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Director Of Uffizi Gallery Still Won’t Swear Off Running For Mayor Of Florence
Eike Schmidt's widely-praised tenure at the city's flagship museum just ended, and he's been appointed director of the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. But last...
Actress Glynis Johns, 100
"(Her) effervescence and crackling husky voice — which she attributed to 'slightly twisted' vocal cords that permitted the air to hit 'the soprano and...
Robert Spano Appointed Principal Conductor (But Not Music Director) Of Rhode Island Philharmonic
"The appointment as Principal Conductor is effective immediately. Spano will remain in the post until the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School hires...
Federal Court Partially Blocks Iowa’s Book-Banning Law
"A federal judge has blocked two key portions of SF 496, a recently passed Iowa state law that sought to ban books with sexual...
The New York Times Magazine’s Final Poetry Column
"Louise Glück’s … mode of lamentation was her signature, and it seems fitting that one of her poems occasions the end of this column...
Figuring Out How To Regulate AI Isn’t As Unfamiliar A Problem As We Think
"While the rush to do something about A.I. might feel new, it’s really just a continuation of a yearslong conversation about the unintended consequences...
The “Global Downtown”: Under The Radar Is Back, Bringing The World’s Experimental Theater To...
"In a year in which the festival (had) its budget halved, … a roster of local artists might have been an easier sell. But...
Broadway Stage Directors And Choreographers Have A New Union Contract And Achieve A Long-Term...
"The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society has reached an agreement with the Broadway League on a new four-year contract that covers associate directors and...
What U.S. Ballet Companies Are Paying Their Executive And Artistic Directors
For the 50 largest companies, the average salary for both positions is over $200,000, and the gender gap in pay averages 17% for artistic...
Last Remaining Suspect In 2005 Theft Of Warhol And Pollock Works Turns Himself In
After hiding from authorities for seven months, Nicholas Dombek appeared at a Scranton, Pa. courthouse. He's one of nine alleged members of a ring...
Artist Alexis Smith, Who Pioneered Fusion Of Image And Text, Has Died At 74
"Her imaginative collages and assemblages have drawn on, not just borrowed — and sometimes edited — quotations by everyone from Milton to Kerouac and...
The Retiring CEO Who Has Transformed The Detroit Opera
Under Wayne Brown, the company "has placed itself at the center of operatic conversation, … broken fund-raising records, (and) drawn first-time ticket buyers by...
Worldwide Cinema Office Revenue Is Up By Almost A Third From The Previous Year
The analytics firm Gower Street estimates that global sales of movie tickets in 2023 add up to $33.9 billion, an increase of 31% from...
So, What Other Goodies Have Come Into Public Domain As Of 2024?
In the US, Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, and Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc. In the EU, Canada,...
That Time Andrew Scott Stopped Shakespeare’s Most Famous Monologue Cold
"When I was playing Hamlet, a guy took out his laptop – not his phone, his laptop – while I was in the middle...
Iraq Starts A New TV Channel To Help Save An Ancient And Endangered Language
Syriac, a 2,000-year-old tongue closely related to the Aramaic spoken by Jesus of Nazareth, is today the language of Iraq's Orthodox Christians, a community...
Nashville Changed Its Arts Funding Model To Help Organizations That Had Been Neglected. Then...
Racism at work? Depends on what exactly one means by racism, and where — because the Metro Nashville Arts Commission reversed the new funding...
Meet The Founding Director Of San Antonio’s Only Professional Contemporary Dance Company
Just a year ago, Tanesha Payne created SumRset (adapted from her maiden name) to spread appreciation for contemporary dance in America's seventh-largest city, where...
“Streaming Anxiety”: Why So Many People Are Still Buying DVDs, CDs, And LPs
The Blu-ray and DVD releases of Oppenheimer, for example, sold out in a week or so. Some of this is the basic fan/collector impulse,...
The US State Department Has Launched A(nother) Global Music Diplomacy Initiative. Can It Work?
The goal of the program is, said Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, to use American music and musicians, across many genres, "to strengthen the...
Meet The Founding Composer Of Cuban Classical Music
Esteban Salas y Castro (1725-1803) grew up in Havana and worked as music director at an important parish church there and at the cathedral...
Five More Ways That AI Will Change Art
Even more arguments about appropriation. Parasocial aesthetics. (Yes, there's a definition of that.) Art that's about trying to outfox or even break AI. And...
Ana Ofelia Murguía, One Of Mexico’s Greatest Actresses (And The Voice Of Pixar’s Coco),...
Particularly known for playing villainesses, Murguía enjoyed a nearly 70-year career that spanned over 100 roles on film, television and the stage. She won...
Salman Rushdie’s Coming Memoir Of His Attack May Cause The Delay Of His Attacker’s...
The trial judge ruled that defendant Hadi Matar and his attorney are entitled to a copy of the manuscript and related material as part...
Radio Giant Audacy Is Preparing To File For Bankruptcy: Report
The successor company to a merger between CBS Radio and Entercom, Audacy manages 235 radio stations in 48 US media markets. A decline in...
