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Saudi Arabia Plans Major Performing Arts Center Just Outside Riyadh
"Aiming to welcome more than 800,000 visits annually, Qiddiya Performing Arts Centre will be home to more than 260 indoor and outdoor performances annually,...
Formal Mariachi Classes Have Become A Mainstay In San Antonio’s Schools
The traditional Mexican music was first introduced at a public school in 1969. Now there are dozens of classes in the region's middle schools,...
Former Editor Who Criticized NPR’s Progressive Bias Joins Website That Published His Criticism
"Uri Berliner, NPR’s former senior business editor who criticized the organization for progressive biases in a Free Press op-ed, has joined the outlet (as...
Investigation Of Fraudulent Foreclosure On Elvis Presley’s Graceland Turned Over To FBI
State authorities released a statement saying, "The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office looked into the Graceland matter, and it quickly became apparent that this was...
Former Uffizi Galleries Director Loses Election For Mayor Of Florence
"(Eike) Schmidt, who was backed by Italy's right-wing national coalition led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, secured 39.4% of the vote, behind Social Democrat...
Strike Avoided: Hollywood Studios And Film Crew Union Agree On New Contract Terms
"The contract, known as the Basic Agreement, affects about 50,000 crew members who belong to 13 different West Coast-based (IATSE) union locals, including art...
Are Pittsburgh Symphony’s Musicians Headed For A Strike?
The current contract, for one year, expires August 31; PSO management and the musicians' union are now negotiating what will be the first multi-year...
Jackass Tourist Carves His Name Into 2,000-Year-Old Wall At Pompeii
"A man from Kazakhstan reportedly carved 'Ali' on light plaster in the House of the Ceii when he was caught on Saturday. The wall...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Fashionista
"As the music director and conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Nézet-Séguin has his back to the world’s swankiest audiences....
Three Apache Teens Took Part In An Apache Ceremony. Their School Expelled Them For...
This school, East Fork Lutheran School, is on the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona, as was the ceremony at issue. And this happened not...
Why One Dutch TV Network Became The World’s Inventor And Market Tester Of Reality...
The CEO of Talpa Studios, part of Dutch media conglomerate the Talpa Network, explains it as, ultimately, an issue of language — which is...
Britain’s Snap Election Caused An Unexpected Problem For The Edinburgh Fringe
"Most of the country expected the election would be called in autumn, so when the announcement came that it would be done and dusted...
The Library Of Senegal’s Greatest Writer — And First President — Is Finally Headed...
"In April, a beneficiary of his sister-in-law’s estate in Paris auctioned (Léopold Sédar_ Senghor’s private library of over 800 works, including 343 signed books....
Fifty Years Of Contemporary Art In A Concrete Donut (The Hirshhorn Museum)
The museum, part of the Smithsonian, is centered on the 12,000-odd works assembled by Latvian-American industrialist Joseph Hirshhorn, who was persuaded to donate all...
If We Can’t Make Our Exhibition For Women Only, Fine — We’ll Put Our...
After a tribunal ruled that Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) may not restrict the conceptual art installation "Ladies Lounge" to "persons...
BalletX Receives Its Largest Gift Ever — By A Factor Of Nearly Ten
"(Joan) DeJean ... died in December at age 75 and left BalletX a remarkable gift: $7.4 million. A donation of that size is substantial...
Carlos Kalmar Completes 25 Years As Music Director Of Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra
"The Grant Park Music Festival has long had a tradition of bold, adventuresome programming. But none of the festival’s leaders have done more than...
North Carolina’s Largest Public Radio Station Is Closing Down Its Music Channel
"The University of North Carolina’s WUNC Raleigh-Durham (91.5) will shutter adult alternative digital radio station WUNC Music at the end of the month. The...
Boston Globe Classical Music Critic Jeremy Eichler Steps Down
"After 18 years at the Boston Globe, I am moving on from my position and joining the faculty of Tufts University, where I’ll be...
Were Or Were Not Berthe Morisot And Edouard Manet Lovers?
"(The question) is a matter of wide speculation. New Criterion says they burned their correspondence when she wed. However, Morisot’s letters with her sister...
Virginia Opera Owes $270,000 In Unpaid Rent, Says City of Norfolk
"The city, which leases Harrison Opera House to Virginia Opera, says the organization owes $270,000 … for (2019-2024). … Virginia Opera leaders dispute those...
Sophocles In A Maximum-Security Greek Prison
A photo essay on a production of Antigone, with a cast almost entirely of inmates, at the Korydallos prison in Athens. - Reuters
The First Post-Pandemic Carbuncle Cup, For Britain’s Worst New Building, Goes To —
"A bunch of developers have been allowed to knock down a happy, eclectic row of buildings ... and (have) replaced it with such nothingness,...
The Online News Media Is About To Try Another “Pivot To Video”
True, the last one didn't work out so well. Yet "aggregate data from 47 countries shows all the growth in platform news use coming...
Is There Any Corporate Funder Of The Arts Who’s Pure Enough For The Activists?
"Activists targeted an asset manager that invests much less in fossil fuels than most of its peers. They succeeded in reducing funding for literary...