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The Campaigners Working To Bring Looted Nepali Religious Art Back Home
"'Kathmandu valley was an open museum,' says Rohit Ranjitkar, director of the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust. 'There were centuries-old treasures. I think local people...
P.D.Q. Bach’s Best Music Wasn’t Just Funny, It Was Actually Great
"Playfulness, irreverence, goofiness are part of us too. ... It is a mistake to equate artistic greatness with emotional sobriety. P.D.Q. Bach’s best compositions...
Harry Parker, 84, Director Who Transformed Dallas Museum Of Art And Restored Fine Arts...
In Dallas, he spearheaded the museum's move for the downtown arts district and expanded exhibition and education programs. In San Francisco, he raised money...
Audience Members Who Act Up And Go Viral Like It That Way. Maybe Shows...
"One way ..., perhaps, is to turn competition into cooperation. Maybe a path forward for theater is to write new rules of decorum —...
Jon Stewart Is Coming Back To “The Daily Show” (But Only On Mondays)
"The homecoming … comes after (a) yearlong search for a replacement for Trevor Noah – and just in time for the 2024 presidential election...
Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Suspends Four Staffers For Misconduct During Last Year’s Insane Pokémon...
"The workers had allegedly provided potential visitors with insider information on how to get limited tickets to the exhibition. One employee even allegedly embezzled...
Mother Of Dancer Sentenced To Prison For Anonymous Letters Defaming Director Of Rome Opera...
In one of the letters, defendant Giulia Di Stasi urged the opera house's management to fire Eleonora Abbagnato: "Together with her business partner, they...
After 35 Years, Executive Director Of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Is Retiring
"While the news is hardly a surprise, given that Roche Schulfer is 72 and his longtime artistic partner Robert Falls exited in 2022, the...
Firestorm At Australia’s National Broadcaster Over Firing Of Journalist For Instagram Post About Gaza
The firing of Antoinette Lattouf and subsequent backlash face the ABC with difficult issues: how do news outlets and their employees cover hot-button topics?...
Sculptor Carl Andre, 88, Pioneer Of Minimalism
"(He) stripped sculpture to its essentials, paring (it) down until it existed as forms made from industrial materials that were not intended to evoke...
How Does Aszure Barton Describe Her Choreographic Language? Well, …
"Every time I’m asked (that) question, it’s like being asked for the first time. I am constantly changing, and it depends on the day...
“The Verse That Bears Witness To The Everyday”: A Look At Docupoetry
"For generations, through wars, crisis, and political upheaval, documentary poets have helped make sense of some of our most difficult moments – by expressing...
An Audience With Angela Gheorghiu, Who Was Very, Very Angela Gheorghiu
"I like to say that the fairies visited me when I was born and gave me what I needed to be an artist." And...
How Does Trajal Harrell Work All Those Different Genres Into His Choreography?
"Who is this man? How does he seamlessly synthesize voguing and runway idioms with butoh, the dances of Greek antiquity, and modern and postmodern...
Why And How Are So Many Roald Dahl Adaptations Coming To The Stage?
Jenny Worton of the theatre division at the Roald Dahl Story Company: "Because the stories are so beloved, and appear in lots of different...
Did Sexism Keep Greta Gerwig From Getting A Best Director Nomination For “Barbie”? (Not...
"Though Barbie had no trouble making it into the best picture category, which all members of the academy (may) vote on, the Gerwig snub...
The Razzie Awards Have Announced Their Nominations, Too: Expend4bles And Winnie The Pooh Lead
Expend4bles leads the nominees for the Golden Raspberry Awards with seven nods, followed by Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey with five, including Worst...
US COVID Relief Funding For The Arts: How Much Was There And Where Was...
"Using a broad definition of arts and culture inclusive of nonprofit and for-profit industries, $53 billion was awarded nationally to arts and culture via...
Germany Cuts The Value Of Its Culture Pass For 18-Year-Olds In Half
Italy and France have for several years had similar programs giving 18-year-olds a few hundred euros to spend on performance tickets, books, or other...
National Art Gallery Burns Down In Georgia’s Breakaway Region Of Abkhazia
More than 4,000 items were destroyed and only about 150 pieces survived in the blaze that broke out early Sunday morning. Abkhazia broke away...
Charles Osgood, Beloved CBS TV And Radio Host, Has Died At 91
"In a varied career spanning more than a half-century, … (he) spent 22 years anchoring the CBS-TV staple “Sunday Morning” and decades as a...
The Dancers’ Strike And Firings At Syracuse City Ballet Are More Complicated Than They...
"The incident might appear to be a familiar case of dancers being treated poorly and fighting to have their voices heard. Yet there is...
Inside The Struggle Over Casting A Trans Teen In A Texas High-School Production Of...
In November, school officials in Sherman, Texas objected to the casting of trans student Max Hightower in a male role and ordered that actors'...
Hagia Sophia In Istanbul Is Now Charging Tourists €25 To Enter
"The change is part of a greater effort to separate tourists and worshippers, who will now access the structure through separate entrances. Additionally, instead...
Ewa Podleś, A Rare Coloratura Contralto, Has Died At 71
"(Her) darkly molten, three-octave-plus voice and commanding presence made her … something of a cult figure, one of the singers that fans make a...