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Why Scotland’s Government And Its Arts Funding Agency Are Like A “Dysfunctional Divorcing Couple”
Alan Cumming, who made the comparison, provides a good example: he was hired in September to run the Pitlochry Festival Theatre and "invite the...
KERA, Dallas’s Public Radio & TV Outlet, Announces $100 Million Expansion
"The station, which began broadcasting on television in 1960 and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary in radio, is expected to move out of its...
The British Museum And Its 8 Million Objects, 6 Million Annual Visitors, Hundreds Of...
"It is a sprawling, chaotic reflection of Britain’s psyche over 300 years: its voracious curiosity and cultural relativism; its pugnacious superiority complex; its restless...
Large Ancient Bathhouse/Spa Uncovered In Pompeii
"The newly unearthed spa complex comprises the classic Roman trio of thermal rooms — calidarium (hot), tepidarium (warm), and frigidarium (cold) — alongside a...
Britain Should Offer Tax Deductions For Corporate Arts Philanthropy As France Does
"Introduced in 2003 by then culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon, this policy incentivises corporate philanthropy for arts and charities by offering a 60 per cent...
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, 95
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his generation. … (He)...
Check Out Some Of History’s Great Literary Forgers And Fraudsters
There's the guy who wrote a love letter to Anne Hathaway and some poems and passed them off as Shakespeare. The guy who faked...
World’s Top Street Dance Competition Comes To Arab World For First Time
"Rhythmic beats echoed through the Tunis Opera Theatre stage as dancers faced off at the first-ever edition in the Arab world of a street...
They’re Already Thinking About An “Emilia Pérez” Broadway Musical
"We would love to put Emilia Pérez on Broadway," said co-composer Clément Ducol. "At the start, (director) Jacques (Audiard) mentioned he was thinking of...
Getty Museums In L.A. Now Seen As “Beacon Of Fire Preparedness”
"The Center, which houses a sprawling collection in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a 'marvel of anti-fire engineering.' The...
US Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Law Banning TikTok
"TikTok, which has 170 million monthly American users, had argued the ban tramples on the First Amendment rights of both the app and its...
Bankrupt University Of The Arts Building Is Sold At Auction — To Curtis Institute
The renowned music school outbid Temple University for the former Arts Alliance building, very near Curtis's home on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, after an...
Countertenor David Daniels Sues U. Michigan For Firing Him For Sexual Misconduct
"Daniels, 58, was hired as a voice professor in 2015 and granted tenure three years later in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance....
Sacramento’s Public Radio Station Sues Its Ex-GM For Theft
"The lawsuit, filed in December, claims that (Jun) Reina used the misappropriated funds for lavish overseas trips, home renovations, his children’s college tuition, and...
Cape Cod Public Radio Station’s Home Is Saved, Though The Station Itself Still Has...
GBH, the Boston public radio/TV franchise that owns Cape Cod station CAI, agreed to sell the historic house where CAI has studios to the...
Wanamaker Organ’s Landlord Promises To Keep It In Place
"Left open are questions of access to and care of the instrument, as well as how often it would be played after the expected...
Actor Joan Plowright, 95
Until late in life, her fame as the wife/widow of Laurence Olivier obscured from the wider public (though not from colleagues) her own extraordinary...
David Lynch, 78
"(His films) bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences...
Google “Cubism” These Days And You’ll Get A Bunch Of AI-Generated Garbage
Same with Bing and DuckDuckGo; the bogus AI images are crowding out Picasso and Braque in the results. The stuff comes from CubismArtwork.com, which...
Rehab For Actors Recovering From Playing Hamlet
It doesn't necessarily seem all that improbable, but no, this isn't really a thing. It is, however, the concept of the play Hamlet Camp,...
The California Roots Of Martha Graham’s Modern Dance Revolution
The metro Pittsburgh-born Graham spent her teenage years in Santa Barbara and saw her first dance performance — featuring her future teacher Ruth St....
In Defense Of El Sistema, The Simón BolÃvar Orchestra, And, Yes, Dudamel
European Union Youth Orchestra director Marshall Marcus, who's seen a lot of El Sistema's educational work up close, argues that those who denounce the...
Photographer Oliviero Toscani, Who Shot Those Provocative Benetton Ads, Has Died At 82
"(He) was the creative force behind the United Colors of Benetton campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s that featured images such as a Pope...
Italian Museums Try Offering Free Dog-Sitting Services For Visitors
"Normally, a paid version of the service operates at 290 museums across Italy. One of the company Bauadvisor's dog-sitters meets the owner outside the...
Most Expensive Piece Of Entertainment In History? This Video Game Could End Up Costing...
Most game makers keep their expenditures secret; Call of Duty was recently reported to have cost over $700 million so far. But multiplayer space...
