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“Emotionally, Socially, Incredibly Stupid”: Re-Examining The Pharma Mogul Who Created The Barnes Foundation
Blake Gopnik: “I’m not sure that we really understood the contradictions at the heart of Albert Barnes, the fact that he could be just...
Staff Cuts At Britain’s Tate Galleries
“Tate is cutting 7% of its workforce as the British arts institution seeks to address a funding deficit left over from the pandemic. …...
The New Yorker Fires Art Critic Jackson Arn
The magazine parted ways with Arn, who replaced the late Peter Schjeldahl in 2023, after receiving complaints about his inappropriate behavior at the publication’s...
Public Radio Legend Diane Rehm Ends 52-Year Career At Her Home Station
The 88-year-old host has taken a buyout offer from WAMU, the DC-based NPR outlet where she started her radio career as a volunteer producer...
Trump Begins Shutdown Of Voice Of America
“A White House statement said the order would ‘ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda’, and included quotes from politicians...
Send In The Clowns: This City Reduced Traffic-Related Deaths By Putting Mimes Amidst The...
In the 1990s, Bogotá mayor Antanas Mockus replaced hundreds of corrupt traffic cops with a few dozen mimes. Armed with nothing but signs that...
Forget 1215 And “Bad King John” — Here’s The Real Magna Carta
The “Great Charter” signed by John of England and his barons lasted less than three months before they were back at war with each...
Steven McRae On Coming Back From A Ballet Star’s Worst Nightmare
The Royal Ballet principal was performing at Covent Garden one evening in 2019 when — alone onstage in front of over 2,000 people —...
How And Why Did Trauma Narratives Become Ubiquitous?
“You need only look at some of the biggest stories of the past decade to realise popular culture from the late 2010s had a...
The Persian National Epic Becomes An Extravaganza Of Shadow Puppetry
“The show” — Song of the North, adapted from the medieval Persian epic poem Shahnameh — “is mind-dizzyingly complex, involving 483 puppets, 208 animated...
The Market And The Rise Of “Red-Chip” Art
“What is red-chip art? … (It) comes in many guises, but certain visual patterns predominate: super-flat cartoons, a street art/graffiti aesthetic, and multi-colored chrome....
Miami Beach Mayor Threatens To Evict Cinema For Showing Best Documentary Oscar Winner
Mayor Steven Meiner has asked the City Council to terminate the lease of, and end a $40,000 grant to, nonprofit movie theater O Cinema...
South Dakota Lawmakers Reject Gov. Noem’s Bid To Cut State’s Public Radio & TV
The Legislature’s appropriations committee voted unanimously to reject the line in the Governor’s budget cutting $3.61 million — 65% of the network’s total general...
Eugene (Oregon) Symphony Appoints Alex Prior Music Director
A 32-year-old Briton (and a direct descendant of Konstantin Stanislavsky), Prior became assistant conductor of the Seattle Symphony at age 17 and music director...
What’s This About A New Frank Lloyd Wright House?
A house called RiverRock, based on the design plans that were on Wright’s drawing board when he died, was completed early this year in...
John Feinstein, Star Sports Commentator And Bestselling Author, Dead At 69
A full-time sportswriter for The Washington Post for 14 years and steady contributor thereafter, he became known to national audiences through regular appearances on...
Playlists For Your Plants (Yes, Really)
While it’s been clearly demonstrated that plants respond to sound, the evidence about whether they’re affected by music, let alone which genres, is far...
At Angkor Wat, A Buddha’s Head Gets Its Torso Back
“Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head...
No American Play Is More Affected By The Shadows Of Its Previous Actors Than...
And that doesn’t mean only Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, though their shadows are the longest. Ben Brantley revisits some of the other prominent...
Despite A False Start, Philadelphia Ballet’s New HQ Is Getting Built
Wednesday saw the troupe visiting the construction site for a topping-out ceremony, at which the highest steel beam for the building’s roof was hoisted...
French Authors And Publishers Sue Meta Over Its Use Of Their Material In Training...
“Three trade groups said they were launching legal action against Meta in a Paris court over what they said was the company’s ‘massive use...
They Thought It Was A Canaletto. Turns Out It Was Painted By His Teenaged...
The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo (1737), housed at the Wallace Collection in London, has been reattributed to Bernardo Bellotto, who studied in his...
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina, 93
“(She) believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a composer, though it was only after the fall of...
At The Rehab Center With Puzzlemaster Will Shortz
The New York Times crossword editor and Sunday-morning NPR stalwart suffered two strokes a year ago. He came home from the hospital last April...
Unpublished Ravel Work Gets Premiere From Dudamel And New York Phil
“On Thursday, Dudamel and the Philharmonic will give the world premiere of the five-minute piece as part of a program celebrating the 150th birthday of Ravel....
