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The Giant Nude Woman In SF’s Embarcadero Plaza Will Be Staying All This Summer
“On Tuesday, March 4, commissioners voted to keep the temporary installation of ‘R-Evolution’ on display through October. The 48-foot-tall, steel-and-mesh figure of a naked...
Crystal Pite On Choreographing Work About Big Real-World Problems
“I feel as if I’m stretched a bit too far, but somehow in that stretch there’s a spark of creativity. There’s a place for outrage —...
One In Five Broadway Theatergoers Is Going Alone
“Nearly 20% of Broadway theater tickets are now being purchased by solo attendees — double the rate from just a couple of years ago,...
One Of Portugal’s, And Europe’s, Greatest Authors, António Lobo Antunes, Is Dead At 83
“A trained psychiatrist, Lobo Antunes wrote, … in an elaborate, metaphorical style that he called 'controlled delirium,' … more than 30 novels dealing with...
Mexico Sees Increasing Backlash Against Over-Tourism
“The Guardian visits Oaxaca, ... where tourism has grown 77% since the pandemic and once-private family rituals such as the Day of the Dead...
A Second Country (A Big One) Bans Social Media For Anyone Under 16
Australia instituted the ban this past December, and following suit is Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous nation. Starting March 28, accounts owned by children...
One Of Seattle’s Top Theater Companies Lays Off Staff
“The 5th Avenue Theatre Company, Seattle's primary producer of Broadway-scale musicals, is eliminating about 14 staff positions and pausing some education and engagement programs amid cash...
Britain’s Daily Telegraph Bought By German Media Conglomerate Axel Springer
Axel Springer, which owns the German publications Bild and Die Welt and the US website group Politico, will pay £575 million ($766 million) for...
A Dance Critic Meets Olympic Figure-Skating Champion Alysa Liu
“Things gotta change, 100 percent,” Liu says. “I think the whole system’s got to scrap it and start over. The competition system and the...
Philadelphia Orchestra Inks Partnership Agreement With Temple University
The agreement — concerning educational activities at Terra Hall, which Temple purchased from the collapsed University of the Arts and is turning into the...
Zaha Hadid’s Successor Wins Right To Rename Her Architecture Firm
Britain’s Court of Appeal has overruled a High Court judgement from 2024 over a licensing agreement which required the studio Zaha Hadid Architects to retain her...
Meet The Woman Who Brought Helvetica To America
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon brought the now-standard sans-serif font back from her studies in Basel in the early 1960s, when Americans were completely accustomed to...
The Aztec Dancers Of Silicon Valley
“Calpulli Ocelocihuatl (is) one of roughly half-a-dozen Aztec dance groups active in San Jose. Other Aztec dance groups – some whose histories stretch back...
The British Museum Employee Who Stole More Than 300 Prints
“Nigel Peverett, who worked at the museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings in the early 1970s, had remained a ‘frequent visitor’ until one day...
How A Scholar Stumbled On Handwritten Notes By Galileo
Historian Ivan Malara spotted notes, annotations and a Bible verse handwritten by the young Galileo circa 1590 in an early printed copy of the Almagest, the second-century C.E....
How Jonathan Groff Became A Now-Rare Thing: A Male Musical-Theater Superstar
Says director Michael Mayer, “He’s now established himself as someone who can open and sustain a show. And this at a time when star...
60 Years After Hollywood Abandoned It, VistaVision Is Back
While the format was quite popular in the 1950s (Vertigo and The Ten Commandments were filmed in it), the industry moved on in the...
Dalí Museum In Florida Announces $65 Million Expansion
The 35,000-square-foot addition to the St. Petersburg institution, expected to begin construction this year and open in 2028, will increase exhibition space, add a...
Is This Bust Of Jesus A Michelangelo? Independent Researcher Says Yes, Scholars Are Skeptical
Valentina Salerno, an actress and novelist with no formal training in art history, says she has reviewed numerous documents indicating that the sculpture, located...
Trump’s “Freedom Truck” Mobile Exhibitions Are Now On The Road
“As the U.S. gears up for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, President Donald Trump has dispatched six roving Freedom Truck exhibitions to...
Belarus Free Theatre To Appear At Venice Biennale
“The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition ‘Official. Unofficial. Belarus.’ as an official...
Where Stradivarius Found Just The Right Wood
“A study of the tree rings in Stradivarius violins, published in January in the journal Dendrochronologia, has revealed the most likely origin of some of...
Meet The Last Of The Signpainters For The Markets Of Naples
“Announcing the clementines, artichokes and other goods on offer are cheerful, hand-painted signs in sun-bright lettering. Quotidian but also quintessential, the signs have become...
Ballerinas Learn To Partner Each Other For Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s New Piece
Gentleman Jack, premiering this weekend at England’s Northern Ballet in Leeds, is Lopez Ochoa’s adaptation of a 2019 television series about Anne Lister, a...
Barbara Hannigan On The New Work She’s Premiering: “It’s Like Turning Your Soul Inside...
Composer Laura Bowler wrote the piece, which sets excerpts from Nobel laureate Han Kang’s The White Book, following her mother’s death in an accident...
