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NPR Editor Claims Network Has Entrenched Liberal Bias And Has “Lost America’s Trust”
"A lack of political diversity among staff and C-suite mandates has created a niche format that appeals mainly to far liberal-leaning listeners and only...
NPR’s Response(s) To Editor Uri Berliner’s Accusation Of Liberal Bias
The official response, from chief news executive Edith Chapin: "We're proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do. …...
Now That Breakdancing Is An Olympic Sport, Could Pole-Dancing Be Next?
"With breaking making its first Olympic appearance at the Paris Games later this year, pole dancers feel it could soon be their turn to...
Hindu Nationalism And The Taj Mahal
"How does the Taj Mahal’s history — one that has come to visually represent the period of the Mughal Empire, an Islamic empire —...
“Master And Margarita” Film Is A Major Hit In Russia. Its American Director Is...
"The film’s themes struck a chord in a country where dissent had been criminalized and fear of arbitrary arrest was pervasive. … Still, the...
Can Italy Demand Licensing Fees For The Use Of Leonardo’s “Vitruvian Man”?
In 2004 Italy adopted a law allowing museums to request payment for commercial reproduction of "cultural properties." So the Italian government and the Gallerie...
Trevor Griffiths, Screenwriter And Playwright Dedicated To Social And Political Change, Is Dead At...
"(He) was the most politically literate working-class dramatist and screenwriter of our times, a scholar of Marx, Gramsci and Trotsky, who translated his passion...
$5 Billion Rescue Package For Struggling Nonprofit Theaters Introduced In U.S. Congress
The STAGE Act of 2024, sponsored by three Senators and one Congresswoman (all Democrats), "would direct $1 billion annually to the struggling industry for...
Mattel Introduces A New, Less Intimidating Version Of Scrabble
"The new double-sided Scrabble board will still feature the original game. ... But the new game on the flip side will include helper cards,...
Conductor Edo De Waart Suddenly Announces His Retirement
Said the 82-year-old this morning, "I woke up at 5:30 yesterday morning to get ready for rehearsal and I thought, what am I even...
Not For The First Time, People Look To The Arts To Revive Downtown L.A.
The pandemic and the shift toward remote working have hit Los Angeles as hard as they have other cities. That includes performing and visual...
Finally, Some Good News For Orlando Museum of Art: A Major Gift Of Artworks
"(The donation) of more than 300 pieces, including works by Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring, greatly diversifies the permanent holdings. The gift also opens...
Oakland Symphony Names Music Director To Succeed Late Michael Morgan
Kedrick Armstrong, a 29-year-old "Black queer kid from Georgetown, South Carolina," starts the job immediately, but his first concert will be next October's season...
Three Rare Aztec Manuscripts, Including A History Of Tenochtitlan, Discovered And Acquired By Mexico
The San Andrés Tetepilco codices — three late 16th-early 17th century manuscripts, one of which recounts the history of the Aztec capital (on the...
The Unorthodox Collective Who Choreographs For Madonna’s Tour, The Cannes Film Festival, And Marseilles’s...
"Don’t expect the august perch to change (La)Horde’s approach. The collective’s three millennial co-founders share a generational view forged by 1990s video stores and...
Another Bay Area Theater Company Faces A Fundraising Emergency
Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company, which just learned that a play it commissioned and incubated (Jonathan Spector's Eureka Day) is opening on Broadway in November,...
Court Orders Museum Where Artist Set Up Ladies-Only Lounge To Admit “Persons Who Do...
Artist Kirsha Kaechele, who created the installation at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (and is married to its founder/funder), argues that the...
It’s True: Former Director Of Uffizi Galleries Is Running For Mayor Of Florence
Though Eike Schmidt describes himself as "a democrat and antifascist" and "more of an Aristotelian centrist than a representative of the right," he is...
Portland (Oregon) Art Museum To Spend $111 Million On Renovation And Expansion
The project, which will add 95,000 square feet of new or upgraded public and gallery space and is expected to be complete late next...
Right-Wing Rage Against Public Libraries Is Getting Nastier. Librarians Are Scared.
American Library Association President Emily Drabinski: "Everywhere I go, the story is the same: library workers are afraid. They have a lot of anxiety....
Chicago’s Cultural Institutions Are Seeing A Wave Of Unionization
It started in 2022 with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Newberry Library; it has continued with, among others, the Field Museum, Museum...
Despite Financial Mess, San Francisco Symphony Could Be A Great Opportunity For The Right...
"Reframe the task and it could become very attractive for a particular kind of musician. The key is to take a cue from the...
Cost Of Quebec City Museum’s Expansion Has Doubled
"Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec’s Espace Riopelle addition has started — but the budget has almost doubled. The original budget was $42.5 million,...
What’s The World’s Fastest Language? That’s Not Nearly As Simple A Question As You...
The problem is that "fastest" could, in this context, mean four different things. Syllables per minute? Amount of information conveyed per minute? And so...
What Happened To The Missing Panel Of The Bayeux Tapestry?
The 947-year-old, 230-foot-long graphic-novel-in-embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest is actually missing one section; roughly eight to ten feet long, it is believed to depict...