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Asking The Museums That Have Benin Bronzes About Repatriation
"The contentious objects, known to have been looted from the Benin Royal Palace in 1897, are scattered across some of the most prominent museums...
The Amenities This Developer Is Adding To Apartment Buildings Are Theaters And Gallery Spaces
Mind you, this isn't just any old real estate mogul: it's Dasha Zhukova, the collector who founded the popular Garage Museum Of Contemporary Art...
At Last, Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection Opens In Paris
"The reopening of Paris museums this week finally gives billionaire tycoon François Pinault the chance to showcase his vast contemporary art collection in the...
Actor Charles Grodin, 86
" made his mark in both comedy and drama, onstage and on screen and as a writer and director. He often adopted a quirky...
Dick Van Dyke Is 95, And He Really Wants To Get Back On Stage
"His last singing gig took place on a Saturday night 15 months ago at the Catalina Jazz Club. He packed the house. They even...
Newark’s Old Works Offloaded: NJ’s Most Prominent Art Museum Sells “Outdated” Outcasts Tomorrow
As part of her reinvention and rebranding of the Newark Museum (which, in 2019, added “of Art” to its name, even though it also...
Words to live by: Don’t shoehorn grand opera
The return to the stage (though not their own) of the Met and of Opera Philadelphia, along with a streamed Aïda from the Paris...
What James Whiteside Has Been Doing With (Or To?) Dance Through The Lockdown
"As theaters went dark during the pandemic, the New York-based Whiteside" — best known as a prinmcipal at ABT — "began putting out a...
London’s West End Reopens Yet Again, Hoping This Time Will Stick
There were two attempts in the second half of 2020 to start British theatres up after the pandemic lockdown, and both were quickly ended...
Britain’s Stages Are Not Reopening With Theatrical Comfort Food
"There has been a fear that the large-scale redundancies during the pandemic – an estimated 40% of theatre workers lost their jobs – could...
On The Rediscovery Of Black Composers Of The Past
"Black composers have been emerging over the past year at a dramatically accelerated pace that's particularly rare amid the normally glacial progression of the...
Uffizi Gallery Is Making Up Its Pandemic Cash Shortfall By Releasing NFTs Of Its...
"And it's starting off with a bang: an encrypted Michelangelo painting of the holy family, Doni Tondo (1505-06), just sold for €140,000 ($170,000). The...
Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth Biography, Withdrawn By W.W. Norton, Picked Up By New Publisher
The acclaimed but controversial bio was dropped by its original publisher after several women came forward with serious allegations of sexual misconduct on Bailey's...
Co-Host Bob Garfield Fired From Public Radio’s ‘On The Media’
The longtime co-anchor was dismissed by New York Public Radio "after two separate investigations found he had violated an anti-bullying policy. … Mr. Garfield...
World’s Oldest Cave Art Is Being Damaged By Climate Change
"Researchers examined 11 caves and rock-shelters , which feature art dating from 45,000 to 20,000 years old. … The scientists found that the art,...
Amazon In Talks To Buy MGM For $9 Billion: Report
"Chatter that Amazon (and other tech giants) have been sniffing around MGM has circulated for some time. But sources indicated that Amazon's interest in...
It’s Official: AT&T Is Spinning Off WarnerMedia To Merge With Discovery
"Under the terms of the deal, AT&T will spin off entertainment arm WarnerMedia and combine it with Discovery, creating a TV, film and streaming...
Radio City Music Hall Set To Reopen At 100% Capacity, No Masks Required
The first scheduled event is the finale of this year's Tribeca Film Festival on June 19. Only vaccinated people will be admitted. And how...
David Ludwig talks technology in the arts
The Artistic Advisor to the President and Chair of Composition Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, also Artistic Director of Curtis Summerfest, speaks...
Revisiting TikTok Before It Was TikTok, A Long, Long Time Ago
"From 2014 to 2018, the Chinese app Musical.ly was where kids — as in, literal children and very young teenagers — would lip-sync to...
Analyzing The 17-Year Cicadas’ ‘Grand Magic Insect Symphony’ — And Joining In
"Only the males can vibrate a section of their abdomen called the tymbals to make either phaaaaaroah drone sounds or chchchchhwhhhs noise waves, depending...
Jazz Trombone Great Curtis Fuller Dead At 88
"Mr. Fuller was among the dozens of musicians to emerge from the fertile mid-century jazz scene of Detroit, where he learned to play intricate,...
Nobel Committee Was Nervous About Giving Prize To Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fifty years on (as is the rule), documents on the deliberations for the 1970 prize have just been made public, and some committee members...
San Diego Symphony Has A New $85 Million Outdoor Venue
The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, located on the downtown waterfront, seats up to 10,000 people and (because it's San Diego and they can)...
NPR Is Starting To Put Its Most Popular Podcasts On Traditional Radio
The traffic started out the other way, of course, with over-the-air programs being released as or adapted into podcasts. "But podcasting has turned into...
