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National Museum Of Yemen Damaged By Israeli Aerial Bombing
Photos and video show the museum’s courtyard littered with rubble; while doors and windows were blown out, the building is standing. The museum reopened...
For $1 Million, The Atlantic Settles Lawsuit By Writer Of Retracted Story
In 2020, the magazine published a story by freelance journalist Ruth Shalit Barrett about wealthy parents pushing their children into niche sports to gain...
Penn State Will Shut Down NPR/PBS Affiliate WPSU
A committee of Trustees of the university, which owns and operates the station, unanimously rejected a plan to transfer ownership of the station licenses...
The New U.S. Poet Laureate Is Arthur Sze
“The Library (of Congress) announced Monday that the 74-year-old Sze had been appointed to a one-year term, starting this fall. The author of 12...
Layoffs And Cancellations At D.C. PBS Station WETA
“The workforce reduction includes layoffs of 12 active workers and the elimination of nine vacant positions, representing approximately 5% of the employee roster of...
Naples Opens A Subway Station Designed By Anish Kapoor
From the street, it certainly looks like Kapoor’s work; coming up from the train platform, it looks like something by James Turrell. - Dezeen
The Lion Of Venice Statue In St. Mark’s Square Was Evidently Made In China
“By studying copper isotopes taken from samples of the statue, scientists were able to identify that the metal originated from the Yangtze River in...
The “AI-and-I” Essay Has Become A Genre Of Its Own
For example, between April and July, The New Yorker published over a dozen such pieces: essays about generative AI and the dangers it poses to literacy,...
Supercool Film Studio A24 Has Moved Into Off-Broadway Theater
Two years ago A24 bought the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village for $10 million; following a thorough remodeling, the house has reopened...
National Ballet Of Cuba’s Expert Dancers Are Fleeing The Country’s Collapsing Economy
“Many from the Ballet Nacional are quietly choosing to leave behind difficult conditions: Blackouts that make rehearsal spaces and exercise rooms swelteringly hot. Scarce...
Owner Of Miami-Dade’s Public Radio Station Sues Nonprofit That Operates It
The Miami-Dade County School Board, owner of the broadcast license for WLRN, argues that South Florida Public Media Group, which manages the station, violated...
Appeals Court Upholds Order To Pause Trump’s Dismantling Of Institute Of Museum And Library...
“The Court noted throughout their decision that the defendants did not provide sufficient evidence that they weren’t creating harm or overstepping Constitutionality in implementing Trump’s...
Arvo Pärt, Aged 90, Has Ended His Composing Career
The confirmation is tucked into a profile of the wildly popular composer, who has been in poor health and is reportedly developing dementia. -...
How Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli Style Works
A music scholar explains how the artistic formula — famously described by the composer’s wife, Nora, as “1+1=1” — gets translated into the notes...
U.S. Copyright Chief Can Keep Her Job For Now, Rules Court Of Appeals
“By the order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Shira Perlmutter remains the register of copyrights and the...
A Genuine Rubens, Long Forgotten, Turns Up In Paris
“A magnificent, dramatized crucifixion scene made in around 1614-15 has been found among the possessions of a late Parisian homeowner and is set to...
A Landmark For Deaf Cinema: The First Sign-Language Thriller
“Retreat is billed as ‘the world’s first deaf thriller.’ It is written and directed by Ted Evans, also deaf, and features an all-deaf cast, set...
Historic Palace In Kathmandu Burned Out During Violent Anti-Government Protests
The nationwide protests against government corruption and a new social media ban turned violent in Nepal’s capital on Monday; on Tuesday, rioters ransacked and...
Daniel Day-Lewis Says He Didn’t Mean It When He Said He Was Retiring
“It just seems like such grandiose gibberish to talk about. I never intended to retire, really. I just stopped doing that particular type of...
Return Of Renaissance Altarpiece To Slovenia Sparks Political Uproar In Italy
Vittore Carpaccio’s Madonna and Child Enthroned with Six Saints (1518) was painted for a Franciscan church in Piran, a seaside town then ruled by...
A Crowdsourced Archive Of Video From The 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks
The footage was taken on the day of the disaster by over 100 people who then responded to an ad in The Village Voice....
Kennedy Center Fires Its Chief Of Jazz Programming
The victim of the latest staff defenestration (a frequent phenomenon since Trump took over the arts center in February) was Kevin Struthers, whose title...
East London To Get A Big New Two-Theatre Venue
Troubadour Theatres, which already has locations at Wembley Park and Canary Wharf (opening next month), is building the Troubadour Greenwich Peninsula Theatre, which will...
Vancouver To Get A Third Ballet Company
Choreographer Joshua Beamish is the founding director of Ballet Vancouver, which, like Ballet BC and Goh Ballet, will focus on contemporary choreography. The company...
Cultural Olympiad Of L.A.’s 2028 Olympics Is Way Behind Schedule
“Arts leaders in Los Angeles say that, three years out, (there is) no cultural plan yet announced, just two people assigned to the effort...
