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Saudi Arabia Plans To Build An Arts Destination From Scratch In The Desert. The...
"Amr al-Madani, the chief executive officer of the Royal Commission of AlUla, … is accused of personally benefiting from contracts (worth $55 million) given...
The Hallmark Channel’s March Toward Cultural Domination
"Hallmark rose from the sixth-most-watched cable network at the top of October to the third-most-watched the week of Nov. 20, when it won out...
Gordon Rogoff, 92, Theater Critic, Dramaturg, And Professor
"No critic since Kenneth Tynan was better able to capture in vivid, richly metaphoric language the unique brilliance of a stage performance." Charles McNulty...
Alabama’s Public Libraries Withdraw From American Library Association
"The Alabama Public Library Service has voted not to renew its American Library Association membership. This comes after some in the state have accused...
New Jersey Legislature Prepares Anti-Book-Banning “Freedom To Read” Law
"Following legislation introduced in states like Massachusetts, Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico, legislators in New Jersey introduced a newly revised Freedom to Read Act...
New York’s Rubin Museum Will Sell Its Building And Become A “Museum Without Walls”
"(The museum dedicated to Himalayan Buddhist art) will close Oct. 6, when its last exhibition ends, before the institution transitions to a skeleton crew...
The Purposes Of Punctuation: A History
"In elementary school, we learn logical rules for using punctuation. Semicolons connect two related independent clauses, while colons follow an independent clause and introduce...
Trying To Stop Dance Injuries Before They Start
Australia's Dance Research Collaborative and a musculoskeletal physiotherapist and researcher in Queensland are working together to investigate injury reduction in dance, particularly in young...
Making An Elephant Disappear: Spectacular Stage Magic Is Back In Vogue
"Big-budget shows are increasingly using illusions to help tell stories full of wonder. … Ten years ago, a consultant magician would be brought on...
White House And NEA Are Trying To Use The Arts To Help Solve Non-Art...
"The Environmental Protection Agency will assign artists to treasured bodies of water in the United States under a new program announced Tuesday at a...
As Jaap Van Zweden Prepares To Leave New York And Hong Kong Philharmonics, He’s...
This month the 63-year-old Dutch conductor began his term as music director at the Seoul Philharmonic. That orchestra had been considered one of Asia's...
Design For Florence’s New Airport Has A Vineyard On The Roof
"Few details about the design (by Rafael Viñoly Architects) have been released, but the terminal's main feature will be a vast sloping roof, which...
Fed-Up Museum Director In Florence Compares The City To A Prostitute. Bad Idea.
"Mass tourism has turned the Italian city of Florence into a 'prostitute,' the director of Galleria dell’Accademia" — home to Michelangelo's David — has...
Suspect In Murder Of Gallerist Brent Sikkema Confesses
"Alejandro Triana Prevez, a 30-year-old Cuban national, was arrested just days after the 75-year-old New York gallerist was found dead in his apartment in...
Owner Of The Weather Channel Makes $30 Billion Offer To Buy Paramount
"The comic-turned media mogul (Byron Allen) has made a $14.3 billion offer to buy all outstanding shares of Paramount Global. … The deal would...
60-Seconds-Per-Episode Soap Operas Have Come To TikTok
"The biggest player in this new genre is ReelShort, an app that offers melodramatic content in minute-long, vertically shot episodes and is hoping to...
Sotheby’s Is Cleared Of Defrauding Art-Collecting Oligarch
"Sotheby’s was cleared Tuesday in Manhattan federal court of claims that they helped Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier defraud Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, in...
Chita Rivera, 91
"With her raven hair, lithe frame and smoky voice, Ms. Rivera cut a mesmerizing Broadway figure for more than six decades, her name synonymous...
The Rehabilitation Of Caspar David Friedrich, Standard-Bearer Of German Romantic Painting
"When (he) died in poverty in 1840, he was almost forgotten by the contemporary art world. As his 250th birthday approaches, his reputation is...
“Shattered Glass” At 20
"In deference to this milestone, the film’s enduring appeal in J-school classrooms, and its rent-free existence in the backs of reporters’ minds, Poynter spoke...
“Deep YouTube,” The Billions (Yes, Billions) Of Videos Most People Will Never See
"The viral videos and popular conspiracy theorists are, of course, important. But the reality is that the number and perhaps even importance of those...
Inside The Crumbling Condé Nast
"The shuffling and reshuffling has reached the point where Condé is now spitting out the people who were brought in to replace the prior...
Publisher Marc Jaffe, Who Pioneered The Paperback Book Market As We Know It, Is...
"(As) editorial director of Bantam Books, … he oversaw a boom in paperback publishing beginning in the 1960s, putting out hitmakers from The Catcher...
In War-Battered Kyiv, Playwrights Turn Toward Comedy
"In a studio theatre tucked into a courtyard behind Kyiv’s main Khreshchatyk Street, six playwrights and six directors were hammering out a fraught question:...
L.A. Opera Cancels World Premiere Of Mason Bates’s “Kavalier And Clay”
"The Los Angeles Opera has scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay this fall because...
