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British Museum Was Partly Closed This Weekend Following Cyber-Vandalism By Ex-Employee
The alleged perpetrator was an IT contractor fired earlier this month. He returned on Thursday to breach and shut down the museum’s security and...
WH Smith To Sell Its Non-Airport Bookstores
The company's bookstore division, which has 500 retail outlets in cities and towns throughout the UK, has seen declining revenue for years, leading to...
Ten Surprising Facts About Andy Warhol
For instance, he was a gym rat when he was younger, and even after he was shot he could do 46 pushups. And he...
“Twin Peaks”: An Oral History
"When they did the premiere of Twin Peaks: The Return, the executives had not seen it, and they said: 'Mr. Lynch, would you say...
Christopher Stowell Is New Artistic Director Of Royal Winnipeg Ballet
A former principal at San Francisco Ballet and artistic director of Oregon Ballet Theatre, he was most recently Karen Kain's associate artistic director at...
Sleep Tourism Is Becoming A Thing
"Sleep-deprived travellers are choosing their hotel on the basis of its pillow menu or booking themselves into away-from-it-all sleep retreats with tailored sleep-inducing activities....
The Gwyneth Paltrow Skiing Trial Has Become An Off-Broadway Musical
The show, titled Gwyneth Goes Skiing, has already played in London, the Edinburgh Fringe, and Park City, Utah, where the actual events took place....
Hollywood Composers, Whose Work Is Drying Up, Find Solace In Home Concerts Of Their...
"One surprising thing," says one of the co-founders of the free-with-RSVP series, called Night Temple, "is how these really accomplished film composers, who have...
A Play About TikTok Performed In Person And Online At The Same Time
"'If you get me to 20,000 likes, I’ll do something amazing.' That is what the performance artist Louise Orwin promises audiences in Famehungry, a...
Daniel Libeskind Has Designed A Low-Income Housing Project, And It’s Good
"His global brand would seem like an odd choice for the most basic tier of New York’s urban shelter, sort of like handing out...
Insurance Cos. Want To Deny $19.7 Million Claim For Fake Basquiats
Liberty Mutual and Great American are refuting the claim submitted by the owners of the 25 paintings which were on display at the Orlando...
Penguin Random House Parent Announces “Strategic Collaboration” With Open AI
"Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann has agreed to a 'strategic collaboration' with OpenAI to use ChatGPT technology across many of its operating units....
Chicago Public Media Begins Offering Buyouts
"Struggling with declining revenue in its groundbreaking nonprofit radio/newspaper model, Chicago Public Media is offering voluntary buyouts for Chicago Sun-Times journalists and business employees...
Ballet In A Theatre With An Air Raid Shelter: Kyiv’s “The Snow Queen”
A full house for the National Ballet of Ukraine these days is 560 people, because that's the capacity of the bomb shelter in the...
The Louvre’s Building Is In Seriously Bad Shape, Warns Director
In a leaked memo to French culture minister Rachida Dati, Louvre director Laurence des Cars wrote that overcrowding at the museum is causing "physical...
How To Alleviate Milwaukee’s Arts Funding Crisis? Collaboration Across The State, Say Leaders
"Among the issues are determining what private philanthropy’s role should be in maintaining the arts-and-culture ecosystem and forging a unified effort to advocate for...
Britain’s Nonprofit Theatre Business Model Is Broken: Study
National Theatre CEO Kate Varah: "Many I speak to in the sector feel they are at a breaking point with limited funds and conflicting...
Reviving The Practice Of Writing Letters By Starting A Giant Pen Pal Club
"New Yorker writer Rachel Syme was in the stir-crazy early months of the pandemic, scribbling notes to friends and family, when she put out...
The Missing Song From Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer” Has Been Unearthed
"'Hot For You Baby,' written by Australian singer John Paul Young and produced by John Carter, was originally meant to be included on the...
Does Trump’s Executive Order Mean All Federal Buildings Will Have To Look Like The...
The order, revived from his first term, says policies should ensure new buildings "respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift...
Two Major Studios Wage Court Battle Over Streaming Rights To “South Park”
"Paramount must face some claims in a lawsuit from Warner Bros. Discovery accusing it of setting in motion a breach of a $500 million...
Delhi Court Seizes Two Artworks For Offending Religious Sentiments
"The judge gave the police permission to confiscate the drawings (by MF Husain) after a lawyer, Amita Sachdeva, complained that the artworks featuring two...
Painter Jo Baer Dead At 95
"(She was) a trailblazing painter who gained accolades as a Minimalist during the 1960s before diverging from the movement later on" in favor of...
Academy Says Oscars Will Proceed As Planned
Execs said the March ceremony will "celebrate the work that unites us as a global film community and acknowledge those who fought so bravely...
I Was The Merch Girl On The “Girls Gone Wild” Tour Bus
"On the surface, my job was simple: travel around with a producer and cameramen and sell branded merch to the drunken masses at 'parties'...
