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35 Rembrandt Etchings Rediscovered After A Century In A Safe
Charlotte Meyer’s grandfather, who had a sharp eye, picked them up inexpensively back when etchings weren’t highly valued, and they remained in her family’s...
BBC Radio 3 Fires Norman Lebrecht Over Email To Yuja Wang
The broadcaster’s decision to end its long relationship with Lebrecht — the widely-read, controversial critic and blogger who has hosted several interview programs on...
Cellist Steven Isserlis On Composer György Kurtág, Now Aged 100
“Playing to him is transformative in every way. His imagination is boundless; he will produce startling, unexpected images – or point out connections, musical...
A Reporter Starts A “Book Club” For Newspaper Articles
At a St. Petersburg bookstore, Lauren Peace, an enterprise equity reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, moderates conversations about a selected story among its...
Should Young Girls Really Have To Wear Makeup For Dance Class? Or Even Competitions?
“The question of whether children should be encouraged to break out the grease paint has been pressing on parents and dance teachers alike. …...
Why Daniel Radcliffe Is Doing An Audience-Participation Play — Gladly, No Less — On...
“The audience interaction is central to Every Brilliant Thing, … about a man processing his mother’s attempted suicide and his own depression. … It’s an exciting...
Podcasts Have Now Have More Listeners In The U.S. Than Talk Radio
“Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States, according to Edison Research’s Share of...
Ann Godoff, Founder Of Penguin Press And Legendary Editor, Has Died At 76
After a dozen years as Random House, where she was executive editor and then editor-in-chief/publisher, she was fired in a corporate restructuring. When she...
Nova Scotia’s Arts Sector Hit Hard By “Unprecedented” Provincial Budget Cuts
“Nearly half of all Nova Scotia Museum sites closed. The elimination of a fund supporting local publishers. A 100% cut to funding for programs...
As The Bidding War For It Began, Warner Bros. Discovery Lost A Quarter-Billion Dollars
In the last quarter of 2025, as Netflix and Paramount Skydance began their attempts to buy it, WBD lost $252 million. Overall revenue was...
Paris’s Other Wildly Popular Museum, The Musée d’Orsay, Also Has A New Director
The home of the city’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works will be led by 57-year-old Annick Lemoine, currently director of the Petit Palais....
Refresher: What To Know About The Louvre As It Changes Directors And Navigates Crises
Why the resignation of director Laurence des Cars hit so hard, the background of new director Christophe Leribault, the long list of problems which...
Is This, Scientifically, The Best Way To Learn A New Language?
A correspondent tries a method designed by professors of cognition to mirror language-learning in the real world. The tasks basically simulate how we would...
How One Dance Spread An Indigenous Movement Across The American West
On New Year’s Day 1889, a young Paiute man named Wovoka had a vision in which God taught him a ceremony. The Ghost Dance...
Composer Éliane Radigue, Pioneer Of Musique Concrète And Drone Music, Has Died At 94
While on a guest residency at NYU, she discovered the ARP 2500 synthesizer, which would be her tool for three decades before she turned...
CBS News Insiders Worry That “60 Minutes” As We’ve Known It Is Doomed
“As Bari Weiss seeks to reimagine CBS News, staffers are preparing for … 60 Minutes, arguably the most influential news program in all of TV, to...
The Volunteer Army Documenting Museum And Park Wall Texts Before The Trump Administration Rewrites...
A group called Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian has taken photos of every wall text in the Institution’s museums before they were changed. Other...
Paramount Increases Its Bid For Warner Bros. Yet Again
New studio mogul David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has increased its unsolicited offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery from $30 to $31 in cash per...
Atlanta Opera Begins Construction On New $72 Million Campus
The company is repurposing a century-old golf-course clubhouse along the city’s Beltline into the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the Arts. The complex...
Layoffs At London’s Young Vic Theatre After Years Of Deficits
“The theatre did not confirm within which departments redundancies and cuts to job roles took place, though its most recent accounts reference ‘staff changes...
Director At Palace Of Versailles Appointed To Lead Troubled Louvre
“(Christophe) Leribault, 62, is an 18th-century-art historian who previously led the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, both in Paris, before taking over at...
COO Of Atlanta’s High Museum Of Art Resigns After $600K Goes Missing
“According to the Woodruff Arts Center, which oversees both the High and two other Atlanta art institutions, High Museum COO Brady Lum resigned after...
Louvre’s Director Resigns After A No-Good-Very-Bad Year
After months plagued by strikes over chronic understaffing, damage caused by a deteriorating and expensive-to-maintain building, discovery of a years-long ticket-fraud scheme, complaints of...
Some Plays Thought To Be By Shakespeare Or Marlowe Now Reattributed To Thomas Kyd
The first critical edition of the Elizabethan playwright’s work in 125 years has expanded his canon from three plays — The Spanish Tragedy, Soliman...
For The First Time, A Company Has Won Venice Biennale Danza’s Golden Lion For...
Until now, each Golden Lion has been won by a pathbreaking individual, from Merce Cunningham to Pina Bausch to William Forsythe to Sylvie Guillem...
