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Anderson Cooper And “60 Minutes” Look Into The Trade In Looted Cambodian Antiquities
America's flagship television newsmagazine reports on the now-notorious trafficking operation by the late dealer Douglas Latchford that saw sacred statues, goldwork and other items...
Recreating The Superstar-Artist Amusement Park From 1987 (That Would Be Worth A Few Hundred...
"The long-delayed reappearance of Luna Luna — with its Basquiat Ferris wheel, Keith Haring merry-go-round and installations by David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein —...
No Eligible Publishing House Dared Be Seen Accepting This Year’s International Freedom To Publish...
The annual honor by the Association of American Publishers normally goes to a house in a beleaguered country (e.g., Guatemala, Bangladesh, Venezuela) who has...
The High School Students Who Fought Back Against Kentucky Book Banners
A few students at Boyle County High School in central Kentucky learned that their school district had quietly banned more than 100 titles under...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Is Seeing His Play “Appropriate” Go Up On Broadway. Over A Decade...
"It’s been kind of an amazing experience. It’s so rare to have something that you’ve done get a glow-up. … (Broadway is) an important...
Lauren Lovette On Her Transition From NY City Ballet Star To Resident Choreographer For...
"Performing has always been my most challenging point. I didn’t live for the show — I lived for class, for rehearsal, being in new...
Remember “Her”, The Movie About A Guy Who Falls In Love With An AI...
"It’s a gentle, enjoyably melancholy story, twee but not damnably so — but something else stands out. Though set in the near-future, Her captures...
Oregon’s Arts Organizations Are Nearing The Brink
"Audience numbers still aren't back to where they were in 2019. Emergency state and federal funding has nearly evaporated, and (expected) annual arts funding...
The Weekly Satirical Magazine Produced By A Guy Hiding From The Nazis In An...
A German Jew named Curt Bloch spent two years, with two other people, living in a little crawl space in the Dutch city of...
Seven Surprising Upshots Of Netflix’s Viewership Data Dump
Shows about struggling, intrepid women are doing well. So are zombies, devils, and serial killers. Spanish-language series are major hits, and, as writer Lili...
“My Small Intestine Nearly Exploded”: Tracey Emin Recovering From Emergency Surgery
"The 60-year-old (artist) was recently in Australia ... and was on her way back to the UK via Thailand when she fell ill. 'Not...
Cincinnati Symphony Will Build New Amphitheater On Site Of Beloved-But-Aging Theme Park
The city's Coney Island amusement park, opened in 1886, had fallen out of public favor in the past few years. The Cincinnati Symphony's subsidiary,...
The Rapid Rise And Even Faster Fall Of Jonathan Majors
"It’s hard to mint a new movie star these days, (so) people in Hollywood were high on Jonathan Majors, … (and) this was supposed...
Italy’s Nationalist Government Replaces Directors Of Ten Top Museums With Italians — Such As...
The German-born Schmidt, widely admired for his stewardship of the Uffizi in Florence, acquired Italian citizenship last month; he'll be replacing French national Sylvain...
Watching A Robot Turn A Block Of Carrara Marble Into A Sculpture, Step By...
A company near Carrara called Litix has developed software to make carefully crafted mechanical arms carve the legendary stone into statues (occasioning many a...
Why Are So Many Theaters Making Curtain Times Earlier? Let These Directors Tell You.
Not only have start times been changing from the traditional 8:00 pm to 7:30 or even 7:00, but more weekend matinees are being added...
How The UK Became A “Soft-Power Superpower”
"(It was) no accident: the British state was one of several which sought to expand their influence and bolster their economies in the interwar...
Georgia’s Film/TV Subsidy Is Bringing In Far Less Money And Creating Fewer Jobs Than...
"The Georgia film and TV tax credit creates 34,354 jobs per year, according to a new state audit of the program — about half...
Cleveland’s County Arts Funder Ends A Difficult Year With An Apology To Artists
Disagreement between board members of Cuyahoga Arts & Culture — over how and to whom to distribute a shrinking amount of money (revenue from...
Our Concert Hall Will Reopen In 2024, We Promise, Says San Diego Symphony
The $125 million redesign/renovation of Copley Symphony Hall, begun in late 2021, was supposed to be done this fall, but the scheduled Nov. 4...
The Unholy Mess At Peoria’s Public TV Station
In September, the CEO resigned and then commited suicide. Two weeks later, the board announced that an audit found "questionable, unauthorized or improper" expenditures,...
New York City Has A New Law Banning Employment Discrimination Due To Body Shape....
"In theory, it will be a useful legal tool for all job seekers — and particularly powerful for artists. But in practice, it is...
Masha Gessen Stripped (Sort Of) Of Hannah Arendt Prize After Comparing Gaza To Jewish...
The much-honored Russian-American journalist, who is Jewish, made the comparison in a December 9 New Yorker essay criticizing Germany's unequivocal backing of Israel in...
Cleveland Ballet’s Artistic Director Is Under Investigation And Suspended. Now The Interim Artistic Director...
Cynthia Graham, a principal with a previous incarnation of the company who retired from the stage in 1992, stepped in last month to direct...
One Of France’s Greatest Living Actresses Is Sentenced For Tax Fraud
Isabelle Adjani — who has won five Best Actress César awards and gotten two Oscar nominations (in French-language films, no less) — was fined...
