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Humphrey Burton, BBC’s First Head Of Music And Arts, Dead At 94
In the 1960s, he was producer and then host of flagship arts magazine Monitor before supervising all music and arts programming. He co-founded London...
Poetry Foundation To Discontinue All Public Programs
The organization announced on December 1 that it intends to phase out all public programming, beginning with the discontinuation of its Forms & Features...
Yuval Sharon To Depart Detroit Opera By Mutual Agreement
While the company broadened both its repertoire and its audience during Sharon’s six years as artistic director (he departs at the end of this...
Warner Bros. Discovery’s Board Rejects Paramount Skydance’s Takeover Bid, Calling It “Illusory”
“For Warner, what was missing was a clear declaration from Paramount that the Ellison family” — Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison and his father,...
England’s Arts Funding Agency Needs A Major Overhaul, Finds Government Report
The Hodge Report, as it’s called, recommends that the agency, Arts Council England, not be abolished but that its procedures and strategy need thorough...
Hallmark Adds A Third Pillar To Its Business — “Experiences”
Combining, after a fashion, its two main businesses, greeting cards and television, the company has begun offering branded cruises and seasonal theme parks —...
After Ravaging By ISIS, Mosul’s Religious Landmarks Are Being Restored. Can The City’s Religious...
“It remains to be seen whether rebuilding churches and mosques will encourage social cohesion and religious peace in a still-fractured society. There are fewer...
Rob Reiner’s Son Nick Struggled With Addiction For Years As His Parents Grew Desperate
Now 32 and being held without bail as a suspect in the murder of his parents, Nick was 15 when he entered drug rehab...
Berlin Film Festival Works To Make Up For Its Inherent Disadvantage — Timing
“It takes place in the dead of winter, ... when the awards season race … is nearly over. Perhaps as a result, the festival...
Collection Of One Of South America’s Leading Museums Has Just Doubled In Size
“One of the world’s most important collections of Latin American art will double in size following the acquisition of over 1,000 new works. Museo...
San Antonio Philharmonic Says It Will Perform This Season’s Remaining Concerts At Its Current...
“The San Antonio Philharmonic is planning regular concerts at the Scottish Rite (Cathedral and Auditorium), despite the cancelation of holiday events and reports the...
With Post-Soviet Elan, Lithuania’s National Ballet Celebrates Its Centennial
“Average seat occupancy is 97 percent, among the highest in Europe. … Now with confidence in its survival skills” — and an adept, energetic...
Donald Trump Sues BBC For $10 Billion
“The US president alleged the broadcaster 'intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively' edited his 6 January speech before the insurrection, in an episode of Panorama just...
“Slop” Is Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word Of The Year
“’It’s such an illustrative word,’ said Greg Barlow, Merriam-Webster’s president. ... ‘It’s part of a transformative technology, AI, and it’s something that people have...
Louvre Closed As Threatened Strike Begins
“The world's most-visited museum was closed on Monday after workers walked out on strike in protest against working conditions and other complaints, dealing another...
Off-Broadway Parody “Titanique” Gets A Surprise Broadway Transfer
A Céline Dion jukebox musical dressed up as a spoof of James Cameron’s blockbuster movie retold from the pop diva’s point of view, Titanique...
An Ethnomusicologist Analyzes Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby”
Prof. Michael O’Brien discusses why we listen to so many of the same songs year after year, the unusual appeal of “Santa Baby,” and...
The Collective Who’s Transforming Ballet In France’s Second City
“(LA)HORDE is a choreographic collective running the National Ballet of Marseille and rewriting the ballet rulebook for a new era. Their work blends classical...
World’s Third-Busiest Public Library Withdraws “Restructuring” Plan After Outcry
Many of Australia’s most prominent writers and artists, along with thousands of ordinary citizens, expressed outrage over the proposal to eliminate 39 jobs —...
Director Of Britain’s Tate Galleries To Step Down
“Maria Balshaw is to (depart) in 2026, after a challenging nine-year tenure when she steered the organisation through the COVID-19 pandemic and had to...
A Wave Of Unionization At Chicago’s Cultural Institutions
In the last four years, AFSCME’s Cultural Workers United organizing campaign has helped 2,500 Illinois cultural workers form unions at such sites as the...
Novelist Joanna Trollope Is Dead At 82
“When popular fiction written by, and mainly for, women tended to be classified either as ‘romantic novels’ or ‘historical sagas’, Joanna” — a great-great-great-grandniece...
Director Convicted Of Defrauding Netflix For Series Which Was Never Finished
Carl Rinsch was convicted of wire fraud, money laundering and making illegal transactions in a case where he took $11 million in funding from...
D.L. Coburn, Playwright Of “The Gin Game,” Has Died At 87
He was in his late 30s when he wrote the play, his first. It premiered in Los Angeles in 1976; it reached Broadway the...
The Louvre’s Security Cameras Caught The Entire Jewel Heist — But The Security Guards...
“(The museum’s) security control room was not equipped with enough screens to watch every camera simultaneously, so the break-in was not watched in real-time....
