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St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Adds A New Artistic Partner, Gábor Takács-Nagy
"Consider it the orchestral equivalent of someone who's ready to give up on romance suddenly finding the perfect partner. After claiming for several seasons...
Britain Is So Far Behind Europe In Arts Funding That It’s A “Crisis”: Study
"The findings of the academic 'crisis' report, ... by the University of Warwick and the Campaign for the Arts pressure group, … (show) that...
On “The Gulag Archipelago” At 50
"Why doesn’t Solzhenitsyn’s catalogue of horrors grow boring? You read three volumes about boots trampling on human faces and your attention never flags. One...
Béla Tarr Hates It When People Call His Films Pessimistic
Indeed, he says his films are comedies like Chekhov's plays. "If you are really pessimistic, you go up to the roof and hang yourself,...
The Wizardry Of Shigeru Ban, The Architect You Want When Disaster Strikes
"As a virtuoso of pavilions, temporary structures, emergency shelter, and post-disaster community spaces, he’s developed designs that are quick, cheap, and clean to build,...
Cross Dorothy Parker With Mae West, Have Her Date Frank Serpico And Then Run...
Betty Cooper, that's who. "For decades she lived at the center of a bohemian New York that long ago faded into mythology. … Betty...
Why It’s Okay, Even Good, To Be An Adult Who Loves Disney’s Theme Parks
"Disneyland is often said to be 'fun' or 'an escape,' but I wanted ... to ask those who have thought critically about theme parks...
What Sadler’s Wells Has Planned For Its New East London Outpost
"Sadler’s Wells East is due to open later this year in London’s Queen Elizabeth Park, site of the 2012 Olympic Games. The 550-seat auditorium,...
Here’s The First Museum in The U.S. To Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
The Stanley Museum of Art at the University of Iowa restored a brass plaque and a wooden altarpiece to the Oba of Benin, the...
Faust In The Financial District, 1929: What’s Next From The Producers Of “Sleep No...
"A version of the Faust legend (well, several braided versions of the Faust legend), Life and Trust, which opens Aug. 1, occupies 100,000 square...
New Zealand Symphony’s Ex-CEO Admits He Suddenly Resigned Due To Financial Malfeasance
When Peter Biggs stepped down in April, the stated cause was ill health. He now acknowledges the reason was "grievous errors of judgment": commuting...
British Museum’s New Director Suggests “Lending Library” Model For Repatriating Parthenon Marbles And Benin...
"We can’t give them back because of the act of parliament 1963," said Nicholas Cullinan, "we’re not allowed to deaccession. … I would hope...
Musicians At Welsh National Opera Authorize Strike
"Orchestra members of the Welsh National Opera have voted overwhelmingly in favour of potential strike action, following threats of full-time jobs being reduced to...
Bob Newhart Dead At 94
"His understated comedy routines that emphasized the absurdities of ordinary life made him a national sensation. (He) became the first comedian with a No....
Why A Musical-Comedy About Witches And Cossacks Is The Smash Hit Of Kyiv Theatre
The Witch of Konotop is a 1982 stage adaptation of a classic Ukrainian novella published in 1832, telling the story of a Cossack town...
Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson Convicted On All Fraud Charges
The online news outlet, founded in 2013, collapsed in 2021 after Watson and other execs were caught lying to potential investors with wildly inflated...
25 Years After It Flopped, “Eyes Wide Shut” Is Getting Constantly Reassessed
Stanley Kubrick died shortly after turning his cut in to Warner Bros. — which has left plenty of room for others to make their...
Nashville’s Arts Funder Agrees To Restore Grants It Clawed Back From Minority-Led Arts Groups
The Metro Arts Commission had rescinded the funds in 2023 on advice from the city's attorneys that, because commissioners had discussed race in awarding...
Silent Demonstration During Performance Calls For Getty Museum To Stop Underpaying Dancers
Last Sunday, as dancers carried heavy sheets of metal and glass in Joan Jonas’s Mirror Piece I & II, audience members from Los Angeles's...
Yet More Layoffs At Warner Bros. Discovery
The staff cuts, coming a week after the conglomerate eliminated around 100 jobs at CNN, involve multiple departments, including production, business affairs, finance, and...
Musicians’ Union Pension Fund Rescued By $1.5 Billion Of Federal Money
The American Federation of Musicians and Employers Pension Fund, set up for AFM's roughly 50,000 members in New York but underfunded for decades, was...
Macron’s Plan To Install Contemporary Stained Glass Windows In Notre-Dame Is Vetoed
The French President's proposal to replace six 19th-century stained glass windows with contemporary works has been rejected by France’s National Heritage and Architecture Commission....
2024 Kennedy Center Honors Go To Francis Ford Coppola, Bonnie Raitt, Anturo Sandoval, The...
"Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter said there isn’t a theme when selecting the honorees, but one often emerges organically. This year, that accidental...
Ford And Mellon Foundations Name Final Class Of Disability Futures Fellows
"The initiative, (20 unrestricted grants of $50,000 each to disabled creative artists,) administered by United States Artists, named its inaugural class of fellows in...
Boris Kachka, Books Editor Laid Off By L.A. Times, Moves To The Atlantic
Kachka was one of the 115 staffers (roughly 20% of the newsroom) at the Los Angeles Times who were made redundant in January. Before...
