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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...
Arkansans Raised Millions To Keep PBS On The Air There. Now Arkansas Is Cutting...
“Arkansas TV, formerly Arkansas PBS, is cutting and moving PBS news programming to make room for homegrown shows filmed in Arkansas, once again pulling...
Soprano Erie Mills Has Died At 73
From the late 1970s, she had a glittering 25-year career as a coloratura, from the Met to La Scala to Santa Fe and beyond....
How Commonwealth Short Story Prize Determined That This Year’s Winners Are All AI-Free
“The Commonwealth Foundation asked writers to provide drafts, story outlines, manuscripts and other evidence of their creative process when investigating allegations of AI use...
Royal Ballet And Opera In London To Eliminate 64 Staff Positions
“The reductions amount to roughly five percent of the organization’s current workforce of 1,169 staff. Nine of the cuts will involve compulsory redundancies, with...
New York Will Not Pursue Another Retrial Of Harvey Weinstein
“The movie mogul still stands convicted of another sexual felony in New York and others in California, and he remains behind bars. But the...
The Marquis De Lafayette Has Become A Selfie Magnet In Paris
In France, feelings about him are more mixed than in the U.S. (For one thing, during and after the French Revolution, he favored a...
Competing At Istanbul’s Tango Championship
The Turkish metropolis has become one of the world’s major centers of tango, perhaps behind only Buenos Aires itself. This month Istanbul hosted La...
An Actor With Alzheimer’s Performs Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape”
Peter Marinker, now 84, first played Krapp in 1983, and he’s reusing the tapes he made back then for this production in London. He’ll...
Commonwealth Short Story Prize Determines That None Of This Year’s Winners Were Written By...
“The Commonwealth Foundation dismissed accusations that the short stories which won its literary prize this year were generated with artificial intelligence, saying a month-long...
