian Union of Orthodox Women that the pop tune's words "aim to seriously insult and...

Bollywood’s Biggest Legend Leads Fight To Preserve India’s Oldest Films

Amitabh Bachchan, who's been a superstar in India for 50 years, has campaigned for years for the preservation of film from Indian cinema's early...

Is it possible to mourn James Levine?

Yes, but with an enormous asterisk.May 4, 2011. If only it had stopped there. - David Patrick Stearns

What Should Be on the Syracuse Symposium’s Agenda: The Urgent Need for Museum Deaccession...

Museum professionals have instinctively recoiled at the thought of government interference in their activities, insisting that they can police themselves. But that hasn’t worked...

Has COVID Changed Standup Comedy For Good?

If so, it's got nothing to do with illness or quarantine as subject matter; it's that the lockdown pushed everyone — audiences, colleagues, and...

Dog Dance Competitions (Yes, They’re A Thing)

The sport is called canine musical freestyle. "At a typical competition, you might see dogs weaving through their handlers' legs, rolling over, spinning on...

TV’s First Sitcom Family Wasn’t Much Like The Cleavers

Far from the WASP families in suburban homes seen in Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver (and The Brady Bunch and The...

Spotify Finally Provides An Explanation Of How It Pays Royalties

"First things first: It will not tell you how much money Drake made from Spotify; in fact there are no artist names on the...

As Pandemic Drags On, A Boom In Online Writers’ Groups

"Some of these informal gatherings have flourished as people who once shied away from writing groups — because of the time commitment, commute or...

BBC Plans Major Transfer Of Production And Jobs Away From London

"The blueprint for the plan, which is called 'The BBC Across the U.K.,' commits at least an extra £700 million ($978 million), cumulatively, across...

Met Opera Musicians Agree To Renegotiate Contract, Will Get Paid For First Time In...

"The musicians, and most of the Met's workers, were furloughed in April, shortly after the pandemic forced the opera house to close. Months later,...

Two Presidents Of Pace Gallery Step Down After Allegations Of Abuse And Ethics Breaches

"Douglas Baxter and Susan Dunne, who have worked at the dealership for decades, are leaving the gallery" in a restructuring of top management. "Their...

France’s Erstwhile ‘Museum Of The Colonies’ Is Now Led By The Son Of A...

"Pap Ndiaye, a historian and academic of Senegalese and French descent, was last month appointed to revitalize the Palais de la Porte Dorée —...

Italy’s Highest Court Saves 800-Year-Old Monastery From Steve Bannon

"The Council of State ruled that the Culture Ministry was correct in cancelling the concession it had given to the Dignitatis Humanae Institute," a...

Should Museums Tell The Public About Missing Art?

"Museums have at times withheld information about thefts, fearing that revealing security weaknesses could make other institutions less likely to loan them art or...

What Made Graham Greene So Peripatetic? Misery

Constant bullying at school (he was the headmaster's son, and he paid for it); repeated adolescent suicide attempts; Benzedrine and Nembutal and lots (and...

As Ballet Companies Move Toward Reopening Without Knowing What The Rules Will Be, How...

"'What would you do if you had no idea when a season would begin, what venue capacity you could perform in and what the...

America Will Get Performing Arts Back This Summer — In Open-Air Spaces

"All around the country, companies that normally produce outdoors but were unable to do so last year are making plans to reopen, while those...

Protests By Arts Workers Demanding Reopening Spread All Over France

"Some 30 theatres and concert halls are occupied in Strasbourg, Lille, Nantes, Châteauroux, Toulouse, Besançon, Marseille, and Saint-Etienne. All of the culture workers inside...

Is MoviePass About To Return From The Dead?

The "Icarus of subscription services" seemed too good to be true when it started selling $9.99-a-month memberships that would let you see a movie...

More Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Found, The First In 60 Years

"The Israel Antiquities Authority, which carried out the excavations, believes the new scroll, written in Greek, is actually a missing part of the “Book...

AAMD (Barely) Rejects Extending Lenient Rules On Deaccessioning Art

"In an informal poll, members of the Association of Art Museum have voted 91-88 against asking its trustees to explore a controversial change in...

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Approves Musicians’ Contract With No Pay Cuts

"The pact, announced this week, was passed unanimously by the musicians, the SPCO board and the board of the American Federation of Musicians Local...

Yet Another Director Forced To Resign From Berlin’s Volksbühne

Three years after Chris Dercon ended his brief, dissension-plagued tenure at the theatre, his successor as artistic director, Klaus Dörr, quit after it became...
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