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Who That Album Cover’s Naked Baby Is Today, And The Real Reason He’s Suing...
Spencer Elden claims that the band exploited him with what he now calls child pornography — but he's been exploiting that image of his...
L.A. Opera Builds All Scenery For New Production In Ten Days
The company's return to live performance, Verdi's Il trovatore, was to use sets from the Opéra de Monte-Carlo — but they're on a container...
Dealer Charged With Larceny And Fraud For Manufacturing Fake Antiquities
"Prosecutors say Mehrdad Sadigh, a New York antiquities dealer whose Sadigh Gallery has operated for decades in the shadow of the Empire State Building,...
Bramwell Tovey Named Music Director Of Sarasota Orchestra
The 68-year-old chief conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, formerly music director of the Vancouver and Winnipeg Symphonies and Calgary Opera, begins a five-year...
Australian Rock Art May Be 43,000 Years Old
Archaeologists using new measuring techniques have analyzed layers of a mineral glaze covering ancient figures in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and the...
If Edinburgh Is Overtouristed, Don’t Blame The Festivals, Blame UNESCO: City’s Ex-Culture Chief
"Lynne Halfpenny … insisted the Old Town and the Royal Mile had become overwhelmed with visitors and was seen as a 'bucket list' destination...
Because Multiple Immersive Van Gogh Experiences Are Not Enough, Here Come The Immersive Monets
"Not one, not two, but three separate traveling immersive exhibitions based on the famed Impressionist's paintings are currently gearing up — and one could...
Many People Don’t Realize That John Cage Wrote Some Quiet, Very Beautiful Music
Aficionados may love Suite for Toy Piano or Sonatas and Interludes, but mostly folks know only the conceptual piece 4'33" or raucous chance-based works...
Manufacturer Alan Heller, Dead At 81, Manufactured Plastic Housewares That Were Colorful And Even...
“Plastic in those days was ugly, and it was cheap. But Alan and (designers) the Vignellis had made something that was beautiful, and it...
A New Tool To Try To Decode The Voynich Manuscript?
The 15th-century volume is written in a neat, careful script that bears little resemblance to any natural language, and no one has yet cracked...
Kuwait Freaks Out Over One Women-Only Belly Dancing Class
"The Kuwaiti Ministry of Commerce and Industry rushed to close down a sports club and suspended all its activists for the foreseeable future, in...
How Could Sony Have Let The Mike Richards ‘Jeopardy!’ Fiasco Happen? Like This
In case anyone was still wondering, yes, Richards-as-executive-producer definitely rigged the choice of Richards as host. Here's a look at the circumstances, expected and...
As Pandemic Worsens, So Does Outlook For LA’s Small Theaters
"And so the question looms: How much longer can these companies stay afloat financially? With pandemic funding drying up, 99-seat theaters are scrambling to...
NBCUniversal Seeks To Boot Nielsen From Top Of Ratings Measurement Business
Nielsen had long been the undisputed master of counting broadcast media's audience, but its traditional methods have had trouble accurately measuring the number of...
Smithsonian Kicks Off Major New Project On America’s Racial History
"'Our Shared Future: Reckoning with our Racial Past' (is) an ambitious multiyear program … that will tap into the vast expertise of the Smithsonian...
Met Opera Reaches Deal On Contract With Orchestra
"The agreement concludes several months of tension over how significant future pay cuts would be for musicians, who went for nearly a year without...
Edinburgh Fringe Starts Emergency Campaign To Raise $10 Million
"The Edinburgh festival fringe has launched a £7.5m emergency appeal after it lost millions of pounds during the COVID pandemic. … (The Fringe) was...
Whistled Languages Are Not Dead Yet
In at least 80 cultures worldwide, people have developed whistled versions of the local language when the circumstances call for it. … By studying...
Color Wars: The Art World’s Silliest Feud May Have Produced Some Actual Good
When Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights to Vantablack ("the world's blackest black"), Stuart Semple led a chorus of furious objections to the idea of...
Mass Exodus And An Unholy Mess At France’s Most Prestigious Classical Music Competition
The Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition is in crisis after its artistic directors — pianist Bertrand Chamayou, violinist Renaud Capuçon, and La Scala CEO Dominique Meyer —...
UNESCO Calls For Preservation Of Afghanistan’s Heritage, But Who Will Actually Protect It?
As an executive of the Institute for Art and Law tweeted: "It would be for other states, or international bodies like the United Nations,...
Under New Censorship Law, Hong Kong May Retroactively Ban Older Films
"Authorities are tightening their grip on the screening of films with a series of censorship law amendments that will include empowering the city's No....
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Makes ‘Spectacular’ Debut Before Dance World’s Elite
The company has played the Kennedy Center, and it performed at the Olympics in Atlanta (1996) and London (2012), but perhaps none of those...
“The Theatrical Arm Of The Civil Rights Movement”
The Free Southern Theater was founded by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to travel around 1960s Mississippi, performing for poor Black farmers...
Blaxit: The African-American Artists Following In The Footsteps Of DuBois, Baker, Baldwin, And Simone
Taking advantage of the free movement a US passport provides, and tired of the disadvantages that come with dark skin at home, these performers,...
