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Trial Indoor Performance With Audience Of 4,500 Shows Little Indication Of COVID Transmission
The event, a rock concert at an arena in Barcelona on March 27, required attendees to have an antigen test beforehand and to wear...
The Jane Austen Museum, Slavery, And The Culture Wars
"This month, the museum, Jane Austen's House, touched a nerve when its director said that it would include details about Austen and her family's...
Archaeologists Alarmed By Proposed Renovation At Acropolis
"Plans for a major renovation project to the western entrance of the Acropolis have met with strong opposition from archaeologists in Greece and across...
Former English National Ballet Principal On Trial For Alleged Sexual Abuse Of Students
"Yat-Sen Chang, 49, has been charged with 12 counts of sexual assault and two counts of assault by penetration against a female aged 16...
Was The Emperor Nero Really So Wicked? Probably Not
Says the curator of a new exhibit on the Roman monarch at the British Museum, "Nero's memory was contested after his death, and that...
Is This Guy Really At The Center Of The Century’s Greatest Art-Forgery Scandal?
Over the past seven years, "this scandal — now known as 'the Ruffini affair' — has engulfed figures ranging from curators at the Louvre...
Does ‘The King And I’ Need To Be Decolonized? Yes (And It’s Largely Anna’s...
Not everything in Anna Leonowens's memoirs about her time at the Siamese court is a lie, but quite a lot is untrue, especially about...
Actors On One Of Germany’s Most Popular TV Shows Made Sarcastic Videos About The...
"A website called #allesdichtmachen ('close it all down') was launched on Thursday night, featuring 53 to-camera clips in which high-profile actors sarcastically boast...
In Venice, Building A New System To Protect St. Mark’s From Ever-Increasing Floods
The repeated, record-setting acqua alta events of late 2019 caused an estimated €300 million in damage to the Byzantine-style landmark — and floods are...
How Yahoo Went From Being The Web’s Welcoming Atrium To Its Wrecking Ball
Back in the 1990s, before search engines were much good, Yahoo was a popular and useful portal, a directory organizing the great, amorphous mass...
Authors And Publishers Are In No Rush To Restart Book Tours
"Most publishers contacted by PW said they are deferring making any concrete plans about tours until authors feel comfortable going back on the road...
Fired Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts Director Lands New Job In Paris
Last July, after a tenure that had been widely viewed (at least from outside) as a major success, Nathalie Bondil was dismissed from the...
Baltimore Symphony President To Depart, Ending Turbulent Tenure
"Peter Kjome capped a roller-coaster five years as president and CEO of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra" — a period that included a financial near-collapse,...
Italy Begins Reopening Theaters And Museums
"After six months of rotating on-again, off-again closures, restaurants, bars, museums and cinemas opened to the public in most of the country under a...
Profusion of Confusion: Unraveling the Tangled Tale of “Salvator Mundi” (& my theory on...
The only thing that’s certain about the fate of this elusive painting is that the story about why it hasn’t publicly surfaced since it...
Weston Sprott Speaks About Transforming Young Peoples’ Lives
The dean of Juilliard's Preparatory Division and trombonist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra speaks about transforming young artists' lives and incorporating diversity across the...
India’s Top Documentary Filmmaker Can Barely Show His Work There Anymore
" Patwardhan views his filmmaking practice as comprehensive — not just researching, shooting, and completing films, but also taking them on tour and holding...
‘Damn! This Is A Caravaggio! Where The Hell Did You Find It?’ (The Inside...
"It took all of six minutes for Massimo Pulini to realise that the small oil painting due to go under the hammer in Madrid...
The World’s Bravest Opera Boss Talks About The Challenges At His Latest House
Stéphane Lissner has been the superintendent/general director at the two most notoriously contentious companies in the world: La Scala and the Paris Opera. Now...
The Mighty Battle Of The Getty Museum Versus The Webbing Clothes Moth
It seems that, in many places, a multitude of vermin took advantage of the lack of traffic in museums during the pandemic to stage...
In Florida, It’s Now A Felony To Damage A Confederate Monument
While the "Combating Public Disorder Act" just signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis is most notorious for its provisions aimed at street protests (classifying blocking...
NPR And PRX To Offer Paid Subscription Option For Podcasts
NPR will give listeners the choice to pay — via its own platforms, Apple, or Spotify — a yet-undetermined monthly fee in order to...
When Right-Wingers Accuse Online Booksellers Of Censorship, They May Have A Point (But Not...
"Unlike the cozy bookstore in your town, online booksellers don't choose each book they're offering. The role of curator — if it exists at...
Bankrupt One Year Ago, Cirque Du Soleil Begins Reopening
"Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, which emerged from Chapter 15 protection after a sale in November, announced on Wednesday that it is restarting four...
Bob Porter, Producer And Broadcaster Who Rescued Jazz History, Dead At 80
"As a record producer guided the reissue of vast swaths of the classic jazz canon, and … as a broadcaster helped build...
