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What Really Happened With The Italian Culture Minister Accused Of Exhibiting Stolen Art?
The trail of evidence sounds strong. "Italy’s art theft police that they believe that the painting reported stolen from the castle in Piedmont and...
France Is Riveted By A Series About The Grooming Of Young Actresses
But this fascination may not be enough to change the industry. Juliet Godrèche, writer and director of the dark autobiographical tale, says, "People who...
Arts Leaders In New York Band Together, Beg Mayor To Reverse Drastic Budget Cuts
"The now-infamous round of cuts drew widespread media attention when libraries were forced to close their doors on Sundays. Despite museum leaders’ outcry, Adams slashed DCLA spending...
We Should All Be Reading Hannah Arendt Now
"The dull gray masses which popular imagination associates with twentieth-century totalitarian rule were never really unified, Arendt tells us. Mass movements were created out...
The Oregon Bach Festival Finally Fills Its Artistic Director Position
"After a years-long search process, the festival announced that Jos van Veldhoven, the longtime artistic director of the Netherlands Bach Society, and Conspirare artistic director Craig...
Why Some Of The Best Children’s Books Are Written By People Without Kids
The best children's books aren't meant for teaching, and "aren’t advertisements for anything—not even the important things. They’re an advertisement for reading itself; for...
Why Adults Have Such A Difficult Time Having Fun
We can, partly, blame social media. "One of the requirements for fun is that you be completely present and that your inner critic is...
Another Venerable Magazine Has Been Slowly – And Now Quickly – Destroyed
This time it's Sports Illustrated, which had been gutted but not completely demolished. The layoffs of what may be the entire staff "come after...
Why Can’t We Leave Princess Diana Alone?
Diana "is still too blazingly alive to be dragooned into trauma porn, mauled with the excuse of reincarnating her." But the last few years...
The Utter Devastation Of Music Media Continues With The End Of Pitchfork
"It is bleak on so many levels, first and foremost the job losses during a straitened time for media. Pitchfork was one of the...
UNESCO Added Opera Singing – In Italy, Anyway – To A World Heritage List
"The list identifies what UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organization, calls 'fragile' nonphysical elements that play a crucial role in 'maintaining cultural diversity in...
What Streaming Services Will Look Like By The End Of This Year
The Great Wave Of Consolidation is coming for all of our favorite streamers. Why? "Investment bankers are wishin’ and hopin’ for more of these deals in...
Author Helen Oyeyemi On The Difficulties Of Writing About Prague
"Prague doesn’t want to be put into anyone’s story; so many people have come and tried to make it part of this or that...
Here We Go: AI-Derived Music Is Getting A Trial On TikTok
Users create lyrics, and then TikTok "pairs the lyrics with the pre-saved music, based on three genres: pop, hip-hop, and EDM." (Results aren't great...
In Melbourne, A 16-Year Restoration Project Is Coming To Its Gorgeous End
Why did the Parliament Building need so much work? "Earlier attempts at restoration work had used different materials – sometimes even concrete – to...
Orlando Museum Drops Lawsuit Against Owners Of Fake Basquiats
The board chair "said that in an effort to cut its legal costs, the institution would focus its case solely on its former executive...
Alec Baldwin Indicted Again For Shooting Death Of Cinematographer
Baldwin was originally cleared of charges in April of 2023 because of testimony that claimed he didn't need to pull the trigger for the...
Winner Of Japanese Literary Prize Says ChatGPT Wrote Part Of Her Book
Rie Kudan "won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize this week for her sci-fi novel Tokyo-to Dojo-to (Tokyo Sympathy Tower), which centers around a high-rise prison tower and...
The British Government Doesn’t Recognize What A Library Is, Or Does
And a lot of the public don't really know either, a new study says. Is it time for a libraries minister? - The Guardian...
The Istanbul Biennial Is Delayed After Its British Curator Resigns
"Divisions in the art world over the biennial’s choice of Iwona Blazwick, a British curator, to oversee the event had made it 'impossible' for...
SoundCloud May Be For Sale
But whatever happens to it, the way it transformed musical access, its musical underground vibe, will never die. - Wired
Laser Mapping Reveals The Amazon’s Hidden, Ancient Cities
The discoveries in Ecuador's Upano Valley "upend historical understandings of civilization in the Amazon: the largest city in the network is comparable in size...
Barbie Won A Bunch Of Awards During Commercial Breaks, And The Host Was Not...
Chelsea Handler "went rogue" during the Critics Choice Awards, after Barbie won a bunch of awards during commercial breaks - including Best Comedy. Handler...
The West Coast’s First Woman TV Reporter, Ruth Ashton Taylor, Has Died At 101
Ashton Taylor got her start alongside Edward R. Murrow at CBS Radio, then broke into broadcast TV in Los Angeles. "One of her favorite...
Britain’s Cooling Towers Deserve To Be Preserved, Just Like A Church Or Castle
"They are monuments of industry, built at the size (and more) of pyramids and cathedrals, graceful in their geometry, the perfect marriage of form...