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18,000-Year-Old Music Instrument Identified — And Played
The ancient conch shell was discovered at the site of some cave art in the French Pyrenees back in 1931, when archaeologists figured it...
New Lead In Case Of Picasso Stolen In Athens
"Almost nine years ago, two thieves carried out a near-perfect heist at the National Gallery in Athens, taking two works by modern masters Pablo...
What’s Actually In The Paris Opera Ballet’s Diversity Report?
Some of the recommendations are both obvious and overdue: no more yellowface/brownface/blackface, hire more diverse choreographers (but classical choreographers, not contemporary or hip-hop as...
Unproduced Stanley Kubrick Screenplay Coming To Screens
"Veteran producers Bruce Hendricks and Galen Walker have optioned the rights to the late Stanley Kubrick's unmade film Lunatic At Large, and have plans...
Oregon Symphony’s Next Music Director: David Danzmayr
The 41-year-old Austrian-born maestro, who recently completed his term as chief conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic in Croatia, takes up the baton in Portland...
Poland’s Independent Media Go Dark To Protest New Advertising Tax
"Many private Polish TV channels and radio stations fell silent and online sites and newspapers ran black front pages on Wednesday in a concerted...
Polish Region Loses $2.25 Million European Cultural Grant After Declaring Itself ‘LGBT-Free Zone’
The money was to go toward developing a Carpathian "heritage" trail" in Poland's Podkarpackie region. After a local activist brought to funders' attention a...
Why This Afghan-Born Poet Is ‘The Father Of Uzbek Literature’
Alisher Navoiy was born in 1441 in Herat, now in Afghanistan but historically a Persianate city. He wrote in Arabic, Persian, and Chagatai, the...
How Do You Play a Flower Pot?
What makes washtubs sound best? How about coffee cans? For the answers, check out Lou Harrison’s instructions for his Concerto for Violin and Percussion....
George Washington Carver Wasn’t Just A Food Scientist, He Was A Gifted Painter
In fact, he was a very promising art student, excelling at plants in particular, but a professor who worried that he couldn't support himself...
How’s New York’s Dance World Navigating A Year Of Pandemic? Better Than They’d Feared
"As they announce plans for the spring and summer — mostly digital, garnished with a little outdoors and in-person — many New York dance...
Last Summer, Museums Made Promises About Diversity. What Are They Actually Doing?
"Many workers regarded it as a positive step this summer when numerous leading institutions released detailed diversity, equity, and inclusion issues (DEI) plans. But...
New National Museum Of African-American Music Open In Nashville
"The museum tells a chronological story of Black music starting in the 1600s through present day and framed around major cultural movements including the...
Flory Jagoda, Living Storehouse Of Sephardic Song, Dead At 97
"A Bosnian-born guitarist and accordionist, brought the traditional ballads of her Sephardic ancestors and the melodies of the Ladino language to American...
Paramount Battles Truman Capote Estate For Right To Remake ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’
"Paramount has a screenplay for a new movie, according to court papers. But Alan Schwartz, Trustee of the Truman Capote Literary Trust, has been...
New L.A. Arts Recovery Fund Has $38.5 Million For Small And Midsize Nonprofits
"The J. Paul Getty Trust initiated the fund, to be officially announced Tuesday, and the California Community Foundation is administering it. Struggling arts organizations...
Frick Collection Set To Open At Old Whitney Museum Building
"The Frick Collection will open in the Breuer building as the Frick Madison on March 18, the museum announced on Tuesday, beginning a two-year...
Facing Another COVID Summer, British Theatres Are Building Outdoor Stages
Social distancing is easier outdoors and there's more air circulation, not to mention the fact that, as one director puts it, "Outdoor arts is...
Defying National Government, French City’s Mayor Reopens Museums
"Louis Aliot, the right-wing mayor of Perpignan, a city in the south of France, will let four museums begin welcoming visitors once more, effectively...
An ‘Intersectional Trainwreck’ — Alex Ross On ‘The Great Gay Jewish Poetry Brawl Of...
"In the shouty Valhalla of pointlessly destructive literary feuds, a place of honor must go to the verbal duel between the poets Heinrich Heine...
Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière Dead At 89
He wrote the screenplays for a remarkable number of important films: Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Belle de Jour, and That...
Fox News’s Response To Smartmatic’s $2.7 Billion Lawsuit: Don’t Blame Us, Blame Trump’s Lawyers...
In the network's motion to dismiss the voting company's defamation lawsuit — which alleges that Fox News and three of its hosts knowingly spread...
Pianist Lara Downes Is Reviving The Work Of Black Composers And Reframing The History...
Her project, called Rising Sun Music, "is a series of newly recorded works written by black composers — including many works that have never...
To Deaccession Or Not, And Why? Museum World’s Long Argument About This Is Now...
Once the AAMD, looking at the financial carnage wrought by COVID, relaxed its strict rule about museums selling their art only in order to...
First Arab Woman To Direct A Feature Film, Moufida Tlatli, Dead At 73
" remains best known for her breakthrough 1994 feature The Silences of the Palace, a lyrical study of a woman's return to an abandoned...