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Twenty Years After His Fabricated Memoir And Grilling By Oprah, James Frey Is Trying...
“As Frey sees it, the public has gotten increasingly comfortable with falsehoods, without getting fully comfortable with him. He finds it all a bit...
Despite Ongoing Bombardment, Kharkiv’s Ballet Dances On Amid The Destruction
“In the dark, brick-walled basement of the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, a dance company has created a space protected from drones...
Pianist Maria João Pires Suffers “Slight Stroke”, Cancels Three Concerts
Pires, 81 next month, has withdrawn from performances this week and next in three Portuguese cities. She also has concerts scheduled in Monaco on...
What The New Conductor Of Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival Has In Mind
“Giancarlo Guerrero, 56, ended his 16-year tenure in May as music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, where he put an emphasis on contemporary...
In New Fiction, The Subject Of AI Has Moved Beyond The SciFi/Fantasy Genre
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long been a staple of science fiction, but editors are seeing a change in how novelists are exploring the subject...
Frederick Forsyth, One Of The World’s Best-Selling Thriller Novelists, Has Died At 86
“A mega-selling British novelist of political thrillers, cunning spy craft and globe-trotting intrigue, (he) used his own background as a foreign correspondent to inspire...
Former Director Of Kahlo And Rivera Museums Alleges Missing Artworks And Mismanagement
Hilda Trujillo Soto, who was adjunct director and then director of the Mexico City museums from 2002 and 2020, alleges that the trust overseeing...
Federal Judge Rules That Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Independent And Trump Cannot Unilaterally...
While the U.S. District Court didn’t explicitly and directly reverse Trump’s removal of three CPB board members, it affirmed that Congress created CPB to...
Smithsonian’s Board Confirms That Its Chief Executive, Not The U.S. President, Has Hiring And...
While the Board of Regents (which includes the U.S. Vice President and the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice) didn’t directly address Trump’s attempt to fire...
After Two-Year Struggle, Disney Buys Full Control Of Hulu (For Far Less Than Comcast...
In December 2023, in an initial payment toward the Hulu purchase, Disney agreed to give Comcast/NBCUniversal $8.61 billion — one-third of the $27.5 billion guaranteed...
Art Historian Claims To Have Identified Caravaggio’s Oldest Known Painting
“Gianni Papi — one of the world’s leading experts on the artist — announced the discovery of what he believes to be the earliest...
Gertrude Stein Was A Self-Promotion Genius
Some of her PR tactics were terrific even by today’s standards, and she achieved a level of fame in America that’s astonishing, then or...
Bettie de Jong, Paul Taylor’s Factotum, Still Working At 92
For decades she has been Taylor's star dancer, muse, buddy, rehearsal director, and choreographic reconstructor. (He was never particularly interested in the details of...
Idris Elba Wants To Build An “African Odeon” Of Cinemas Across The Continent
“There’s a crazy number across the entire continent: less than about 3,000 cinemas, actual cinemas,” said the actor. “I would love to be able...
The First Authorized Stage Adaptation Of James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” Makes Its Debut
“There have been many efforts to adapt Baldwin’s works since he died in 1987, nearly all unsanctioned or unsuccessful in earning approval from his...
Will Ferrell Is Adapting His Eurovision Song Contest Parody For Broadway
“A stage musical based on the 2020 Netflix movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is under development with Will Ferrell, Harper Steele and Anthony...
With Their NEA Grants Rescinded, Nonprofit Publishers Contemplate Their Prospects
“Many of the grants were meant to partially reimburse nonprofit publishers for projects they’ve already paid for and completed, leaving them with surprise shortfalls....
Pompeii, Like Venice, Has Become A Victim Of Its Own Success
“Rising visitor numbers to the UNESCO site … have placed the archaeological park’s three entrances under growing strain. Now guides who make a living...
Dead Sea Scrolls Are Far Older Than Previously Thought, Say Researchers
“Researchers from the University of Groningen combined AI and carbon dating to find that many of the scrolls are older than scholars previously estimated....
The Old San Francisco Art Institute Will Reopen With A New Name And Purpose
It was one of the city’s oldest art schools when it went bankrupt in 2022. The campus — and its famous Diego Rivera fresco...
Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty To Peddling Forged Picassos, Basquiats, Warhols
“Between 2019 and 2021, Carter Reese approached potential buyers with artwork from those artists and others that he described as authentic. … Reese’s real...
Kari Lake Wants To Reduce Voice of America’s Staff From Over 1,000 to 81
The former conservative media star and sore-loser Arizona candidate for governor and senator, who now heads the agency overseeing VOA, says Trump had directed...
Arizona Opera Finds Its New General Director Close To Home
“Arizona Opera took its search for a new leader international only to find the ideal candidate a few miles from its downtown Phoenix headquarters. The...
Walt Whitman, The Original Self-Mythologizing Selfie King
“Unlike many of his contemporaries, the poet collected an ‘abundance of photographs’ of himself. And like many people today who snap and post thousands...
Why Trump’s Tariffs Will Be A Big Pain In Ballet Companies’ Feet
“Compounding recent major cuts to arts funding, the footwear the ballet world relies on could be just one more unanticipated casualty of the current...
