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Kevin Spacey Will Face A Civil Trial In London For Sexual Assault — And...

Earlier this year, the judge in the case delivered a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff because Spacey's attorneys failed to submit their...

Minnesota Passes “Taylor Swift Law” Protecting Online Ticket Buyers

"The law, prompted by the frustration a legislator felt at not being able to buy tickets to Swift’s 2023 concert in Minneapolis, will require...

The Art Vandals Who Threw Soup At Mona Lisa Strike The Hall of Mirrors...

These aren't climate-protesting art vandals, exactly; they're anti-inequality and agriculture protesters from the group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Counterattack). They threw orange-colored clay powder around...

Nikolaj Hübbe To Step Down As Artistic Director Of Royal Danish Ballet

Hübbe, who became a major star during his 18 years as a principal at New York City Ballet, returned to his homeland in 2008...

Tests Of Beethoven’s Hair Indicate Astounding Levels Of Lead And Arsenic

It's not clear that the toxins (which likely came from wine, food, and ointments) were enough to kill the composer, but they were certainly...

Art Vandals Tag Courbet’s “Origin Of The World” With “MeToo” Graffiti

The stunt at the Pompidou Center Metz was organized by performance artist Deborah de Robertis (the one who was arrested in 2018 for getting...

The Prado Confirms That The Painting Rescued From Auction In 2021 Is A Caravaggio

"(The Madrid museum) said in a statement the work, titled Ecce Homo (Latin for 'Behold the Man') by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio will go...

State Of The Arts In The US: Post-Pandemic, Do Organizations Have Enough Working Capital?

"To explore how organizations’ bottom line and working capital have fared over the last few years, we analyzed data from FY 2019 to 2023...

Fans Of Utah Symphony Fear That Its Concert Hall Could Be Torn Down

"The suggestion that the 45-year-old Abravanel Hall could be demolished or altered has been floated as Smith Entertainment Group — the company ... that...

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Artistic Director Resigns; Musicians Vote No Confidence In Managing Director

Kyu-Young Kim cited "recent organizational decisions and shifts in priorities" for his decision, though he will continue as concertmaster. Subsequently, the 28 members of...

Pulitzer Prize For Criticism Goes To Justin Chang For His Los Angeles Times Film...

Cited for his "richly evocative and genre-spanning film criticism that reflects on the contemporary moviegoing experience," Chang worked at the L.A. Times for nearly...

Tyshawn Sorey Wins Pulitzer Prize For Music For “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)”

Sorey takes honors this year after having been a finalist last year for his Monochromatic Light (Afterlife). Adagio, which "moves at a glacial pace,...

“Primary Trust” By Eboni Booth Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama

The story of a middle-aged man suddenly laid off from his job at a bookstore, Primary Trust premiered last summer at New York's Roundabout...

Jayne Anne Phillips’s “Night Watch”, Jonathan Eig’s “King: A Life” Among Winners Of 2024...

Night Watch took honors for fiction, Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama for general nonfiction, Cristina Rivera Garza's Liliana’s Invincible...

Salman Rushdie Describes What He Experienced During The 27 Seconds He Was Attacked With...

"What I didn’t do was lose consciousness. People who were there have said that I was ... screaming with pain. Inside my head, I...

The Vesuvius Challenge: How Three Young Researchers Figured Out How To Use AI To...

This episode of the podcast There's More to That tells the whole story, from how these papyruses buried by the Vesuvius eruption of 79...

Will This New Play About Jesus Of Nazareth’s Family Cause Believers To Freak Out?...

Playwright Eleanor Burgess's "Galilee, 34" at SoCal's South Coast Rep depicts Jesus's family and followers months after the Crucifixion as they try to figure...

Does The Life Of Broadway Dancers Depicted In “A Chorus Line” Still Ring True...

There aren't many open calls anymore; the first audition today is usually a self-shot video. Otherwise? "Please, God, I need this job" is as...

Why Are So Many Mid-Century Modern Houses Being Torn Down? Blame Americans’ Lust For...

"Historic houses across the United States are targeted for teardowns every week, often under cover of night with little to no warning. Increasingly, preservationists...

Why The Twin Cities’ Leading Dance Venue Closed Down

"Reasons for the closure (of the Cowles Center) … include the lingering financial effects of the pandemic shutdown, lower ticket sales since 2020, and...

Gustavo Dudamel Talks About Why He Resigned From The Paris Opera

"I had reached a point where I didn't have the physical time to digest everything that was going on in my professional and personal...

A Bigger, Better Light Show Is Coming Back To San Francisco’s Bay Bridge

"The team responsible for the beloved Bay Lights art installation, which dimmed 14 months ago, announced on Thursday that it secured over $10 million...

Once Upon A Time The Olympics Awarded Medals For The Arts, Too

"For decades, beginning with the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, the Olympics included competitions in painting, sculpture, architecture, music and literature — a 'pentathlon of...

The Entire Country’s Different Styles Of Roller Skating Have Descended Upon Atlanta

"That commingling has Atlanta’s stalwart skaters concerned about keeping their distinctly energetic and percussive style alive. They say Atlanta’s newer skaters, who have wide...

The Most Revealing Bits From Franz Kafka’s Uncensored Diaries

Max Brod, the friend who disregarded Kafka's dying request to burn all of his writings, heavily bowdlerized the author's personal journals before he published...
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