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Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyers Appeal His Rape Conviction Before New York State’s Highest Court
The basis of the appeal is that the trial judge should not have allowed testimony from three other women whose alleged assaults by Weinstein...
A Schubert Jukebox Opera? Yep.
"Jukebox" opera was hardly unknown in centuries past; it was called pasticcio. And while Schubert was a master of vocal music, his operas are...
13th-Century Fresco By Cimabue Has Been Restored And Revealed
The painting, in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, is of the Madonna and Child with angels and St. Francis himself. The project...
OMG, Looks Like The Saudis Have Actually Started Construction On That 100-Mile-Long Building
Many onlookers have been skeptical that The Line, Prince Muhammad bin Salman's planned glass-clad behemoth 170 kilometers long, 1,640 feet tall and only 660...
Here’s One American Newspaper That’s Actually Making Money With A New, Free (!) Print...
This past September, Deseret News, the Salt Lake City daily owned and operated by the Mormon church, launched The Digest, a monthly compendium of...
Second City Has Opened Its New York City Branch
"The new site (in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood) is less of a traditional comedy club than it is a sort of small campus for comedy...
England’s Arts Funder Warns Grantees To Avoid “Political Statements” And Artists Respond Angrily
"Artists, writers and musicians have reacted with fury to an Arts Council England warning that “political statements” could break funding agreements. ... ACE advised...
Completely Strung Out At The World’s Largest String Quartet Festival
"Imagine a small island where, for an entire week, you’re in the company of some of the world’s finest classical musicians. They play almost...
On This Valentine’s Day, Remember That Love Sonnets Don’t Have To Be For Romantic...
Scholar Shannon McHugh reminds us that, going all the way back to the medieval Italian origins of the form, sonnets have been written to...
For This Brazilian City’s Carnival, The Giant Street Puppets Come Out
In Olinda, a town on the northern coast near Recife whose historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage site, the puppets range from the...
Notre-Dame’s New Spire Is In Place As Reconstruction Forges Ahead
"Scaffolding surrounding the spire came down this week, revealing the restored structure in a landmark moment for the cathedral, which was ravaged by a...
One Of London’s Best Theatres For New Plays May Have To Lay Off Its...
"The Royal Court is known for putting the names of emerging playwrights up in lights for the first time, but … (its) literary department...
As Shows Get Cancelled And Grants Get Rescinded, Hong Kong Arts Groups Must Guess...
Last month, the territory's Arts Development Council abruptly decided to withhold funding for a major theater awards event because (it later revealed) two disfavored...
At Carnival And Onward, Venice Is Taking Steps To Reduce The Endless Tide Of...
"Responding to residents’ fears that Venice is becoming a glorified water park, this city that has drawn awestruck visitors since the Middle Ages is...
Cleveland Ballet’s New Artistic Director On Stabilizing The Company After A Wild Few Months
After this past fall's revelations of misconduct that led to the resignation of executive director Michael Krasnyansky and the firing of artistic director Gladisa...
New York State’s $700 Million Film/TV Production Tax Credit Loses Money, Finds State Audit
"For every dollar the state gave in tax breaks from 2018 through 2022, the Film Tax Credit drew an estimated 15¢ in direct tax...
Now Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Have Struck Botticelli’s “Birth Of Venus” (At Least They Didn’t...
"Two activists from Last Generation pasted images of a flooded Tuscan town over the goddess's giant shell on the 15th-century work (at the Uffizi...
Rijksmuseum To The Mob: Please Give That Frans Hals Painting Back, We Have An...
The show will include 50 works by Hals — but not Two Laughing Boys With a Mug of Beer, which was stolen (for the...
Hezbollah Goes Into The Immersive Theater Business
No, this is not a joke, though Robert F. Worth thought it was, when he first saw the announcement that the Lebanese Shiite militant...
Bharathanatyam: A Newcomer’s Guide
Writer and dancer Lakshmi Thiagarajan explains some of the origins and history of the South Asian classical dance form, the components of a traditional...
Universal Studios Hollywood Has A Poverty Problem — Among Its Underpaid Staff
"A new UCLA Labor Center study of (the theme park's) employees reveals that … 44% of the workers reported that they worried about being...
The Queer Feminist Collective In North Carolina That’s Repatriating Banned Kids’ Books Back To...
Firestrom Books in Asheville got a call from a distributor asking them to take in eight tons of books rejected by Duval County Public...
How, When, And Why The Orchestra Plays Winners Off The Stage At Awards Shows
First of all, it's something that nobody wants to do. Yet the show's director, who makes the decision, has to balance the interests of...
Ex-Husband Sought For Arrest In Murder Of Gallerist Brent Sikkema
"Alejandro Triana Prevez, the man who confessed to the murder of New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, told Brazilian authorities Sikkema’s ex-husband, Daniel Sikkema,...
Musée d’Orsay’s Virtual-Reality Van Gogh Show Sets New Attendance Record
"Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise,' which closed last Sunday, brought … in a total 793,556 visitors, or an average of 7,181 each day. The show’s...
