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As Many Traditional Museums Struggle, The Museum Of Ice Cream And Museum Of Balloons...
“When audience levels have plateaued at many traditional museums, the ability of entertainment companies styled as arts institutions to siphon away visitors poses a...
Tween Girls Read A Variety Of Books While Tween Boys Stick With Grade-School-Age Fiction:...
“Among the boys aged 11 to 14 who were surveyed, eight of the 10 most read books were from Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a...
It’s Official: Canada Will Take Part In The Eurovision Song Contest
Now the next Céline Dion won’t have to pretend to be Swiss. - BBC
Ten Definitive Movies About America (As Per The New York Times)
“I asked 10 writers what films they would pick to define America and why. Their choices ranged from blockbusters to indies, homegrown comedies to...
Royal Shakespeare Co. Staging Will Make Othello A Black Lesbian
The production, set in a dystopian future plagued by climate change, will star noted Black lesbian and three-time Olivier-winner Sharon D Clarke and will...
Amazon Dropped The OpenAI/Sam Altman Movie. Now Another Distributor Has Picked It Up.
“Neon said Tuesday that it bought the film following a bidding process. Amazon dropped the nearly complete $40 million film, starring Andrew Garfield as...
Trump Administration Wiped All Mention Of Slavery From Two More Historic Sites In Philadelphia
In addition to the much-litigated case of the George Washington house site, all references to enslaved people were quietly removed from Independence Hall and...
EU Is Finally Clarifying Rules For Carrying Musical Instruments On Planes
“Following nearly 15 years of lobbying by the International Federation of Musicians and Pearle* Live Performance Europe, the European Parliament and the Council have...
Despite “Billy Elliot,” Boys Studying Ballet In Britain Mostly Still Keep It Secret
The movie certainly helped over the 26 years since it was released: there are noticeably more boys in ballet classes than there used to...
Did Malta’s National Orchestra Receive Millions In Laundered Money?
The European Foundation for Support of Culture, set up in 2015 and based for several years at the Russian Cultural Centre in Valletta, gave...
For The First Time, The Complete Text Of A Vesuvius Scroll Has Been Deciphered
These 1,800 papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum, the only such library collection from ancient Rome to survive, were carbonized by the Vesuvius eruption; the scrolls...
Nicholas Hytner’s Bridge Theatre Bought By Major Commercial Theatre Owner
“The Bridge Teatre in London, opened in 2017 by the former National Theatre duo Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, has been acquired by Trafalgar Entertainment,” which...
Philadelphia Cultural Fund And Mural Arts Philadelphia To Make Deep Cuts After Funding Reductions...
“The Cultural Fund will be forced to reduce the number of grants it had been expecting to distribute in the coming year, from 332...
Film Archivists Plan To Edit And Complete Orson Welles’s Unfinished “Don Quixote”
“Oja Kodar, the American film-maker’s partner and collaborator, has given her blessing to the project led by archives in France, Spain and Italy, along with...
Italy Acquires 2,400-Year-Old Frescoes From Ancient Etruscan Tomb
“The Culture Ministry announced in May that it had acquired the fresco panels, dating from the 4th century, from members of the Torlonia family,...
Penelope Keith, One Of Britain’s Most Beloved Sitcom Actresses, Is Dead At 86
“In the late 1970s and early 1980s, (she became) one of Britain's most popular comedy actresses through her work in the BBC sitcoms The...
New York’s Little Island Has Cut Its Performance Schedule In Half
Last summer the outdoor venue on stilts in the Hudson River presented 100 performances over four months; this year’s season is offering 56 performances...
Comcast Is Splitting Itself In Two, Spinning NBCUniversal Into A Separate Company
“The stand-alone NBCUniversal will include Universal’s film and television studios, its growing theme parks division, the NBC and Telemundo networks, Bravo, Peacock, and the European...
Appeals Court Upholds Harvey Weinstein’s L.A. Rape Conviction But Orders Re-Sentencing
“A three-judge panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal unanimously issued the decision, saying his trial judge did not violate the former movie...
Why Ballet Is A Natural Subject For Horror Movies
“Anyone who spends even a day with a professional dancer or a ballet troupe could likely come away and already have the core of...
How A24 Blew Its Cool Factor With One Corporate Announcement
The indie movie studio was, for a sizable set of Americans under 40 or so, about as cool as a studio could get. (You...
After 83 Years, Norman Rockwell’s White House Painting Is Finally On Public View
In 1943, Rockwell painted a four-panel portrait of people waiting to see President Roosevelt. The artwork, called So You Want to See the President!,...
Broadway’s Most Famous Restaurant Has Been Bought By Broadway’s Biggest Theater Owner
After almost a century as a small private business, Sardi’s was officially acquired this week by the company that was already the restaurant’s landlord...
Actress Ann Blyth, The Dastardly Veda In “Mildred Pierce,” Is Dead At 98
A former child actor who trained as an operatic soprano, Blyth had a busy career in Hollywood through the 1940s and ‘50s and worked...
Unpublished Sacred Music By Donizetti Discovered In Archive
A researcher cataloguing the music collections of the Diocese of Bergamo discovered a four-page setting of the Vespers psalm Dixit Dominus, scored for three...
